Last updated: April 1st, 2025
Welcome to the PearAI Privacy Policy regarding the main PearAI app.
PearAI aims to be a gold standard in transparency and good intentions as a company, and so here we'll outline exactly what we track. We aren't here to steal or sell your data, but just allow you to make what you want.
This Privacy Policy outlines how PearAI (referred to as "PearAI," "we," "us," or "our") handles personal information in relation to our main app, PearAI. This Privacy Notice is meant to provide information about our privacy practices, but it is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations not otherwise provided by law.
You are not required to provide any personal data to use our open-source software
If you opt to use PearAI's hosted services (e.g., PearAI Server), the only personal data we store is the information you provide during registration, such as your name, email address, company name (if applicable), and any other optional details you may choose to provide during the registration process. Aside from this, we maintain metrics on activity on servers, such as number of requests, as this is needed to handle abuse and quotas. We do not store the actual contents of your requests.
Payment information is securely processed by our payment processor (Stripe). We do not directly handle or store payment card details.
Your codebase is not directly stored by PearAI. As a technical necessity of our prompt logging system, any content within your prompts - including any incidental code snippets - is captured as part of the prompt text. This logging is solely used for debugging and improving the user experience.
For model interactions, we have a zero-data retention policy for Anthropic models and zero-data retention policies are currently pending for other models.
All indexing for your codebase (for PearAI to have codebase knowledge) happens locally on your machine, ensuring your complete codebase remains private and secure on your system.
When using PearAI, we collect anonymous usage information to help us improve the product. All data collected by PearAI is anonymized and stripped of any personally identifiable information (PII) before being processed by Telemetry. For full transparency, you can review the code for this here.
We track:
For quality assurance and product improvement, we persist logs of user prompts. While we do not explicitly store code, any code snippets included within your prompts will be logged as part of the prompt text. These logs are solely used to help us understand how users interact with the app, identify potential issues, and improve the overall user experience.
We do not track your actual request contents to LLM when you use your own API key. On PearAI's hosted servers, if you opt to use them, we do not store this information either. We are committed to protecting the security and privacy of your data.
You can also opt out of this by modifying the config.json file in ~/.pearai directory. Simply add:
"allowAnonymousTelemetry" = false
to disable this. Note that within the pearai-submodule, there may be lingering Telemetry calls from the Continue fork - these have been disabled, as PearAI does not want to track that data.
For quality assurance and product improvement, we persist logs of user prompts. While we do not explicitly store code, any code snippets included within your prompts will be logged as part of the prompt text. These logs help us understand how users interact with the app, identify potential issues, and improve the overall user experience.
We may update this Privacy Policy if necessary. The most recent update date is noted at the top of this policy.
In the case of significant changes, we will make a prominent post outlining the changes and notify our users. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to pear@trypear.ai and we will get back to you promptly!