Privacy Policy
The short version: ORI is self-hosted. Your assistant — its conversations, tasks, and memories — runs and stays on your own computer, on a model API key you provide. We do not operate servers that store your content, and no one else holds a copy of you.
How ORI is built
ORI comes in two parts: the ORI app on your phone, and ORI Brain, an engine you install on your own computer. The app is a client: everything you say to ORI, and everything it does for you, is processed by your own ORI Brain on your own machine. This architecture is why most of your data never reaches us — it doesn't need to.
What stays on your devices
- On your computer (ORI Brain): your conversations, tasks, memories, schedules, generated themes and assistant looks, and the credentials you configure. Stored in local databases and files under your own user account.
- On your phone (the app): pairing credentials, a local cache of your conversation history, and your settings. Removing the pairing in Settings, or uninstalling the app, deletes this local data.
What travels between your phone and your computer
The app and your ORI Brain talk over an end-to-end encrypted channel (a Noise-protocol secure channel established when you pair by QR code). When a direct connection is not possible, encrypted traffic is forwarded through a relay endpoint. The relay forwards ciphertext; it cannot read your content and does not keep it.
Third-party model providers
ORI Brain performs AI inference using the model provider you configure, with your own API key (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, or a compatible provider). Content needed for a task — such as your request and relevant context — is sent by your Brain directly to that provider under your account, governed by that provider's terms and privacy policy. Choosing the provider, and the key, is in your hands.
App permissions, and why
- Camera — scanning the QR code to pair with your ORI Brain, and photos you choose to attach.
- Microphone — hold-to-speak voice input. Recordings are sent to your own ORI Brain for transcription and are not sent to us.
- Location — only when a task running on your Brain asks for it (for example, weather near you). It is sent to your own Brain, not to us.
- Photo library — attaching images you pick, and saving images you ask ORI to save.
- Notifications — task results and alerts, delivered locally by the app.
What we do collect
The app itself contains no advertising and no analytics trackers. The little we do receive:
- Beta access applications: if you request an invite on our website, we receive the email address and platform preferences you submit, and we check your request's region from its network address. We use this only to run the beta program.
- Software distribution: when the app or the website checks for downloads and updates, standard web server logs (such as IP address and user agent) may be produced by our content delivery infrastructure. They are not linked to your ORI content.
Children
ORI is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and its date. Material changes will be noted in release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy: [email protected]