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Privacy Policy

Last updated 2026-09-12

Short version: we cannot see your data, because none of it ever reaches us. LocalScribe runs its entire AI pipeline — transcription, rewriting, translation, retrieval, document tools — locally on your Mac. There is no account to create, no telemetry to collect, and no cloud service to sync with.

What never leaves your Mac

• ✓ Audio you record or import, and every transcript, rewrite or translation made from it
• ✓ Documents you open in the toolbox, and any text extracted from them
• ✓ Your Vault: the vector index and embeddings used for Q&A, computed and stored locally
• ✓ Long-term memory notes extracted from your own conversations
• ✓ Usage statistics shown in the app — computed locally, never reported

The only network calls LocalScribe makes

The app works with the network switched off. Exactly three things use the network, and only these three:

1. 1. Model downloads. When you choose to download an AI model, the app fetches it from our model store.
2. 2. Checkout. Buying happens on a page hosted by our payment processor. Your card details go to the processor — they never touch the app or this website.
3. 3. Subscription verification. Subscription licences check in once every 7 days, sending only the licence key and a hashed machine identifier. If the server cannot be reached, the app keeps working for 14 days before Pro features lock.Lifetime licences never do this — activate once, then offline forever.

What is stored, and where

Everything — models, indexes, memory notes, your licence key and its machine-binding record — lives in the app's own folder on your disk. Deleting that folder erases all of it completely. There is nothing to delete on any server, because nothing was ever sent.

Payments

Payments are processed by our payment processor, acting as Merchant of Record. We never see or store your card details. We receive only the fulfilment record needed to deliver your licence key (your email address and the order id).

Email

Your email address is used only to deliver your licence key and to reply when you write to us. No newsletters and no marketing unless you explicitly ask for them.

Telemetry

There is none. No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no usage ping. There is no code path in LocalScribe that reports usage to us — optional or otherwise, so there is nothing to opt in or out of.

Your rights

Because nothing about you reaches our servers, there is normally nothing to export or erase. If you believe otherwise, write to us and we will confirm and correct it within 30 days.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, the updated version will appear on this page with a new "last updated" date — and the software's behaviour will still match what it says.

Questions about this policy?Contact us. See also ourTerms of Service.