Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 2026
The philosophy
Tidy reads your email, notes, files, and calendar so it can turn the daily noise — the overflowing inbox, the dropped follow-up, the scattered notes — into something structured and useful. That data exists to make your life calmer. It stays yours. We don’t build a profile to manipulate you, and we don’t sell it. This page is written in plain English because you deserve to know exactly what happens to it.
The short version
- We don’t sell your data. Ever.
- We don’t train AI models on your personal content.
- Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
- You can export or delete everything, anytime.
- We only look at your content when you explicitly ask for help.
What we process
To make Tidy work, we process:
- Your communications: the email, messages, and calendar events you connect.
- Your content: the notes, tasks, files, and contacts you create or upload, and the projects you run.
- Derived AI data: summaries, embeddings, and structure Tidy generates from the above so it can recall and reason across your work.
- Usage data: basic metrics like whether the app is working — no content.
The “absolutely not” list
- No training on your data. Your inbox and your notes will not become part of ChatGPT’s or Gemini’s brain.
- No selling. Your data is not a product line.
- No “aggregate” reselling. We don’t repackage your activity and sell it to anyone, anonymized or not.
How we lock it down
A session key unlocks your data when you sign in. Everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. For offline search, Tidy uses an on-device AI model (Google’s Gemma-based EmbeddingGemma) that runs locally — nothing leaves your device for that.
The two times we see anything
Your data is yours. There are exactly two situations where our systems touch your content:
- “Is the engine running?” — automated performance metrics that never include your actual content.
- The “help me” button — when you explicitly request support, you grant us time-boxed access to help, and only for as long as you allow it.
Bottom line
You are the customer, not the product. Tidy earns its keep by making your work calmer — not by mining your life. If we ever change something that matters, we’ll tell you plainly.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email us at privacy@tidy.engineering.