Privacy Policy
This policy covers the InterGenOS websites — intergenos.org, wiki.intergenos.org, and repo.intergenos.org — and the InterGenOS operating system together with the software we ship in it (the InterGen assistant, the Forge installer, and the pkm package manager).
The short version
InterGenOS exists to put you in control of your own machine. That extends to your data: we do not collect it. The operating system contains no telemetry, no analytics, no accounts, and no tracking of any kind. Our websites use no analytics and no tracking cookies. The only data we ever see is the ordinary, short-lived server log any web server produces when you visit a page or download a file. Everything else described below happens on your machine, under your control, and never passes through a server we operate.
Our websites
When you visit intergenos.org, wiki.intergenos.org, or repo.intergenos.org, our web server records a standard access log: your IP address, the page or file requested, the time, and your browser's user-agent string. We use these logs only to operate the sites, to investigate abuse, and to understand, in aggregate, how much the project is being used; they are routinely rotated and deleted. The sites set no tracking cookies, run no analytics or advertising scripts, embed no third-party trackers, and offer no accounts. There is nothing to opt out of, because nothing is collected beyond the logs described here.
The operating system
InterGenOS never phones home. There is no telemetry, no usage reporting, no crash uploading, no unique device identifier, and no registration. When you install software or check for updates, the pkm package manager contacts our package mirror (repo.intergenos.org) over HTTPS; the mirror sees the same standard server log as any website visit — your IP address and the files requested — and nothing more. Package downloads are verified on your machine against cryptographic signatures; no information about your system is sent to us.
Some optional proprietary applications (for example, a web browser or editor from another vendor) are provided through download helpers. These fetch the software directly from the vendor over your connection; the vendor's own privacy policy governs that download and the software itself. We are not in that path.
The InterGen assistant
InterGen, the built-in AI assistant, runs locally on your hardware. Your conversations, files, and the assistant's memory stay on your machine. Two features can reach the network, and both are visible and under your control:
- Web search. When you ask InterGen to search the web, your search query is sent to DuckDuckGo (html.duckduckgo.com) to retrieve results. Only the query text is sent, only when a search is actually performed, and DuckDuckGo's privacy policy governs its handling. No search goes through any InterGenOS server.
- Optional cloud AI providers. You may connect your own API key for a third-party AI provider (such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, DeepSeek, xAI, or a self-hosted endpoint you specify). This is entirely opt-in. Your key is stored in your system keyring (GNOME Keyring via libsecret) — never in configuration files or logs — and is read only at the moment a request is made. When you use a cloud provider, the content you send it goes directly from your machine to that provider under that provider's terms and privacy policy. We never see, relay, or store it.
What we never do
We do not sell data. We do not share data (we have essentially none to share). We do not profile you, serve ads, fingerprint devices, or buy or trade information about you. If a court order ever compelled us to produce user data, the honest answer for nearly everything described above is that the data exists only on your machine, and we cannot produce what we do not have.
Data retention
Web-server access logs (the only data we hold) are rotated automatically: logs are archived monthly and each archive is deleted after 60 days, so no access log is retained on the server longer than about three months, and most are deleted sooner. Logs pulled for analysis are destroyed after processing; what we retain long-term is aggregate statistics and records of hostile activity, not visitor logs. Nothing else is retained because nothing else is collected.
Children
Our sites and software collect no personal data from anyone, including children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated effective date. Because the project's design principle is no data collection, changes are expected to be rare and narrowing rather than broadening.
Contact
Privacy questions: privacy@intergenos.org. General contact: contact@intergenos.org. Or open an issue at github.com/InterGenJLU/intergenos.
InterGenOS is free software (GPL-3.0-or-later). You can read every line of what your system does — including everything this policy describes — at our source repositories.