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title: "Privacy Policy | Total Recall"
description: "Total Recall is built local-first. Your memory stays on your machine. This policy explains exactly what the software stores, what leaves your computer, and what never does."
canonical: "https://total-recall.dev/privacy"
last-updated: "2026-09-02"
---

# Privacy Policy

Total Recall is built local-first. Your memory stays on your machine. This policy explains exactly what the software stores, what leaves your computer, and what never does.

## What Total Recall stores, and where

Total Recall indexes your AI agent sessions, the documents and folders you choose to connect, saved facts, and recurring work patterns, all in a local database on your computer (by default under ~/.claude/total-recall/). Nothing is uploaded to Total Recall servers. There are no Total Recall servers that hold your data.

## What never leaves your machine

- Your sessions, conversations, and their content
- Your connected documents, notes, and knowledge files
- Your saved memories, decisions, and patterns
- Search queries and recall results
- The embeddings and indexes built from any of the above

## Network connections the software makes

- **One-time model download** of a ~128MB open-source embedding model (bge-small-en-v1.5).
- **Update checks** against GitHub for new releases.
- **License validation** carrying an anonymized machine identifier, no personal information and none of your content.

The software contains no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no advertising identifiers.

## The website

If you join the waitlist we store the email you submit so we can contact you about Total Recall. We do not sell or share it. The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics (aggregate, non-identifying, no cookies).

## Contact

Questions or removal requests: hello@total-recall.dev. Full policy at https://total-recall.dev/privacy.