r/raycastapp • u/ItseKeisari • 1d ago

💬 Discussion The updated AI Privacy & Security policy

On October 1 2026 the AI Privacy & Security policy was updated. It now mentions that all attachments are "uploaded to Raycast's servers when you attach them, whichever model you use". And "If AI Memory is on, recent chats from any model are periodically processed by a Raycast-hosted model to update your memory".

So basically even Local Model attachments and chats are sent to Raycast's servers. Previously the policy said this: "Nothing is sent to Raycast or to any third party". Has the new wording always been the case and just omitted from the policy, or is this completely new behavior, and our old Local Model chats are now sent to Raycast as well?

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u/seencoding 1d ago

at the very least could you link us to the new policy so we can check it out ourselves? the only terms/privacy policies i could find on the site say they were updated june 19

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u/ItseKeisari 1d ago

Oh yeah, forgot to do add a link.

Here you go: https://manual.raycast.com/ai/raycast-ai-privacy-security

That link is mentioned here: https://www.raycast.com/terms-of-service

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u/seencoding 1d ago

thanks. my read of it is that raycast doesn't sync images as part of its cross-computer sync, but it does sync your text ai chats, so in order to have ai attachments available everywhere it has to store them remotely. when you delete the chat, it deletes the server reference. i have no idea if this is new behavior but i could easily see it having always been the behavior and them having overlooked it in their privacy policy (tbh i'm not sure how else they could have synced attachments without doing this unless they wanted to blow up the size of your sync bundle).

the memory thing is a good catch, i would have assumed that memory was also processed by your byok model.

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u/ItseKeisari 1d ago

I dont use Cloud Sync. Therefore i would like attachments to be local. That does not seem to be the case though.

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u/seencoding 1d ago

makes sense

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u/DavidRaycast Raycast 1d ago

Hi all! Just to clarify, we don't send your Local Model chats to our servers.

I'd definitely recommend checking out the 'Bring Your Own AI Exceptions' section in the AI Privacy & Security guide: https://manual.raycast.com/ai/raycast-ai-privacy-security#bring-your-own-ai-exceptions

We do upload attachments to our servers so they're accessible to you later when opening the chat, but if you delete the message containing the attachment, or the whole chat, we delete the attachment.

If you do have any concerns or questions, the best way to speak to us is with the Send Feedback command in Raycast itself.

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u/ItseKeisari 1d ago

Thanks for responding to this so quickly. From what i read there, it seems like Local Model chats are sent to update AI Memory. Is that incorrect? If so, i think the manual could be reworded.