Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 October 2026

Ambient is a dashboard app for iPad and iPhone that shows the time, weather, your calendar, timers and background photos, and has an optional voice assistant. Ambient is made by SIA Codo (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what data Ambient uses, where it goes and what we keep.

In short: your calendar, location and settings are kept on your device, and calendar data goes directly between your device and Google. We don't have user accounts, we don't sell data, and we don't use your data for advertising. If you turn on the voice assistant, what you say and the dashboard's context (including your upcoming events) are sent to an AI service only while you're talking to it, and none of it is stored.

Data that stays on your device

• Your settings, timers, cached weather and calendar events are stored on your device only.
• Google sign-in tokens are stored in the device's keychain.
• Your location is used on the device to get the local weather. It isn't sent to us.
• The wake word (e.g. “Hey Bob”) is recognized on the device. While listening for it, audio isn't recorded or sent anywhere.

Google Calendar

You can connect one or more Google accounts to show your calendar. Ambient connects directly from your device to Google; your calendar data doesn't pass through our servers.

• Reading events (calendar.readonly): Ambient reads your calendar list and the events of the calendars you choose to show, from today to 7 days ahead, to show them on the dashboard and to let the voice assistant answer questions about them.
• Adding events (calendar.events): only if you turn on “Allow adding events” for an account in Ambient's calendar settings. The voice assistant then adds events you ask for (for example “add lunch with Anna on Friday at 12:30”) to that account's calendars. Ambient doesn't change or delete existing events. You can turn adding events off at any time.

When you use the voice assistant, the titles, times and locations of your events for the next 7 days, and the names of your calendars, are sent with the conversation to the AI service described below, so that the assistant can answer and add events. They aren't stored.

Ambient's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google user data is used only to provide the calendar features described here. It isn't used for advertising, isn't sold, isn't used to train AI models, and isn't read by people except with your consent or where required by law.

To disconnect, remove the account in Ambient's calendar settings. You can also revoke Ambient's access in your Google account settings.

Voice assistant

The voice assistant is off by default. When you turn it on and talk to it:

• Your voice, and context from the dashboard (the time, weather, your calendar events for the next 7 days and your timers), is streamed to OpenAI's GPT-Live model through Vercel AI Gateway. The microphone is only used during a conversation, which ends after a short silence.
• When you ask for an action, such as starting a timer or adding an event, the conversation's transcript, your timers and your calendar names are sent to our server, which asks an AI model (currently Anthropic's Claude, through Vercel AI Gateway) what to do. Your device then carries out the action.
• We don't store recordings, transcripts or calendar data. The AI services are used with storage turned off where available, and process the data only to respond. Vercel AI Gateway and the model providers may keep request data for a limited time for abuse monitoring, under their own terms.
• To limit usage, each app install has a random identifier that isn't linked to you. We count conversations per identifier and hour; the counts expire after a day.

Background photos

Background photos come from Pexels through our server. These requests don't include any personal data.

Weather

Weather is provided by Apple WeatherKit or, on older devices, by MET Norway. Your device sends its approximate location directly to these services to get the forecast.

Service providers

We use these providers to run Ambient: Vercel (hosting and AI Gateway), Upstash (usage counters), OpenAI and Anthropic (AI models), Pexels (photos), and Google (calendar, when you connect it). Their processing is governed by their privacy policies.

Children

Ambient isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes

We'll update this page if Ambient's use of data changes, and change the date above.

Contact

SIA Codo
hello@getambient.com