Privacy

Sidq reads your AI conversations from your own Mac and puts them on your own clipboard. That is the entire product, and it is why this page is short.

What never leaves your machine

Your conversations. All of them. Sidq reads the transcript files that Claude Code and other AIs already write to your disk, and the text goes to your clipboard so you can paste it. It is never sent to us, never sent to a third party, and never stored anywhere but where it already was. This is not a policy choice that could quietly change; it is how the feature is built, and it is why it works with no internet connection.

What Sidq reads, and when

Two different things happen, and the difference matters:

• To list your recent sessions, Sidq reads only enough to label and rank them: the title, the project folder, the git branch, how many messages there were and roughly how long you worked.
• To make your history searchable, Sidq reads your transcripts in full and builds an index of them on your own disk. This runs in the background, about every ninety seconds, and skips any conversation that has not changed since it was last read. The index is a file on your Mac. It is never uploaded, and deleting Sidq deletes it.
• To hand a conversation over, Sidq reads that one transcript in full, at the moment you pick it.

Reading your AIs

AIs that run in a browser — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the rest — write nothing readable to your disk. If you grant Sidq the macOS Accessibility permission, it reads their conversations out of the window instead, using the same system that screen readers and dictation apps use.

That permission is powerful, so what Sidq does with it is deliberately narrow, and the narrowness is enforced in code rather than promised. Sidq looks at nine applications: Chrome, Safari, Arc, Brave, Edge, Vivaldi and the ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps. In a browser it reads a page only once its address is one of the AIs it supports; the two desktop apps have no address, so being that app is what identifies them. Every other window, in those applications and in every other application on your Mac, is never read — not the contents, not the title, not the fact that it is open.

There are still no screenshots, no screen recording, no vision model, no camera and no microphone, and Sidq does not watch which application is in front of you. What it reads goes into an index stored on this Mac and is never uploaded. Turning the permission off in System Settings stops it completely, and deleting Sidq deletes the index.

An earlier version of this page said Sidq does not read your screen at all. That was true when it was written and stopped being true when this was added, so it says this instead.

The browser extension

An alternative to the permission above, for anybody who would rather not grant it. The extension reads the conversation from the page instead. It only does so on the AI sites it names in its permissions, only while one of those tabs is open, and it sends what it reads to the Sidq app on your own machine over the loopback address 127.0.0.1, which by definition cannot leave the computer. No server of ours is involved at any point, and the extension has no ability to send it anywhere else.

What we do collect

If you create an account, we store your email address and your subscription status, because there is no way to sell you a subscription without knowing who you are and what you bought. We also store the date your copy last checked which plan it is on — a date, not a time — so we can tell whether people keep using Sidq after installing it. That check already happens; nothing is sent for it that was not already being sent. Payments are handled by Stripe and we never see or store your card details. During setup we ask how you found Sidq and what you want it for; those two answers are kept on your own machine.

What we do not do

• We do not sell your data, because we sell software.
• We do not train any model on your conversations.
• We do not use advertising or analytics trackers on the desktop app.
• We do not put your conversations in your account. Signing in stores an email address and a subscription status, nothing else; what Sidq reads stays on your Mac.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes everything it kept locally. To delete an account and the email and subscription record attached to it, write to nilsliljan@gmail.com and it will be done.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that affects what is read or where it goes, the date at the top changes and the app will say so before the change takes effect.