2026-01-03 — Our Privacy Promise, Written Down
From day one, Momor has been built around a simple idea: we have to understand your question to answer it, but we don’t need to turn you into a profile to do that.
This has already been true in the code for a while. Today’s update is about making it just as clear in the words: in our Privacy Policy, Terms, product pages, and settings.
Our Privacy Promise
We know what was asked, not who asked it.
We keep just enough data to answer your question and keep the service running, with short‑lived logs that auto‑delete. We don’t build marketing profiles, don’t follow you across sites, and don’t use your searches to train AI models. Location beyond coarse city‑level is opt‑in and stored on your device, and paid users don’t see ads. If we ever show ads on free tiers, they’ll be strictly contextual to the current search, not to a personal profile.
What Changed in the Product (Behavior vs Words)
Technically, not much changed today — the behavior was already in place. What we did was align the wording everywhere to match what the system actually does:
- Privacy Policy and Terms now:
- Spell out that anonymous search data lives in cache for about 1 hour–1 day, and logs + feedback are retained for 30 days.
- Make it explicit that we don’t use your searches to train AI models.
- Clarify that if we ever show ads, they’ll be contextual only, and paid users don’t see ads.
- Pricing and product pages:
- Free/Basic tiers now talk about “No behavioral ads. No profiling. No cross‑site tracking.” instead of vague “no tracking, ever” language.
- Pro/Max keep the “No ads, guaranteed” promise.
- About & Roadmap:
- About now says the quiet part out loud: we know what was asked, not who asked it.
- Roadmap tech notes talk about “no cross‑site tracking,” which is what we actually mean when we say “we’re not following you”.
- Settings → Privacy:
- The data retention blurb now matches policy: search cache up to ~1 day; logs and feedback auto‑deleted after 30 days.
What Still Hasn’t Changed
Some things were true before this update and remain true:
- We don’t build marketing profiles.
- We don’t run cross‑site tracking or third‑party tracking cookies for anonymous users.
- We don’t use your queries to train AI models.
- Location beyond coarse IP is a two‑step, opt‑in process; GPS lives in your browser, not our database.
This update is about removing squishy phrases (“no tracking, ever”) and replacing them with precise promises we can keep for the long term.
Why We’re Writing This Instead of Editing Old Posts
Older updates and blog posts were written in a specific moment. Going back and silently rewriting them until they sound like today’s version of our policy feels wrong — it blurs the historical record.
So we left them as artifacts of what we were saying then, and wrote this update instead:
- To explain how our thinking has sharpened (especially around “tracking” vs “profiling”).
- To document the concrete changes we made to the Privacy Policy, Terms, and product copy.
- To give you a single place to point to when someone asks, “Okay, but what’s their actual privacy model?”
What This Means for You
In practice, very little changes for your day‑to‑day searches:
- You still type what you mean, and we still focus on answering that — not gaming your attention.
- Your searches still live briefly in cache and logs for operational reasons, then disappear on a predictable schedule.
- If you pay us, we don’t need ads. If we ever show ads to free users, they’ll be contextual to the page or query, not to who you are.
The main difference is that the way we talk about privacy now matches what the system was already doing, in language that’s specific enough to hold us accountable.
If you ever feel a gap between what we say here and what you see in the product, email privacy@momor.ai — that’s a bug, and we want to fix it.