Privacy Policy
vew is built to keep your browsing on your machine. We collect almost nothing, and the agent never routes your pages through us.
The short version: vew runs on your real local session. Your browsing history, tabs, and logins stay on your device. When the agent reads a page, that content goes straight from your machine to the AI provider you configured with your own API key -- Yaw Labs is never in that path.
Who we are
vew is a desktop browser with an agent built in, made by Yaw Labs. This policy covers the vew desktop app and the vew.sh website, and explains what each one does -- and mostly does not do -- with your data.
What stays on your device
vew operates on your real, local browser session. The following never leave your machine and are never sent to Yaw Labs:
- Your browsing history and the pages you visit
- Your cookies, logged-in sessions, and open tabs
- The content the agent reads in order to act on a page
- Your AI provider API key and any credentials you enter
The agent and your AI provider
vew's agent uses an API key that you supply for a third-party AI provider (for example, Anthropic). When the agent reads or acts on a page, the relevant page content is sent directly from your machine to that provider, under your own account and subject to that provider's terms and privacy policy. Yaw Labs does not proxy, receive, store, or have any access to that data.
Because the provider is your own, you should review the privacy policy of whichever AI provider you configure. The agent is human-supervised by design: it pauses to ask before purchases, form submissions, or any irreversible action.
What the app sends to us
Exactly one thing: a one-time anonymous install ping the first time you launch vew. It records only:
- How vew was installed (for example, the install command used)
- Your operating system platform (for example, windows, macos, linux)
- Your CPU architecture (for example, x64, arm64)
- The vew version
Each ping is stored as a standalone event tagged with a random identifier. It contains no IP address, no account, no device fingerprint, and nothing that identifies you. We use it only to keep an aggregate count of how many people are running vew. The app sends no other usage analytics and no crash telemetry.
The website
vew.sh is a static site. It sets no advertising or tracking cookies and loads no third-party analytics or trackers. Like any site, vew.sh and its install endpoint are served by a hosting provider (Netlify), which may process standard request metadata such as your IP address and browser user-agent in server logs for security and reliability. We do not combine that with any other data or use it to identify you.
What we never do
- We do not sell your data -- there is effectively nothing to sell.
- We do not require an account to use vew.
- We do not build advertising or behavioral profiles.
- We do not receive the pages you browse or the content the agent reads.
Changes to this policy
If we change how vew handles data, we will update this page and revise the date above. We will reflect material changes here before they take effect.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email contact@vew.sh or visit our contact page.