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Thryve Studio Privacy Policy

Effective date: April 25, 2026

The Short Version

Atlas is designed as a local-first companion app. In normal use, Thryve Studio does not receive your voice audio, transcripts, memories, Obsidian vault, local conversation history, screenshots, clipboard content, browser activity, or files.

Your Mac does the work:

Atlas may still contact third-party services when you explicitly use features that require the outside world, such as weather, opening websites, YouTube, Messages, payment processing, license activation, or support.

Scope

This policy applies to:

• The Atlas Mac app.
• Atlas local voice, memory, tool, and device behavior.
• Thryve Studio support communications about Atlas.
• Any Atlas purchase, license, or activation flow operated by or for Thryve Studio.

If Thryve Studio later ships accounts, cloud sync, mobile subscriptions, hosted LLM services, analytics, team workspaces, or other products, this policy will be updated before those features are released.

Data Atlas Handles Locally

Atlas may create, read, or process these categories locally on your Mac:

• Voice audio: microphone input used for wake word, voice ID, and speech transcription.
• Voice enrollment data: a local speaker embedding used to decide whether the enrolled user is speaking. It is not a recording of your voice, but it is still sensitive authentication data.
• Transcripts: text generated from what you say.
• Conversation history: local history used so Atlas can keep context.
• Memories: facts you ask Atlas to remember, usually written to your configured Obsidian vault or markdown memory file.
• Vault contents: markdown files Atlas reads when answering questions or recalling stored facts.
• Tool inputs and outputs: browser queries, YouTube titles/results, weather results, timer labels, note text, file paths, clipboard text, screenshot metadata, or Messages dry-run content when those tools are used.
• Diagnostics: local logs, gate results, quality checks, and debug output.
• Configuration: local settings such as vault path, phone bridge settings, route preferences, model settings, and audio settings.
• Pairing secrets: local tokens used to pair a phone or companion client, where enabled.

The current design keeps these on your device unless you choose to share them.

Local Storage

Atlas stores local app data in places such as:

• ~/.atlas
• Your configured Obsidian vault or markdown memory folder
• Local temporary files such as /tmp/atlas-*
• Browser state created by the browser you use with Atlas

You are responsible for the security of your Mac account, disk encryption, backups, synced folders, and any device where you store or sync Atlas data.

What Thryve Studio Does Not Collect By Default

During normal local use, Thryve Studio does not collect:

• Raw microphone audio.
• Voice enrollment embeddings.
• Transcripts.
• Conversation history.
• Obsidian vault contents.
• Local memories.
• Screenshots.
• Clipboard contents.
• Browser history.
• Messages content.
• Files from your Mac.
• Analytics events.
• Telemetry.
• Automatic crash reports.

If this changes in a future version, the change will be opt-in or clearly disclosed before release.

No Sale of Personal Information

Thryve Studio does not sell Atlas user personal information. The current Atlas Mac build also does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

If Thryve Studio later adds advertising, referral tracking, analytics, or a web account system that changes this, this policy will be updated before release.

Data That May Leave Your Device

Data may leave your device only when a feature requires it or you choose to send it.

Weather

If you ask for weather, Atlas may call a weather provider such as Open-Meteo. The request may include a location or coordinates needed to answer the request. The weather provider's policy applies.

Browser and Websites

If you ask Atlas to open a website, search the web, use YouTube, or navigate a page, your browser contacts those websites directly. Those websites may receive your IP address, cookies, browser state, search terms, and other normal web request data. Thryve Studio does not receive that browsing data unless you send it to support.

YouTube

If you ask Atlas to use YouTube, YouTube and Google may receive normal YouTube traffic, search queries, playback requests, cookies, account state, and browser identifiers through your browser. Google's terms and privacy policy apply.

Messages, Contacts, Calendar, and Apple Services

If Atlas integrates with Apple apps or services, those actions happen through your Mac and Apple account. Apple may process data according to Apple's policies. Atlas asks for confirmation before sending messages or taking sensitive actions.

Screenshots and Clipboard

Atlas may read screenshots or clipboard content only when you use a feature that requires it. That content stays local unless you paste it into another service, send it through Messages, upload it through a browser, or provide it to support.

Phone Bridge and Pairing

If a phone bridge or companion client is enabled, voice/text/audio data may move between your Mac and your paired device. If you use Tailscale, iCloud, a local network, or another network provider, that provider's policies may apply. Thryve Studio does not receive this traffic in the current local build.

License, Payment, and Purchase Records

If Thryve Studio sells Atlas directly or through a payment provider, the payment provider may process your name, email, payment details, billing address, tax information, transaction ID, refund status, and fraud-prevention signals. Thryve Studio does not store full card numbers. The payment provider's policy applies.

If Atlas uses license activation, Atlas or the activation provider may process a license key, email, device/license fingerprint, activation count, app version, and timestamps.

Support

If you contact support, Thryve Studio may receive your email address, name, messages, attachments, logs, screenshots, crash details, diagnostics, or files you choose to send. Do not send sensitive vault content, private messages, API keys, passwords, financial data, or medical/legal information unless support specifically needs it and you accept the risk.

Apple Gatekeeper and Notarization

When you open Atlas for the first time, macOS may perform notarization and security checks with Apple. This is standard macOS behavior and is governed by Apple's policies.

When Thryve Studio May Disclose Data

Thryve Studio may disclose company-level data it actually receives, such as support emails, purchase records, license records, or diagnostics you choose to send, in these limited cases:

• To service providers that help operate payments, support, licensing, email, security, accounting, or legal compliance.
• To comply with law, legal process, or valid government requests.
• To protect users, Thryve Studio, Atlas, or the public from fraud, abuse, security threats, or unlawful activity.
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of Thryve Studio assets.
• With your consent or at your direction.

Thryve Studio cannot disclose local-only Atlas data it does not have.

Analytics, Telemetry, and Crash Reporting

The current Atlas Mac build has no automatic analytics, telemetry, A/B testing, or automatic crash reporting.

If Thryve Studio adds telemetry later, it will be:

• Disclosed in this policy before release.
• Disabled by default or clearly consented to during setup.
• Limited to the data needed to improve reliability.
• Separated from local memories, vault contents, raw audio, and private files.

Accounts and Cookies

The current Atlas Mac build does not require an Atlas account and does not set Thryve Studio cookies during normal local use.

If Thryve Studio later adds accounts, cloud sync, billing portals, web dashboards, or hosted services, those systems may use cookies, session tokens, and account records. This policy will be updated before those systems ship.

Memory and Obsidian Vault

Atlas uses your configured markdown vault as the source of truth for personal memory in the current build. You can inspect, edit, back up, or delete those files yourself.

If you sync the vault through iCloud, Obsidian Sync, Dropbox, git, Google Drive, or another sync provider, that provider may process your vault data. Thryve Studio does not control those services.

Export and Delete Controls

Atlas includes local tools to help you inspect, export, and remove local data. Because Atlas is local-first, the practical way to access, correct, export, or delete your data is directly through the files and tools on your Mac.

Retention

Local Atlas data stays on your Mac until you delete it, reset Atlas, remove the app, or remove the relevant vault/history/config files.

Support emails, purchase records, license records, refund records, and legal records may be retained by Thryve Studio or its providers for as long as needed for support, accounting, fraud prevention, security, tax, legal compliance, and business records.

Security

Atlas is designed to keep sensitive data local, but no software can guarantee perfect security. Recommended protections include:

• Use macOS disk encryption.
• Use a strong Mac login password.
• Keep macOS updated.
• Do not share your Mac user account.
• Protect your Obsidian vault and backups.
• Do not paste secrets into Atlas unless you are comfortable storing them locally.
• Re-enroll voice ID if the voice gate becomes unreliable.

Children

Atlas is not intended for children under 13. Do not use Atlas to collect or store information about children unless you have the legal right to do so.

International Users

Thryve Studio is based in the United States. If you contact support, buy Atlas, or use any future hosted service, your information may be processed in the United States or wherever Thryve Studio's providers operate.

Your Choices

You can:

• Stop using Atlas.
• Delete local Atlas data.
• Export local Atlas data.
• Edit or delete memories in your vault.
• Re-enroll or delete the local voice profile.
• Avoid optional network features such as weather, YouTube, browser search, or support uploads.
• Contact Thryve Studio about support or privacy questions.

Depending on where you live, you may also have legal rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, objection, restriction, or appeal for personal information Thryve Studio actually controls. For the current local Atlas build, most Atlas data is on your Mac, so the practical way to access, correct, export, or delete it is through the local files and tools described above.

Changes to This Policy

Thryve Studio may update this policy as Atlas changes. Material privacy changes will be disclosed in the app, changelog, repository, or purchase/support channel before or when they take effect.

Contact

Privacy questions: support@thryvest.io