Privacy Policy
Local AI (“the app”) is made by Tech Elite Club (“we”, “us”), website techeliteclub.com. You can contact us at support@techeliteclub.com. This policy explains what the app does with information.
- Your chats, files and settings stay on your phone. We have no servers and no accounts, and we do not collect or see your conversations.
- The AI models run on your phone. Once a model is downloaded, the app works without internet.
- The app shows optional ads through Google AdMob, which can collect some device information (see “Ads”).
Information that stays on your phone
- Chats and messages, including files you attach and chat names.
- Settings, such as theme, voice options and the app lock.
- Your PIN, stored only as a salted hash. It never leaves the phone.
- Your Hugging Face access token, if you add one. It is stored in the app’s private storage and used only to download models.
- Daily token usage, used to count your free replies.
We cannot read this information and do not receive it. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its data in your phone’s settings, deletes it.
Downloading models
When you download a model, the app connects to Hugging Face (huggingface.co), which hosts the model files. Hugging Face receives your IP address and, for models that need one, your access token. Their privacy policy applies to that connection.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Internet | To download models and to show ads. |
| Photos and media | Only when you choose to attach a picture. The picture is read on your phone and is not uploaded by the app. |
| Microphone | Only when you tap the microphone button, to turn speech into text. The app uses your phone’s own speech recognizer. Depending on your phone, that service may send audio to its provider (usually Google) to be recognized, under that provider’s privacy policy. Reading replies aloud works offline. |
Files you choose to attach, including PDFs, are read on your phone. Text in scanned PDF pages is recognized on the phone.
Ads
The app uses Google AdMob to show optional rewarded ads, which you can watch to earn extra free replies. AdMob may collect and use device identifiers (such as the advertising ID), your IP address, and ad interaction data to serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and some other regions, the app asks for your consent before showing personalized ads, and you can change your choice at any time under Settings → Ad choices. You can also reset your advertising ID, or opt out of ad personalization, in your phone’s Google settings. Read more in Google’s advertising policy and privacy policy.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your information.
- We do not create profiles of you or track you across apps.
- We do not upload your chats, files, pictures or voice to our own servers, because we do not run any.
Your choices and rights
Because your content stays on your phone, you control it: delete a chat in the app, or clear the app’s data to remove everything. For information handled by Google AdMob or Hugging Face, you can use the controls and rights those companies provide. If you are in the EEA or the UK and have a question about your rights, contact us at the address above.
Children
The app is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
AI answers
Answers are written by an AI model running on your phone and can be wrong, incomplete or inappropriate. Do not rely on them for medical, legal, financial or safety decisions. You can report a problem under Settings → Send feedback or report a problem.
Security
Your data stays on your device, protected by your phone’s own security and, if you turn it on, the app lock. Downloads and ads use encrypted connections. No system is perfectly secure.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top and, for important changes, tell you in the app.
Contact
Tech Elite Club · techeliteclub.com · support@techeliteclub.com