seivac

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 27 September 2026

Seivac helps you notice when your attention drifts from what you sat down to do, and brings you back in your own voice. To do that it uses your camera, your microphone and, if you connect it, your calendar. This page says exactly what that means: what is read, what stays on your computer, what leaves it, where it goes, and how to remove it.

Seivac is operated by Arturo López, an individual based in Colombia, during an early testing phase. Questions and requests: carturolopezm@gmail.com.

1. What stays on your computer

  • The camera picture. During a focus session the desktop app reads each frame on your computer — where your face points, whether your eyes are open, whether a phone or a person is in view, how much the picture moves — and keeps only those facts. Frames are not recorded or uploaded, except the single photos described below.
  • Your activity. The name of the app in front, and how many seconds ago you last typed, scrolled, clicked or moved the pointer. Never which keys, never what is on your screen, never window contents.
  • Your calibration, settings and a local copy of recent data, so the app works on a weak connection. Signing out clears the copy of your data.

2. What leaves your computer, and why

  • Your account: name, email, and a password (stored only as a hash) or your Google sign-in.
  • Your focus sessions: when they started and ended, your goal and why it matters to you, and the moments Seivac noticed — as words and numbers (for example “looking away 20° to the left for 8 seconds, in Code”), never as pictures.
  • A single still photo, sometimes. When the facts are not enough to tell — the judgment is unsure, or your face cannot be seen and your hands have been still — one small photo is sent to a vision model to check, a few times an hour at most. It is not stored. You can turn this off; then no image ever leaves your computer.
  • Your voice sample. If you record one, it is stored privately and sent to the speech model that speaks your reminders in your voice, and is transcribed so the reminders can be written in your own words. Seivac uses your voice only to speak to you.
  • What you say to Seivac — when you hold the voice key, or answer a reminder out loud — is sent for transcription and then understood. You can turn cloud transcription off.
  • Training mode (off unless you turn it on) keeps a photo at every reminder, with what the app knew, so you can check when it was right. One click deletes every kept photo.

3. Google Calendar

If you connect Google Calendar, Seivac asks for three permissions:

  • to create a calendar of its own and manage events on it — where your focus blocks go (it cannot change your other calendars);
  • to see when you are busy (free/busy), so a session does not run into a meeting;
  • to read your events, so a clash can be named (“your 3 pm standup”) and a reminder of it spoken in your voice. For that, an event’s title is sent to the language and speech models; the spoken phrase is kept so a repeating event reuses it, and deleted after two weeks unused.

Seivac’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 data is used only to provide these features to you: it is not sold, not used for advertising, not used to train general-purpose AI models, and not read by people except with your permission, for security, or where the law requires. Disconnecting in Seivac revokes its access and deletes the stored tokens.

4. Who processes it

Seivac relies on these providers, each only for the job named:

  • Cloudflare — hosting, and private file storage (voice samples, spoken phrases, training photos);
  • Neon — the database (United States);
  • Resend — account emails;
  • Google — sign-in and Calendar, if you use them;
  • Groq — transcription, the language model and the vision model;
  • TypeSafe — deciding what a moment or a spoken sentence means, from words, never images;
  • Hugging Face — the speech model that speaks in your voice, during testing (your voice sample is sent to it).

Your data is stored and processed mainly in the United States. Seivac does not sell or share your personal data for advertising.

5. How long it is kept

Your account, sessions, voice sample and phrases are kept while your account exists. Still photos sent to check a moment are not kept. Training photos are kept until you delete them. When you ask to delete your account, everything above is deleted within 30 days.

6. Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, or withdraw a permission, at any time: write to carturolopezm@gmail.com. Under Colombian data-protection law (Ley 1581 de 2012) you also have the right to know, update and rectify your data, to revoke your authorisation, and to complain to the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio. Your voice is sensitive personal data: recording a sample is your explicit consent to its use described here, and you may withdraw it — Seivac then deletes the sample and the phrases made from it.

7. Age

Seivac is for people 18 and older. It is not directed at children, and data we learn belongs to someone younger is deleted.

8. Security

Connections are encrypted, files are stored privately, Google tokens are encrypted, and each service has only the access it needs. No system is perfectly secure; if something happens to your data, you will be told.

9. Changes

When what Seivac collects or where it goes changes, this page changes with it, and a change that matters is said in the app before it takes effect.