Privacy Policy

Who runs Delancey

Delancey is a personal assistant you text. It is operated by Matt White, an individual, for a small group of people he knows while it is being built. There is no company behind it. This policy explains what Delancey collects about you, how it uses and protects it, who else sees it, and how you can have it deleted. It applies to the Delancey texting assistant, the web pages Delancey sends you links to, and the “Delancey” Google app you may connect to your Google account.

Questions and requests about your data go to Matt by text, at the number you already have for him.

What Delancey does

You text Delancey and it texts back. It answers questions, remembers what you tell it, keeps notes about the things you ask it to track, uses websites on your behalf when you ask, and texts you first when it notices something you would want to know. If you connect your Google account, it also reads your mail, calendar and Drive files to do those things, writes email drafts for you to send, and adds and moves calendar events. If you install the bridge on your own Mac, it can also read the text conversations you pick there.

Information Delancey collects

• Your phone number and name, which Matt enters when he sets up your account.
• Your texts: every message and photo you send Delancey, and every reply, so it remembers your conversations.
• Notes Delancey writes about what it learns from you: the people in your life, trips you are planning, things you asked it to track. You can read and edit them from the pages Delancey sends you links to.
• Logins you save for websites, if you ask Delancey to use a site for you. See “How Delancey protects your information” below.
• A record of what Delancey did: each step it took, each page it opened, and each tool it used for you, so a mistake can be traced and fixed.
• Texts from your Mac, only if you install the bridge on your own Mac and pick people there. It copies your conversations with the people you pick, both sides, from the last twelve months on, with those people’s names and numbers from your Contacts and the names of any attachments, never the files. A group conversation is included only when everyone in it is someone you picked. Nothing from any other conversation, and no other contacts.
• Google user data, only if you connect your Google account. The next section covers it in full.

Delancey does not collect your location, and nothing from your phone besides what you text it. Texts with other people reach it only through the bridge on your Mac, and only the conversations you pick.

Google user data

Connecting Google is optional, and Delancey works without it. When you connect, Google shows you exactly what you are granting, and you can say no. Delancey asks for these permissions, and uses each one only as described:

• Email address (userinfo.email): to know which Google account you connected, and to show it to you on your home page.
• Gmail (gmail.modify): to search and read your mail when you ask about it or when it is checking for things you would want to know, to archive, label or trash messages when you ask, and to write drafts. Delancey only drafts mail: no email is ever sent until you open the draft on its review page and tap Send yourself. This permission cannot permanently delete mail.
• Calendar (calendar): to read your events, find clashes and free time, and to add, move or cancel events when you ask.
• Drive, read only (drive.readonly): to read a Doc, Sheet or file when you point Delancey at it or ask about it. Delancey cannot change or delete your Drive files.

How Delancey accesses it. Google gives Delancey a token for your account. Delancey uses it only while it is doing something for you: answering a text, running a task you asked for, or checking in the background for things you told it to watch. Delancey never reads your mail or calendar for any other purpose.

How Delancey uses it. Only to provide the features above: answering you, drafting mail, managing your calendar, and reading files you point it at. Google user data is never used for advertising, never sold or rented, never used to decide your creditworthiness or for lending, and never used to build or train a machine learning or artificial intelligence model.

How Delancey stores it.The token is encrypted before it is stored and is only decrypted at the moment Delancey calls Google for you. Mail, events and file contents are not copied into a separate store; they appear in your conversation record and in the record of what Delancey did, which are kept as described under “How long Delancey keeps information” below.

How Delancey shares it. Only with the service providers listed in the next section, only so far as each one needs to do its job for you, and never with anyone else.

Delancey’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Sharing, transfer and disclosure

Delancey is built on other companies’ services. Each one sees only the part of your information it needs to do its job, and each is bound by its own terms to use it only to provide that service to Delancey. This is the full list:

• OpenAIruns the language model that reads your messages and writes Delancey’s replies. It sees your conversation and whatever Delancey looked up to answer, which includes mail, calendar entries, file contents and texts from your Mac when you asked about them. Delancey uses OpenAI’s API under terms that do not permit OpenAI to train its models on this data.
• Claw Messenger and Linq carry the texts and photos between your phone and Delancey.
• Browser Use runs the web browser Delancey uses to do things on websites for you. It keeps your logged-in cookies for those sites between visits. It does not record the browser sessions.
• Browserbaseruns Delancey’s web searches and reads web pages for it. It sees the searches and the addresses of the pages.
• TypeSafechecks a risky click, such as a purchase or a form submission, before Delancey’s browser makes it. It sees the page in question.
• Google Drive, through an account of Matt’s, hosts screenshots Delancey sends you for about ten minutes.
• Datadog stores a trace of each conversation, including what Delancey looked up, which Matt uses to find and fix problems.
• Anthropicprocesses conversation traces when Matt reviews them with Anthropic’s coding tools to improve Delancey.

Delancey does not sell, rent, or trade your information, and does not share it with advertisers, data brokers or anyone else not on this list. Your information would be disclosed outside this list only if the law required it. If Delancey ever became part of a company, you would be told first and asked before any of your information moved with it.

Who can read your conversations

While Delancey is in this early stage, Matt can read your conversations with it, including Google user data and texts from your Mac that appear in them, to see where Delancey went wrong and make it better. You agree to this when you start using Delancey and again when you connect Google. If you would rather he did not, tell him: he will turn that off for your account, and will then see only the specific turns you report to him as broken. Beyond that, a person looks at your data only to investigate a security problem or abuse, or when the law requires it.

How Delancey protects your information

• Everything travels over HTTPS, between your browser and Delancey’s pages and between Delancey and every service above.
• Google tokens and the website passwords you save are encrypted at rest with a key that is kept apart from the database. Saved passwords are decrypted only inside Delancey’s browser, which types one only into the password field of the site it was saved for. The language model never sees a password or a token.
• Delancey’s database and files live on an encrypted disk, and only Matt has access to them.
• Delancey never sends mail, buys anything, or submits a form that matters without your yes, so a mistake in understanding you cannot act on your accounts unchecked.

How long Delancey keeps information, and how to delete it

Delancey keeps your conversations, notes and records for as long as you use it, with no time limit, so it can remember things from months ago.

• Disconnecting Google from your home page, or revoking Delancey on your Google account permissions page, deletes Delancey’s token at once. Delancey can then no longer read your mail, calendar or files. Mail or events already quoted in past conversations stay in your conversation record until you ask for deletion.
• Disconnecting your Mac, with the Disconnect button on your home page or delancey-bridge unpair on the Mac, deletes every copied text at once when it was your only connected Mac; while another Mac of yours stays connected the copy stays with it. Taking one person out of the bridge stops new texts from them; delancey-bridge forget deletes the ones already copied.
• Deleting everything. Text Matt and ask. Within 30 days he deletes your conversations, notes, saved logins, connected accounts, and the records and traces of what Delancey did for you, including copies held at the services above where he controls them.

Children

Delancey is for adults. It is not offered to anyone under 18, and Matt does not knowingly keep information about them.

Changes to this policy

When this policy changes, the date at the top changes, and Delancey texts you about anything that affects what it does with your information.