Privacy & your data

The short version: VxNewton runs on your Mac, your chats stay on your Mac, and the only time anything leaves your machine is when you use web search.

The assistant runs locally

VxNewton runs its AI model directly on your Mac's Apple Silicon chip. When you chat, your words are processed on your machine. There is no VxNewton cloud service reading, storing, or training on your conversations.

No account, no profile

VxNewton has no sign-up, no login, and no user accounts. The app does not build a profile of you, and it does not include advertising or third-party analytics trackers.

Where your chats live

Saved conversations, app settings, and logs are stored locally in the VxNewton application support folder on your Mac:

~/Library/Application Support/VxNewton/

These are ordinary files on your computer, under your control. They are not synced or uploaded anywhere by the app.

What web search sends

For questions about current events or live facts, VxNewton can search the web. When that happens:

Your search query is sent to a search provider (DuckDuckGo) to find results.
VxNewton fetches some of the resulting web pages to read them, the same way a browser would.
Those external services and websites see the requests, as they would for any visitor.

Web search only touches the web when it is used. Ordinary chats that don't involve a search stay entirely on your machine.

Deleting your data

You can delete individual chats from within the app. To remove everything VxNewton has stored, delete the app and its application support folder shown above. Once deleted, the data is gone — there is no server copy to worry about.

A note on honesty: we say "local-first" rather than promising perfect privacy, because when you use web search, queries and page requests necessarily reach external services. Everything else is designed to stay on your Mac.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, see the support page. A direct privacy contact will be listed here shortly.