Nia

Privacy

Last updated October 2, 2026. This page covers the app shown on Google's sign-in screen as "Nia (local)".

In short: Nia reads your Google account only to answer you, and what it reads stays on the computer where Nia runs.

What Nia can read

Only after you sign in with Google and agree, Nia gets read-only access to:

• Gmail messages
• Calendar events
• Drive files, including Docs and Sheets
• Tasks

Read-only means Nia cannot send email, change events, or edit or delete files in your Google account.

What Nia does with it

Nia uses what it reads to answer the questions you ask it, and shows you the answer in Nia Chat. That is the only use.

Where it goes

• It stays on the computer where Nia runs. The AI model that reads it runs on that same computer.
• It is not sent to any server run by Nia's maker.
• It is not sold, not shared with anyone, not used for advertising, and not used to train AI models.
• Nia has a switch for using an outside AI service. It is off unless you turn it on yourself. While it is off, nothing you ask and nothing Nia reads is sent to an outside AI.
• If you open Nia from your phone, the page travels over an encrypted link through Cloudflare's network to your own computer, after you sign in. Nothing is stored along the way.

What Nia keeps

• The Google sign-in token, in a folder on your computer.
• Your chats with Nia, as files on your computer that you can read, move or delete.

How to take access away

• In your Google Account, open Security, then "Your connections to third-party apps and services", choose "Nia (local)" and remove it. Nia can no longer read anything from that moment.
• Or switch off the Google connection in Nia's Control page.

Google's rules

Nia's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Questions

Write to the support email shown on Nia's Google sign-in screen.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.