HAB PRIVACY NOTICE (DRAFT - to be reviewed by a lawyer before HAB is sold) Last updated: 17 October 2026 SHORT VERSION: HAB runs on your own PC. Your chats, accounts, memories, voice, pictures and mailbox stay on your PC. The seller does not keep them, and nothing is used for advertising or tracking. The only time your messages leave home is when you allow an online brain (see below); HAB asks you first. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR PC - Accounts and passwords (passwords are stored only as salted hashes), chats, what HAB remembers about you, the mailbox, family messages, pictures and videos, notes, your Library files, helpers, settings, logs, and smart-home settings. - Your voice: talking to HAB is turned into text on your own PC (the microphone is only used while you have the mic on). Voice ID keeps a short voiceprint (numbers, not a recording) on your PC, only if you teach HAB your voice. - Kid accounts' chats stay on your PC too. Parents can read them in the app. - Reports you send with "Report this reply" go to the owner of your HAB (in their inbox), on the same PC. - A recovery email, only if you add one (Settings -> Account & devices). It is used only to send you a code when you forget your password: never for marketing, never shared. The code is sent from HAB's own email address. WHAT CAN LEAVE YOUR PC, AND WHEN - Web lookups: when HAB looks something up for you (web search, reading a page, Wikipedia, research papers, weather, maps, prices and stock), the search words or page address go to that website, as when you browse. - HAB Brain (the online brain that comes with HAB): only if the owner switches it on AND you allow it (HAB asks each person first; kid accounts never use it, see CHILDREN). Then the messages you send go through the seller's HAB Brain service to the AI provider it uses (through OpenRouter) to be answered. The service passes them on without storing them; it keeps only counts (when, which copy of HAB, how many words) to share the cost fairly. The AI provider handles them under its own privacy terms. - Other online AI brains: only if the owner connects one (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, xAI, DeepSeek or Mistral) in Settings -> AI brain. Then the messages sent to it go to that service, under its own privacy terms. "Offline mode" stops that at any time. Kid accounts never use an online brain. - Online video (Runway): only if you add your own Runway key. The words of your video request, and a start picture if you pick one, go to Runway to make the video. - Product photos: if the owner adds a Google Vision key, photos you ask HAB to identify for shopping go to Google. - Phone notifications: only if you turn them on for a phone (Settings -> Account & devices). Then a short note (a title and one line, never whole messages; private items only say "Something new in HAB") goes from your PC through Apple's or Google's push service to that phone. It is end-to-end encrypted, so they pass it on but can't read it. - Bug reports and ideas: only if the owner of your HAB ticks "Send bug reports and ideas to HAB's maker" (Settings -> More; off to start). Then the words of a 🐞 report or an idea, the screen it was on, the kind of device, recent app errors and HAB's version go to the seller, so they can be fixed. Never names, chats or passwords. - Helper PCs: chats can be processed by other PCs in your home that the owner added as helpers. - Phone access away from home: only if the owner turns on "Use HAB away from home" (HAB Relay) or sets up Tailscale. With HAB Relay, your phone's connection passes through the seller's relay server to your PC, end-to-end encrypted: the encryption ends on your own PC, so the relay can't read anything. It only sees which HAB address was asked for, when, and how much data passed. With Tailscale, traffic goes through Tailscale, encrypted. - Licence check: if a copy of HAB runs without a valid key, or with a key from another PC, it sends the seller a short alert (through the ntfy.sh notification service) containing ONLY the key's id (if there is one) and HAB's version number. No names, chats or other data. - Updates: when HAB checks for updates, it asks the seller's update address for the newest version number. THE PHONE APP - The HAB app on your phone is a window onto the HAB on your PC. It keeps your login and a few display preferences on the phone; everything else is on your PC. It asks for the microphone only for talking to HAB, and for your local network only to find your HAB PC. - The seller collects no data through the app: no analytics, no advertising identifiers, no tracking. CHILDREN - Kid accounts are made by a parent on the family's own PC. HAB filters words, pictures and videos for them, keeps them away from grown-up features, and lets parents see their chats. - Kids use HAB's home brain only: a child's messages are answered on the family's own PC and are never sent to an online AI, to HAB Brain or to the seller. Their bug reports and ideas stay with the family too. - HAB Cloud is for grown-ups only; kid accounts can't be made there. KEEPING AND DELETING - Your data stays until you delete it. In the app you can delete a chat, a memory, a voice, or your whole account: Settings -> Account & devices -> Delete my account. That deletes your account and everything HAB keeps about you (chats, memories, settings, voice, mail and family messages, pictures and videos, helpers and Library collections), straight away and for good. - Kid accounts are deleted by a parent (Family -> People). The owner removes HAB and everything in it by uninstalling it from the PC. CONTACT: hab.aisupport@gmail.com
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