Privacy Policy

Alana is built local-first on purpose. The short version: your conversations, memories and files live on your Mac, we run no accounts and no analytics inside the app, and the only time anything leaves your machine is when Alana needs an AI model or a service to do the job you asked for. This page spells that out properly.

Alana and the alana.bot website are operated by Good Analysis ("we", "us"). You can reach us at kyle@goodanalysis.co.uk.

What stays on your Mac

Everything Alana knows about you is stored on your computer, in your user account, and never uploaded to us:

• Your conversations with her, past and present.
• Her memory of you: preferences, projects, people and anything else she has learned.
• The skills you teach her and how they are configured.
• Any files or data she works with on your behalf.

We have no server that holds your data, no account system, and no way to see any of it. Deleting the app and its data folder removes everything.

What leaves your Mac, and why

Alana thinks by calling AI models. When she does, the relevant parts of your conversation are sent to the AI provider being used for that job, processed under that provider's terms, and the reply comes back to your Mac. This is the same shape as any app that uses AI: the model has to read your message to answer it.

Likewise, when you ask her to do something that involves an outside service, such as sending an email or looking something up on the web, the data needed for that task goes to that service. She asks before doing anything real, so nothing is sent on her own initiative.

We do not sit in the middle of these calls, and the content of them is not collected by us.

The website

alana.bot is a static site hosted on Vercel. We set no cookies and run no analytics or tracking scripts. Like almost every website, the hosting infrastructure keeps standard server logs (such as IP address, request time and pages requested) for security and operations; see Vercel's privacy policy for how they handle those.

What we collect

If you email us, we will have your email address and whatever you wrote, and we use them only to reply and to improve Alana. That is the extent of the personal data we hold about you.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR and similar laws you have rights over personal data we hold, including access, correction, deletion and objection. Since the data we hold is limited to correspondence you have sent us, exercising them is usually as simple as asking. Email kyle@goodanalysis.co.uk and we will sort it out. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in the UK.

For everything stored on your Mac, you are already in full control: it is yours, on your machine, and we never had it.

Children

Alana is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Alana handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top. Material changes will be called out in the app's release notes.