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title: "Where your data lives | Cashel"
description: "With Cashel, your data lives where you choose: your computer, your office, or Cashel Cloud. On your own machines we never receive your business data. Hosting by us is optional, and it’s a service, not the software."
url: https://cashel.io/your-data/
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Your data

# Your data lives where you choose

Choose the machine that holds your business data. Everyone else connects to it. With Solo or Office, we never receive your business data or sit in its path.

## Solo

Everything lives on your computer: the Core, the free apps and any app you buy.

- One person, one machine
- We never receive your business data

## Office

One always-on machine in your office is the home. The team connects over your own network. No internet is needed for the day’s work.

- Everyone in the office sees the same records, live
- The other computers find the home machine on their own, so nobody types an address
- We never receive your business data

## Cashel Cloud

Roadmap

We would run an isolated setup for you. We hold the key, but nobody opens your records without a session you grant. You can see that session, it expires, and the log records every time a person accesses your data. Your data is encrypted, never mined or sold. You choose its region and can move back to your own machines at any time for free.

Cashel Cloud is optional. Software is bought once and owned; the only subscriptions are optional ongoing services — hosting, payments connectivity, and AI connectivity (bringing your own AI model). Self-hosting means your own premises: your desk or your office, not a cloud you rent yourself.

## Only signed apps run

Every extra app is signed, and your machine checks that signature before the app is added. Unsigned work never installs.

![An illustration of people attempting to steal private information through phishing.](https://cashel.io/_astro/buravleva-phishing.BmanjtnI_Z2wsG0F.webp)