Privacy

Last updated: August 10, 2026

Hal Universal does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data of any kind.

It has no accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs. There are no servers operated by the developer. All conversations, memories, and reflections are stored exclusively on your device in a local SQLite database, encrypted at rest by your device's own hardware encryption and protected by the file-level Data Protection the operating system applies to app data.

Local models run entirely on your device, nothing you type, and nothing Hal generates, ever leaves it. Apple Intelligence is Apple's own system, and only they decide when things are processed in the cloud; to guarantee private, on-device-only behavior, choose a local model or shut off all networks. The developer of Hal Universal has no access to anything you type or anything Hal generates.

Model downloads are fetched from Hugging Face over standard HTTPS at your explicit request. Once downloaded, models run entirely on your device.

You can delete all of Hal's local data at any time via Settings → Power User → Database → Nuclear Reset.