norte collects nothing about you.

This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.

norte has no account, no telemetry and no crash reporting, not even opt-in. It connects only to the places you point it at — an SFTP or FTP server, an S3 bucket, a remote norte daemon — and talks to them directly from your machine.

Your settings, the journal of changes, the policy and the credentials you save stay on your computer, in norte's configuration and data folders. Diagnostics and logs are written there too and never leave it.

Today norte does not check for updates; you install new versions yourself. If a future version learns to update itself, it will ask you before it ever checks, it will send only what the check needs (the installed version and the platform) to the release server, and this page will say so first.

norte can use an AI model for three things: proposing new names, proposing how to organise a folder, and semantic search. All three are off until you turn them on in the [ai] section of norte.toml, with a provider you choose — a local one such as Ollama, or a remote one such as Anthropic or an OpenAI-compatible service — and your own key, read from your environment or keyring.

Even then, norte calls the model only when you start one of those actions, and sends only what it needs, straight to that provider under its privacy policy: the file names and your instruction to propose names or an arrangement; for semantic search, the first 32 KiB of the text files you choose to index. Never a path. Local-only mode refuses every remote provider, and folders you list as denied never leave your machine. A proposed rename moves nothing until you review it.

An agent such as Claude or Codex is a separate program you connect through MCP; what it reads goes wherever that program sends it, under its own privacy policy. norte's policy decides what it may touch, and the journal records what it did.

Plugins run sandboxed and get only the permissions you grant them.

The Windows packages will be signed through SignPath Foundation; today's previews are still unsigned. Signing proves the files came from this project; it adds no data collection. Your operating system may check the certificate with its issuer, as it does for any signed program.

Downloads are served by GitHub Releases, under GitHub's privacy statement.

getnorte.dev is hosted on Vercel and uses Vercel Web Analytics: anonymous, aggregated counts of page views and of a few clicks (opening the install panel, copying an install command, downloading a package). It sets no cookies and builds no profile of you.

Like any web host, Vercel processes your IP address to serve the page. Fonts are served from this site itself; no other third party is loaded.

If you write to parhelion@tutamail.com, the message is kept only to answer it and is never shared or sold. Issues and pull requests on GitHub are public, by GitHub's design.

You can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, or object to it, by writing to parhelion@tutamail.com. If this policy changes, this page will say so, with a new date.