Privacy
Last updated: May 2026
This page describes how Velyn AI is intended to behave during the macOS private alpha. It is not legal advice and does not replace a formal privacy policy when Velyn ships broadly.
Local AI
Normal use runs AI on your Mac through Ollama. The goal is that your chat is not sent to a generic hosted “chat brain” by default.
Network and browsing
Approved network tools and managed-browser navigation use HTTPS on the internet—similar to any desktop tool that fetches pages or searches the web. That is different from routing your conversation through a cloud LLM as the default way Velyn thinks.
Managed browser and passwords
Sign-in for managed browsing happens in local Chromium on your machine. Velyn is not designed to receive your passwords. Do not paste secrets into chat.
Approvals and records
Sensitive steps are meant to ask you first. Operations keeps a local record you can review. Alpha trust messaging states there is no automatic upload of diagnostics; verify in your build if that matters to you.
Alpha software
Early-access software can misbehave or change behavior. Treat Velyn as test software on a machine you control. For product questions, use the BuildLayer contact form linked from the homepage.