Privacy
The whole point of Hoy is that it runs on your machine. So this is a short page, because there is not much to tell. Last updated July 5, 2026.
Your code, your files, your prompts, and your API keys never touch our servers. There is no account to make and nothing to log in to. We do not run analytics, set cookies, or track you across the web.
What never reaches Hoy
Hoy is a desktop app. Your repositories and API keys stay on your own disk. Prompts and relevant code go directly to the model provider you choose, never to Hoy. We have no way to see them because there is no Hoy server in the loop.
Where your prompts actually go
When you run a model, Hoy talks straight to whichever provider that model belongs to, using your key, over your network connection. Your prompts and the code you attach go to that provider, for example Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, or an endpoint you point it at yourself, under their privacy terms, not ours. We are not a proxy and never see the traffic. You pay the provider directly, so we never see the bill either.
The few things that do reach a server
- Downloading Hoy. The installers are served from GitHub Releases, and this website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Both keep standard access logs, which include your IP address and browser user agent, the same as visiting any website. That is GitHub and Cloudflare doing their normal hosting job, under their privacy terms. We do not add our own analytics on top.
- Checking for updates. The app periodically asks GitHub whether a newer release exists, again through GitHub Releases. That request goes to GitHub, subject to GitHub's privacy terms, and comes back to your machine. It does not pass through us, and we do not learn that you made it.
- Arch package updates. If you installed from the signed pacman repo,
pacman -Syufetches new packages frompkgs.hoy.chat. Serving those files leaves an access log with your IP, like any package mirror. We use it only to serve the bytes, not to build a profile of you.
What we collect about you
Directly, essentially nothing. No account, no email, no usage telemetry phoned home from the app. The only data that exists is the incidental server access logs described above, held by our hosting providers, which we do not mine, sell, or connect to any identity.
Cookies
This site does not set cookies or use tracking pixels. If your browser stores anything, it is a local preference the page itself needs, never an identifier we read.
Your rights
Since we do not hold a profile on you, there is little for us to show, correct, or delete. For the access logs held by GitHub and Cloudflare, their own privacy policies and controls apply. If you ever want to ask us something anyway, open an issue on GitHub.
Changes
Hoy is beta software and moving quickly. If we ever start collecting anything new, this page changes first and the date at the top moves with it.