Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026

The short version

• Svara runs on your Mac. There is no Svara account, and no Svara server that receives or stores what you do.
• What you ask goes to the AI provider you choose, under your own account with them. With Apple Intelligence on-device or a local model, it stays on your Mac.
• We don't collect analytics, crash reports, advertising identifiers or usage data.
• What Svara keeps is in ordinary files on your Mac. You can open, export and delete them at any time.

Who we are

Svara is made by [Legal name], [Address], [Company registration number] ("we", "us").

For anything about privacy, write to [privacy@svara.bot]. [If you are established outside the EU: Our representative in the EU is [Name, address].]

What this policy covers

The Svara app for Mac, its automatic update checks, and the website svara.bot.

The app: we don't receive your content

Svara works on your Mac. Your questions, answers, chats, meeting notes, sticky notes, clipboard history, memory, files and settings are processed on your Mac and stored there. They are never sent to us, and we have no way to see them.

Svara has no analytics, no tracking, no advertising and no crash reporting. It doesn't create an account or an identifier for you.

What goes to your AI provider

When you ask Svara something, it sends the request to the AI provider you picked in Settings → General, using your own API key or sign-in. Depending on what you do, that can include:

• What you ask, and the conversation so far.
• The context shown as chips in the Svara window: the app and window title, the text you selected, the page or document you're reading, files selected in Finder, and screenshots or parts of the screen you attach. You can remove each chip before you send.
• Things Svara remembers about you (Memory), the active project's notes and files, and an assistant's instructions.
• Results of tools the AI uses for you, such as a file it reads, a calendar event it looks up, or a page it opens.
• Text to tidy up after dictation, meeting transcripts to summarise, and text to translate when your Mac can't translate it.

The provider handles this under its own terms and privacy policy, as the provider of a service you signed up for:

• OpenAI (API key or ChatGPT plan): openai.com/policies
• OpenRouter, and the model provider it routes your request to: openrouter.ai/privacy
• Apple Intelligence (Private Cloud Compute): apple.com/legal/privacy
• A local model: nothing leaves your Mac

With an OpenAI API key, OpenAI keeps answers for a limited time so a conversation can continue, as described in its API data policy. With a ChatGPT plan, Svara asks OpenAI not to store them. These providers may process data outside the EU, including in the United States; their policies explain the safeguards they use.

Other services Svara contacts, only when you use them

• Dictation and voices go to OpenAI only if you choose OpenAI for transcription or read-aloud, or OpenAI is your provider and the setting is Automatic. Otherwise speech is handled on your Mac.
• Pictures you ask for go to OpenAI when you ask for or edit a picture and approve it.
• A web page's address goes to that website when the AI reads a link and you approve it.
• Tool calls go to the tool server (MCP) you added, when the AI uses one of its tools.
• Your calendar, reminders, notes and mail are read through Apple's apps on your Mac, only with your permission and only for what you ask.

Updates

Once a day the app asks svara.bot whether there is a new version (using Sparkle). Like any web request, this reveals your IP address, your macOS version and the app version to our web host. We use it only to deliver updates. Our host keeps server logs for [30] days for security. You can turn automatic checks off in Settings → General.

The website

svara.bot is a static page with no analytics, cookies or advertising. If you pick a character on the page, your browser remembers it (local storage) so it can follow you around the page; it never leaves your browser.

Everything on the page, including its typeface, comes from svara.bot itself. Your browser doesn't contact Google or any other third party when you visit.

When you download Svara, our host logs the request (IP address, time, file) for [30] days for security and to count downloads.

Your rights under the GDPR

Because your content stays on your Mac, you control it directly:

• See and export it: Settings → Privacy & Legal → Show My Data or Export My Data.
• Correct or delete it: edit or delete chats, meetings, notes, memory and clipboard items in Svara, or delete the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Svara. API keys are removed in Settings → General.
• Stop it being sent: use Apple Intelligence on-device or a local model, remove chips before you send, or switch off the features you don't want.

For the little we do process (update and download requests on our web host), you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict and object to that processing, and to data portability. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in delivering updates securely (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). Write to [privacy@svara.bot] and we will answer within one month.

For data you send to an AI provider, contact that provider: they decide how it's processed.

You can also complain to your data protection authority. [In Sweden, that is Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY), imy.se.]

Other people's data

If you use Svara with information about other people (for example meeting notes of a call, or an email you ask about), you decide what is done with it. Meeting notes in particular: tell the people on the call that you are taking notes, and follow the rules that apply where you are. Svara reminds you each time it offers to take notes.

Children

Svara is not meant for children under 16, and we don't knowingly process children's data.

Security

API keys and sign-in tokens are kept in your Mac's Keychain. Actions that change things in other apps or on disk ask for your approval first. Read more in Svara's Security page, and report a security problem to [security@svara.bot].

Changes

When this policy changes, we update the date at the top and say what changed in the release notes. If a change means Svara sends something new somewhere, the app will tell you before it does.