Privacy

Welcome to our privacy explainer. We actually care about privacy, we don't just say so. This document outlines how we handle your data and our commitment to protecting your information. Nothing is perfect and we want to keep improving privacy further - if you have tips for us we'd love to hear. Get in touch through any of our channels.

Conversation Storage: Your Control

We do not store your conversations on our servers. All conversations you have are stored locally on your device. This means you have full control over your chat history. It also means that if you delete the conversations, they're gone.

In the future, we might offer an option to store conversations in the cloud for features like cross-device syncing. This service will be strictly opt-in. Existing users will never have their conversations automatically synced or stored on our servers unless they explicitly choose to enable this feature.

Data Handling with Model Providers

We offer many language models on our service. It's important to understand how data is handled with these different providers:

We strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of these individual model providers. You can find links to many of their policies in our official Privacy Policy document.

A key aspect of our privacy approach is that every conversation (or chat session) is treated as separate and isolated. There is no mechanism for a model provider to link different chat sessions as originating from the same user through us.

Closed-Source Models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)

When you use models from closed-source providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others, your prompts (the text you input) are sent to these providers to generate a response. While we design our systems to send only the necessary information (your prompt), the data processing ultimately occurs on their infrastructure.

We rely on these providers' commitments to data privacy and security. We actively request minimum data retention and maximum deletion policies where available, but we are dependent on these third parties to honor their stated practices.

Open-Source Models

For open-source models (e.g., certain models from DeepSeek and Meta and others), we utilize specialized third-party services that run these models. These services typically operate under a no-log policy, meaning they commit not to store or record the prompts they process.

While this offers a greater degree of privacy compared to some closed-source alternatives, it's important to note that we are reliant on the integrity and contractual assurances of these intermediate providers to uphold their privacy commitments. We select these partners carefully, prioritizing those with strong privacy stances.

Best-in-class Privacy with TEE Models

For the highest level of verifiable privacy, we offer models that run within a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). These models are typically listed under "Private" or "TEE" in our model selection dropdown.

A TEE is a secure area within a processor that ensures data is encrypted and processed in isolation, even from the infrastructure provider hosting the model. This provides a strong, hardware-backed guarantee that your prompts are confidential and not accessible by unauthorized parties during processing.

You can learn more about how TEEs enhance your privacy in our blog post on Trusted Execution Environments. For technical users interested in verifying the integrity of TEE operations, we provide detailed instructions in our TEE Verification documentation.

Our Commitment to Your Privacy: A Privacy-First Approach

We believe you should be able to use AI tools without compromising your privacy. For most models available through our service, we offer what we believe is the best privacy posture possible under the circumstances:

• No Account Required: You can use our services without creating an account, minimizing the data you need to share. You can use the randomly generated unique user ID to log in on other devices to share your balance, you can also create an account with any anonymous email.
• We Don't Want Your Information: Our goal is to not collect personal data. We aim to provide a service, not to monetize your information.
• Anonymous Payment Options: You can pay using privacy-preserving methods like cryptocurrency. We in fact recommend doing so and give you a discount if you pay in crypto.
• No Identifying Information Passed On: We do not send any personal identifying information about you to the model providers. Your IP address is not directly passed to the end model provider by us (though intermediate infrastructure may see it as part of standard internet traffic), we do not pass on any user ID, we do not pass on any history other than what is within the conversation itself.
• Providers See Only Your Prompts: The only data from your interaction that model providers receive is the content of your prompts themselves.

While running open-source models locally on your own hardware is technically an option for maximum privacy, it can be complex and resource-intensive. For closed-source models, local execution is not possible. Our service aims to provide a practical balance, offering access to powerful models while implementing robust privacy measures.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our privacy or if you think there is something we can improve, we would love to get in touch. You can reach us via the following channels: