Does it respect my privacy?

Five things, weighted by how much each one actually costs you: whether it trains on your conversations (30 points), whether your data reaches advertisers (25), which country it is processed in (20), whether deleting really deletes (15), and whether you can read the privacy policy without a lawyer (10). That is 100. An A needs 80, B needs 65, C needs 50, D needs 30, and below that is an F.

Each vendor's own privacy policy, help centre or trust page, read on 21 August 2026. Nothing comes from a marketing page and nothing comes from a third-party summary. Where a policy simply does not answer a question, the row says so and scores zero, because silence is a choice the vendor made.

Do not trust it, check it. Our own row is scored from our own published policy, and it loses points for exactly the reasons anyone else's would: we set your retention for you rather than letting you choose it, and our policy reads like a contract. We left that on the page rather than quietly fixing the number. Every other row comes from the vendor's own words too, and you can override any of them.

Neither, exactly. These six questions are about whether a tool treats you decently. Some overlap with GDPR, especially processing location and deletion. None of them tell you whether a system meets AI Act obligations, because that depends on what you use it for rather than on the vendor. This is not legal advice.

Almost always yes, which is why ownership is not one of the six. Nearly every policy says you keep what you upload, then grants the company a licence to use it. Ownership is not where you get hurt. What the licence permits is: training, advertising, human review, and how long they keep it. Those are all scored above.

Ask before you commit, because this is where lock-in lives. GDPR gives you a portability right over personal data, but that is narrower than a bulk export of everything you have made, in a format something else can open. Ask for: everything at once rather than item by item, an open format, and transcripts and summaries included.

Yes. Hit adjust on any row and the total recalculates with your answer, which is useful if you know how your own account is set up. If a vendor has changed its policy since 21 August 2026, email [email protected] and we will read it again.

Klang is European AI for conversations that matter. It records, transcribes and analyses meetings, interviews and calls, and processing stays in the EU. We score ourselves here on the same questions as everyone else. The points we drop are dropped on our own privacy policy rather than on how we actually run the product, which is an uncomfortable thing to publish and a fair thing to hold us to.