Privacy Policy

Effective date: 3 October 2026 · Last updated: 4 October 2026

1. Who we are

"Genie", "we", "us" and "our" mean Genie plus AI, a sole proprietorship and the maker of the Genie app for Mac and of this website, genieplus.me. This policy covers the website, your Genie account, and the Genie app. You can reach us any time at contact@genieplus.me.

2. Signing in with Google

You can sign in to your Genie account with your Google (Gmail) account. Google will show you a screen asking you to allow this. Here is exactly what we ask for, and why:

That's all. Signing in does not give us access to your Gmail messages, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive, your Google password, or anything else in your Google account. We never ask for those permissions on this website.

You can remove Genie's access at any time in your Google Account at myaccount.google.com/connections. Doing so stops future sign-ins; to also delete what we've stored, see Your choices and rights.

3. How we use Google user data

We use the information we receive from Google only to:

• create and sign you in to your Genie account;
• link your Genie key and subscription to your account and show them to you;
• contact you about your account, your key, or important changes to Genie (we don't send marketing email).

We do not sell Google user data, use it for advertising, share it with data brokers, use it to decide whether you can get credit or a loan, or use it to train AI models. No person at Genie reads it except when you ask us for help, when it's needed for security, or when the law requires it.

4. Your account and Genie key

When you sign in, we store the following in our account database:

• your Google account ID, email address, name and profile picture link;
• your Genie key, encrypted, so we can show it to you again whenever you sign in;
• when your account was created and when you last signed in;
• if you buy Genie: Paddle's ID for you as a customer and for your subscription, the subscription's status, whether it renews, and when the paid year ends;
• if you ask for a trial key: the note you write with your request, when you asked, and whether we approved it and for how long.

Payments

Our order process is run by our online reseller Paddle.com, which is the Merchant of Record for all our orders: Paddle sells Genie to you, takes your payment, handles sales tax and VAT, and deals with billing questions and returns. Paddle collects your card or payment details, name, email, country and postcode (needed for tax), and handles them as an independent data controller under the Paddle Privacy Policy. Your card number never reaches us. Paddle tells us whether payments succeed so we can make and renew your key, and you can see your invoices, change your payment method or cancel in Paddle's customer portal from your account page.

Your Genie key unlocks the Genie app on one Mac. To make that work, our license server keeps a record for each key: a one-way fingerprint of the key (not the key itself), the key's end date (if it has one), whether it's switched off, and — once you use it — an anonymous ID for the Mac it's used on (a one-way fingerprint of the Mac's hardware ID, which can't be turned back into the real ID), when it was last checked, and the version of Genie installed.

The Genie app checks your key with our license server every few hours. That check sends only your key, the anonymous Mac ID and the Genie version. During the free trial it sends only the anonymous Mac ID and version. Nothing you say, type or see in Genie is ever sent to our server.

5. The Genie app on your Mac

Genie is built to keep your information on your own Mac:

• Nothing is captured before you ask. Genie doesn't listen, record or look at your screen until you hold the hotkey, or until a task or routine you set up runs.
• Your data stays on your Mac — conversations, memory, tasks, routines and settings are stored in your user account's Library folder on your Mac. We can't see them.
• Passwords and API keys you save in Genie are kept in the macOS Keychain. Website passwords are typed into the right website for you and are never sent to any AI provider.
• Screenshots are never saved. Voice recordings aren't saved on your Mac.
• You approve actions that matter. Sending email, clicking, typing, running commands, and adding or changing calendar events and reminders wait for your approval, unless you choose to turn on automatic mode.
• No analytics or tracking is built into the app.

6. Mac permissions Genie asks for

macOS asks you before Genie can use any of these. You can say no, or change your mind later in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Genie works with fewer features if you leave some off.

7. Gmail and Google Calendar in the app

The Genie app works with your email and calendar through your Mac's own Mail and Calendar apps. To use Gmail or Google Calendar with Genie, you add your Google account to your Mac in System Settings → Internet Accounts. That connection is between your Mac and Google — Genie never receives your Google password or Google sign-in tokens, and this is separate from signing in on this website.

• Genie reads email and calendar entries on your Mac only to answer what you ask, or to run a task or routine you set up.
• The parts it needs are sent to the AI provider you chose (see below) to produce an answer. They're not sent to us.
• Genie always asks before sending an email. Drafts open in Mail so you can check them first.
• Text inside emails is always treated as information, never as instructions — so an email can't make Genie take actions.

8. AI providers

Genie uses an AI service to understand you and answer. You choose which one — Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, DeepSeek or NVIDIA — and use your own API key with it.

• What you ask, plus any context you choose to include (for example, what's on your screen or an email you asked about), is sent directly from your Mac to that AI provider. It doesn't pass through our servers.
• Your API key is sent only to its own provider.
• If you turn on "try another one", a request can go to another provider you've saved a key for when your first choice isn't working. You can turn this off.
• If you set speech recognition to Gemini, your voice recording is sent to Google's Gemini service to be written down. With the default (Apple, on your Mac), your voice stays on your Mac.
• Once a day, Genie asks each AI provider you have a key for which models your key can use.

Each AI provider handles what it receives under its own privacy policy and terms, which you agreed to when you got your API key. Please read them.

9. Optional features

These are off until you turn them on:

• Using Genie from your phone. Messages between your phone and your Mac pass through a relay service, encrypted end-to-end so the relay — and we — can't read them.
• Texting Genie by iMessage. Genie reads only the messages you send to yourself, and replies in the same chat.
• Sharing memory between your Macs uses your own Genie folder in iCloud Drive (or Google Drive). That storage is governed by Apple's or Google's policies.
• Connecting other apps through Composio (for example Slack or GitHub) uses your own Composio key. Data a task reads or sends there goes through Composio, under its policies. Genie asks before sending, posting, changing or deleting anything there.
• Web searches and web tasks visit websites from your Mac, like a browser would.

10. Who we share data with

We don't sell, rent or trade your personal information. We share it only with:

• Cloudflare, which hosts this website, our account database and our license server. Cloudflare processes data on our behalf and may handle it in data centres outside your country.
• Google, which provides the sign-in.
• Paddle, our reseller and Merchant of Record, which sells Genie and processes payments. We give Paddle your email address, name and an internal account ID so your payments are linked to your account.
• Authorities, if the law requires it, or to protect the safety and rights of our users or others.
• A new owner, if Genie is ever sold or merged — they would have to keep following this policy, and we'd tell you first.

11. Cookies

This website uses only the cookies it needs to work:

• A sign-in cookie that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days, until you sign out.
• A short-lived security cookie (about 10 minutes) used while you sign in with Google, to protect against fake sign-in attempts.

We don't use advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, and we don't load third-party trackers.

12. How long we keep data

• Your account (Google ID, email, name, picture, key and any trial key request) is kept until you delete your account or ask us to.
• Payment records (invoices and transaction details) are kept by Paddle, and by us where needed, for as long as tax and accounting laws require — usually up to 8 years — even after you delete your account.
• When you delete your account, we cancel your subscription, then immediately erase your Google ID, email, name, picture link, stored key, subscription details and any trial key request, and switch off your key. We keep only the license server's anonymous record of that key (its fingerprint and the anonymous Mac ID), which no longer contains anything that identifies you, so the key can't be reused.
• Technical logs kept by our hosting provider for security and troubleshooting are deleted automatically after a short time.
• Data on your Mac is under your control. Deleting Genie and its folder in your Library removes it.

13. Security

All traffic to this website and our servers is encrypted (HTTPS). Your stored Genie key is encrypted in our database, and the license server stores only one-way fingerprints of keys. Sign-in cookies are protected so that scripts on the page can't read them. On your Mac, secrets are kept in the macOS Keychain. No system is perfectly secure, but we work hard to protect your information, and we'll tell you promptly if a breach affects your data.

14. Your choices and rights

Wherever you live, you can:

• See your data — your account page shows everything we hold about your account.
• Delete your account — use "Delete my account" on your account page, or email us.
• Remove Google access — at myaccount.google.com/connections.
• Correct, get a copy of, or ask questions about your data, or withdraw your consent — email contact@genieplus.me. We reply within 30 days.
• Complain to your local data protection authority if you think we've handled your data wrongly.

15. Children

Genie isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you're under 18, please use Genie only with a parent's or guardian's permission. If you believe a child has given us their information, email us and we'll delete it.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Genie changes. We'll change the "Last updated" date above, and if the changes are important we'll tell you by email or in the app before they take effect. We'll never use your data in a new way without asking you first.

17. Contact us

Questions, requests or concerns about your privacy? Email contact@genieplus.me.