Lampway Privacy Statement

What Lampway is

Lampway is a Claude Desktop Extension (.mcpb) plus a local MCP Server, a dashboard served on 127.0.0.1, a vault template, and Built-in Skills. It runs inside Claude Desktop on your machine.

What Lampway does NOT do

• No telemetry. Lampway does not phone home. There is no analytics service, no crash reporting, no usage metrics sent anywhere.
• No data collection. Lampway does not collect, store, or transmit any information about you, your conversations, your Vault content, or your installation.
• No accounts. There is no Lampway account to sign up for. No login, no email collection, no password.
• No third-party scripts. The Lampway dashboard at 127.0.0.1:PORT is served entirely from your local machine. The marketing site at lampway.dev is static HTML hosted on Cloudflare Pages with no analytics, no cookies, no third-party scripts.

Your Vault

Your Vault is a folder on your machine that you chose during install. Lampway reads and writes files in this folder when you talk to the Keeper through Claude Desktop. The Vault belongs to you. Lampway does not claim any rights over its contents. You are responsible for backing it up (recommended: iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, or git).

What Anthropic sees

When you talk to Claude in Claude Desktop, your messages go to Anthropic's servers per Anthropic's Privacy Policy. Lampway is the local server that Claude calls when you ask the Keeper a question — Lampway itself never communicates with Anthropic. Your interactions with Claude are governed by Anthropic's terms, not Lampway's.

The dashboard

Lampway's dashboard is served on http://127.0.0.1:PORT (a localhost-only address that's only reachable from your own machine). Anyone with access to your machine can open that URL while Claude Desktop is running and Lampway is loaded. There is no authentication on the dashboard. If you share your machine, anyone using it can see your Lampway Vault content via the dashboard.

The Native Writes Ledger

At <vault>/00-meta/lampway-native-writes.json, Lampway records every write it causes to Anthropic's native memory layers (Chat Memory or Auto Memory). This ledger lives in your Vault, on your machine. It exists for transparency and reversibility. It is not transmitted anywhere.

Opt-in seeding (Power-user feature)

Lampway has an opt-in feature that, when enabled, causes Lampway to write Vault content into Anthropic's native memory layers (Chat Memory in Claude Desktop, Auto Memory in Claude Code Desktop). This feature is OFF by default and is buried in a Power-user surface (manual edit of <vault>/00-meta/lampway-config.json) so that you don't enable it casually. If you do enable it, every native-memory write is logged in the Native Writes Ledger above and can be reversed via the /uncurate-claude-memory Skill (planned for v0.6+).

Changes to this statement

If Lampway's privacy posture ever changes (e.g., if v1.x introduces optional telemetry or a hosted service), this page will be updated and the change announced in release notes. Default-on data collection will never be added without explicit opt-in.

Contact

Questions about this statement: open a GitHub Discussion at the Lampway repository.

v0.5 — last updated 2026-05-10. Lampway is an independent project, not affiliated with Anthropic PBC.