Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 24, 2026

The short version

• Your work stays on your Mac. SeeLI runs on your own Mac. Your code, chats and files stay there. When you use Claude or ChatGPT through SeeLI, your Mac talks to them directly, under your own account with them. We never receive that work.
• We keep very little. For a purchase: the order number from Paddle, the company that sells SeeLI for us, plus a one-way fingerprint of your email and of your license key, random IDs for your Macs, dates, and the app's version. No names, and no email addresses we can read.
• No ads, no tracking, no data sales. We don't sell or share your personal information, and SeeLI sends us no crash reports.
• Questions: hello@seeli.app.

Who we are

SeeLI is made by Bad Labs LLC, a Florida company ("we", "us"). We are responsible for the information this policy describes.

• Bad Labs LLC
• 7901 4th St N, Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, USA
• hello@seeli.app

This policy covers SeeLI for Mac, SeeLI for iPhone, the SeeLI glasses app, our website, and the services behind them: licenses, away-from-home connections, lock-screen alerts and app updates.

What stays on your devices

SeeLI is software that runs on your own Mac. We don't run servers that hold your work, and there's no SeeLI account to sign up for.

• Your code, files and chats stay on your Mac. Conversation history, settings and the pairing keys for your iPhone live in SeeLI's folder on your Mac.
• The AI services you choose. SeeLI runs Claude Code (by Anthropic) and Codex (by OpenAI) on your Mac, signed in with your own accounts. What you ask them, and the files they read to answer, go from your Mac straight to Anthropic or OpenAI under your agreement with them, and their privacy policies apply. We don't receive, store or see any of it.
• Voice dictation is turned into text on your Mac by default, and the audio never leaves it. If you add your own key for Deepgram or Groq in Settings, your voice clips go to that service instead, under its own terms.
• Photos you attach on your iPhone go to your Mac, and from there to the AI service with your message.
• Your iPhone keeps only your Mac's address and the pairing key. Your glasses talk only to your Mac.

What we handle, and why

Buying a license. Paddle sells SeeLI for us as the "merchant of record": it takes your payment, handles tax, refunds and fraud checks, and collects what that needs (like your name, email, country and card) under its own privacy policy. From Paddle we receive the order number, Paddle's customer ID, what you bought, any refund, and your email address so we can send your key.

Your license key email. We email your key through Resend, which handles your address and the message to deliver it. Afterwards we keep only a one-way fingerprint of your email, so we can resend a lost key to that same address when you ask. We never send marketing emails.

Using your license on a Mac. When you activate, your Mac sends the key, a random ID made just for that Mac, and the app's version. We record that activation and its date, which is how a license covers up to 2 Macs and can be moved to a new one. The random ID isn't your Mac's serial number or name.

Away-from-home connections. When your iPhone is away from home, it and your Mac meet through our service on Cloudflare, which introduces them so they can open a direct, end-to-end encrypted connection. While it does this, the service sees both devices' IP addresses and random connection IDs. It can't read what your devices send each other, and it doesn't keep it. To stop abuse, it keeps an IP address only as a one-way fingerprint, for at most an hour.

Lock-screen alerts. If you allow notifications, your iPhone gives your Mac a notification token. When the AI needs your OK, your Mac asks our service to send an alert, and our service passes the token through Expo to Apple's notification service. The alert has fixed wording, like "Claude needs your OK". It never contains your code, files or what the AI wants to do. Our service doesn't keep the token after sending.

Updates. Once a day, SeeLI for Mac asks updates.badlabs.app whether there's a new version. The request carries your IP address and the app's name and version, nothing else about your Mac. The iPhone app checks Expo's update service the same way, with a random ID for that install.

First-time downloads. The first time you use dictation, SeeLI downloads speech models from Hugging Face. If you set up glasses and agree, it downloads Google's Android tools from Google. Each of them sees your IP address.

Our website shows no ads and sets no tracking cookies. Cloudflare serves it and handles your IP address to do so. Cloudflare also counts page views and measures page speed for us with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and, according to Cloudflare, does not follow visitors over time or collect their personal data. Everything else on the site, including its fonts and the three.js library that draws the 3D glasses, comes from our own site, so no other company receives your visit.

Emails you send us are used to reply to you.

The companies involved

We use these companies to run SeeLI. Each handles only what its job needs, under its own privacy policy. We don't sell or share your personal information with anyone else, or for advertising.

Some of these companies process data in the United States and other countries. Where the law asks for it, they protect transfers with safeguards like the EU's Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long we keep things, and your rights

How long we keep things

• License and activation records: as long as your license exists, because that's how it works. If you ask us to delete them, the license stops working.
• Paddle's purchase notices to us: 30 days.
• IP fingerprints for abuse limits: at most an hour.
• Emails you send us: as long as we need them to help you.
• Paddle and Apple keep their own records under their own policies.

Why we may use it (for people in Europe and the UK)

• Licenses, your key email, away-from-home connections, alerts and updates: to provide what you bought (our contract with you).
• Abuse limits and security: to keep SeeLI safe and working (our legitimate interests).
• Notifications and cloud dictation: your choice, and you can turn them off.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, and ask us to correct it, delete it or stop using it. In Europe and the UK you can also object, ask for a copy to take elsewhere, and complain to your local data protection authority. In California you have the right to know, correct and delete, and we don't sell or share personal information. We won't treat you differently for asking. Email hello@seeli.app, and we'll answer within 30 days.

Children

SeeLI isn't for anyone under 13, or under 16 in Europe. We don't knowingly collect children's information. If you think we have, email us and we'll delete it.

Security

Away-from-home connections are encrypted end to end. License keys and email addresses are kept only as one-way fingerprints. Our services use encrypted (HTTPS) connections.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and its date. For a significant change, we'll also say so in the app.

Contact

Bad Labs LLC, 7901 4th St N, Ste 300, St. Petersburg, FL 33702, USA · hello@seeli.app