Effective Date: April 26, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Privata Ai. We are deeply committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website (privata.ai or associated domains, hereafter "Website") and when you eventually use our offline AI software ("Software"). Please read this policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Website or download/use the Software upon its release.
Our core Software product is designed to operate entirely offline, fundamentally prioritizing user privacy by processing data locally on your device.
2. Information We Collect
2.1. Website Visitors
When you visit our Website, we may collect certain information automatically and information you voluntarily provide:
- Automatically Collected Information (Non-Personal): We may use standard analytics tools (like Google Analytics) to collect anonymous information about your visit, such as your IP address (often anonymized or truncated by the analytics service), browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and general geographic location (e.g., country/city). This data is aggregated and used solely for understanding website traffic patterns and improving user experience. It does not personally identify you.
- Voluntarily Provided Information (Personal): We collect personally identifiable information (PII) such as your name, email address, and message content only when you voluntarily submit it to us through means like our contact form or direct email communication.
- Cookies: Our Website uses cookies (small text files stored on your device) to enhance user experience, remember preferences, and facilitate analytics. We use essential cookies for site functionality and analytics cookies (e.g., Google Analytics) to understand usage patterns. You will be prompted for consent for non-essential cookies via our cookie banner upon your first visit. You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings, though this may affect website functionality.
2.2. Software Users (Future Release)
The Privata Ai Software, upon its release, is designed with privacy at its core:
- No User Data Transmission: The Software is engineered to perform all AI processing locally on your device. It will not transmit your prompts, conversations, uploaded documents, or any derived data to our servers or any third-party service during normal operation. Your AI interactions remain private to your machine.
- Local Storage Only: All configuration settings, downloaded AI models, chat history, and processed document data (if applicable) are stored exclusively on your local device within the Software's designated configuration directory. You have full control over this data and can manage or delete it as needed.
- Optional Network Features: An internet connection will only be required for optional actions initiated by the user, such as:
- Downloading new AI models from within the application.
- Checking for available Software updates.
3. How We Use Your Information
3.1. Website Information
- To Improve Our Website: Aggregated, non-personal data from analytics helps us understand user behavior, optimize site navigation, and enhance content relevance.
- To Respond to Inquiries: Personal information submitted via contact forms or email is used solely to respond to your specific requests, questions, or feedback.
- To Provide Functionality: Essential cookies enable core website features. Consent-based cookies help personalize your experience and gather analytics.
3.2. Software Information (Future Release)
- As the Software operates offline, we do not collect or use your AI interaction data (prompts, responses, documents) for any purpose. This data remains solely under your control on your local device.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information collected via the Website to outside parties unless we provide users with advance notice or are required by law. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website (e.g., hosting providers, analytics services like Google) or conducting our business, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
Specifically regarding Google Analytics, while we receive aggregated reports, Google has its own privacy policies regarding the data it collects. You can learn more here: How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
We may release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety. Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses in an aggregated, anonymous form.
Information processed by the offline Software is not disclosed as it never leaves your device during normal operation.
5. Data Security
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect any personal information collected via our Website (e.g., contact form submissions). However, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against interception or misuse.
For the Software, security is inherently enhanced by its offline nature. The protection of data stored locally (models, chat history) relies on the security practices you implement for your own device (e.g., disk encryption, user account security).
6. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information collected via the Website:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of personal data we hold about you (primarily from contact submissions).
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to manage cookies: You can manage your cookie preferences via our cookie consent banner and your browser settings.
- The right to opt-out of analytics: You can opt-out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.
Regarding the Software, as no personal usage data is collected or stored by us, rights related to accessing or deleting such data are not applicable in the same way. You manage the data directly on your local device.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: privacy [at] privata.ai (replace `[at]` with `@`)
Or via our Contact Page.