Last updated: 2026-05-25 · Kerr & Company LLC, Grand Rapids, MI
Outlier is a Mac-native local AI app. The privacy story is short because the design choice is to keep things on your Mac unless you opt in.
~/.outlier/license.json with 0600 perms.~/.outlier/bug_reports/ locally. You decide whether to email them.kerr-subscribe.kerrco.workers.dev — not a marketing SaaS, because
dropping one of those onto a site that sells “nothing leaves your machine” would make the claim false in
order to collect an email address. No IP address, no user agent, no referer, no fingerprint. That
is a statement about the code: the insert binds the address and the source and nothing else, and the worker reads no
client header beyond the ones a browser needs to make the request at all. Consent is per site, not per page — every form on outlier.host records the same source, so subscribing
from two of our pages is one entry and one email, while the same
address given on another of our products is a separate row, and leaving one does not leave the other.
Every email carries a one-click unsubscribe. The desktop app never sends this; there is no mailing-list code in the
app at all.live.dodopayments.com for keys bought now, or api.polar.sh for keys bought before 23 August 2026. The app decides from the key itself and sends it to one vendor only, along with a device name so the seat can be counted against your three activations.All of the above are surfaced in the in-app Privacy Ledger (Settings → Privacy → Privacy ledger). The list there is generated from the literal fetch() call sites in the source.
ta_ref cookie only if you arrive through an affiliate link, so that
affiliate is credited if you buy; it never records who you are. The Meta pixel sets its
own _fbp cookie on every visit, however you arrived, and that identifier is
what lets Meta connect this visit to your activity on their platforms. Neither is
requested by the desktop app — the shipping bundle contains no reference to either
host.fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com)
and Fontshare (api.fontshare.com), which meant simply opening this page
exposed your IP address to three servers we do not control. It no longer does: the font
files are in this site's own repository and are downloaded from the same host as the page.
The desktop app never requested them either — the shipping bundle contains no reference to
any of those hosts.~/.outlier/crashes/. You decide whether to email them via the Bug Report flow.Paid tiers (Pro, Founders Lifetime $249) are processed by Dodo Payments, which handles payment, licence issuance and the customer portal. Purchases made before 23 August 2026 were processed by Polar and those licences remain valid. We never see your card details. If Dodo offers an instalment option at checkout — Klarna or Afterpay, where they operate — that agreement is between you and the provider, who will run their own checks; Outlier is not party to it and receives only confirmation that the order was paid.
Outlier is not directed at children under 13.
If we change this policy materially, we will note the change at the top of this page and bump the "Last updated" date. We won't make a change that suddenly enables cloud telemetry on existing installs.
Questions: matt@outlier.host
This policy is plain English. If a lawyer reading it tells you something is missing, email and I'll add it.