Privacy

Sidq reads your AI conversations from your own Mac and puts them on your own clipboard. That is the entire product, and it is why this page is short.

What never leaves your machine

Your conversations. All of them. Sidq reads the transcript files that Claude Code and other AIs already write to your disk, and the text goes to your clipboard so you can paste it. It is never sent to us, never sent to a third party, and never stored anywhere but where it already was. This is not a policy choice that could quietly change; it is how the feature is built, and it is why it works with no internet connection.

What Sidq reads, and when

Two different things happen, and the difference matters:

• To list your recent sessions, Sidq reads only enough to label and rank them: the title, the project folder, the git branch, how many messages there were and roughly how long you worked.
• To make your history searchable, Sidq reads your transcripts in full and builds an index of them on your own disk. This runs in the background, about every ninety seconds, and skips any conversation that has not changed since it was last read. The index is a file on your Mac. It is never uploaded, and deleting Sidq deletes it.
• To hand a conversation over, Sidq reads that one transcript in full, at the moment you pick it.

Reading your AIs

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest run in a browser and write nothing readable to your disk. If you grant Sidq the macOS Accessibility permission, it reads their conversations out of the window instead, using the same system that screen readers and dictation apps use.

That permission is powerful, so what Sidq does with it is deliberately narrow, and the narrowness is enforced in code rather than promised. Sidq looks at nine applications: Chrome, Safari, Arc, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and the ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps. In a browser it reads a page only once its address is one of the AIs it supports; the two desktop apps have no address, so being that app is what identifies them. Every other window, in those applications and in every other application on your Mac, is never read. Not the contents, not the title, not the fact that it is open.

There are still no screenshots, no screen recording, no vision model, no camera and no microphone, and Sidq does not watch which application is in front of you. What it reads goes into an index stored on this Mac and is never uploaded. Turning the permission off in System Settings stops it completely, and deleting Sidq deletes the index.

An earlier version of this page said Sidq does not read your screen at all. That was true when it was written and stopped being true when this was added, so it says this instead.

The browser extension

An alternative to the permission above, for anybody who would rather not grant it. The extension reads the conversation from the page instead. It only does so on the AI sites it names in its permissions, only while one of those tabs is open, and it sends what it reads to the Sidq app on your own machine over the loopback address 127.0.0.1, which by definition cannot leave the computer. No server of ours is involved at any point, and the extension has no ability to send it anywhere else.

What we do collect

If you create an account, we store your email address and your subscription status, because there is no way to sell you a subscription without knowing who you are and what you bought. We also store the date your copy last checked which plan it is on, a date and not a time, so we can tell whether people keep using Sidq after installing it. That check already happens; nothing is sent for it that was not already being sent. Payments are handled by Stripe and we never see or store your card details. During setup we ask how you found Sidq and what you want it for; those two answers are kept on your own machine.

What we do not do

• We do not sell your data, because we sell software.
• We do not train any model on your conversations.
• We do not use advertising trackers, and nothing about you is sold, shared or joined to anything.
• We do not put your conversations in your account. Signing in stores an email address and a subscription status, nothing else; what Sidq reads stays on your Mac.

Sharing a project memory, if you choose to

Sidq can publish one project’s memory to a link so you can send it to somebody. It is off for every project until you press publish on that project, and what goes is the memory only: the name of the project, what you asked first and last, and the rules that kept coming up. Never a conversation, and never the folder path, because a path carries your name and the shape of your disk.

• You can read the whole thing in the window before you publish it, because it is the same text Sidq shows you.
• Anyone with the link can read it. The link is 22 random characters, so it cannot be found by guessing, but it is not a password either, so treat it as public.
• You can unpublish at any time from the same button, and the page goes. A link that has been taken down looks exactly like a link that never existed.
• Publishing needs an account, so that nothing can be posted through Sidq anonymously.

Counting, if you turn it on

The desktop app can count how it is used. It is off unless you switch it on, we ask once during setup, and the answer defaults to no. This paragraph used to say there were no analytics on the desktop app at all, which was true and is why it is being replaced rather than quietly reworded.

What is counted is a fixed list of events with no text in them: the app was opened, setup reached a step, setup was finished, a handover was made, a memory was taken, an assistant was connected, how many conversations are indexed, the free weekly limit was reached, the plans were opened. Each one carries a name from that list, a number, and nothing else.

• No conversation text, ever. Not a title, not a prompt, not a folder name, not a filename. The events are a fixed set in the code and none of them can hold text you wrote.
• A random identifier for this copy of the app, made on your machine. It is not your email, your account, your hostname or your hardware, so it cannot be matched to you by anybody holding it, including us.
• Nothing is sent while it is off, and turning it off deletes anything not yet sent.

You can see the full list and switch it off at any time inside Sidq. The point of it is narrow and worth stating plainly: without it we cannot tell the difference between nobody downloading the app and everybody giving up during setup, and those two need opposite fixes.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes everything it kept locally. To delete an account and the email and subscription record attached to it, write to nilsliljan@gmail.com and it will be done.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that affects what is read or where it goes, the date at the top changes and the app will say so before the change takes effect.