Privacy and your data
RADIQ records your work so your AI can use it. You decide what it records and how long it keeps it, and the history stays on your Mac.
What RADIQ records
| Type | Default | Where to change it |
|---|---|---|
| Screen: text inside apps, window titles, website addresses, screen video | On | Settings → Screen |
| Audio: microphone and computer sound, transcribed | On | Settings → Audio & meetings |
| Clicks (where you clicked, no text) | On | Settings → Privacy → Capture clicks |
| Keystrokes | Off | Settings → Privacy → Capture keyboard |
| Clipboard | Off | Settings → Privacy → Capture clipboard |
| Private and incognito browser windows | Skipped | Settings → Privacy → Ignore Incognito Windows |
| Audio while your screen is locked | Not recorded | Settings → Privacy → Record Audio While Locked |
Where it's stored
- Everything RADIQ records is stored on your Mac, in the
.myradiqfolder in your home folder. - Your settings and saved credentials are encrypted with your Mac's keychain (Settings → Privacy → Encrypt Data at Rest).
- Only apps you give your RADIQ key to can read your history (Settings → Privacy → Require API Authentication). RADIQ only accepts connections from your own Mac unless you turn on Allow LAN access.
What leaves your Mac
Your history isn't uploaded. Data only leaves your Mac when you use a feature that needs it:
- Asking an AI. When Claude, Codex or another app uses RADIQ, the results it asks for go to that AI's provider, like anything else you type into it. RADIQ's own Chat sends them to the model you chose (RADIQ Cloud by default).
- Automations send what they read to the model set for that automation, and their results go wherever you told them to, such as Slack or Telegram.
- Cloud transcription. If you pick a cloud transcription engine, audio is sent to it to be transcribed. Offline engines keep audio on your Mac.
- Connections you add, such as Gmail or Slack, talk to those services directly.
Product analytics and crash reports are off unless you turn on Settings → Privacy → Analytics.
Pause recording
Click the RADIQ menu bar icon and choose Pause for… (5, 15 or 30 minutes, or 1 hour), or Stop. Recording resumes on its own after a timed pause. RADIQ also pauses screen capture while Netflix, Disney+ and other DRM streaming apps, or remote-desktop apps, are in front (Pause for DRM & Remote Desktop).
Never record certain apps, sites or windows
Open Settings → Privacy → Content filters:
- Categories. One switch each for password managers, personal messaging, banking and finance, health and medical, and streaming and games. Banking and health come with common sites; add your own bank or provider to complete them.
- Apps. Switch off any app. It's listed as Not captured.
- Websites. Add domains to skip in your browser.
- Windows. Skip one window rather than a whole app.
Slack::#hrskips only that channel;::confidentialskips any window with that word in its title, in any app.
Hide sensitive details
PII Removal (Settings → Privacy → Data protection) is on by default. It removes emails, phone numbers, keys and other secrets from what RADIQ stores. Smart mode also removes names and addresses, and redacts images.
Delete your history
In Settings → Disk & retention:
- Erase recent activity deletes the last 15 minutes, 30 minutes or hour.
- A storage policy clears data older than a cutoff (7 to 90 days). Choose to keep everything, drop video and audio but keep text, trim heavy screen data but keep text and memories, or delete everything past the cutoff.
To delete a single meeting, open it and choose delete meeting. To remove everything, quit RADIQ and delete the .myradiq folder in your home folder.
Your AI and captured content
Your screen can contain text written by other people, such as web pages, emails and documents. RADIQ tells connected AI apps to treat that text as information, never as instructions. Tools that change something (sending a message, editing a memory, creating an automation) are marked, so apps like Claude ask you before using them.