Privacy, without the fog.
Gepetel is a group member, so it sees group messages — that's how any member works. Here's exactly what that means, what's kept, and for how long. No dark patterns, no 40 pages of legalese.
Last updated October 2026
What it sees
When Gepetel is in a group, it receives that group's messages — text, and the content of images, voice notes, and links when they're relevant — so it can decide whether to reply and respond in context. It does not have access to any chat it isn't a member of.
What it stores
- Group basics — the group name and its participants (names and phone numbers), so it knows who's in the room.
- Recent unread messages — cached only briefly to keep context, then cleared once processed.
- Things you ask it to keep — reminders, tasks, polls, and the occasional fact or decision you tell it to remember. You can ask it to delete these anytime.
- Connections you set up — when you connect a service like Trello to a group, the login token that service gives Gepetel. It's stored encrypted, opened only for the moment a request to that service is made, used only in that group, and deleted the moment anyone in the group disconnects the service.
- An activity log — a short record of what it did or chose not to do, which auto-deletes after 14 days.
Who it talks to
To work, Gepetel relies on a few trusted services:
- A WhatsApp messaging gateway, to send and receive messages.
- An AI model provider, to understand messages and write replies.
- A managed database and cloud host, to store the data above and run the service.
- Any service a group chooses to connect (Trello, Jira, Notion…) — only that service, only for that group, and only when someone in it asks for something the service does.
Your data is used to run Gepetel — nothing more. It is never sold, and it isn't used to advertise to you.
Your computer (Gepetel for Mac and Gepetel for Chrome)
Only if you install the app on your Mac and pair it with a code from your private chat. It works for that chat only — never for a group.
- What it does — what you ask in the chat: read a web page, run a command in a sandbox, or use your Chrome to check something on a site where you're signed in.
- Your Chrome — the Gepetel for Chrome extension works only with the Gepetel app on the same Mac, and only after you click Allow. It works in a window and tab group of its own; your own tabs are left alone. It sends what it sees only to the app on your Mac. Anything that pays, books, sends or deletes waits for your OK in the chat.
- What leaves your Mac — to do a task, the app sends the text of the pages it's working on, and sometimes a picture of one, through Gepetel's server to the AI model provider, which decides the next step; the answer comes to your chat. Nothing else from your Mac or your browser is sent.
- Passwords — Gepetel never reads or types a password, a card number or a security code. When a site needs you to sign in, it asks you. If you do it from your phone with the one-time link, what you type goes from your phone through Gepetel's server straight into the page; it isn't stored or logged anywhere.
- The one-time link — lets you see and drive that one tab from your phone, for 15 minutes, once. The pictures of the tab pass through Gepetel's server to your phone and are not kept.
- Kept on your Mac — the app's keys, in the Mac's Keychain; a log of what it did (web addresses without anything after the "?"); which sites look best as a desktop; up to 10 of Gepetel's own tabs between tasks; and the steps of tasks it can repeat, never with anything you typed in them.
- Stopping it — "Stop Everything" or "Disconnect This Mac" in the Gepetel menu, or remove the extension from Chrome. Say "stop" in the chat to end a task.
Your controls
Remove Gepetel from a group and it stops receiving that group's messages, full stop. You can also ask it directly to list or delete anything it has remembered. Want something cleared that isn't covered here? Tell it to pass a message to its creator.
A word on the banter
Gepetel has a sense of humor and will occasionally tease or gently troll people in the group — that's part of acting like a real member rather than a help desk. It keeps it friendly, never punches down, and never gets genuinely mean. If your group would rather it kept the roasting to a minimum, just say so in the chat and it'll dial the cheek back.