Last updated: July 18, 2026
This page explains how Natived Spaces handles data and sets the basic terms for using the app.
Natived Spaces is a local-first desktop study app for students on Mac and Windows. It helps you organize course spaces, notes, reminders, materials, calendar items, and study-card decks.
Natived Spaces is operated from Massachusetts, United States. In these terms, "Natived Spaces," "we," "us," and "our" refer to the operator of the Natived Spaces app, website, and related services.
You do not need to provide personal information to use local guest-mode organization features. If you choose to use hosted AI features, account features, or Premium, we need the information required to authenticate your account, process billing, enforce usage limits, and provide those services.
Your workspace content is yours. Natived Spaces stores your spaces, notes, reminders, study cards, calendar events, app settings, and local material references on your own device. We do not run a cloud sync database containing all of your workspace content.
By downloading, installing, accessing, or using Natived Spaces, the website, account services, AI proxy services, billing flows, or related support channels, you agree to these Terms of Use and acknowledge this Privacy Notice, which is our privacy policy. If you do not agree, do not use Natived Spaces or its services.
Natived Spaces gives you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app and related services for lawful study, productivity, and personal organization. Some features are free, while other features may require a paid subscription or account.
Natived Spaces is licensed, not sold. You may not resell, redistribute, commercially host, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, abuse, or create competing services from proprietary parts of Natived Spaces except where applicable law permits.
You may use the services on your own only if you have reached the age of majority where you live and can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. If you have not reached the age of majority, you may use Natived Spaces only with permission and supervision from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these terms.
You may use Natived Spaces only for lawful purposes. Do not use the app, website, accounts, billing flows, AI features, or hosted services to break the law, infringe others' rights, harass others, distribute malware, spam services, scrape or overload systems, bypass rate limits, attack infrastructure, or interfere with anyone else's use of Natived Spaces.
Do not submit passwords, API keys, payment information, health information, government identifiers, or other highly sensitive data into AI features. Natived Spaces is a student productivity tool, not a secure vault or regulated records system.
Your notes, spaces, cards, materials, and other workspace content remain yours. Natived Spaces claims no ownership over your workspace content.
You grant Natived Spaces the limited rights needed to operate the app and requested services, including storing local data, displaying content in the app, processing selected AI context, sending requested AI payloads through our proxy, and returning generated results. You are responsible for having the rights to store, process, or use materials you add to the app, including course files, PDFs, slides, images, and other documents.
AI features are powered by Anthropic Claude through our Vercel backend. AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable. Natived Spaces does not provide professional, legal, medical, financial, academic, safety, or other regulated advice. Review AI output before relying on it.
Hosted AI requires a signed-in Natived account. Free accounts include 10 AI requests total (lifetime), shared across Pair, Study Decks, and Reminders. Premium includes a monthly AI allowance shared across all AI features, metered by actual usage on a rolling 30-day cycle anchored to your first AI request, plus a shared limit of 30 requests per minute. The remaining allowance and its reset date are shown in Settings. Premium usage does not consume the free lifetime allowance. We may adjust limits to protect availability, cost, and plan benefits.
Natived Spaces relies on third-party services including Vercel, Upstash Redis / Vercel KV, Anthropic Claude, Google, and Stripe. These services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. Natived Spaces is not responsible for third-party services outside its control.
Premium subscriptions are started and managed through Stripe-hosted Checkout and Stripe's customer portal. Your card details do not touch Natived Spaces servers. Subscriptions are tied to your Natived account, and guests cannot subscribe without signing in.
Unless otherwise stated at checkout, Premium is a monthly subscription. The price, taxes, billing interval, and payment details are shown before you pay. Tier changes are controlled by Stripe webhook events processed by our Vercel backend. Checkout success pages, website redirects, and local app state do not grant Premium by themselves.
You can manage or cancel your subscription from the app's Settings page. Cancellation timing and continued access through a paid period are handled according to Stripe's subscription state and portal settings in effect at the time. Refunds are not automatic unless required by law or expressly stated; contact us if you believe a charge was made in error.
We may update, modify, pause, remove, or discontinue parts of the app, website, AI service, account service, pricing, paid tiers, or billing flow over time. We may suspend or terminate access to hosted features if you violate these terms, misuse the services, create risk for other users or systems, or if we are required to do so by law.
You may stop using Natived Spaces at any time. Uninstalling the app does not automatically delete your local workspace folder.
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Natived Spaces and its contributors from claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses arising from your misuse of Natived Spaces, your violation of these terms, your content or materials, or your violation of another person's rights.
Natived Spaces is provided "as is" and "as available." We do not guarantee that Natived Spaces will meet your needs, preserve every file, improve grades, produce accurate AI output, remain available, be secure, or be error-free. App updates should not intentionally delete your local workspace data because user data lives in the OS application-data folder, not inside the app bundle, but you should still keep your own backups.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Natived Spaces and its contributors will not be liable for lost data, lost profits, lost grades, business interruption, indirect damages, incidental damages, consequential damages, special damages, punitive damages, or other losses arising from use of the app, website, AI features, account features, billing services, or third-party services.
Natived Spaces is operated from the United States and is primarily intended for users in the United States. We do not intentionally target or market Natived Spaces outside the United States. If you access Natived Spaces from another country, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for complying with local laws. Data may be processed in the United States and by our service providers.
These terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to Natived Spaces, the website, accounts, AI features, or billing, are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the state and federal courts located in Massachusetts have exclusive jurisdiction and venue over any dispute that is not otherwise resolved, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there.
Before starting any formal dispute, you agree to first contact us at nativedspaces@gmail.com so we can try to resolve the matter informally. Nothing in this section removes any rights you cannot waive under the consumer-protection laws of the place where you live.
Natived Spaces stores most workspace data locally on your device. Local data are stored here.
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/NativedSpaces/
Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\NativedSpaces\
When you use hosted services, we may collect or process account records, session records, refresh records, billing metadata, AI usage counters, a persistent first-use AI window timestamp, rate-limit counters, token counters, AI request text, website analytics events, support messages, IP addresses, and request metadata.
For Google sign-in, Natived Spaces uses basic account identity information needed to create and authenticate your Natived account, such as your email address, provider name, and provider user ID. Natived Spaces does not request access to Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, or other Google account content.
On launch, the app sends an anonymous ping to our Vercel backend containing only the local install UUID. Update checks send the current app version. Account, AI, billing, and subscription requests send the information needed to authenticate the request, enforce usage limits, process billing, and return results.
Natived Spaces extracts text and content locally and sends that extracted text to our AI proxy.
| Data | Purpose | Retention |
|---|---|---|
| Anonymous install UUID | Recognize an install for anonymous launch counts | For as long as needed to provide the service, maintain records, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, or until deletion is requested where applicable. |
| Session count by UUID | Aggregate app launch analytics | For as long as needed to provide the service, maintain records, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, or until deletion is requested where applicable. |
| Account records | Authenticate hosted features; store account ID, email, provider, provider user ID, tier, and creation time | While your account exists, and for a reasonable period afterward if needed for security, billing, legal, or backup purposes. |
| Session and refresh records | Keep you signed in to hosted features and rotate session credentials securely | Session tokens are short-lived; refresh records expire automatically or are removed when you sign out. |
| Billing metadata | Connect your Natived account to Stripe customer and subscription records | Until removed from backend storage or no longer needed for billing/account records |
| AI usage counters and first-use window timestamp | Enforce the lifetime free allowance and the monthly Premium allowance | Lifetime counters and the window anchor persist while the account exists; Premium allowance counters expire after about 35 days |
| AI cooling and token counters | Prevent bursts and understand aggregate AI cost | Minute cooling counters expire after about 75 seconds; daily token counters after about 60 days |
| AI request text | Generate AI responses through Anthropic Claude | Not intentionally stored by Natived Spaces; handled transiently by our proxy and third-party providers |
| Website analytics events | Understand aggregate website traffic and page views | Processed by Vercel Web Analytics according to Vercel's service terms and privacy documentation |
Relevant third-party policies: Vercel Privacy Policy, Vercel Runtime Logs, Upstash Legal Documents, Anthropic Privacy Policy, Anthropic Commercial Terms, Google Privacy Policy, and Stripe Privacy Policy.
The desktop app does not use advertising pixels, behavioral ad tracking, or desktop-app cookies. The Natived Spaces website uses Vercel Web Analytics to understand page views and basic site traffic. Billing flows are handled by Stripe and may use cookies or similar technologies according to Stripe's own policies. We do not use website analytics to inspect your local workspace content.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own advertising or marketing. We share data with the providers listed above only as needed to operate Natived Spaces and provide the services you request.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, delete, correct, or limit certain personal information. Your anonymous install ID, account details, billing metadata, AI usage records, and content you choose to send to AI features may be treated as personal information under some laws.
To delete all locally stored workspace data, quit the app and remove the app data folder:
macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/NativedSpaces/.Windows:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\NativedSpaces\, then press Enter.Uninstalling the app does not automatically delete this folder. Deleting the folder removes your local workspace data and local anonymous ID. Reinstalling after deletion creates a fresh anonymous ID.
For anonymous guest usage, we cannot look up backend records by name or email. If you contact us with your anonymous ID, we can try to delete server-side records tied to that ID where feasible. For account-related records, contact us from or with the email address tied to your account.
Local workspace security depends on your device, operating system account, file permissions, disk encryption, and backups. Data sent to Natived services, Vercel, Upstash, Anthropic, Google, and Stripe is transmitted over HTTPS. No app, local server, cloud service, AI provider, payment processor, or internet-connected workflow is risk-free.
Natived Spaces is not directed to children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use Natived Spaces or submit content to AI features without permission and supervision from a parent or guardian.
We may update this page over time. The "Last updated" date will change when this page is materially revised. Continued use of Natived Spaces after changes means you accept the updated terms and policy.
Questions, privacy requests, account requests, billing concerns, or IP concerns: nativedspaces@gmail.com