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OceanBreeze privacy policy
Last updated: 8 November 2026
OceanBreeze is a Windows app made by Vedad Colic. It has no account, no server of its own, no telemetry, no ads and no crash reporting. What it keeps stays on your PC.
What OceanBreeze reads
OceanBreeze reads your selection, the app in front and the pointer position only when you open the ring. It doesn't watch your screen at other times. Copy to read selection (pressing Ctrl+C when an app doesn't share its selection) is off unless you turn it on. Apps on the "never read from" list in Settings > Privacy are never read.
To fill the Apps ring, OceanBreeze reads the Start menu, your installed Store apps, your taskbar pins and the launch counts Windows keeps (UserAssist). This happens on your PC, in the background; none of it is sent anywhere or written to the logs.
What it sends, and where
OceanBreeze connects to the internet only in these cases:
| When | Where it goes | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
| You run an AI tool (Ask AI, Rewrite, Translate, Describe, dictation clean-up and others) with a cloud model | The provider you picked for that tool: Anthropic (api.anthropic.com), OpenAI (api.openai.com), Google (generativelanguage.googleapis.com) or Mistral (api.mistral.ai) | Your request and the text, image or file you chose, with your API key. Each provider's own privacy policy applies. |
| You use a model on your PC (Foundry Local or Ollama) | That program, usually on this PC (localhost) or the address you entered | The same request, to that program only |
| You convert currencies | The European Central Bank (www.ecb.europa.eu) | A request for the daily exchange rates. Nothing about you or your text. |
| You turn on dictation and download a speech model | Hugging Face (huggingface.co) | A download of the model file. Speech is turned into text on your PC; audio is never sent or kept. |
| You choose Find similar on an image | Bing visual search, opened in your web browser | Only what you do in the browser. OceanBreeze sends nothing itself. |
| You open a link (the itch.io page, a provider's key page, documentation search in the Developer ring) | Your web browser | Only what the browser sends when it opens the page |
Nothing else is sent. OceanBreeze doesn't check for updates itself: the itch app, or the itch.io page, brings new versions.
What it keeps on your PC
- Settings:
%APPDATA%\OceanBreeze\settings.json - Clipboard history, Ask AI chats, saved links, notes, to-dos and voice transcripts (only if you turn on voice history):
%LocalAppData%\OceanBreeze, mostly indata.db - Logs for troubleshooting (never your API keys):
%LocalAppData%\OceanBreeze\logs - Speech models, exchange rates and temporary files:
%LocalAppData%\OceanBreeze - Icons of the apps on the Apps ring and in its list:
%LocalAppData%\OceanBreeze\app-icons - API keys: Windows Credential Manager, as entries named
OceanBreeze/<provider>
Clear each history in Settings > Privacy. Clipboard items that password managers mark as private are never kept.
Remove everything
Settings > Privacy > Remove all my data and keys deletes the settings, history, logs, speech models and saved API keys, then quits OceanBreeze. To remove the app too, delete its folder (or uninstall it in the itch app).
Contact
Questions about privacy: write through the OceanBreeze page on itch.io.