Privacy
The message you paste was written to you by somebody else, and they never agreed to have it processed by software. So it stays in your browser, it is deleted seven days after you last touch it, and the Shred button deletes it immediately. One optional feature can send the bits to our own server to group them by meaning; it is off until you switch it on, and it explains itself first. There are no accounts.
Ibex runs on your device. The message you paste and the reply you write are held in your browser's IndexedDB, and by default nothing is uploaded. There is one exception, and it is off unless you turn it on: grouping bits by meaning sends the bits of the pasted message, never your reply, to our own AI service to be measured for similarity. It asks before it runs, it is scoped to one message at a time, and you can stop it. There is no account to create, and we keep no copy of your message on our servers. We do record which actions happen, as event names and counts, so we can tell whether the tool is used at all; those reports never contain any part of the message or your reply.
What we collect
We collect and store the following:
- The message you paste, and your reply (browser-local): The message you paste and the reply you write are stored in your browser's IndexedDB. Your reply never leaves it at all. No account is required or offered. A session is deleted automatically seven days after you last touch it, and the Shred button deletes it immediately. You can save your draft reply to a text file at any time; that file holds only what you wrote, never the message you pasted. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you switch on grouping by meaning, which is off by default and asks before it does anything. If you switch it on, the text of the individual bits (never your reply) is sent once to our own AI service to be measured for similarity. That runs on a server we operate; the request refuses to be served by any third-party provider, so it is never sent to OpenAI or anyone else. The text is measured and discarded rather than stored, and it is not written to our logs. We do keep a record that a request happened and how large it was, which contains none of the text. Nothing about this writes or suggests any words.
- Anonymous usage and error reports: We record which pages are viewed and which actions happen, plus any error the app throws, so breakage is visible. These reports carry event names and counts only. They never contain the message you pasted, your reply, or any part of either.
Third parties
These external services receive some of your data:
- DigitalOcean — Server hosting for ibex.lotlsoft.com
Your rights
Everything Ibex holds about the message you pasted is on your device, so there is nothing stored with us to request. You can save your draft reply to a file at any time. Shred deletes everything immediately and permanently. Doing nothing also works: sessions are deleted automatically seven days after you last touch them. Clearing your browser's site data removes everything as well. If you switched on grouping by meaning, switching it off stops anything further being sent; what was already measured was already sent, and was discarded rather than stored.
Last updated: 2026-08-07.