Persistent Sage

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Privacy, in plain language

Persistent Sage does not run a cloud service that stores your chats, memories, personalities, or API keys. By default, your data stays on the device where you run the app.

Summary. Local-first desktop companion. No Persistent Sage chat cloud. No ads. No telemetry SDK to a Persistent Sage server. If you enable a cloud AI provider or network tools, that content goes to those services under their policies.

What stays on your device

  • Chat content — messages and replies in local SQLite (nova_memory.sqlite)
  • Memory Anchors — long-term memory snippets, projects, preferences
  • Companion settings — personalities in personality.json
  • App settings — provider choice, models, feature toggles
  • API keys & GitHub PAT — encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM)
  • Attachments & workspace files — only what you create or enable tools to touch

What may leave your device

  • AI providers you choose — prompts, system context, tool outputs, and images for vision models when you send a message
  • Local Ollama — same content, but to your own machine by default
  • Optional web tools — search queries or page fetches when those tools are enabled
  • Updates — GitHub Releases or Microsoft Store update checks
  • Feedback / donations — only what you voluntarily submit in the browser

What Persistent Sage does not collect

  • No Persistent Sage user accounts on a Persistent Sage server (today)
  • No advertising ID usage, ads, or data-broker sales
  • No GPS, contacts, calendar, or microphone access except images you attach
  • No in-app payment or billing data

Important limitations

The chat database and attachment files are not encrypted by Persistent Sage. Anyone with access to your user account or a copy of the data folder can read them. Use full-disk encryption (BitLocker, FileVault, LUKS) if you need stronger protection.

Future mobile Cloud Sync is planned as end-to-end encrypted (server stores ciphertext only). That service is not shipping yet and is marked Coming soon on Pricing.

Your controls

  • Change provider or keys in Settings → Provider
  • Disable network tools in Settings → Tools
  • Wipe memories or factory-reset from Settings → General
  • Reveal or delete your data folder after quitting the app
  • Use portable mode or PERSISTENT_SAGE_DATA_DIR to choose where data lives

Canonical policy

This page summarizes the product posture for visitors. The authoritative desktop privacy policy lives in the public app repository and is updated with releases:

github.com/g00siferdev-py/persistent-sage/blob/main/PRIVACY.md

Privacy or data questions: open aGitHub Issueor follow SECURITY.md for sensitive reports. Publisher: g00sifer Development Lab.