# Privacy and your data
URL: https://jarvis.ceo/docs/pantry/privacy
Status: now

How Jarvis keeps your data private: on-device transcription, local memory, no account to start, and optional cloud features that use your own keys.

Privacy is not a setting in Jarvis, it is the default. Here is exactly what stays on your Mac and what, if anything, leaves it.

## Your voice stays on-device

Dictation runs a speech model locally on your Mac. Your audio is never uploaded, which is also why there is no network latency between speaking and seeing text.

> [privacy] Audio never leaves your Mac during dictation. The transcript is inserted at your cursor and the audio is discarded.

## Your memory is local

What Jarvis remembers about you lives in a local database and plain files on your Mac. It is single-user and on-device by default, and you can view, export, or clear it whenever you want.

## No account to start

Jarvis needs no signup, no credit card, and no telemetry. You download the beta and use it.

## Optional cloud uses your keys

Some advanced features can call a cloud model for more power. When they do, they use your own API key, so the request goes from your Mac to the provider, not through us.

> [note] Jarvis is open source, so these claims are auditable. You do not have to take our word for it.

Related: Memory (https://jarvis.ceo/docs/jarvis-2-0/memory), Dictation troubleshooting (https://jarvis.ceo/docs/dictation/troubleshooting)