PRIVACY // PLAIN LANGUAGE

What we collect, and what we don't.

Last updated 12 November 2026.

DRAFT. Ponderica is in development. This page describes how the app is built today and will be finalised before the first public download.

This website

• No tracking. This site sets no cookies and loads nothing from other websites: no analytics, no ad pixels, no outside fonts or scripts.
• The microphone button on the home page is optional. If you turn it on, your audio is measured inside your browser to move the orb and goes nowhere else.
• The question bar answers from text written into the page. What you type is not sent anywhere.
• The waitlist is a form hosted by JotForm. If you join, the details you enter there are stored in our JotForm account and used only to tell you when Ponderica is ready. Ask and we will remove you.

The app

• It runs on your computer. Hearing, speaking, the wake phrase and the voice check all happen on your machine. No audio leaves it before the wake phrase and voice check pass.
• Your AI providers. After you wake it, the text of what you say, and what it needs to answer, goes to the AI provider whose key you supplied. When you ask it to look through the camera, one still picture is sent to that provider for that request. Those providers handle that data under their own terms.
• Nothing comes to us. Your conversations, files, notes, camera pictures, research reports and API keys are not sent to Ponderica or to any server of ours.
• Your keys are stored in your system keychain. They are never written to files or logs.
• Camera pictures are never stored. A live indicator shows whenever the camera or microphone is on.
• Your voiceprint is created only if you choose "learn my voice". It stays on your computer and you can delete it at any time.
• What it keeps locally: a short note after each conversation, your research reports, a log of changes it made so they can be undone, and a tally of what your AI calls cost. All of it is on your computer, yours to read or remove.

Payments

When Ponderica goes on sale, payment will be handled by Paddle, our merchant of record. Paddle will collect your payment details; we will not see your card number.

Contact

Questions or requests: [email protected].