Privacy Policy
The short version: Pulse5 AI is a local desktop app. There's no account, no telemetry, and no server of ours in the middle of your conversations. Your code, your prompts, and your API keys stay on your machine unless you configure a third-party AI provider — in which case they go directly from your machine to that provider, never through us.
1. What Pulse5 AI is
Pulse5 AI is a desktop application you install and run locally. It reads, writes, and runs code inside a workspace folder you choose, using an AI model you configure — either a third-party provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini) with your own API key, or a fully local model through Ollama or LM Studio.
2. Data the app stores, and where
Everything Pulse5 AI stores lives only on your own device, in your OS's standard application-data directory. We never receive a copy of any of it. This includes:
- Conversations — your chat history and the results of tool calls (files read, edits made, commands run), stored in a local JSON file.
- File checkpoints — snapshots of files before an edit, used for the restore/rollback feature.
- Provider settings — your API key(s) and chosen model(s). Keys are encrypted at rest using your operating system's own secure storage (Keychain on macOS, Credential Manager on Windows, the Secret Service API on Linux where available).
- Preferences — theme, keyboard shortcuts, permission mode, and similar settings.
None of this is transmitted to Pulse5 AI or to any server we operate. Uninstalling the app removes it, and the app itself offers a "delete everything" option in Settings.
3. Third-party AI providers
If you configure a third-party model (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini), the contents of your conversation — including relevant code from your workspace — are sent directly from your machine to that provider's API using the key you supplied, in order to generate a response. That exchange is between you and the provider; we don't see it, log it, or relay it. Each provider's own privacy policy governs how they handle that data:
If you instead use a local model (Ollama or LM Studio) running on your own machine or network, nothing leaves your device at all — there is no third party in that path.
4. What happens when you check for or download updates
The app periodically checks pulse5.online for a newer version, and the same domain serves the installer files. These are plain, unauthenticated HTTP requests for version and file information — they don't include your conversations, your code, or any personal data, only what's needed to compare version numbers and fetch a file.
Like any web request, this traffic passes through our hosting provider and will appear in its standard server logs (e.g. requesting IP address, timestamp, user agent) for as long as that provider retains logs for operational and security purposes. We don't attach any additional tracking or analytics to this.
5. The website (pulse5.online)
The marketing site you're reading this on doesn't use analytics scripts, advertising pixels, or cookies for tracking. It doesn't have user accounts and doesn't ask you for any personal information. Standard web server logs (as described above) are the only data generated by visiting it.
6. Children's privacy
Pulse5 AI is a developer tool and isn't directed at children. We don't knowingly collect information from children, and given the app collects nothing from anyone in the first place, this is largely academic — but we state it for completeness.
7. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Since the app doesn't phone home, we can't notify you in-app — check back here if you want to stay current.
8. Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent to support@pulse5.online.