Privacy Policy — Talaria

Last updated: 19 August 2026

Talaria is a client for Hermes Agent, open-source server software you install and run on a computer you already own. It is a window onto software you host yourself. No accessory or other hardware is involved.

Talaria collects nothing

The developer receives no data from this app. There is no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no third-party tracking of any kind. Nothing in the app reports back to the developer, and there is no server operated by the developer for it to report to.

Every third-party library Talaria includes is published by Apple — SwiftNIO, SwiftNIO SSH, Swift Crypto, Swift ASN.1, Swift Atomics, Swift Collections and Swift System. None of them collects data.

Where your data goes

To the gateway you configure, and nowhere else. Your messages, attachments, voice recordings and conversation history are sent to the Hermes server whose address you enter — a program running on a computer you control. The developer has no access to it.

If you choose to sign in to Hermes Cloud instead of your own server, your conversations go to Nous Research and are governed by their privacy policy. That connection is made only if you choose it.

What stays on your device

• Conversation history, cached so it can be read offline.
• Server addresses and profiles.
• Credentials, in the iOS keychain. If you turn on SSH gateways under Settings ▸ Experimental, SSH private keys are generated in the Secure Enclave, which means the private half cannot be extracted from the device — not by Talaria, and not by anyone else.
• Known SSH host keys, so a changed key can be refused.
• Certificate fingerprints you have chosen to trust for a gateway serving HTTPS with a certificate your device would otherwise reject, so a changed certificate can be refused the same way. Only the fingerprint is kept, and only for a gateway you approved by hand.
• Preferences, including voice settings.

Deleting the app removes all of it.

Permissions, and why

Each is requested only when a feature needs it, and refusing one disables only that feature.

• Microphone — dictating a message, and spoken conversations. Talaria has two separate speech paths and they send your audio to different places, so both are described below.
• Speech recognition — turning speech into text, in a spoken conversation. This runs on your phone whenever iOS has the offline language model installed for your language; where it doesn't, Apple's speech service transcribes the audio, under Apple's privacy policy.
• Holding the microphone button to dictate a message — this path is different, and always has been: Talaria records a short audio clip and uploads it to the Hermes server you connected to, which transcribes it with whatever speech provider that server is configured to use. It does not use Apple's speech recognition, and the Settings choice for speech does not change it. The clip is deleted from your phone once it has been sent.
• Camera — attaching a photo you take to a message. Attaching an existing photo from your library needs no permission, because iOS shows you its own picker and hands Talaria only the picture you chose.
• Local network — reaching a gateway on your own Wi-Fi.

Purchases

Tips and the optional colour unlock are handled entirely by Apple's In-App Purchase system. Talaria never sees a card number or any payment detail. What the app stores is whether an unlock applies to you.

Children

Talaria is a developer tool and is not directed at children.

Contact

Questions about this policy: fabric-typist.1e@icloud.com