AI Transparency — Younen

Last updated: October 2, 2026

UniTalk includes AI features, most visibly Younen, a study assistant. This page explains what Younen is, what it can and can't do, and how your information is handled. It is governed by our Privacy Policy.

What Younen is

Younen is an AI assistant powered by third-party models. It helps with study planning, deadlines, course questions, and general university life. It is not a human and not UniTalk staff.

Younen can be wrong

• Responses may be inaccurate, incomplete, or out of date.
• Always confirm important dates, deadlines, grades, prerequisites, and requirements through official university sources.
• Younen is not a substitute for academic advising, or for emergency, medical, legal, or financial advice.

What information Younen uses

To answer well, Younen may use your university, year, and major; your course list and upcoming calendar events; the text extracted from syllabi for your courses; degree-requirement information; the name you asked it to use, your answer-length preference and any custom instructions you wrote; and the message and any image you send it.

What Younen can do on your behalf

When you ask, Younen can add deadlines or events to your own schedule. It never deletes, moves, renames or edits existing entries, never posts in chats, and never acts on your behalf elsewhere. Check what it adds.

Each student has a daily limit on questions answered by the model, so one person cannot use up the shared budget. UniTalk also uses the same providers to verify that a course you add exists (OpenAI, with Tavily web search) and to read the syllabi you upload (OpenAI).

Where your questions go

• Your prompts, attached images, and the context above are sent to OpenAI to generate a response (images use OpenAI's vision capability).
• For current facts, Younen may run web searches via Tavily; those queries can include your university, major, and course terms.

We send only the context needed. Please don't enter unnecessary personal or sensitive information into Younen.

Data handling

Younen conversations are used to provide the feature. We don't sell them or use them for advertising. Content sent to OpenAI and Tavily is subject to those providers' terms, summarized below.

OpenAI: we use the OpenAI API. OpenAI API data is not used to train OpenAI's models by default. OpenAI may retain API inputs and outputs for up to 30 days to provide the service and detect abuse, unless a different retention setting applies. See OpenAI's privacy policy.

Tavily: web-search queries are processed by AlphaAI Technologies Inc. (doing business as Tavily) under its privacy policy.

You control your data as described in the Privacy Policy and Privacy Choices, including account deletion.

Academic integrity & reporting

Don't use Younen to cheat or violate your school's academic-integrity policy. If Younen produces harmful, offensive, or seriously inaccurate output, email team@unitalk.ca.