Reading the above comments, it seems that companies don't have much say when the government comes knocking.. Which is precisely why I think privacy should be a requirement and not an option in the design stage. The company heading towards that right now with the most advancements in technology is Snips. Data is stored on the device primarily. To help with AI(As an option), your data will be encrypted and sent to the developer along with all the data from other users as a whole big data(Data generating).

Where were you enquiring on? I've had a lot of help from their discord channel. You could give that a try.

I was on the Discord channel. Nobody answered my question. In fact, here was my chain of asking questions on Snips:

I went to the website, and had questions, so I tried to email them. I got a reply to the email telling me to join the Discord. I did, and asked in the Discord, and the only person who bothered to reply told me to read the website. ...I wouldn't have asked the questions if they were answered on the website.