How Vale reads your request
Draft · AI use, what it can and cannot do
A working draft of the AI transparency page, written to save a lawyer time. It is not legal advice, it has not been reviewed by a lawyer, and it does not claim that Vale complies with any law. Text like [PLACEHOLDER: this] is unknown or undecided. Boxes marked "Drafting note" are for the owner and the lawyer.
When it is switched on and working, an AI language model reads the sentence you type in the request box and turns it into a list of steps (for example "gym, then lunch, then a bar"). If the AI is off, fails, is slow or has used up its free daily allowance, Vale reads your sentence with its own word rules instead. Above your steps Vale always says which one read it: "Understood by AI", "Understood by Claude" (only in the owner's preview inside claude.ai), "Read by word rules" or "Edited by you". The AI never pays, never books and never picks a venue's price or opening hours.
1. What the AI does
- It receives only what you typed in the request box (at most 600 characters), the list of activities Vale can plan, your language, the chosen date and the name of the area you start from, if you picked one or shared your location (only the area's name, never your coordinates). It does not receive your exact location, your saved plans, payment details or anything else on your device.
- It answers with the steps in your order, any clock times you gave, a short note per step, and, if you asked a question, a short general answer.
- Vale checks the answer before using it: unknown activities are dropped and listed as "not understood", times must be real clock times, and text is shortened and cleaned.
- Vale then chooses the places itself, from places it has checked against a named source with a date, or marks a step "No checked venue yet". The AI does not choose venues.
2. Which AI, and where your text goes
- On the public site: Cloudflare Workers AI, an open model (by default Meta's Llama 3.1 8B) run by Cloudflare, called through a small server of the site owner's (a Cloudflare Worker). Cloudflare states that it does not use customer content to train models or improve its services. [PLACEHOLDER: switched on yes/no; the owner's Cloudflare account and region; Cloudflare's data processing terms]
- In the owner's preview inside claude.ai: Anthropic's Claude, through the claude.ai viewer, which asks the viewer's permission first.
- Word rules: run entirely in your browser; nothing is sent.
Vale's server does not store or log the text you type. It keeps a count of requests per day and, for a minute, per network address, only to stay inside the free allowance and stop abuse. Lawyer [PLACEHOLDER: legal basis for sending the request text to the AI provider; international transfer assessment; whether a processor agreement is needed]
3. What it can and cannot do
| It can | It cannot |
|---|---|
| Understand a sentence in English or Spanish, typos included, and list the steps. | Name, recommend or rank specific restaurants, bars, clubs or shops. |
| Keep the times you gave and a short note per step. | Give prices, opening hours, addresses or availability. Those come only from Vale's checked sources, each with its date. |
| Give a short, general answer to a question, marked "Not checked by Vale". | Book, pay, or confirm anything with a business. |
| Be wrong. You see what it understood and can change any step before you plan. | Remember you. Each request is read on its own. |
4. You are always in control
- You see the steps it understood, with the label saying who read them, and can edit, add or remove any step.
- Every booking and payment is yours to make, on the venue's own page or at the venue. Vale does not take payments for real places.
- Your plans are saved only in your own browser. "Clear all my data" in Settings removes them.
5. Limits and honesty
- The AI's answer is general and can be wrong; it is shown as "Not checked by Vale".
- It gives no advice on health, money or law. It only reads a request for a day out.
- In Demo mode every place and price is made up. In Real mode places come from public sources with the date they were checked; availability is never confirmed by Vale.
The EU AI Act (Article 50) asks providers of AI systems meant to interact directly with people to make sure the person is told it is an AI system, unless obvious; these duties apply from 2 August 2026. The "Understood by AI" label and this page are meant to do that; the lawyer should confirm wording and placement. Also needed before switching the AI on publicly: the Privacy notice must name Cloudflare as the provider receiving the request text, and the owner should check Cloudflare's data processing terms. Google's Gemini API free tier was not chosen partly because its terms require paid services for apps offered to users in the EEA. See legal/02-questions-for-the-lawyer.md and data-research/ai-options.md.