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Privacy Statement

Our Commitment to Privacy​

Peridio, Inc. ("Peridio", "we", "us", "our") operates the Avocado OS documentation site and the Avocado Desktop application, and is committed to protecting your privacy. Avocado OS and the Avocado Linux project are owned and operated by Peridio. This Privacy Statement explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

We want to be clear up front: we use the information described here only for our own internal purposes — to understand how our products are used and to find and fix problems so we can improve them. We do not sell or rent this information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own purposes or use it for advertising.

Scope​

This Privacy Statement applies to:

  • The Avocado OS documentation site (this website).
  • Avocado Desktop, our desktop application.

Avocado Desktop links to this Statement from within the application so you always have access to the current version.

Information we collect​

Documentation site​

We do not require you to create an account, and we do not ask you to provide personal information in order to read this documentation. We do use analytics to understand how the documentation site is used (see Analytics and cookies below), which collects certain information automatically.

Signing in to an Avocado account is optional in Avocado Desktop — you can use the application without one.

Avocado Desktop​

When product analytics is enabled, Avocado Desktop sends product-usage and crash/error information so we can understand how the software is used and detect and fix defects. This includes:

  • Usage events — which features and workflows you use (for example, onboarding steps, creating a project, running Install / Build / Provision / Deploy, or opening the agent) and their outcomes (such as success or failure and how long an operation took).
  • Environment and version information — the versions of the application, the Avocado CLI, and the virtual machine you are running, and coarse counts such as how many projects you have.
  • Hardware target and distribution — the hardware target and Linux distribution you build for, and the provisioning method you choose (for example, tegraflash, SD, or USB).
  • Crash and error reports — uncaught errors and failure messages, so we can find and fix bugs.
  • Approximate location — a general region (such as country) that our analytics provider derives from your IP address. We do not collect precise or GPS location.

If you sign in to your Avocado account, your events — including any captured on that device before you signed in — are associated with your account email so that we can understand usage on a per-user basis and provide support. If you do not sign in, events carry a randomly generated identifier stored on your device that is not tied to your identity. Either way, this information is shared only with our analytics provider, which processes it on our behalf as described in Analytics providers, processing, and sharing; it is not disclosed to any other third party.

What we do NOT collect​

Avocado Desktop is designed to leave your content on your machine. We do not collect:

  • The contents of your files, projects, or source code.
  • The contents of your agent conversations. We record only that the agent was used and how often — never your prompts or the agent's responses.
  • Your credentials. API keys, tokens, and passwords are never collected.
  • Device serial numbers or the list of USB devices attached to your machine.

Crash and error reports are also scrubbed on your machine before they are sent — secrets and home-directory paths are removed from the error text.

How we use this information​

We use the information described in this Statement solely for our own internal business purposes, namely to:

  • understand how our products and documentation are used;
  • diagnose, reproduce, and fix crashes, errors, and other defects;
  • measure the reliability and performance of features; and
  • prioritize and improve the products over time.

We do not use this information to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you, and we do not use it for advertising.

Analytics providers, processing, and sharing​

We keep our analytics footprint deliberately small and rely on a limited set of service providers who process data on our behalf and under our instructions:

  • Avocado Desktop uses a single product-analytics provider, PostHog, to collect and process the usage and crash information described above.
  • Our documentation site uses Google Analytics (see Analytics and cookies below).

These providers are engaged as processors: they process the information only to provide their services to us, under contractual confidentiality and data-protection obligations, and they are not permitted to use it for their own purposes. We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share this information with third parties for their own use, and we do not disclose it to advertisers or data brokers. We may disclose information only where required to do so by law, or to protect our legal rights, and we may share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Data location and retention​

Analytics information from Avocado Desktop is processed and stored on US-based infrastructure. We retain this information only for as long as it is needed for the internal purposes described above, after which it is deleted or de-identified in the ordinary course.

Your choices and opt-out​

Product analytics in Avocado Desktop is on by default, but you are always in control and can turn it off at any time in Settings → Privacy.

Turning the toggle off disables analytics collection on that installation: the application stops sending events and our analytics provider no longer receives or collects any analytics information from it. The setting is stored on that device, so if you use Avocado Desktop on more than one machine you can set it on each. This takes effect going forward and persists across sessions and launches.

For the documentation site, you can opt out of Google Analytics across sites using Google's opt-out browser add-on, and you can manage or block cookies through your browser settings.

Your data rights​

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at support@peridio.com and we will respond as required by applicable law. The simplest way to stop further collection is to turn analytics off in Avocado Desktop (see Your choices and opt-out above).

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it.

Analytics and cookies​

The documentation site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to help us understand how visitors use the site so we can improve it. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies and may collect information automatically, including:

  • Pages visited and interactions with the site
  • Approximate location derived from your IP address
  • Device, browser, and operating-system information
  • Referring pages and general usage patterns

This information is processed by Google on our behalf in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses data from sites that use its services.

Third-party services​

Our documentation is hosted on GitHub, which may maintain standard server logs for security and maintenance purposes. These logs are not accessed or used by Peridio.

Changes to this privacy statement​

If we decide to change our privacy practices, we will post those changes to this Privacy Statement and update the "Last updated" date below. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time, so please review it frequently. Your continued use of the documentation site or Avocado Desktop after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Statement.

Contact us​

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or your data, please contact us at support@peridio.com.

Last updated: 2026-08