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Privacy

Adam is an AI assistant, powered by Claude. When you talk to Adam you are talking to an AI, not a person; your messages are processed by Anthropic's Claude under your own account (details below).

The short version: the Adam software collects nothing. There is no Adam server, no account, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting. The maintainer never sees your files, your conversations, your token, or your keys — there is no infrastructure that could receive them. Everything runs on your own PC.

The one exception is buying Adam Plus, which — like buying anything — involves a payment processor who knows who paid. That's separate from the software, and it's spelled out in full below. Using Adam for free involves no purchase data at all.

WHAT STAYS ON YOUR MACHINE

• Your files (the notes folder) — read locally; written only through the review-and-approve flow, by the server on your PC.
• Your conversations — chat history and job records live in data\state\ on your PC. Spoken audio is generated locally (the Kokoro voice) or by your own device's built-in voice.
• Your secrets — the access token, settings, and any add-on keys. They are never logged, never returned by the API, and never included in a release or a diagnostics bundle (which is redacted before it leaves the app).

THE NETWORK CALLS ADAM ACTUALLY MAKES

Adam talks to the internet only in these ways — each one either goes to your own account or is a plain software download:

1. Anthropic (Claude) — your questions are processed by Claude using your Claude account or your API key, under Anthropic's privacy policy. This is the one place your conversation content leaves your machine, and it's the product working as advertised: you bring your own AI.
2. Update check (GitHub) — the app asks GitHub's public releases endpoint whether a newer version exists (a standard HTTPS request; no personal data). One-click updates download from the same place. Turn it off with update_check_enabled: false in settings.json.
3. One-time installs — the setup wizard can download Python (via winget) and Claude Code (from Anthropic); INSTALL-VOICE downloads the open-source Kokoro voice model from its public GitHub releases. All are ordinary downloads.
4. Optional add-ons you configure — Calendar and Email bridges run inside your Google account; LinkedIn and Twilio (SMS/voicemail) use your API credentials. Nothing is proxied through anyone else. Add-ons are off until you set them up.
5. Optional phone access — over your Tailscale network (their privacy policy); traffic goes directly between your phone and your PC. If you enable Web Push notifications, your browser's push service delivers them (the notification payload is generated on your PC).

That's the complete list. If a future version ever adds a network call, it will be documented here first.

IF YOU BUY ADAM PLUS

Adam is free and this section doesn't apply to you unless you buy.

• Who takes the payment. Checkout is handled by Gumroad, our Merchant of Record — they're the seller on the receipt and they handle billing and sales tax. Your card details go to them, not to us; we never see your full card number. See Gumroad's privacy policy.
• What the maintainer receives. Limited order information — your email address, an order ID, your country, and which licence you bought — used to issue your licence key and to help you if you write in.
• Your licence key contains your email address. Keys are signed once and checked entirely on your own machine: no licence server, no activation call, no phone-home. That's deliberate, and it's why the email is baked into the key rather than looked up. Treat the key like a receipt — anyone you send it to can read that address.
• What doesn't change. Buying adds no telemetry, no account, and no new network call inside the app. The list above is still the complete list.

Full policy — your rights, retention, international transfers: the complete privacy policy, which also ships inside the app. Requests: privacy@camposenterprises.org.

THIS WEBSITE

Separately from the app, this site itself: it sets no cookies, loads no third-party scripts or fonts, and runs no analytics. Nothing here tracks you, which is why you were never shown a cookie banner — there is nothing to consent to. It is a set of static files served by GitHub Pages, who see ordinary web server request data (including your IP address) in the course of delivering them, as any host does.

If privacy-respecting, cookie-free visitor counts are ever switched on, they will be named here before they go live, and they will remain the kind that records no personal data and follows nobody between sites.

YOUR DATA ON YOUR OWN DISK

Adam stores your notes, trackers and history as ordinary files and databases in its data folder. They are not separately encrypted by Adam — anyone with access to your Windows account, or to the drive itself, can read them, exactly as they could read your documents. That is the honest trade for a tool that keeps everything local and never holds your data hostage behind a service.

If your machine holds sensitive material, turn on BitLocker (Windows Settings → Privacy & security → Device encryption), which is the right layer for this and protects everything else on the disk too. Adam's one-click backup (Settings → Back up your data) deliberately leaves your API keys out, so the backup file is safe to keep in cloud storage.

WHO WE ARE, AND YOUR RIGHTS

Campos Systems LLC (Arizona, USA) is the controller for the limited purchase information described above. It is the only personal data we hold; the software itself sends us nothing.

• Why we hold it (legal basis). To perform the contract you entered when you bought a licence — issuing your key, honouring refunds, and answering support — and to meet tax and accounting obligations.
• How long. Order records are kept as long as tax law requires (seven years in the US), because they are financial records. Support correspondence is deleted once the issue is closed and no longer useful.
• We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use it to market to you. There is no mailing list.
• Your rights. You can ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to privacy@camposenterprises.org and we will reply. Deleting your order record does not switch off your licence — your key keeps working, because nothing checks in with us. Note that we cannot delete records the law requires us to keep, and that Gumroad holds its own copy under its own policy.
• Children. Adam is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Because everything is yours, privacy choices are yours too: what lives in your notes folder, whether to enable add-ons, and who can reach your PC. Keep your access token private (rotate it with ROTATE-TOKEN.cmd if it may have leaked), and use the supported Tailscale path — not a public tunnel — for phone access.

Support requests on GitHub are public. Anyone can read an issue you open, including search engines. Don't paste your access token, your licence key, or personal details into one — send those to privacy@camposenterprises.org instead. Diagnostics bundles from inside the app are redacted before they leave your machine, but read what you're pasting anyway.

Effective 12 August 2026. This page describes Adam v0.9.x and matches the PRIVACY.md that ships inside the app. Material changes will be posted here with a new effective date. Questions: GitHub Issues (public) or privacy@camposenterprises.org.