Mesh Chat collects no personal information. Gateway settings and API keys stay on your device. Your messages go straight to the Hermes gateway you run, not to us.
1. Scope
This policy covers Mesh Chat for Hermes, the iPhone and iPad app published by The Fire Dev LLC. Mesh Chat is a client for a Hermes Agent gateway that you run yourself. It is an independent app and is not affiliated with Nous Research.
2. What we collect
We do not collect personal information through Mesh Chat. The app has no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party tracking or crash-reporting code. It does not send your messages, files, or settings to us.
3. What stays on your device
- Gateway settings: each gateway's name, address, and profile names are saved in the app's storage on your device.
- API keys: each profile's key is saved in the iOS Keychain on your device.
- Preferences: theme, text size, and chat display settings are saved on your device.
Deleting a gateway in the app removes its keys from the Keychain. Deleting the app removes its saved settings.
4. What goes to your gateway
When you chat, Mesh Chat sends your messages, and any photos, files, or dictated text you choose to attach, directly to the Hermes gateway address you entered. Your chat history, tools, memory, and scheduled tasks live on that gateway, under your control. What your gateway does with that data, including which AI model providers it calls, depends on how you configured Hermes. We never receive it.
5. Permissions
- Local network: to reach a gateway on your home network or tailnet.
- Camera and photos: only when you take or pick a photo to send.
- Microphone and speech recognition: only while you dictate. Dictation is turned into text on your device before you send it.
6. Purchases
The Unlock purchase is handled by Apple. The app checks your purchase with StoreKit on your device. Apple gives us sales reports that do not identify you. Apple handles purchase data under its own privacy policy.
7. Children
Mesh Chat is meant for people who run their own Hermes Agent gateway. It is not directed to children.
8. Changes
If this policy changes, we will post the new version on this page and update the date at the top.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy go to The Fire Dev LLC.