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Privacy & terms
Last updated October 25, 2026
NSL is a small test platform for friends and founders: a phone line, messages, and an AI assistant called NSL. This page explains what we collect, why, who helps us run it, and the few rules for using it. We don’t sell your information, share it for advertising, or use ad trackers.
What we collect
- Paired badges: the badge’s device identifier, owner, selected event, display mode and last connection time. We store a hash of its access credential. Your name, number, card and event may appear on its screen for anyone nearby to see. Its QR code opens the selected event’s guest pass and credits you for inviting people. You can remove a badge from Settings to revoke its access. Welcome mode uses a guest assistant; visitors cannot change your card.
- Your account: your email and password (stored hashed, never readable), your name, and your 4-digit number. If you continue with Google, Google tells us your name and email instead of a password.
- Your card, if you fill it in: whether you’re a founder, investor or operator, what you’re looking for, what you can offer, and what you’re building or investing in. Everyone in the league, guests included, can see it, and the people you call see what you’re looking for while it rings. While NSL is in its early testing, someone trying NSL on a member’s NSL badge can also ask about members and hear names, cities and cards, even before they join.
- Guest passes: if you join from an event QR code without an account, we keep the name you give and who invited you (shown to others as “Drafted by”). Add your email to keep the account; guest passes no one uses for 30 days are deleted.
- Approximate location: your city, region and country, worked out from your IP address. It’s used to show who’s nearby. Others see your city, never your coordinates, which are rounded to about a kilometer and stay on our servers.
- Check-ins: the event you checked into with a QR code. Events you start keep your approximate location from when you started them, so members nearby can find them. Someone trying NSL on a member’s NSL badge at the same event can ask who’s here.
- Calls: who called whom, when, and for how long, so Recents works. Call audio passes through our calling provider live and isn’t recorded.
- Messages: what you send, so the people you send it to can read it.
- Notifications: if you turn on call alerts, the address your browser gives us for sending them.
- Activity: when you were last in the app, to show who’s around. Basic server logs (like IP address and errors) are kept by our hosting provider for a short time.
NSL, the AI assistant
NSL only listens in calls it’s part of. It says hello when it joins, everyone in the call sees “NSL is taking notes”, and anyone can remove it. The person who turns on Bring NSL to my calls agrees to NSL joining their calls. Whoever they call is told before they answer, and whoever calls them is told while it rings.
- While NSL is in a call, what’s said is turned into text by our calling provider’s speech service. When someone says “Hey NSL”, the recent conversation is sent to Anthropic’s Claude to answer, which may search the web, along with the member directory (names, cities and cards) so it can suggest people to meet.
- After a call, the conversation is sent to Claude to write notes, which are posted to that call’s chat. We don’t keep the audio or the transcript, only the notes.
- When you call NSL directly, nothing is written down or kept, except changes to your card that you’ve said yes to.
- If a member hands you their NSL badge to meet NSL, it works the same way: what you say goes to the same speech and AI services so NSL can answer, and nothing is written down or kept, unless you ask NSL to save your pass. Then we keep your name and what you told it (the card fields above) for ten minutes, for you to scan the code it shows, then delete them, keeping only that a pass was saved and whether it was used. NSL there doesn’t know who you are and can’t see the member’s account; it knows the member directory (names, cities and cards) and who’s at that event.
- Anthropic doesn’t use what NSL sends to train its models.
Who helps run NSL
These companies process data for us, only to provide their service:
- Supabase: database and sign-in.
- Vercel: hosting, and approximate location from your IP address.
- LiveKit: calls, and speech-to-text and voice for NSL.
- Anthropic: Claude, the AI behind NSL.
- Google: signing in, if you choose Continue with Google.
- Resend: sending account emails (confirmations and links).
- Apple, Google or Mozilla: delivering call alerts, depending on your browser.
Your choices
- Change your name in Settings, and change or remove your card anytime.
- Turn off NSL in your calls, call alerts, and calls altogether with Do not disturb.
- Delete your account in Settings. Your number, profile, messages you sent, your 1:1 chats, check-ins you hosted and your call history are deleted right away. Group chats you were in stay for the other people, without your messages. Notes NSL already posted to a group chat stay in that chat.
- For a copy of your data or anything else, email amore@calibratedvision.com.
California residents: you have the right to know what we collect, to get a copy, to correct it, and to delete it, and we won’t treat you differently for asking. We don’t sell or share personal information, and we don’t track you across other websites, so browser “Do Not Track” signals don’t change anything here.
We keep your data while you have an account. If there were ever a breach affecting your information, we’d tell you promptly.
Terms
- You must be 18 or older to use NSL.
- Be decent. No harassment, spam, threats, or anything illegal. Don’t record calls with other tools unless everyone agrees.
- NSL is a test platform. It’s provided as is, may change or go down, and may lose data. Don’t rely on it for emergencies; it can’t call 911.
- NSL’s answers come from AI and can be wrong. Check anything important.
- We may remove accounts that break these rules. You can leave any time by deleting your account.
- If these terms change, we’ll update the date above and, for big changes, tell you in the app.
Questions? Email amore@calibratedvision.com.