# Files, local data and privacy

Canonical: https://heedit.ai/docs/reference/privacy/
Language: en

Your documents remain ordinary local files. Heedit stores only the local state needed to reopen, annotate and connect them.

## What stays local

Heedit does not upload documents into a proprietary library and does not require an account to manage them. Recent-file state, Inbox provenance and annotations are stored locally. Removing that metadata does not remove the source document.

- The AI Inbox is a user-visible Finder folder.
- Annotations live in Heedit's local application data, separate from disposable view state.
- Requests made through Heedit receive content only through the documented confirmation or annotation-delivery paths; an Agent may separately have its own file permissions.

## Network-aware content

An HTML document may request remote resources when opened normally. Use View → Reload HTML Offline when the page should not access the network. Links opened from a document may contact third-party sites; external links open in the default browser. See Terms & Policy for the applicable privacy and third-party boundaries.