✦ PRIVACY GUARANTEE // 100% PRIVATE ON YOUR OWN COMPUTER

PRIVACY POLICY

Talanton never sends your prompts, documents, or API keys to external servers. Everything runs and stays directly on your machine.

EFFECTIVE: SEPTEMBER 2026AUTHOR: AMEYA KULKARNIZERO CLOUD SERVERS100% LOCAL STORAGE

1. The Local-First Architecture Guarantee

Talanton is fundamentally designed as a local-first open-source library and command-line utility. Unlike third-party cloud telemetry SaaS services, Talanton does not operate a remote collection server, does not track user behavior, and does not exfiltrate prompt text, completion text, or API credentials.

CORE PRIVACY COMMITMENT:Your prompts, documents, system messages, and API tokens never leave your local machine or server environment. All telemetry metrics (token counts, calculated costs, execution timestamps) are written strictly to an embedded SQLite file located on your own storage volume (by default at ~/.talanton/telemetry.db).

2. What Data Is Processed

When you invoke Talanton functions or run integrations, the following data points may be processed in volatile memory:

  • Prompt String / Message Payloads: Evaluated purely in memory to compute token counts using local tokenizers (such as tiktoken or local HuggingFace Rust tokenizers). Prompt text is discarded immediately after token counting and is never persisted unless you explicitly choose to pass custom metadata.
  • Telemetry Metadata: Model name, provider identifier, computed input/output token integers, estimated dollar spend, optional team or session labels, and UTC timestamps. This quantitative telemetry is stored in your local SQLite store.
  • Anthropic Tokenizer Cache: If Anthropic token counting is invoked, request inputs are hashed with SHA-256 for local disk caching at ~/.talanton/cache.json to prevent duplicate network calls.

3. Network Calls & Outbound Traffic

Talanton makes zero outbound network requests during standard token counting and cost calculation operations, with two explicit exceptions:

  • Anthropic Count API: If Anthropic tokenization is selected and the local SHA-256 cache misses, Talanton calls the official Anthropic counting endpoint using your configured API key.
  • Pluggable Webhook Alerts: If you configure a custom webhook callback on BudgetGuardrail(on_hard_limit=webhook_alert("https://...")), HTTP POST notifications are delivered exclusively to your specified destination endpoint.

4. Enterprise Compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)

Because Talanton does not transmit customer personal data (PII) or protected health information (PHI) to any external server, deploying Talanton inside your enterprise virtual private cloud (VPC) or containerized clusters complies with strict data sovereignty and confidentiality standards. You maintain 100% physical ownership of your telemetry database file.

5. Contact Information

For privacy inquiries, audit questions, or technical security verification:
Ameya Kulkarni (Founder & Maintainer)
Email: acclaptop47@gmail.com
GitHub: github.com/Ameya79/Talanton

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