Data handling
Your data stays yours. How Watt handles the data you bring, the signals it indexes, and the artifacts you create.
The number one thing our customers care about is that their data stays theirs. It does.
Your data stays yours
Anything you bring to Watt — the identifiers and files you upload — remains yours. It is never added to the Signal Graph, and never shared. The graph indexes signals licensed from registered data brokers; your data is not part of that index and never becomes part of it. Watt is a search index, not a place your data goes to live.
How your data is processed
Most of the time, your data never leaves your AI context. When you work with Watt through an assistant like Claude, your inputs and results live in that assistant's context, governed by that platform's own controls — Claude, for example, lets you manage whether your conversations are used for training.
Some Watt workflows handle larger payloads by having you upload a file. As with every export from Watt, an uploaded file:
- has a one-hour lifetime, after which it is deleted;
- is scoped exclusively to your account; and
- is stored on AWS S3, encrypted at rest, for that window.
What you extract is yours
The artifacts you create with Watt are yours — extracted records, audience compositions, analyses, and anything else you build. You decide how you construct them and how you consume them. Watt claims no ownership over your outputs.
We do collect operational telemetry about your use of Watt, in the spirit of improving our own products and services. It never goes back into the Signal Graph or gets exposed to anyone outside Watt. See our Privacy Policy for more details.
Related topics
- What do we index — See what the Signal Graph holds today, how its coverage is growing, and how every signal is sourced (licensed from registered data brokers).
- Compliance flags — Flags like Do-Not-Call status travel with the identifiers Watt indexes. Watt surfaces every flag transparently but, as a search index, can't enforce them for you; honoring the ones that apply to your use is your responsibility.
- What a signal is — Understand the atomic unit Watt indexes, a single raw fact about a person or company, and how it differs from the fields, traits, and segments providers sell.
- Acceptable Use Policy — The rules for what you can and can't do with Watt and the signals it indexes; review it before you build.
- Terms of Service — The terms that govern your access to and use of Watt.