DataMergeStudio and data protection

A shield representing that your datasource data stays on your Mac

Your data stays yours. This page explains exactly what DataMergeStudio does – and doesn’t do – with the information in your projects.

Your datasource never leaves your Mac

DataMergeStudio never sends any data from your datasource to our servers. Ever. Your spreadsheets, records, images, and the documents you produce stay on your machine. The onliest place this can happen is the AI support – check below.

The only thing we collect is usage statistics tied to your account on datamergestudio.com – never the contents of your data. For the full picture, see our privacy policy.

What happens when you use AI

DataMergeStudio has two AI features, and they treat your data very differently.

The AI node

The AI node is the one feature that sends record data – because that is its job. It passes the data you connect to it, together with the system prompt you set, to the AI model so the model can write, rewrite, or translate for you.

Where that request goes depends on how you run it:

  • Managed service (AI credits): the request goes to Anthropic via our cloud servers. See AI credits.
  • Bring your own API key (BYOK): you choose your own model, and the app talks to that AI model directly. The data does not reach our cloud servers at all. See Bring your own API key (BYOK).

So if you want AI processing without anything passing through our infrastructure, use BYOK.

The AI assistant

The AI assistant helps you build your merge. It receives a lot of context about your project, but it does not send your data. The only content it sees is what you type into the chat and your field names – the first row of your datasource. The records themselves are never sent.

In short

  • Your datasource data never goes to our servers.
  • The AI node sends the connected data to an AI model – via our cloud (managed service) or directly from the app (BYOK).
  • The AI assistant sends only your chat messages and field names, never your records.
  • We collect account usage statistics only. See the privacy policy for details.

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