Turing Forge AI Hub Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 12, 2026

Turing Forge AI Hub ("AI Hub") is published by Turing Forge LLC ("Turing Forge," "we," "us"), 2121 1st Ave N, Ste N, Birmingham, AL 35203.

The short version: Turing Forge doesn't collect your conversations or personal information. AI Hub has no Turing Forge servers, no accounts with us, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. Your chats go only where you send them: to models on your device, to your own servers, or to cloud services you turn on with your own account. Those services handle your data under their own policies.

1. What stays on your device

AI Hub stores on your device:

• your conversations, and which model answered each message, including the text read from documents, photos or scans you attach, a small thumbnail of each, and the copy of any photo you send as an image;
• your settings, including which destinations AI Hub may use and the cloud services you've agreed to;
• your spending limits and a usage record (token counts and estimated costs, not message text);
• the servers you've paired (name, address and model list);
• API keys and server keys you add, and your Hugging Face token if you add one, in the iPhone or iPad Keychain. They stay on this device: they aren't synced to iCloud Keychain and don't move to a new device;
• if you use Serve on my network, the clients you add (name and the limits you set) and the request log described in §2, which may be included in device backups, and a one-way fingerprint of each client key (not the key itself), kept in the Keychain on this device only;
• models you download.

Device backups. If you back up your device to iCloud or a computer, your conversations and settings may be included in that backup under your backup settings. Downloaded models aren't backed up. Keys don't restore to a different device. Apple or your computer stores those backups, not us.

Other Turing Forge apps. Downloaded models are stored in a shared space on your device. Other Turing Forge apps on the same device (for example Wakewright) can read them from there and run them on your device, so you don't download the same model twice; nothing is sent anywhere for this. AI Hub can see which Turing Forge app is using a model, so it doesn't remove a model while it's in use. Your conversations, settings, keys and license acceptances aren't shared with other apps. Each app's own privacy policy covers what it does with the models.

2. Where your chats go

AI Hub sends a chat only to the destination that answers it. Each chat request carries the conversation so far, your new message and a short fixed instruction to the model ("You are a helpful assistant. Answer clearly and concisely."). It doesn't add your name, location, device details or contact information. You choose which destinations AI Hub may use, and cloud services stay off until you turn each one on.

• On your device (Apple's on-device model and downloaded models): nothing leaves your device.
• Your own servers: chats go to the server you paired. AI Hub also checks that the server is reachable (sending only its key, not your chats). That server's owner, usually you, controls what happens to the data.
• Apple Private Cloud Compute (when available): your request goes to Apple's Private Cloud Compute. Apple says it uses the request only to answer it, doesn't store it, and doesn't let anyone at Apple access it.
• Cloud providers you add with your own key (for example Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or another service you enter): chats go to that provider under your account, and the provider handles them under its own terms and privacy policy. When you add or check a key, AI Hub also asks the provider for its list of models, sending only the key. AI Hub shows a short summary of each provider's stated retention and training practices, with a link to its policy. For OpenRouter, AI Hub asks to use only providers that don't train on your data.

We don't receive your chats or keys from any of these.

Siri and Shortcuts. If you ask AI Hub through Siri or a shortcut, Siri turns your speech into text under Apple's privacy policy, and AI Hub receives only the text. AI Hub answers with the same privacy settings and consents as your chats, so a shortcut can't send your question anywhere your settings don't allow, and only text is sent (no photos). AI Hub saves the question and answer as a conversation unless the shortcut turns saving off. What a shortcut does with the answer afterward is up to the shortcut you build.

Creating images. If you use Create image, AI Hub opens Apple's Image Playground, and Apple makes the images from your description on Apple Private Cloud Compute. Apple says it doesn't store or share them. AI Hub offers Create image only when your privacy settings allow Apple Private Cloud Compute, and it turns off Image Playground's option to add people from your photo library. The images you keep are stored on your device with the conversation until you delete it. They go to Photos or another app only when you tap Save or Share. AI Hub's chat models never see your created images, and exports list each one as a short text note, not the image itself.

Voice. If you use voice mode or AI Hub's dictation, AI Hub uses your microphone only while you're using them, and asks for microphone access the first time. Apple's speech recognition turns what you say into text on your device, and your device's built-in voices read answers aloud. The audio isn't saved and isn't sent anywhere. What you said is saved in the conversation as a text message marked as spoken, and it goes to the model like any typed message, under the same privacy settings. If speech recognition for your language isn't on your device yet, AI Hub can ask Apple to download it, and that download comes from Apple. (The dictation button on your keyboard is Apple's own feature and follows Apple's settings.)

Serve on my network. You can let your own devices and tools on your home network, such as scripts or a home automation hub, use AI Hub's models. It's off until you turn it on. On iPhone and iPad it serves only while the Serve screen is open.

AI Hub accepts requests only from devices on your private network, and only with a key you create for each client. AI Hub shows you the key once and keeps only a one-way fingerprint of it, which stays on this device and doesn't move to a new one.

Each request is answered under the same rules as your chats, further limited by what you allow that client:

• downloaded models answer on this device;
• a paired server gets the request;
• a cloud provider gets it only if you've allowed cloud for that client, under your account with that provider, and the cost counts against your budgets (the usage record in §1 notes it, without any text).

Apple's on-device model and Apple Private Cloud Compute are never used for these requests.

AI Hub keeps a log of the last 500 requests on this device: the time, the client's name, the model used, the result, the amount of text and how long it took. It doesn't keep the text of the requests or answers. It doesn't record the client's address. Entries are deleted after 7 days, or when you clear the log. Requests and answers aren't saved as conversations.

While serving, AI Hub announces itself on your network with the device's name so your devices can find it. Connections are encrypted. If you turn on "Also allow unencrypted connections", clients that connect without encryption send and receive their requests and answers unencrypted over your network. We don't receive any of this.

Attachments. When you attach a document, photo or scan, AI Hub reads its text on your device (photos and scans are read with your device's own text recognition) and shows you that text before you send it. Only that text, labeled with the file's name and page numbers, goes with your message, to whichever destination answers, under the same settings as your other messages. (Photos and scans are named "Photo" or "Scanned document", not their original file names.) The file or image itself is never sent, and AI Hub doesn't read or send photo details such as location. AI Hub doesn't keep the original file or photo; it keeps the text it read and a small thumbnail with the conversation.

Photos sent as images. For a photo, you can choose to send the text read from it, as above, or the photo itself to a model that can see images. When you send a photo as an image, AI Hub first makes a smaller copy and removes details such as location, camera and the time it was taken; the preview shows exactly what will be sent. That copy goes only to the destination that answers, under the same settings as your other messages: it stays on your device for Apple's on-device model and downloaded models, goes to your server for a server you paired, and goes to a cloud provider only if you've turned it on. The first time you send a photo as an image to a cloud provider, AI Hub asks you to confirm. The copy that was sent is kept on your device with the conversation until you delete it; the original photo isn't kept. Scans and PDFs are always sent as text.

Camera. AI Hub uses the camera only for the document scanner, when you choose to scan. Scans are read on your device and the images aren't kept.

3. Hugging Face: downloads and Explore

AI Hub downloads model files and model information directly from Hugging Face. When you use Explore, AI Hub sends your search terms and the names of the models you open directly to Hugging Face, and only while you're on the Explore screens; they aren't sent anywhere else. Like any download, Hugging Face receives your IP address and request details. If you add a Hugging Face read token, it's kept in this device's Keychain (not synced) and sent only to Hugging Face, and only to download models that require it (for example, models that ask you to accept their terms or private models); it isn't sent with searches. Hugging Face's privacy policy applies.

4. Exports

You can share a conversation as a file (Markdown or JSON) through the share sheet. Exports include the text read from attachments and a placeholder for each photo sent as an image, not the files or images themselves. AI Hub removes keys from exports. You choose where an export goes; we don't receive it.

5. Children

AI Hub isn't directed to children under 13, and where Apple shares that a user is under 13, AI Hub isn't available to them. Turing Forge doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children. AI output isn't filtered by us and may not be suitable for children.

6. Purchases

If you buy the App or anything in it, Apple processes the payment. We don't receive your payment details. Apple gives developers sales and transaction information so we can provide what you bought and keep our records. The App checks your purchases with Apple on your device, and its yearly renewal reminder is a notification scheduled on your device.

7. Information Apple may share with us

If you've agreed in your device settings to share analytics or crash data with app developers, Apple may give us aggregated usage statistics and crash reports. These don't identify you to us. You can change this in Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements.

Age range. Where the law requires it (for example in Texas), the App asks Apple for your age range and, for a minor, whether a parent or guardian has approved. If you're asked to share your age range and choose not to, the App can't be used there. The App checks this on your device, uses it only to apply age rules, doesn't keep it after the check, and doesn't send it to us.

8. If you contact us

If you email us at support@turingforgeai.com or privacy@turingforgeai.com, we receive your email address and whatever you include. We use it only to answer you and keep it only as long as needed for that, and for our records. Please don't send us your API keys or conversations unless we ask for a specific part. If you use Report, AI Hub opens an email with the answer or image details filled in (for an answer, your message and the answer; for an image, its description, never the image). You see the whole email and can change or delete anything before you send it, and nothing is sent unless you tap Send.

9. What we don't do

We don't sell or share personal information, show ads, track you across apps or websites, build profiles about you, or use your conversations to train AI models.

10. Deleting your data

• Delete a conversation in AI Hub, including the text, thumbnails and sent photo copies from its attachments, or delete a model to remove it from your device. AI Hub won't remove a model while another Turing Forge app is using it, and once it's removed, other Turing Forge apps can't use it until you download it again.
• Remove a key or server in AI Hub's settings to delete it from your device.
• In Serve on my network, revoke a client to delete it and its key fingerprint, and clear the request log to delete it. Turning off Serve on my network stops logging, and deleting the App deletes the log.
• Delete the App to remove its data. Shared models are removed when no Turing Forge app uses them.
• Device backups follow your backup settings.
• Data a cloud provider or your own server received is controlled by that provider or server. Use their tools to delete it.

To have us delete an email you sent us, write to privacy@turingforgeai.com.

11. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete or move your personal information, or to opt out of its sale, targeted advertising or profiling. We don't collect or hold your AI Hub data, so you manage it on your device and with the services you use. For anything we hold, such as support emails, write to privacy@turingforgeai.com and we'll respond within the time the law requires.

12. Changes

If we change this policy, we'll post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change is material, for example if AI Hub starts syncing or collecting data, we'll tell you in the App before it takes effect.

13. Contact

Turing Forge LLC
2121 1st Ave N, Ste N
Birmingham, AL 35203
privacy@turingforgeai.com