Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

This policy covers two things: the Kynora website (kynora.app), which is live today, and the Kynora app, which is still in development and not yet released. Section 7 describes how the app is being designed to handle data, so you know what to expect before it launches — we'll update this policy if anything changes before then.

1. What We Collect on the Website

Depending on how you use the site, we may collect:

We do not collect phone numbers for marketing, and we do not sell personal information.

2. Why We Collect It

3. How Long We Keep It

4. The Kynora App (Pre-Launch)

Kynora, the app, is still being built and is not yet available. Nothing below is a live product claim — it describes the architecture we are designing to, so you can see how it's meant to work before you ever install it.

No Accounts, No Sign-In

Kynora is being designed so you never need to create an account or sign in to use its core features. There is no Kynora user ID, no login screen, and no server-side profile tied to your use of the app.

Data Collection: What Stays on Your Device

Documents you import, the text extracted from them, embeddings, conversation history, and app settings are designed to live only in the app's own local storage on your device (its sandboxed Application Support container) — not on a Kynora server, because we don't plan to operate one. The app is being built without analytics or telemetry SDKs, so we are not designing it to report usage data, crash logs, or behavioral data back to us.

Where features like on-device OCR (for scanned documents) or speech dictation are included, the plan is for them to run through Apple's own on-device frameworks (Vision, Speech) rather than a cloud service, so scanned text and spoken audio are designed to stay on your device as well.

Model Downloads and External Links

Kynora needs AI models to generate answers, and those models are not bundled inside the app. When you pick a model, the app is designed to download it directly from that model's host (for example, Hugging Face) straight to your device — a direct connection between your device and that host, which Kynora does not sit in the middle of or see the contents of.

Any outbound link from the app — an App Store review prompt, a link back to this website, a link to a model's page — behaves like any normal link: it takes you to a destination outside Kynora's control, governed by that destination's own privacy practices, not this policy.

Kynora's Role in Generating Answers

Kynora itself does not generate the answers you see in Chat or Ask Docs. The app is designed to orchestrate retrieval — finding relevant passages in your documents — and prompting, then hand that off to the open-source or third-party AI model you've chosen to run inference. Kynora facilitates the conversation between that model and you; it does not author the response, and because the model runs locally, no query or document content needs to leave your device for this to happen (except where you've enabled non-local Ollama, described below).

Kynora does not review, moderate, or guarantee the accuracy of model output before it's shown to you. See Section 6 of our Terms of Service for more on AI-generated content.

Optional Ollama (Advanced Users)

Advanced users will be able to enable Ollama and point the app at a server URL (local by default: http://localhost:11434). When enabled, conversation text — including any document excerpts used in Ask Docs — is sent to that endpoint. If you configure a non-local URL, that content leaves your device and is processed by whatever server you chose. Ollama is designed to be optional and off by default; leaving it disabled means Chat and Ask Docs run entirely through on-device models.

Deleting Your Data

Because everything is designed to live in the app's local storage, deleting content inside the app or uninstalling the app entirely is intended to remove it, subject to Apple's normal uninstall behavior. There's no cloud account for us to remotely wipe or restore, because there's no cloud account in the first place.

5. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Where required by law, we will provide additional notice.