Privacy & Security

Privacy isn’t just a feature at Bearly—it’s foundational to everything we build. As AI becomes essential for both personal creativity and business operations, we believe users deserve tools that deliver cutting-edge capabilities while maintaining the highest standards of data protection.

Our Privacy-First Commitment

Bearly operates on a simple principle: your data belongs to you. We will never monetize your information through advertising or sell your data for marketing purposes. Instead, our approach balances two essential goals:

Access to state-of-the-art AI — We provide the latest models from leading providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, leveraging their multi-billion dollar inference infrastructure to deliver the best possible AI experience.

Uncompromising privacy protection — We’ve engineered robust encryption and privacy safeguards that keep your data secure throughout every interaction, ensuring that accessing powerful AI doesn’t mean sacrificing privacy.

For organizations with the most stringent security requirements, we offer Bearly-hosted open source models and complete on-premise deployments. Contact [email protected] to explore these options.

This document outlines our privacy and security architecture. For complete legal details, see our privacy policy .

Advanced Encryption Architecture

Complete Data Isolation

Every project and chat conversation operates with isolated encryption keys, ensuring that your work remains completely separate and secure. Each conversation room uses advanced Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) encrypted with derived keys, enabling seamless real-time collaboration while maintaining end-to-end security.

Smart File Protection

When you upload files, they’re immediately encrypted with your project’s unique key. For features requiring external AI processing (like image analysis), we use derived encryption keys that allow secure processing without ever exposing your root encryption key to third parties.

Intelligent Search

To enable fast, powerful search across your content, Bearly creates numerical “embeddings” that represent the meaning of your data without containing the actual content. These embeddings:

Enable instant search and discovery
Are stored unencrypted to allow for fast indexing and search performance
Cannot be reverse-engineered to reconstruct your original data (though this remains an ongoing area of research)
Your actual text content remains fully encrypted with your conversation keys

Minimal Data Storage Policy

What we store: Only the encrypted content within your project spaces and basic billing metrics

What we never store: Your actual conversations, queries, or AI responses outside of your encrypted rooms

Zero-Logging Infrastructure

Bearly operates its own privacy-focused infrastructure with zero activity logging across:

Python code execution environments
Web application hosting (Artifacts)
Document processing pipelines
All other data-handling components

Flexible Security Options

Bearly offers multiple security configurations to meet different privacy requirements:

Key Management

Managed Keys (Default) Bearly securely manages your encryption keys, providing robust security with maximum convenience and full feature access.

Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) Take complete control by providing your own password that generates all encryption keys.

Operation Modes

Standard Mode Unlocks the full power of Bearly’s AI capabilities, including advanced multimedia processing and file analysis. When processing requires it, encryption keys may be temporarily sent to our servers but are never stored and immediately discarded after use.

Zero-Trust Mode Designed for maximum security, this mode keeps all encryption keys on your device and processes everything locally. While this limits some advanced features, it provides the highest possible level of data protection. Contact [email protected] to enable zero-trust mode.

Transparent Third-Party Integration

We believe in complete transparency about external services. Bearly uses a carefully selected, minimal set of third-party providers:

Essential Operations

Analytics & Monitoring

Simple Analytics — Cookie-free, privacy-focused website analytics
Amplitude — Feature usage insights to guide product development
Stripe — Enterprise-grade payment processing with industry-leading security
Sentry — Real-time error monitoring for optimal performance

AI Model Providers

To deliver access to the world’s most advanced AI capabilities, we integrate with leading providers:

Partners: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Grok, Mistral, Together AI, Replicate AI, Cerebras, Deepseek

Your Privacy Protection:

Most providers do not retain your queries
Some retain queries briefly for compliance requirements only
Where technically possible, we’ve opted out of data retention and training use
We never share your complete conversation history—only specific content needed for each request

Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance

Industry-Leading Compliance

Bearly meets the highest standards for enterprise security:

SOC 2 Compliant — Enterprise-grade security controls
GDPR Compliant — Full compliance with European privacy regulations, including comprehensive user data rights
CCPA Compliant — Complete California Consumer Privacy Act compliance with transparent data practices

Flexible Deployment Solutions

Managed Enterprise Teams Complete administrative control with advanced user management, detailed analytics, and granular feature controls.

On-Premise Deployment Deploy Bearly entirely within your infrastructure using Docker or Kubernetes, maintaining complete control over data location and access.

Private Model Hosting Run powerful open-source models (Llama, GPT-OSS, Kimi, Qwen) entirely within your environment while accessing the full Bearly platform.

Cloud Integration Seamlessly connect to your existing Azure OpenAI or AWS Bedrock deployments.

Enterprise Support

Get Started: [email protected] | Schedule Demo: bearly.ai/schedule-demo

Maximizing Your Security

While Bearly is secure by default, these practices will enhance your privacy protection:

For Highly Sensitive Work

Enable BYOK mode to ensure only you can access your data
Consider zero-trust mode for maximum data isolation

Regular Security Maintenance

Review project collaborators and remove unnecessary access
Keep your Bearly application updated for the latest security enhancements
Use strong, unique passwords and enable two-factor authentication when available

This document reflects our current privacy and security practices. For the most up-to-date legal information, please refer to our privacy policy and terms of service .