Gaia — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 7 November 2026.

Gaia is a personal assistant that its owner runs on their own computer. This policy covers the Gaia service, the Gaia iPhone app, and Gaia's access to Google user data. The source code is public.

Who runs Gaia and where your data lives

Gaia runs on a computer you own. Your conversations, memory, schedules, and connector records are stored on that computer. The developer of Gaia runs no server that receives or stores your data. The iPhone app talks only to your own computer.

Google user data Gaia accesses

If you connect a Google account, Gaia asks for these permissions:

• Gmail: read your mail (gmail.readonly), and compose drafts and send mail (gmail.compose). Labelling (gmail.modify) is requested only if you approve a labelling action.
• Google Calendar: read your calendars and events (calendar.readonly), and create, change or reply to events (calendar.events).
• Your email address (openid, email), to name the connected account.

How Gaia uses that data

• Gaia reads mail and events when you ask, and at the times you schedule (for example a morning brief), to answer you, list invitations awaiting a reply, and flag calendar conflicts.
• Gaia keeps no copy of your mailbox. It stores only message and event identifiers and dates, so it can tell what is new since its last run.
• Every send, draft, label, invitation reply, and event change is shown to you as a card first. Nothing is sent or changed until you approve that card.
• Before any mail or calendar content is sent to an AI model provider to compose an answer, Gaia asks your consent once per provider and data kind. The consent screen names the provider and its retention terms. Codes and links in your mail are stripped before content is sent.

Where Google tokens are kept

The tokens Google issues are held by one process on your computer, the Gaia broker. They are stored in a directory only that account can read, and are never shown to the AI model, written to Gaia's main database, or included in an export. When you disconnect, Gaia asks Google to revoke the access, then deletes the tokens.

Sharing

Gaia does not sell Google user data. It does not use Google user data for advertising, and does not transfer it to anyone except:

• the AI model provider you have consented to, only to answer your request;
• a recipient you approve on a send card.

Humans do not read your data. The exception is you, or the case where you ask for help and share it yourself.

Limited Use

Gaia's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Deleting your data

• Disconnect Google in the app under Settings → Connectors. This revokes Gaia's access at Google and deletes the tokens.
• Remove Gaia's access at any time from your Google account's third-party access page.
• Delete everything from the computer that runs Gaia. This removes all of Gaia's data, including connector records.

Contact

Questions about this policy: CONTACT_EMAIL.

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