Kept on your Mac
Stored in your user folder and never sent anywhere by Tern.
- Spaces and tabs
- Your Spaces, tabs, pinned tabs, folders, Desks and settings.
- History
- The pages you visit, so the command bar can find them again.
- Sign-ins
- Cookies and website data, kept apart for each Space. Deleting a Space deletes its sign-ins.
- Agent conversations
- What you asked each Space's agent and what it did.
- Downloads
- Saved to your Downloads folder.
- Blocking
- The list of trackers and ad servers comes with Tern, so checking a page against it never leaves your Mac. So do the sites where you turned blocking off.
Sent to Anthropic, only when you ask
The agent runs on Claude. When you ask it something, Tern sends Anthropic what it needs to answer, using your own API key.
- What's sent
- Your request, and the text and screenshots of pages the agent reads in that Space.
- What isn't
- Other Spaces, your history, and anything while you don't use the agent.
- Your API key
- Kept in your Keychain and sent only to Anthropic.
- Passwords and cards
- The agent never types them, even with your OK.
Anthropic handles these requests under its privacy policy and doesn't train its models on API data by default.
The few times Tern goes online for itself
- Updates
- Once a day Tern asks GitHub whether there's a new version. GitHub sees your IP address, as with any download. No details about your Mac are sent.
- Crash reports
- Off unless you turn them on in Settings › Privacy. Then, when Tern crashes or hangs, the report macOS makes is sent to Front Tribe: where in Tern it happened, Tern's version and the version of macOS. No pages, addresses or anything you typed.
- Site icons
- Tern fetches each site's icon from the site itself, as a browser does when you visit.
- Import
- Bringing your old browser over happens on your Mac. macOS asks first before Tern can read another browser's open tabs.
Clear it whenever you like
Everything above can be removed from Tern itself.
Settings › Privacy › Clear History
Settings › Privacy › Crash reports
Delete a Space, with its sign-ins
New conversation in the agent panel
Settings › Agents › Remove Key
Close tab ⌘W
Questions about privacy? Write to us and a person will answer.
hello@ternbrowser.com