ante is not therapy, counselling, or a medical service, and it is not a crisis line. The framework behind it is in formal validation, which means the research is underway, not finished. You must be 18 or over to use ante. If you are in danger or thinking about ending your life, call 111, or free call or text 1737 any time.
Your messages travel through WhatsApp (Meta), are read by an AI model (Anthropic), and your records are stored with Google and processed on a private server. Some of these providers hold data outside New Zealand. None of them receives your name alongside your sessions.
If a message signals that you or someone else may be in immediate danger, ante stops the session and points you to real help, and that message is kept in a separate safeguarding record for up to two years. That is the one case where a full message is retained.
Session records are kept for the research programme and up to seven years after the study concludes or is published. You can leave any time by texting DELETE to the ante number: your name and phone number are removed within 30 days. Questions: hello@beckysiame.com.
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