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Privacy-First by Design

AI Thing assumes everything on your screen is sensitive, and anything outside your system is treated as insecure. We believe privacy is not a premium feature—it’s for everyone.

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How Privacy Works in AI Thing

  • No Continuous Capture
    Never records your screen or listens in the background.
  • Selective Context Only
    Context (like part of your screen or an open app) is only captured when you explicitly choose to.
  • Secure Access
    No API keys, tokens, or sensitive user information are stored on our servers; everything remains local to your system.
  • Transparency
    Before any file or text is sent to a model, you see exactly what will be shared in the preview.
  • Local History
    No conversation is stored on our servers. All conversations are stored locally on your system.
  • Secure Files
    Files are not persisted on our servers. They are encoded on your system and used only within your active tab.
  • Local Privacy Checks (Coming Soon)
    On-device models will scan shared content for sensitive data before it leaves your system.

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Data We Collect

  • What We Collect:
    • Your email and profile information (name and profile picture, if available) when you download and sign in. This is collected via Firebase Authentication.
    • Basic usage analytics within AI Thing only — such as which buttons are clicked, which screens are viewed, and what errors occur. This is collected via Firebase Analytics.
  • Why We Collect It:
    • Email and profile information: To understand who our users are.
    • Analytics: To improve the product experience by identifying errors and common usage patterns.
  • What We Don’t Do:
    • We do not sell your data.
    • We do not collect or store any conversations, images, or API keys that you use within AI Thing.
    • We do not collect any usage data from outside AI Thing.
  • Where Your Data Lives:
    • All configurations, API keys, and conversation history are stored locally on your system, not on our servers. This ensures your sensitive data and personal conversations remain entirely under your control.

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Managed Models

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Managed Agents

  • Google Workspace:
    • Access:
      • Access to your Google Account is managed through authentication tokens.
      • Tokens are stored only in memory within the AI Thing app and in temporary in-memory sessions on the server. They are never stored permanently.
      • Each time an action is performed, the token is transmitted from the app to the agent’s server using encryption.
    • Retention:
      • We retain the tokens (that expire every hour) in memory only until they are needed to complete the requested action.
      • No Google data is persisted on our servers or stored beyond the active session.
      • No user data or access credentials (tokens) are shared, transferred, or disclosed to third parties, or persisted anywhere.
      • With a strict one-hour expiration policy, access tokens expire and are refreshed only if the user uses the Google agent.
    • Deletion:
      • You can revoke AI Thing’s access to your Google account at any time via Google Account.
      • Once revoked, AI Thing immediately loses access, and any in-memory tokens are permanently discarded.
    • Note:
      • AI can make mistakes. Perform irreversible actions carefully.
  • Others:
    • These agents are not hosted on our servers. Refer to their individual privacy policies.

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MacOS Permissions

  • Finder Access
    Used to retrieve screenshots taken by the user while AI Thing is open, enabling selective context.
  • Screen Capture Permission
    Allows AI Thing to capture the screen when the user clicks the app’s context button, supporting selective context.
  • Accessibility Permission
    Required to capture selected text when the user uses the Text Selection feature for selective context.
Have questions? Email us at help@aithing.dev.