NDEVR OWL
Your data. Choose exactly how it’s used.
Not a preferences page buried three menus deep. Not a 40-page policy that changes on a Tuesday. A promise — signed by our founder, versioned like our code, and enforced by mathematics.
Four pledges, in writing
The OWL Promise
Strictest by default.
From the moment your first file lands, OWL takes the strictest data-protection steps we know how to build: end-to-end encryption, keys that only you hold, and defaults that assume your data is nobody’s business. Including ours.
And when strictness has a price, we don’t hide it. We tell you the tradeoff in plain language, at the moment it matters, and let you decide. Not us. You.
Strict has a price. We tell you the price.
- Our servers can’t search or index inside your encrypted files — because they can’t read them.
- Decline recovery escrow and lose your password, and we cannot reset your data. Nobody can. The same math that keeps everyone else out keeps us out too.
- When a feature needs more access to work, it asks first — in plain language — and waits for your explicit, typed yes.
Ownership in Work and Life.
Ownership in Work and Life
That’s what OWL stands for. Your client contracts and your family photos shouldn’t need two providers, two passwords, and two privacy policies. They need one platform with a clean line down the middle: flip to Work and your life steps out of the room. Flip to Live and the office disappears.
Separation when you need it. One platform. And what belongs in both — the taxes, the travel — simply stays. Try the toggle; it’s real.
Secure doesn’t mean slow.
Privacy software has a reputation: clunky, limited, a step behind — as if protection were an excuse. We refuse that tradeoff. Secure doesn’t mean slow, clunky, or inflexible.
Your data means the flexibility to use it the way you need. So we obsess over speed, and we build — and bundle — apps that aim past the industry leaders in performance and flexibility. If protecting your data made it harder to use, you’d eventually stop protecting it. We’d rather you never have to choose.
Never for profit. Period.
We will never use your data for profit. We don’t mine it, model it, sell it, or “share it with trusted partners.” The very limited metadata we keep — sizes, timestamps, delivery hints — exists strictly for one job: getting your data to you faster.
Your data is yours for life. Unless you explicitly grant us special privileges*, we mathematically, provably, cannot access it — and we never will.
* Special privileges are capabilities you can hand us on purpose — password-recovery escrow, or opt-in data-analysis tools. Every one of them requires your explicit, typed permission, and tells you exactly what it unlocks before you type. Decline them and the math stands on its own. Don’t take our word for the math, either: read how end-to-end encryption, public-key cryptography, and ECIES work, then hold us to it.
Why it matters
Built for a post-privacy world.
Somewhere along the way, “free” became a price you pay with yourself. The pattern repeats: a service earns your files, then the terms shift, the defaults flip, the company changes hands — and your data ends up somewhere you never agreed to. Every receipt below is real. So is the alternative.
| OWL | The typical cloud drive | |
|---|---|---|
| Who holds the keys | You do | The provider does |
| Can staff read your files | No — not by policy, by math* | Policy says they won’t. Capability says they can. |
| AI training on your content | Never | Depends on this quarter’s terms |
| Your data’s role in the business | You pay for a service. That’s the whole model. | Raw material for ads, models, and analytics |
| If the company is sold or goes bankrupt | A buyer gets ciphertext | Your data is an asset on the block |
| Breach blast radius | Encrypted blobs | Plaintext lives of millions |
| Metadata kept | Delivery hints: sizes, timestamps | A behavioral profile of you |
“We built OWL because we wanted it to exist: one place for our work and our lives that nobody could quietly repurpose. This page is the deal we run the company by. Hold us to it.”
Receipts
Don’t take our word for any of it.
- Zoom’s 2023 terms-of-service controversy over AI training on customer content — Termly
- Adobe responds to uproar over new terms-of-service language, 2024 — VentureBeat
- WeTransfer modifies terms of service after backlash over AI rights, July 2025 — PPC Land
- LinkedIn backtracks on opt-out AI training after user and regulator backlash, 2024 — ITPro
- FTC order bans Avast from selling browsing data; $16.5M for selling data collected while promising to block tracking, February 2024 — Federal Trade Commission
- Google agrees to delete billions of “Incognito” browsing records in settlement, April 2024 — TIME
- Privacy, consent, and national security after the 23andMe bankruptcy, 2025 — Lawfare
- The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users, 2025 — Electronic Frontier Foundation