atlas/docs/PRIVACY_POLICY.md

Privacy Policy

This document outlines the privacy policy for the Atlas home voice agent. The core principle of this project is to ensure user privacy by processing all sensitive data locally.

Core Principle: Local Processing

• ASR/LLM Processing: All Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Large Language Model (LLM) processing is done locally on the user's own hardware. Voice data and conversation contents are not sent to any external servers or third-party services.
• Data Storage: All conversation history, memory, and user data are stored locally on the user's devices.

External API Usage: Exceptions

While the default policy is to avoid external services, a limited number of exceptions are made for functionality that requires external data. These exceptions are explicitly listed and must be approved.

Approved External APIs:

• Weather: The weather tool uses an external API to fetch weather forecasts. Only the city name or coordinates are sent to the weather service. No personal information is included in the request.
• Other Future APIs: Any future integration with an external API must be explicitly documented here and will be subject to a strict privacy review.

Data Retention and Deletion

• Conversation History: Users can configure the retention period for conversation history. The default is to retain history for 30 days. Users can choose to disable history logging or set a different retention period.
• Memory: The agent's memory (facts, preferences) is stored indefinitely until manually deleted by the user.
• Deletion: Users can delete their entire conversation history and memory at any time through the admin dashboard.

Data Access

• Local Network Only: Access to the agent's data and configuration is restricted to the local network.
• Authentication: Access to the admin dashboard and other sensitive endpoints requires authentication.