Privacy
Clavus is software you install on a Mac you own. There is no Clavus cloud, no account to create, and no server of ours between you and your assistant. Last updated 27 July 2026.
We store nothing. Your threads, files, notes and memories live in a folder on your own machine.
No account, no sign-up, no telemetry. The apps send us no usage data, no crash reports and no identifiers.
AI requests go out under your own accounts. Your machine talks to OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter or Cerebras with your API keys — never ours.
The one exception is this website. It uses cookieless, aggregated visitor statistics — described below.
Clavus is an independent project by Janis Berneker, Switzerland. Questions about this policy go to janis@berneker.ch. This policy covers this website and the Clavus apps — Clavus Server, the Mac app and the iOS app.
Clavus Server runs on your own Mac. It holds your conversations, documents, memories and API keys, and it is the only thing your phone and your Mac app talk to. We do not operate it, cannot reach it and receive no copy of what is in it.
By default that data sits in ~/.openclaw in your home folder. Deleting that folder deletes everything Clavus knows. Backups, disk encryption and who else can reach that machine are yours to decide.
Nothing. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter and no licence check in the Clavus apps. You never create an account, so there is no profile, no email address and no device identifier on our side.
Two connections do leave your machine on their own: downloading the apps, and the automatic update check. Both go to GitHub, where the release files are hosted, so GitHub sees your IP address and browser or app version. Nothing about your usage or your content is attached — see GitHub's privacy statement.
Clavus is the interface; the intelligence comes from model providers. When you send a message, your machine calls the provider you configured — directly, using the API key or subscription in your name. What travels is what a request needs: your prompt, the parts of the conversation being continued, and anything you attach such as a file, a screenshot or dictated audio. We are not part of that exchange, and we never see it. Each provider's own terms and retention rules apply:
You choose which of these to enable, and a provider without a key configured is never contacted. The same holds for anything else you wire up yourself — web search, a calendar, a smart-home bridge: those requests come from your machine, under your credentials, and follow that service's policy.
This site is hosted by Vercel, which processes standard server request data such as IP address, user agent and requested page to deliver and secure the site.
We also use Vercel Web Analytics to see whether anyone is finding the page. It sets no cookies and builds no cross-site profile. It records aggregated page views with country, device type, referring site, and which call to action was clicked. We cannot identify you from it, and there are no ad networks or social trackers on this site.
Your dark-mode preference is kept in your browser's local storage. It stays on your device and is never transmitted.
If you join the waitlist, we store the email address you enter and the date you joined in a private Vercel Blob store. We use it only to tell you when Clavus becomes available, and we do not share it or add it to a general newsletter. Email janis@berneker.ch at any time to have it removed.
The iOS app is distributed through Apple TestFlight. If you ask for an invitation, we receive the Apple ID email address you send us and use it only to add you to the tester group. Apple then handles the distribution and shows us installation and crash statistics for the beta — see Apple's privacy policy. Ask us to remove you and the address goes with you.
Under the Swiss FADP and the GDPR you can ask what personal data we hold, and have it corrected or deleted. In practice we hold almost none: the website statistics are anonymous, and your Clavus content is on your own hardware, where you can inspect or erase it at any time without asking anyone. For data a model provider has processed on your behalf, address that provider directly — you are their customer. Write to janis@berneker.ch for anything else.
If Clavus ever starts collecting something, this page changes first and says so plainly, with a new date at the top. There is no mailing list to notify — that is rather the point.