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911 and Emergency Disclaimer

Last updated June 4, 2026

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In an emergency: hang up and dial 911 directly.

Call My Agent is not an emergency service. Your AI phone agent won’t dispatch police, fire, or medical responders. If you or your caller is in danger, hang up this line and call 911 from another phone.

1. What the agent does on an emergency call

When the AI agent detects emergency intent on a call — words like “fire,” “ambulance,” “police,” “I’m being attacked,” “heart attack,” “overdose,” and similar — the agent immediately:

  1. Tells the caller, audibly and clearly: “Please hang up and call 911 right now. I’m an automated assistant and I can’t get help for you — dial 911 immediately.”
  2. Repeats the instruction if the caller stays on the line or doesn’t appear to act on it.
  3. Does not take a message. the agent does not say “I’ll let the owner know” — telling the owner is slower than telling 911, and we won’t let speed-to-911 be confused with speed-to-business.
  4. Does not route the call to the account holder. The account holder isn’t a faster path than 911 either.
  5. Logs the event in the account holder’s dashboard so they can review what happened.
  6. Alerts the account holder by SMS so they know an emergency call came in, and shows the event in the dashboard. (The alert is to the account holder — not a substitute for the caller dialing 911.)

If the agent’s emergency-intent detection fails for any reason and the caller indicates an emergency in some other way (we miss it on the first pass), the call is still recorded and transcribed so the account holder can review it and follow up.

2. What account holders agree to

By using Call My Agent, you (the account holder) agree to all of the following:

  • You will not represent to your callers that your business phone reaches emergency services.
  • You will tell your callers to dial 911 directly for emergencies — in your website’s contact page, in your business voicemail if applicable, and in any signage where your number appears.
  • You will not rely on Call My Agent for emergency response. the agent is a business communication tool. It is not a life-safety service.
  • You acknowledge that we cannot guarantee detection of every possible emergency phrasing, in every language, in every accent, in every call quality condition. The agent is best-effort.

This is also written into our Terms of Service (section 11). You agreed to it when you signed up.

3. High-risk verticals — extra responsibilities

Some businesses receive calls where an emergency is more likely. If you operate in one of these verticals, you have additional responsibilities under our Permitted use section:

Home services with utility, leak, or carbon-monoxide risk

  • HVAC, plumbing, gas appliances, mold remediation, water damage, septic, electrical work where a fault could create immediate danger.
  • Maintain a separate human-answered line for emergencies, or forward your public number to a 911-capable answering service during after-hours.
  • Your website and voicemail should clearly direct emergency callers to that line or to 911.

Medical, dental, veterinary

  • Do not route patient calls to the agent for clinical triage. the agent is not a clinical decision-support tool, and routing such calls likely violates the no-PHI rule in our Terms of Service.
  • Maintain a separate clinician-on-call line. The agent can confirm to callers that the on-call line is the right place to call after hours.

Security, alarm response, private investigation

  • Do not use the agent as your primary intake for security incidents. the agent cannot dispatch responders or coordinate with law enforcement.
  • A monitored alarm service or human on-call dispatcher is what your customers expect and what they’re paying for.

Mental-health crisis or suicide-prevention contexts

  • Do not use Call My Agent for crisis-line operations. the agent is not a trauma-trained responder. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline exists for this purpose; route your callers there.

We may decline to onboard customers in these verticals if we can’t confirm a separate-line-for-emergencies plan is in place, and we reserve the right to suspend accounts that don’t comply.

4. Notifications and dashboard

When the agent recognizes that a caller is indicating an emergency on a call to your business:

  • The account dashboard at /app/calls shows a banner: “An emergency was detected on a call. The agent directed the caller to 911. Review the call →”
  • You’re alerted by SMS, and the event is shown in the dashboard.
  • The call detail page shows the full transcript, the moment emergency detection fired, what the agent said, and how the caller responded.

Review the call and follow up if appropriate — for example, calling the caller back to make sure they reached help. But again: detection is best-effort, not guaranteed. The agent operates on imperfect signals and may not recognize every emergency phrasing, every language, every accent, every call-quality condition. The redirect line is the floor of what the agent does when emergency is recognized; it is not a guarantee that an emergency will be recognized at all. If a caller dies or is seriously harmed because they tried to use the agent instead of dialing 911, the responsibility is not transferred to us by virtue of you having reviewed the dashboard banner. The disclosures in this policy, the contractual prohibitions in the Permitted use section, and your acknowledgments are what govern.

6. Reporting an incident

If a caller experienced an emergency on a call to your business and you believe our system failed to handle it correctly (failed to detect, said the wrong thing, didn’t notify you):

  • Email: privacy@callmyagent.ai with subject line “Emergency-call incident report.”
  • Include the call ID (visible in your dashboard), the date and time, your account email, and a description of what went wrong.

We investigate every report. We may need to access the transcript and recording to do so (per the Privacy Policy). If we find a defect in emergency-intent detection, we fix it.

7. Contact

  • Email: privacy@callmyagent.ai
  • For emergencies as a caller: dial 911.