What Daytide records. And what it never does.
Software that watches a computer deserves suspicion. This page is the complete list, written so that you can hold us to it. If the product ever does something that is not on this page, that is a fault.
Recorded
- Which app is in frontExcel, Outlook, Revit, a browser
- The window title, cleanedE-mail addresses, phone numbers and account numbers are removed on your computer before anything is sent
- The web address, without the tailThe site and page path. Everything after the “?” is cut off, along with any keys or tokens
- The document’s folder and nameWith your user name taken out of the path
- When, and for how longStart and end of each stretch of work, and whether the computer was idle, locked or asleep
- That a meeting was onA flag that a call window was open. Not who was in it or what was said
Never recorded
- Screenshots or screen recordingThe Mac app does not even ask for the screen recording permission
- Keystrokes, mouse movement, the clipboard
- What is inside your files, e-mails or messages
- Camera or microphone
- Anything inside a private or incognito windowOnly the app and the length of time
- Banking, health, personal webmail, social media, shopping, job sites, password managersThese count as “personal, so many minutes” and nothing more
An example, start to finish.
Say you spend half an hour in a browser on a client's accounting page, with a spreadsheet open beside it. This is what exists on your computer, and what Daytide keeps of it.
| On your screen | What Daytide keeps |
|---|---|
| The page itself: figures, names, invoices | Nothing |
| app.ledger.example/org/4471/invoices?token=9f2c…&page=2 | app.ledger.example/org/4471/invoices |
| Window title: “Invoice INV-2291 for j.miller@harbourdental.example, Harbour Dental Group” | “Invoice INV-2291 for [e-mail], Harbour Dental Group” |
| /Users/marta/Clients/Harbour Dental/2026-10/October figures.xlsx | ~/Clients/Harbour Dental/2026-10/October figures.xlsx |
| What you typed into the spreadsheet | Nothing |
| How long it took | 10:05 to 10:35, active |
The addresses above are invented. The cleaning shown here is the default setting, called Balanced.
Cleaned three times.
On the computer, before anything is sent
The app strips e-mail addresses, phone numbers, bank account and card numbers, long runs of digits, keys and tokens in web addresses, everything after the “?” in an address, and your own account name where it appears in a path or title.
On the server, when it arrives
The same cleaning runs again, in case an older version of the app missed something.
Before any AI model sees it
A stricter filter runs. The model is shown cleaned titles, site names, and for files the folder, the type of file and a cleaned name. It is never shown anything from an excluded app or site.
Who can see what.
| What | The person | Owner and managers |
|---|---|---|
| Their own day, entry by entry, with the evidence | Always | Not by default |
| Team totals by client, project and kind of work | Their own totals | Always |
| Detail per person | Always, their own | Only if the firm switches it on. Staff see that it is on. |
| Time marked private | The length only | Nothing beyond the length |
| Each day, for sign-off | Always, their own | In Detailed mode only, the reviewer |
Managers see the teams they manage, not the whole firm. Changes to these settings are logged: who changed what, and when.
The controls each person has.
- Pause
- For 15 or 60 minutes, from the menu. Nothing is recorded while paused.
- Private
- One click marks the last 30 minutes private, or say so in chat for any stretch of time. Private time keeps its length and nothing else.
- Working hours
- Outside the hours your firm has set, recording stops unless you start work yourself.
- Your own data
- Everything recorded about you is visible to you. You can export it and ask for it to be deleted.
What the firm can change.
The firm's owner chooses one of three presets during setup. Each person is shown which applies to them, in the notice they acknowledge.
- Balanced, the default. Titles are cleaned, addresses keep the site and page path, file paths lose your user name.
- Minimal. Less detail is kept, for example the site without the page, or the folder without the file name. Daytide will ask more questions as a result.
- Detailed. More of the title and path is kept. Still no screenshots, no typing, no contents. No setting turns those on, because the app cannot do them.
The list of personal categories that are never recorded beyond minutes ships switched on. A firm can add apps and sites to it, and can adjust it where the work demands, for example a bookkeeping firm that spends its day in bank portals.
Where the data goes.
- Where it is stored
- To be confirmed before launch. We will not leave this blank.
- How long it is kept
- To be confirmed before launch. We will not leave this blank.
- Who runs the AI
- Anthropic (Claude models). Daytide does not run its own models for this.
- Whether your data trains AI models
- To be confirmed before launch. We will not leave this blank.
- Other firms
- Every firm has its own workspace. One firm’s data is never mixed with or visible to another’s.
For firms in the EU and UK.
Recording how employees work is regulated. You will normally need a legitimate-interest assessment and a data protection impact assessment, and in Germany and Austria a works council has a say before rollout. Daytide is designed to make those conversations easier: no content capture, a record staff can see and correct, team-level reporting by default. It does not make them unnecessary.
See the draft data processing agreement and privacy policy.
Show this page to your team first.
The firms that get the most from Daytide tell their staff what it does before it is installed. There is a page written for them, and the app shows the same notice on first run.
No card needed to start. Want someone to set it up with you? Assisted onboarding is $250, credited to your first annual invoice.