A conversation starts
with trust.

Using this website

You can explore Ora without speaking to it. The homepage preview changes between “Ora is ready,” “Listening,” “Talking with Ora” and “Sleeping” when you select a button.

The preview does not hear you

Those buttons only change what appears on the screen. They do not request microphone access, record audio or start an AI conversation.

Connections made by your browser

Like other websites, loading a page involves sending technical information, including an IP address and browser details, to the services delivering it. This site also loads fonts from Google Fonts, and the homepage loads photographs from Unsplash. Your browser connects to those providers to retrieve those resources.

This page does not establish the hosting provider’s log retention or any site-wide analytics configuration. Those details need to be confirmed in a complete website privacy notice.

Voice and listening

Ora’s design principle is simple: it should always be obvious when it is listening, speaking or on standby. You should not have to guess whether a conversation is active.

The intended interaction begins with “Ora” and ends when you say goodbye. However, a screen label alone does not explain how a device’s microphone or wake-word detection works.

Before a device is available, its privacy information should explain how it detects “Ora,” whether any audio is processed locally or sent to a service, and what standby means for the microphone. The concept preview does not confirm those technical details.

Your conversations

A conversation can include personal details, memories and information about other people. It deserves more than a broad promise to be “private.”

Before using a live Ora service, you should have clear answers to these questions:

1. 01
   What is processed?Whether audio, transcripts, conversation history or preferences are collected—and why each is needed.
2. 02
   Who receives it?Which providers support the conversation, where information is processed and whether anyone can review it.
3. 03
   How long does it stay?How long recordings and other records are retained, including what happens after deletion.
4. 04
   Is it used to improve AI?Whether conversations are used for model training or service improvement, and what choices you have.

These are disclosure requirements for the future experience, not claims about features or protections already implemented.

Your choices

You do not need to grant microphone access to browse this website. You can check or change microphone permissions in your browser’s site settings.

For a home device, choices about listening, remembered conversations and deletion should be understandable without technical knowledge. Available controls and their limits need to be documented before use; they are not demonstrated by the website’s screen states.

If you contact Ora about privacy, describe your question without including sensitive documents, passwords or private conversation recordings. Use the Get in touch page to begin.

Questions and updates

As Ora develops, this page should be accompanied by a full privacy notice identifying the organisation responsible for your information, the purposes and legal bases for processing, service providers, retention periods and the rights available to you.

Until those details are published, please treat the product descriptions as design intentions—not as a guarantee about how a released device handles personal information.

For more on the thinking behind the companion, read About Ora. For a specific privacy question, get in touch.