Privacy
Most AI assistants send everything you say to a cloud they own. Novius doesn't. Your conversations, your calendar, your inbox snippets, your shopping preferences, your health log — they live on a Mac in Nevada that the operator (Dustin) controls personally. There is no third party we can leak to, because there is no third party.
What stays local
Conversations, memory, notes, and health-log entries are stored on local storage on the host Mac. A SQLite database holds your conversation history. Encrypted nightly backups run with 14-day retention. No third party — not Apple, not a hosting provider, not an analytics vendor — has access to that store.
What can go to the cloud
Cloud models (DeepSeek, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) are used only for jobs that need current information or heavy synthesis: a web search, a current-events question, a long document the local model can't comfortably hold in context.
Before any prompt leaves the host, it passes through a runtime privacy guard that scrubs your name, phone number, email, address, and other identifying details. Every cloud call is logged with a timestamp, the provider name, and the classification of data involved — never the prompt or response itself.
What never goes to the cloud
- Your health log. Dr. Selene, the health-log specialist, is fenced off from the network entirely.
- Regulated identifiers — Social Security numbers, medical-record numbers, payment-card numbers — are rejected at input.
- Anything you've explicitly asked Novius to forget.
Memory and forgetting
Conversations expire on a 30-day rolling window unless you ask Novius to save them. You can ask him to forget about any topic, recipient, preference, or entire conversation, and it is removed from the memory store immediately.
What Novius is not
Novius is not HIPAA compliant. It is not GDPR compliant. It is not a substitute for medical, legal, or financial advice. There is no promise of unbreakable confidentiality. The reason your data stays on the host Mac is that it's the only defense we control. Everything else flows from that.
Questions
Write me directly at [email protected]. I read every message.