PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy
Draft — last updated August 16, 2026
This is a draft, not a substitute for legal advice. It describes, honestly and in plain language, what data actually moves where when you use this site or the Ogden software. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer, and it may not, on its own, satisfy every obligation that applies to you or your organization under laws like GDPR or CCPA depending on where you and your customers are. Have it reviewed before relying on it.
Overview
There are two very different things "privacy" can mean here, and this policy covers both separately: (1) this marketing website, which is what most privacy policies are written about, and (2) the Ogden software itself, which — because it's self-hosted — works differently from almost anything else you'll read a privacy policy for. Read the Ogden software section below; it's the part that actually matters once you've bought a license.
This website
This site (the pages you're reading now) doesn't use cookies, doesn't run any third-party analytics or tracking script, and doesn't build a profile of you. If you just browse it, we don't collect anything at all beyond what any web server incidentally logs (IP address, requested page, timestamp) for basic operation and abuse prevention, and even that isn't tied to an identity.
Purchases
Buying a license is handled entirely by Stripe — we never see or store your payment card details. Stripe collects what it needs to process the purchase (billing information, email, and — for the self-host license — the GitHub username you provide, which we use once to invite you to the private release repository) under Stripe's own privacy policy. We keep the resulting purchase record (who bought what, when) the way any business keeps sales/invoicing records.
The Ogden software
Once you've deployed Ogden, it runs entirely on infrastructure you control — your own machine, your own server, your own cloud account. We do not operate any part of a self-hosted Ogden instance, and the software itself contains no telemetry, analytics, or "phone home" mechanism of any kind. We don't receive your projects, your backlog, your agents' conversations, your code, or any usage statistics from your instance — not because we've promised not to look, but because there's genuinely no code path in the application that sends any of it anywhere. The only data your Ogden instance ever sends outside itself is what you explicitly configure it to send to an AI provider — see the next section.
Third-party AI providers
Ogden is designed to connect to AI — that's the whole point of it — but it doesn't include any AI or LLM service itself, and it doesn't ship with any provider's API key. You configure your own connection, to whichever provider you choose (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, a self-hosted Ollama instance, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), on the Providers page.
Once configured, prompts, code, and conversation content from your Ogden instance are sent directly from your own infrastructure to that provider — not through us, not visible to us. That data is then handled entirely under that provider's own privacy policy and data usage terms, including whatever their policy says about retention or use for model training. We strongly recommend reviewing the privacy/data policy of whichever provider you connect, particularly if you're sending proprietary or sensitive code, before you do.
The one configuration where nothing leaves your infrastructure at all: connect Ogden to a self-hosted Ollama instance instead of a cloud provider. Every prompt and every response then stays entirely on hardware you control.
Direct correspondence
If you email hello@harrisonsmith.ai, we keep that correspondence to respond to you and for our own records — the same way any business would. We don't sell, rent, or share it with third parties for marketing purposes.
Children's privacy
This site and the Ogden software are intended for business and professional use and are not directed at children. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 13.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site or the software after a change means you accept the update.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or a request regarding your own data: hello@harrisonsmith.ai.