Argus Privacy Policy
How the Argus app and its online services collect, use, share and protect your information, written in plain language.
1. Who we are
This policy covers Argus, the AI assistant app for Android (and Argus Desktop, Argus CLI and the Argus web chat), together with the website blazeinchue.pages.dev and the online services the app uses (the Argus sign-in service and the Argus Gateway). Argus is operated by Rocky, trading as Blazeinchue, in Zambia (“Blazeinchue”, “we”, “us”).
Questions or requests about your data: kapapaluckson75@gmail.com.
2. Information we collect and why
Your Argus account
When you create a Argus account we collect your email address, the name you give, and a password (stored only in hashed form) or, if you choose “Sign in with Google” or GitHub, your basic profile from that provider (name and email address). We use this to sign you in, keep your account secure (including optional two-step verification), verify your email, reset your password, and send you service messages about your account and plan. Sign-in sessions are kept as random tokens.
Messages you send to Argus
When you chat with Argus, your message and the context needed to answer it (for example recent conversation, notes you asked Argus to remember, the text of a web page or file you asked about, or what's on your screen when you ask Argus to act on your phone) are sent over an encrypted connection to the Argus Gateway, our service running on Cloudflare Workers. The gateway forwards the request to an AI model provider (see section 3) and streams the answer back. The gateway does not log the content of your requests.
- Android, Desktop and CLI chats are stored on your device. They are not stored on our servers unless you turn on Cloud sync, or a Cloud run is used (below).
- Cloud runs. When your connection is poor, the gateway can finish a task for your phone. The messages for that run are stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM) in our database (Cloudflare D1) only until your phone collects the answer, and are deleted automatically within about 24 hours at most.
- Web chat (blazeinchue.pages.dev/ai). Conversations and memory notes you save there are stored encrypted at rest in our database, linked to your account, until you delete them or your account.
- Private chat is never saved or learned from.
Cloud sync (optional, end-to-end encrypted)
If you turn on Cloud sync, your chats, memory, settings and designs are encrypted on your phone with a key made from a passphrase you choose. Our servers store only the encrypted copy plus sizes and timestamps. We can't read it, and the passphrase never leaves your device.
Usage, plan and payment information
We keep daily counts of requests and tokens per account to enforce plan limits, the time your account was first and last seen, and model health statistics that contain no message content. If you buy a paid plan, we record your email, the plan, the amount, the payment method (mobile money or bank transfer) and the payment reference you give us, so we can confirm the payment and switch your plan on. We don't receive your card or bank login details.
Location and weather
If you allow location, Argus uses your approximate location on your phone for local answers such as the weather and the Home screen. For a weather reading the place or coordinates are sent through the gateway to the free weather services Open-Meteo or MET Norway. We don't keep a location history.
Website
If you join the early-access list on our website we store your email address and the country your request came from. The website doesn't use advertising or tracking cookies.
On-device data
Argus keeps most of its data only on your phone: your conversations, memory, settings, notes, saved designs, life-log transcripts (if you turn that feature on), the Linux environment and files you create, saved website logins, and tokens for accounts you connect. Secrets such as passwords and connected-account tokens are encrypted with the Android Keystore. Wake-word detection (“Hey Argus”), the optional life log, and camera text scanning run on the device; Argus does not keep audio recordings.
3. AI model providers
Argus doesn't run its own large language model. To answer you, the Argus Gateway sends your request to one of several third-party AI model providers, chosen automatically for speed and availability. Depending on availability these include Google Gemini, Groq, Cerebras, Mistral, OpenRouter (free models), Nous Research (Nous Portal) and Cloudflare Workers AI. If the gateway is unavailable, Argus can use a backup on your phone: OpenCode, an open-source AI agent running inside Argus's on-device Linux, which sends the request directly from your phone to OpenCode's free hosted models (opencode.ai). As a last resort, a basic chat may be sent to the keyless Pollinations service. If you add your own API key for an AI provider, your requests go from your phone to that provider under your own agreement with them.
Each provider processes your request under its own terms and privacy policy. Some free tiers allow the provider to log requests for a limited time for abuse prevention or, in some cases, to use them to improve their services or have them reviewed by people. For that reason, please don't send highly sensitive information (such as passwords, card numbers or health records) in chat. Data from Google APIs is handled under the stricter rules in section 4.
Web searches Argus runs for you send the search words (not your account details) to a search service such as Google Search through the Gemini API, Bing, or Wikipedia. AI answers can be wrong; see our Terms of Service.
4. Google user data
Argus lets you connect your Google Account so Argus can help with your email, calendar, files, contacts and classes. Connecting Google is optional and is started by you in the app (Connectors in Argus’s settings). Argus only requests access when you choose to connect, and you can disconnect at any time.
What Argus can access
| Google permission (scope) | What Argus uses it for |
|---|---|
Gmail: read (gmail.readonly) | Find, read and summarise emails when you ask Argus about your mail. |
Gmail: send (gmail.send) | Send an email you asked Argus to write and send for you. Argus asks you to confirm before sending. |
Google Calendar events (calendar.events) | Show your schedule and create or change events when you ask. |
Google Drive: read (drive.readonly) | Search and read your files when you ask about them. |
Google Contacts: read (contacts.readonly) | Look up a contact you mention, for example to address an email. |
Google Classroom (classroom.courses.readonly, classroom.coursework.me.readonly) | Show your classes and your assignments and due dates when you connect Classroom. |
| Sign in with Google (basic profile: name, email) | Create your Argus account and sign you in. |
How Argus uses, stores and shares Google user data
- Only for features you use. Google scopes are used only to provide and improve user-facing features that you turn on and ask for in Argus, such as answering a question about your inbox or adding a calendar event. Argus does not access your Google data in the background for any other purpose.
- Where it goes. Google data is fetched by the Argus app on your phone, directly from Google's APIs. When you ask Argus about it, the relevant part (for example one email or a list of today's events) is included in that request to the Argus Gateway and the AI model that answers you, only to produce your answer. Your Google OAuth tokens are stored on your phone, encrypted with the Android Keystore; Argus's sign-in service only takes part in exchanging and refreshing them for the app.
- Not stored on our servers. Argus does not keep a copy of your Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts or Classroom data on its servers, apart from the short-lived encrypted Cloud-run records described in section 2 if a task needs one.
- No selling, no ads. We don't sell Google user data, and we don't use or transfer it for advertising, including personalised, retargeted or interest-based ads, or to determine creditworthiness or for lending.
- No model training. Argus doesn't use Google user data to develop, improve or train generalised or non-personalised AI or machine-learning models, and doesn't transfer it to anyone for that purpose.
- No human reading. No person at Blazeinchue reads your Google data unless you give us explicit permission for specific messages (for example when you ask for support), it's needed for security reasons such as investigating abuse, to comply with the law, or the data has been aggregated and anonymised for internal operations.
- Transfers. Google user data is transferred to others only as needed to provide the features you asked for (as described above), to comply with the law, or as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets with notice to you.
Limited Use. Argus's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Disconnecting and deleting Google data
You can disconnect Google at any time in Argus (Connectors in Argus’s settings), which deletes the tokens from your phone, and you can also remove Argus's access at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Google data that Argus shows you lives on your phone and is removed when you delete the conversation, clear the app's data or uninstall Argus. To ask us to delete anything connected to your Google data, email kapapaluckson75@gmail.com.
5. Phone permissions
Argus asks for Android permissions only when you use a feature that needs them, and works without the ones you decline. The main ones:
| Permission | Used for |
|---|---|
| Microphone | Voice input, the “Hey Argus” wake word and voice replies; the optional life log. Wake word and life log run on the device, and Android shows the mic indicator whenever Argus listens. |
| Camera | Camera modes (Scan, Text, Ask, Photo, Translate, Document). A photo is sent to an AI model only when you ask about it. |
| Location (approximate or precise) | Weather, local answers and the Home screen. |
| Accessibility service | Lets Argus read the screen, tap and type to carry out tasks you ask for. Screen content is sent to the AI model only while Argus is doing a task for you. |
| Contacts, calendar, phone, call log and SMS | Look up people, read or add events, place or answer a call, and read or send a text when you ask. Argus confirms before sending messages or calling. |
| Notifications, notification access, usage access | Reminders, reading notifications you ask about, and opening the right app. |
| Photos, videos and files | Files and images you choose to share with Argus. |
| Install apps, display over other apps | Installing Argus updates and apps you choose; the floating orb. |
6. How we share information
We don't sell your personal information or share it for advertising. We share it only with:
- Service providers that run Argus for us: Cloudflare (hosting, Workers, D1 database, Workers AI, and the optional WARP VPN in Argus's browser), Brevo (account and billing emails), and GitLab (hosting app downloads).
- AI model and search providers as described in section 3, to answer your requests.
- Services you connect (Google, GitHub, Spotify, Notion, Slack and others), when you ask Argus to act on them.
- Legal reasons: when required by law, or to protect the safety, rights or security of users, the public or Argus.
- Business transfer: if Argus is merged, acquired or sold, with notice to you.
7. How long we keep information
- Account information: while your account exists. When you delete your account, we delete your account data from our services within 30 days, except records we must keep by law (such as payment records).
- Cloud runs: until your phone collects the answer, and automatically within about 24 hours at most.
- Web chat conversations and memory notes: until you delete them or your account.
- Cloud sync data: until you turn sync off and delete the cloud copy, or delete your account.
- Usage counters: daily totals, kept as long as needed to run plans and limits.
- On-device data: until you delete it, clear the app's data or uninstall Argus.
8. Security
We use encryption in transit (HTTPS) for all of Argus's services, encryption at rest for stored conversation content and provider keys, end-to-end encryption for Cloud sync, hashed passwords, optional two-step verification, and the Android Keystore for secrets on your phone. No method is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and will tell you if a breach affects you as the law requires.
9. Your choices and rights
- Access, correct or export: you can see and edit your data in the app, and export a backup under Settings › Advanced › Backup.
- Delete your account: in the app under Settings › Account › Delete account, or by emailing kapapaluckson75@gmail.com from the address on your account with the subject “Delete my Argus account”. We'll confirm when it's done, within 30 days.
- Turn features off: disconnect accounts, switch off Cloud sync, revoke Android permissions, or use Private chat at any time.
- Depending on where you live, including under Zambia's Data Protection Act, you may have further rights, such as objecting to processing. Email us to use them.
10. Children
Argus is not directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you're under the age of majority where you live, use Argus only with a parent's or guardian's permission. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information, email us and we'll delete it.
11. International transfers
Argus is run from Zambia, and our service providers and AI providers process data in other countries, including the United States. We rely on these providers' safeguards when your information is transferred.
12. Changes to this policy
We'll post any changes on this page and update the date at the top. If a change materially affects how we use your data, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.
13. Contact
Argus is operated by Rocky (Blazeinchue), Zambia.
Email: kapapaluckson75@gmail.com
Website: blazeinchue.pages.dev