ChiiNotchThis policy covers the ChiiNotch Mac app and this support website. Chii’s ordinary AI responses use Apple’s on-device model when it is available. Optional web, media and system connections have their own data paths, described below.
Messages, pictures and dictation
When you send a message, Chii uses that message and a limited recent conversation to respond. You can choose an image or paste text or an image into the composer. Images are prepared locally before use by an available on-device model. Model and image-understanding availability depends on your Mac, macOS, language and Apple Intelligence settings.
The current conversation, unsent message and attachments are session state. The conversation path does not keep a general chat-history file. Closing the hover panel can preserve the session during the same app launch.
Dictation begins when you choose the microphone. It requires microphone and speech-recognition access and an available on-device recognizer. Live audio feeds the recognition request; Chii does not write it to a microphone-recording file. You can review or discard the recognized text before choosing Send. Stop ends capture.
Reminders, timers and alerts
If you connect macOS Reminders, Chii can show tasks from accessible lists, save a reminder you review and confirm, and mark a selected task complete. The tasks stay in the system Reminders store and may sync through accounts you configured with Apple or another provider.
Chii saves your selected list and a bounded local mapping between its draft identifiers and saved reminder identifiers to prevent duplicate saves. These identifiers are separate from your session conversation.
Chii’s own timers and alarms create local macOS notification requests containing the alert text and scheduled time. Chii lists and cancels its own requests. Notification and Focus settings affect delivery. Alerts do not wake a sleeping or powered-off Mac.
Optional context awareness
You choose whether to enable reactions to copied text, Safari pages or nearby Calendar events. These sources may contain private information. Enable only the sources you want Chii to use.
When copied-text awareness is enabled, Chii can read a bounded excerpt of newly copied text for a local reaction. Chii can also use the active application name, local date/time and computer idle-time metadata for companion behavior. This path does not record the keys you type or read the contents of your display.
With Calendar awareness and macOS access enabled, Chii checks upcoming timed events within the next hour. The AI context receives minutes until the next event, rather than its title, attendees, notes or location. This is occasional awareness, not a guaranteed meeting-reminder scheduler.
Safari page sharing and automatic page awareness require the extension and the website access you choose in Safari. They pass page titles and bounded excerpts to Chii locally. The app and extension exchange short-lived context through files in shared app-group storage. Context has an expiration time; it is not a saved browsing-history feature. An expiration time is not a promise of immediate secure erasure from storage or backups.
Safari web search
If you enable browser search, Chii opens a Google search in Safari using the current search question. Google receives that query, and Safari’s usual cookies, signed-in account and history settings apply.
Chii can read up to five search-result excerpts and summarize them on your Mac. The earlier private conversation and a pending reminder draft are not included in this search-summary prompt. Search request, result and claim files are removed when the request finishes.
Use public-information questions and avoid private details. Query checks cannot guarantee that every accepted question is nonsensitive. If you open a result, the destination website handles that visit under its own practices.
Music, YouTube and audio play-along
Optional Apple Music features use Music on your Mac and Apple’s MusicKit services for requested searches and playback. Apple handles the system authorization and any subscription requirements. Chii can obtain track metadata and artwork; artwork requests contact the URL supplied by the media service.
The Safari YouTube connection uses a video’s identifier, title, channel, position and playback state to provide controls. Loading a thumbnail contacts YouTube’s image service with the video identifier. A saved YouTube moment keeps its title, video identifier, timestamp and save date locally.
Audio play-along requires the system access requested when listening starts. Chii processes the live audio signal locally for visual instrument reactions. This feature does not save an audio recording or add instrument sounds.
Online search, media and artwork requests let their destination services receive ordinary connection information such as your IP address, along with the query or media identifier requested. On-device AI does not make every connected feature offline. Apple, Google, YouTube and destination websites have their own privacy practices.
Local settings, storage and removal
Chii saves preferences such as eye style, tail, pinned actions and companionship settings on your Mac. It stores action identifiers, usage counts and last-used times locally to help arrange frequent actions.
Clear recent pet interactions clears this usage history while preserving pins and other preferences. It does not delete saved YouTube moments, system Reminders records, Chii-owned notification requests or every local app setting.
Saved YouTube moments and retry identifiers persist in local app data until that data is removed. There is no single in-app “delete all local data” control. Contact us for help removing these local records. Remove saved tasks through macOS Reminders, and cancel Chii alerts through its alert controls.
Removing Chii or its local data does not automatically delete tasks already saved in macOS Reminders or information held by your configured calendar, reminder, music or browser providers. Backups and those providers may have separate retention behavior.
Your choices and permissions
Chii’s basic activities and focus timer do not require connecting Reminders, Calendar, Safari, Music or microphone access. You can turn optional features off in Chii and review or revoke system permissions in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Safari’s extension settings control website access.
Turning off access stops the feature from using that permission. It does not automatically remove records you previously saved in a system app or third-party service. For a presentation or screen share, you can manually hide Chii using Hide for meeting and restore it with Show Chii.
This support website
These pages contain no advertising, analytics scripts, tracking pixels, signup form or contact form added by Chii. The page code does not set cookies or use browser storage.
The interactive feature previews use sample conversations, a sample reminder, a short focus countdown and silent music controls. Text you type into the sample reminder stays in this page’s memory; it is not uploaded or saved to browser storage and clears when the page reloads. Nearby pointer movement can select a native-rendered Chii pose locally; the page does not store or send those pointer coordinates. These previews do not call an AI model, read your Mac’s content, create a macOS reminder or notification, or play music.
The website is delivered through Sites hosting. The hosting service may process technical request information, including IP address, requested page, browser information and access times, to deliver and protect the service. The platform may use necessary service cookies or access logs. The absence of analytics in our pages does not mean the hosting platform receives no information.
If you contact us by email, your message and any attachments are handled through the email services used by you and the operator. We use the message to respond to your request. Do not include passwords or unnecessary private information.
Contact and updates
For privacy questions or requests, contact bankstanakan@gmail.com. The operator is Tanakan Sookgasi.
Updates to this policy appear on this page with a revised effective date. If a future version changes how information is used, this policy and the relevant feature guidance need to reflect that change.