Privacy policy

Applies to the Pinak beta, version 1.0.0. Last updated 6 November 2026.

The short version: your notes stay on your computer. Pinak has no account and no analytics. Text only leaves your computer when you choose to use an AI provider.

Your notes

Notes, folders, tags, reminders and images are saved in a database in Pinak’s data folder on your computer. They are never uploaded to us. We do not run a service that holds your notes.

What we collect

Nothing. Pinak does not include analytics, crash reporting or tracking, and does not require an account. This website does not use cookies, analytics or third-party scripts or fonts.

When you use an AI provider

Ask, summarise, find tasks, suggest tags and the Map use an AI provider. You pick one (Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini) and paste your own key. Only when you use one of those features, Pinak sends the relevant note text to that provider, using your key. We never see it. What the provider does with it is covered by their own terms and privacy policy. If you do not add a key, nothing is sent.

Your key is encrypted using your computer’s secure storage and saved only on your computer. You can remove all saved keys in Settings.

Search

Search by words and by meaning run on your computer. To search by meaning, Pinak downloads a small language model (about 23 MB) the first time it is needed, and keeps it on your computer. After that, nothing about your notes is sent for search.

Links you save

When you save a web link, Pinak fetches that page once from your computer, to keep its title and text.

Updates

Pinak checks once a day whether a new version exists by downloading a small file from our website. Nothing about you or your notes is sent. You can turn this off in Settings.

Feedback

If you send feedback from Settings, it is sent only when you press Send, and contains what you typed and, if you leave the box ticked, your Pinak version and system (never your notes).

Licence

Pinak is free during the beta. If you later enter a licence key, it is checked on your computer.

Your choices

• Delete a note, or the whole data folder, whenever you like.
• Remove saved AI keys in Settings.
• Back up or move your data folder yourself.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes we will update the date above and describe the change on the beta page. Questions: hello@hummingbits.com.