Privacy Policy

Summary

Chirp is designed with privacy as a core principle. Your audio and transcriptions never leave your device. We don't collect, store, or have access to any of your voice data or transcribed text.

What We Don't Collect

• Audio recordings
• Transcribed text
• Meeting content or notes
• Personal conversations
• Anything that identifies you personally in analytics — no names, emails, accounts, or precise location

How Chirp Works

All transcription processing happens entirely on your Mac with Apple Silicon hardware acceleration. The model runs locally on your device, meaning:

• No internet connection is required for transcription
• No audio is ever uploaded to any server
• No data is sent to any cloud service or AI provider
• Your transcriptions are stored only on your local machine

What We Do Collect

The only data we process is:

• License activation: When you purchase and activate a license, we process your email address and license key through our payment provider (Polar) to verify your purchase. This is required to unlock your Chirp license.
• Anonymous usage statistics (starting with Chirp 1.5.3): The app sends us anonymous, aggregate usage statistics — counts of dictations and meetings, which features are used, permission and setting states, your app version, macOS version, Mac model and memory, license state (trial or licensed), and a coarse location (country, and US state) derived on our server from the request. It's keyed to a random install identifier that is never tied to your name, email, or license. It never includes your audio, your transcripts, or any content. You can turn it off anytime in Settings → Privacy, and the app then sends nothing at all.
• Crash reports: If the app crashes, macOS may send anonymized crash reports to Apple (not to us). You can disable this in System Settings.

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services:

• Polar: Payment processing and license management. Polar's privacy policy applies to purchase transactions. View Polar's Privacy Policy
• Vercel Analytics: Our website (chirpvoice.com) uses Vercel's privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics to measure aggregate traffic — page views and download or checkout clicks. It collects no personal data, sets no cookies, and has no access to anything inside the app (your audio and transcriptions never reach it). View Vercel's Privacy Policy
• First-party traffic counts: We keep our own privacy-friendly, cookieless tally of website traffic — page views, unique-visitor estimates, downloads, approximate country, device type, and referring source. It sets no cookies, stores no IP addresses or other personal data (visitor estimates use a one-way hash that resets every 24 hours), and never touches anything inside the app.

Data Storage

All your transcriptions and settings are stored locally on your Mac in the app's sandboxed container. We have no access to this data. If you uninstall Chirp, this data is removed from your system.

Your Rights

We don't collect personal data beyond license verification, so there's nothing tied to you for us to delete, export, or modify. Usage statistics are anonymous by construction — we couldn't connect them to you even if asked. Turning off “Share anonymous usage statistics” in Settings → Privacy stops them entirely. Your transcription data is under your control on your local device.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at hello@chirpvoice.com