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# Vana product glossary

The language used to distinguish a person's own data from an app's permission
to use that data.

## Language

**Vana account**:
The identity under which a person owns their data in Vana.

**Owner**:
The person whose data is held under their Vana account.

**Account data**:
The owner's data collected under their Vana account, regardless of whether
Desktop, Web or CLI collected it.
_Avoid_: Desktop data, CLI data when referring to ownership

**App identity**:
The identity of an app or agent requesting permission to use an owner's data.
It is distinct from the owner's account, even when the same person controls both.

**Grant**:
An owner's approval for a particular app identity to access specified data.

**Personal Server**:
The service that holds an owner's data and makes it available through
authorized access.
_Avoid_: Desktop when referring to the server

**Vana Storage**:
Vana's cloud storage service for synced account data.

**Local export**:
A copy of collected data saved on a person's machine.
It is distinct from the full set of their account data.

**Owner access**:
An owner's access to their own account data using their account identity.

**App access**:
An app or agent's access to an owner's data under a grant to its app identity.
The owner and app remain distinct roles even when one person controls both.
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