The short version
OhmsCounsel does not collect your data. The documents you import and the analysis OhmsCounsel produces never leave your Mac.
No developer-operated analytics, telemetry, account, usage metrics, error beacons, advertising IDs, fingerprinting, or crash reporting. OhmsCounsel does not collect, store, or share your content or derived work.
Everything OhmsCounsel does (importing contracts, checking defined terms, numbering and references, summarizing, extracting key terms, comparing against your playbook, diffing versions, scoring risk, and answering cited questions) runs on your Mac using deterministic local code and, where model inference applies, Apple's MLX framework with locally stored Gemma 4 weights. The native app starts an authenticated helper on 127.0.0.1 for same-device work; it is not a remote service and accepts no external connections. There is no cloud inference or developer-operated remote service, and no OhmsCounsel account.
What we don't have, and therefore never see
Because OhmsCounsel has no developer-operated server-side component, we do not receive:
- Your name, email, phone, or address.
- A device identifier, MAC address, or any other hardware fingerprint.
- The contracts and documents you import, their extracted text, or any summaries, extractions, clause flags, playbooks, comparisons, risk scores, or chat transcripts you produce in the app.
- The contents of your Documents, Downloads, Desktop, or any other folder.
- Session timing, feature usage, button clicks, or any other behavioural data.
- Crash reports. OhmsCounsel does not implement a crash-reporting SDK.
A public model host receives ordinary request metadata such as an IP address only during a model download you explicitly initiate, under that host's policy. No document content is included.
Outbound traffic you initiate
Three classes of outbound network traffic can originate from your Mac while OhmsCounsel is installed. None of them go to Silo Systems, and none of them include your documents. The model transfer and external links require your action; App Store update behaviour follows your macOS settings:
- Model weight downloads. The first time you choose to install an analysis model in Settings, the app shows its exact size, immutable revision, license, managed storage location, integrity file count, and device fit. Only after you consent does it download the selected Gemma 4 checkpoint from Hugging Face. The revision-pinned transfer is restricted to a reviewed host allowlist and a closed SHA-256 file manifest. It requires no OhmsCounsel account, and your documents are never part of the request. Hugging Face receives ordinary network request metadata under its own privacy policy. Cancel leaves no partial model marked ready; retry resumes verified files.
- Mac App Store updates.When Apple ships an OhmsCounsel update, the Mac App Store delivers it. This traffic is between your Mac and Apple's servers, governed by Apple's privacy policy. OhmsCounsel is not involved.
- Links you click. If you click an external link inside the app (for example, opening this privacy policy), your default browser handles the request. OhmsCounsel is not involved.
On-device data you create
The documents you import, extracted text and page maps, local search data, analyses, decisions, chat, playbooks, model weights, and preferences live on your disk under ~/Library/Containers/com.silosystems.ohmscounsel/Data/Library/Application Support/ (plus any files you explicitly choose to export). They are yours. We do not have access to them. OhmsCounsel creates or uploads no backup; macOS and any backup software you configure govern local copies. Settings can remove a managed model, and Import can purge every document-scoped artifact after an explicit confirmation. A separately saved export remains in the folder you chose and is never deleted by the app.
Not legal advice
OhmsCounsel provides informational document analysis only. It is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Always consult a qualified attorney for legal decisions. This product note is not part of the data policy, but we keep it on every surface that shows analysis.
Children's privacy
OhmsCounsel is rated 4+ on the Mac App Store. OhmsCounsel does not knowingly collect personal data from children or anyone else. The same zero-collection policy applies regardless of age.
Third-party services
OhmsCounsel uses these open-source components and one public model host. Local components receive no data about you from Silo Systems. The model host receives ordinary network request metadata only for a download you explicitly approve; no document content is sent:
- Gemma (open-weights language model): runs locally.
- MLX(Apple's array framework): runs locally.
- rank-bm25 / rapidfuzz (passage retrieval and matching): run locally.
- Hugging Face: contacted only when you explicitly approve a revision-pinned model checkpoint download. No document content is sent.
Changes
If we ever materially change how OhmsCounsel handles data (for example, if a future version begins to collect anything at all) we will publish an updated version of this page, announce the change prominently in the release notes, and require explicit consent in-app before any new collection begins. The effective date at the top of this document reflects the current policy.
The current policy is: nothing is collected.
Contact
Questions about this policy: admin@ohmslaw.net
For non-private inquiries you can also open an issue at github.com/flowmar47/OhmsCounsel.