Privacy and your data

What we store

• Account: name, e-mail, sign-in methods, sessions.
• Profile: what you enter, publications you claim, metrics fetched from OpenAlex.
• Projects: everything members put in them, with an activity log.
• AI conversations: the tool calls a connected agent made and their results, so work can be audited — plus prompts and costs per run where the platform's own AI is switched on. What you type into your own client stays with your provider.
• Messages and notifications, with read state.

Language models

By default the platform sends nothing to a language model. When you connect your own agent, that agent reads what it asks for through the MCP server — sources, evidence, manuscript passages — and sends it to your provider under the terms and the plan you already have with them; Hikma is not a party to that and never sees your prompts.

Where an administrator has switched the platform's own AI on, the platform makes the calls: the text it sends is limited to what a task needs, the provider and keys are the administrator's, each run shows the model used, and providers are contractually barred from training on the data.

Your controls

• Profile visibility and contact preference (Settings → Profile).
• AI memory: see, confirm and forget everything your AI is allowed to remember, or switch memory off.
• Muting, blocking and reporting in messages and projects.
• Delete account (Settings → Security): removes profile, memberships, messages and keys; shared project content stays with the project attributed to a former member.

Sponsored placements

Some deployments carry a sponsored card — a short piece of text from a sponsor, in a fixed slot such as the top of Discover. When one is present it is always labelled “Sponsored”, it names its sponsor, and it is written by the administrator and rendered by Hikma’s own components: there is no advertising network, no third-party script and no tracking pixel. Nothing about you is used to choose it — every reader of that page sees the same card, so your projects, library, profile and AI use are never involved in what you are shown.

Policies

The Privacy Policy, Terms of Service and Cookie Policy are linked in the footer of every public page.