AI is becoming part of everyday life incredibly quickly. We use it to search, write, plan, learn, work and increasingly to talk through things we might once have kept to ourselves. That makes understanding what happens behind the chat box more important than ever.At Digital Safety Squad, we look at AI safety from both the technical and human sides. That means examining what services such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity collect, how conversations and uploaded files are handled, which privacy and security controls actually make a difference, and where the risks change when children and teenagers are involved.Our guides are built around the questions people are already asking as AI becomes more personal: whether AI chats are private, what you should never share with a chatbot, how to delete your data, which services offer stronger privacy protections and what ‘safe’ really means when a tool is learning more about you over time.The aim isn’t to make AI feel frightening or to tell you not to use it. It’s to give you enough information to understand the trade-offs, make deliberate choices about what you share and use these tools without giving away more of yourself than you intended.