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Privacy Policy

Octa is a desktop application for viewing and editing tabular data files.

Octa is fully offline by default. It collects no personal data, sends no telemetry or analytics, and does no remote logging or crash reporting. Your files are opened and edited locally, and are not sent anywhere unless you enable one of the optional features described below.

There are a few optional outbound network calls, all of which you control:

  • AI assistant (Chat). The in-app Chat assistant is off until you enable it and configure a provider. Once you use it, your prompts and the contents of the files and tables it works with are sent to the language-model provider you choose (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google Gemini) so it can answer; that data leaves your machine and is handled under that provider's own privacy terms. If you instead point the assistant at a local model (Ollama on your own machine), nothing leaves your machine. Any API key you enter is stored locally on your device (operating-system keychain where available, otherwise Octa's settings file) and is sent only to its provider.
  • Update check. When you choose Help -> Check for updates, Octa queries the GitHub releases API (https://api.github.com/repos/thorstenfoltz/octa/releases) to compare versions. Copies installed from the Microsoft Store do not do this; the Store handles their updates.
  • Map tiles. When you open a geographic file in Map view, Octa fetches background map tiles from OpenStreetMap (tile.openstreetmap.org). Switch the Map view to geometry-only to avoid this.

No other network activity occurs.

Contact: report concerns via GitHub Issues.