Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 22, 2026

1. Overview

This policy explains what information Namika (“we”, “us”) collects when you use our apps and website (the “Service”), how we use it, and the choices you have. Namika’s purpose is to help you pursue positive goals with a personal AI assistant. We collect what we need to make that work, and no more.

2. Information We Collect

3. How We Use Information

We do not sell your personal information.

4. AI Processing and Service Providers

To generate assistant conversations, plans, images, and speech, your relevant content is processed by third-party AI and infrastructure providers acting on our behalf, including: Google (Gemini models: conversation, planning, image generation, and safety moderation), Anthropic (Claude models: conversation, for some accounts, as described below), Inworld and Cartesia (text-to-speech and voice cloning), Clerk (authentication), Supabase (database and file storage), Vercel (hosting), and error-monitoring/analytics providers. These providers process data under their own security and privacy commitments; we share only what is needed for the feature you are using.

Anthropic. For some accounts, your assistant’s replies are written by Anthropic’s Claude models, with Google Gemini answering whenever Claude is unavailable. What is sent is what your assistant needs to answer: your message, your recent conversation, the memories your assistant keeps, and the parts of your app that bear on it, such as your tasks, notes, plans and goals. Anthropic processes this as our service provider under its commercial terms: it does not use it to train its models, and keeps it only for a limited time for safety and abuse monitoring. If you allow your assistant to see your health data, that data can be sent to Anthropic too, as described under Health Data below.

Smart search. So your assistant can find things by what they mean, not only by their exact words, the text of your notes, documents, journal, tasks, goals and calendar entries is sent to Google to be turned into a list of numbers that describes its meaning. We keep only those numbers, never a second copy of the text. Locked notes and health records are never included. You can turn Smart search off in Settings, Privacy; when you do, what was indexed is deleted.

Speaking to your assistant. When you hold the orb or press Speak, your words are turned into text as you say them. On iPhone this is done on the phone when it can, and otherwise by Apple’s speech recognition, which receives the audio. In a browser it is done by the browser’s own speech recognition: in Chrome and Edge that sends the audio to Google, and in Safari to Apple. Where neither is available, the recording is sent to us and transcribed by our providers above. We keep the text of what you asked, as part of your conversation, and not the recording.

Siri and Spotlight. On iPhone, you can let Siri add tasks and open your tasks, goals and habits by name, and let Spotlight find them. This is off until you turn it on in Settings, Privacy. When it is on, the titles of your open tasks, active goals and habits, with a short line saying what each is, are kept on your iPhone for Siri and Spotlight, and Siri may send what you say to Apple to understand it. Nothing else of yours is shared with them. Turning it off, or turning on App Lock, removes that list and the search index from your iPhone and revokes the key Siri used.

Your photo library. On a phone, Namika asks for access to your photos when you add photos to your Library, give your assistant a face, or, on an iPhone, import your whole camera roll. An import uploads only the photos and videos it can see (all of them, or only the ones you chose to share), stores them in your Library like any file you add, and stops when your plan’s storage is full. To avoid importing a photo twice, your phone keeps a list of the photo library’s own identifiers for what it has already imported; that list stays on your phone and is not sent to us. You can change or remove Namika’s access to your photos in your phone’s settings at any time.

The browser on a board, and Namika Frames. A board can hold a web browser. What you type into its address bar is sent to Google for suggestions: by the Namika Frames extension when it is installed, and otherwise through our server, which passes the words to Google and keeps no record of them. The pages you visit there are remembered only in that browser tab, to complete what you type, and are forgotten when the page is reloaded. Namika Frames is an optional extension for Chrome and Edge on a computer. It lets sites that refuse to be shown inside another page appear on your board, and keeps you signed in there by copying a site’s cookies into a store that only pages inside Namika can use; your normal browsing keeps its own cookies, untouched. Copies last at most 30 days, you can turn them off for any site from the browser’s menu, and clearing namika.ai’s site data in your browser removes them. The extension has no server of its own.

Asking the board’s assistant to research, find photos or read a page. When you ask the assistant on a board to research things (for example a list of investors or grants written on the board), the names are sent to Google Gemini with Google Search switched on, and what it finds is written onto your board. When you ask for photos, we search Pexels, Openverse and Wikimedia Commons with the words you asked for, send small copies of the results to Google Gemini to choose the best ones, and save the chosen photos on your board, where they count towards your storage and name who took them. When you ask about the page open in a board’s browser, or send a message with that browser chosen, Namika Frames 2.1 or later reads that one page’s words and pictures as you see them and our server sends them with your message to Google Gemini; without the extension our server may fetch the public version of that page instead. Page text is used only to answer that message and is not stored. The assistant can also open a page or a search in a browser on your board, which is the same as you typing it into the address bar. When Namika Frames 2.1 or later is installed and you ask it to research in that browser, it does so where you can watch: it searches there, opens a handful of sites in tabs, reads each through the extension, and sends the words of the pages it read, with what you asked, to Google Gemini to choose the best ones. Those are put on your board as link cards (an address, a name and a line on why); the pages’ words are not stored. You can stop it at any time from its bubble beside the browser.

5. Health Data and Apple Health

What we read. If you connect Apple Health in the Namika iPhone app, we ask Apple’s permission to read (never to write) sleep, heart rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, steps, walking and running distance, active energy, exercise minutes, flights climbed, weight and body measurements, blood pressure, blood oxygen, respiratory rate, body temperature, blood glucose, water, and VO2 max. You choose which of these to allow on Apple’s permission screen. We also receive health data from devices you connect (such as Oura, WHOOP, Garmin, Withings or Polar), files you import, and anything you type in yourself.

What we keep, and why. We keep daily summaries (for example, a day’s step total or a night’s sleep), not the raw readings behind them, in our database so your Health page shows the same record on every device you sign in on, and so you can see how you are doing against your own recent history. Apple Health data is not stored in iCloud by us.

Your assistant only sees it if you allow it. Sharing health data with your assistant is off until you turn it on, either on the Health page or in Settings under Privacy. When it is on, relevant health data is sent with the rest of your context to our AI providers, Google Gemini and Anthropic (Claude), whichever is answering you, so your assistant can answer questions about it. If you turned sharing on before October 22, 2026, when the question named only Google Gemini, your health data goes only to Google Gemini until you also allow Claude in Settings under Privacy. You can turn it off at any time, and it stops within a minute.

What we never do. We do not sell health data, use it for advertising or marketing, or share it with data brokers. We do not share data obtained from Apple Health with any third party except the service providers that run the features you use, as described in section 4 and above.

Stopping and deleting. You can disconnect a source on the Health page, and choose to erase everything it brought in. To withdraw Namika’s Apple Health permission itself, open the Health app on your iPhone, tap your profile picture, then Apps, then Namika. Deleting your account deletes your health data as described in section 6.

6. Retention and Deletion

Content is retained while your account is active so your assistant remembers your goals and history. Deleting an assistant deletes its associated content, including its voice clone at our voice providers, its pictures and its cached audio. Deleting your account deletes your data from our database and file storage, deletes voice clones held by our voice providers, revokes the bank and health connections you made, and deletes your login; most of it completes within minutes and the rest within a day. Where a provider cannot be reached or does not offer a way to revoke from our side, we record it and finish it by hand. Copies in our providers’ backups expire on those providers’ schedules, and records we must keep for legal, security, or billing purposes are kept. A subscription bought through the App Store is managed by Apple: deleting your account does not cancel it, so cancel it in your Apple account settings. To request deletion, contact privacy@namika.ai.

7. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Users under the age of majority may use the Service only with a parent or guardian’s consent and supervision, and the parent or guardian is responsible for that use (see the Terms of Service). If you believe a child under 13 has provided us personal information, contact privacy@namika.ai and we will delete it.

8. Security

We use industry-standard measures, including encryption in transit, scoped credentials, isolated storage, and least-privilege access, to protect your data. No system is perfectly secure; please use a strong, unique password.

9. Your Rights

Depending on where you live (for example under GDPR or the CCPA), you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal information, and to object to or restrict certain processing. Exercise these rights via privacy@namika.ai; we will respond within the time required by applicable law. We do not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights.

A copy of everything. In Settings, Privacy, you can download all the data your account holds, once a day, as a single file: every record as JSON, your money as a spreadsheet, your documents and notes as text, and links to your files that work for seven days. It leaves out the sign-in tokens for your bank and health connections, the keys that encrypt your health data, and the words of locked notes (unlock a note first to include it). The file is kept for seven days and then deleted.

10. Changes and Contact

We may update this policy as the Service evolves; material changes will be announced in the app or by email. Questions: privacy@namika.ai.