Aftersaid Privacy Policy.
Last updated [DATE].
The short version.
Aftersaid does not collect your data. There is no account, nothing is uploaded for processing, and we run no server that could receive anything. Your recordings, transcripts and documents stay on your Mac, unless you turn on iCloud sync, which copies them to your own iCloud account, never to us.
What we collect: nothing.
We don’t ask for a name, email or any contact detail; there is no sign-up. We assign no user ID and read no device identifier. We run no analytics, crash reporting or telemetry in the app: it sends us nothing about how you use it or what you record. This is enforced automatically: a check runs against the app’s source on every change and fails if any new outbound network call, or any analytics or crash-reporting service, appears, until that exception is written into the check and reviewed.
Where your recordings live.
On your Mac, and, if you turn on iCloud sync, also in your own iCloud account (below). Recording, transcription, speaker separation, translation and search run on your own machine. The speech, speaker and search models are built into the app, and translation uses macOS’s own on-device translation. Audio is never uploaded for processing.
iCloud sync, if you turn it on.
Aftersaid can sync across your Macs using your own iCloud account. It is off until you turn it on, during setup or later in Settings › Sync.
When it is on, these travel through your iCloud to your other Macs: your transcripts (including which line came from your microphone and which from your Mac’s sound), recordings’ titles, dates, length, language and source, whether you starred them, the notes you write and where they sit in a recording, imported documents’ text and details, your folders and what is in them, the names you’ve given speakers and the “not them” corrections you’ve made, each file’s name, length, format and iCloud size, and whether it is too long to sync, and whether audio and documents may sync, with when that last changed or they were last removed from iCloud.
Your audio recordings and original document files can travel too, if you turn on “Sync audio and documents”. Each Mac uploads its own files only after you say yes on that Mac; “Not Now”, “Sync Text Only” or turning the switch off applies to that Mac only, uploads nothing from it, and is not asked again on its own. Any Mac with sync on can download a file your other Macs uploaded; a file downloads only when you open it, and its transcript arrives first. For an imported video only the audio travels. “Remove from iCloud…” turns uploading off on every Mac.
A file over 260 MB (about 5.4 hours of audio) is too large to sync.
It stays on its Mac; its transcript still syncs.
The Trash.
Moving a recording to the Trash is an edit, not a deletion: it stays in iCloud, encrypted like the rest, for up to 30 days, so any of your Macs can restore it. Erasing it (Delete Now, Empty Trash, or 30 days) deletes its records from iCloud and its files the next time a Mac that uploads audio syncs.
Voiceprints do not travel.
The data used to recognise a speaker’s voice is worked out separately on each Mac from the audio it holds, and never leaves it.
We receive nothing.
Synced data goes to the private part of your iCloud account, which we cannot read. We run no server in this path and hold no keys. Apple’s privacy policy covers what Apple does with data in your iCloud.
One honest technical note.
Aftersaid adds no encryption layer of its own; it relies on iCloud’s. Transcripts, notes, names and most details go in fields the app marks as encrypted, encrypted on your Mac before upload. Recordings, document files and document text travel as CloudKit files, which Apple encrypts by default in transit and on its servers. A few fields are not marked encrypted so sync can work: a recording’s creation date and the links between records, such as which recording a file belongs to. Record names, which carry a random id for each recording or document, are not encrypted either. Unless you turn on Advanced Data Protection, Apple keeps the keys to your iCloud data and may give data it can decrypt to authorities with a valid warrant; with it on, Apple says it no longer holds the keys to the encrypted fields and files. Aftersaid cannot tell whether it is on. We would rather say this plainly than describe sync as more private than it is.
Turning sync off, or signing out of iCloud, leaves everything on your Mac exactly as it is. Nothing is deleted locally. “Remove from iCloud…” in Settings deletes the app’s recordings and document files from your iCloud and turns off syncing them on every Mac.
Connecting AI tools.
Aftersaid can make your library available to AI assistants and other tools running on your own Mac, over a local connection that never leaves the machine. It is off until you turn it on; every request needs a token you create, and a separate token is needed to change folders. What those tools do with what they read is governed by their own policies.
Purchases.
Any purchase is handled by Apple through the App Store; we never see your payment details. The app asks your Mac whether a purchase exists and sends nothing anywhere in the process. (Today the app offers nothing to buy; this paragraph is here so it need not change when it does.)
Translation languages.
Translating captions may need a language pack. macOS downloads it and asks you first with its own dialog; the app never downloads one by itself.
Software updates.
Aftersaid is sold on the Mac App Store, which handles updates. The app contains no update checker.
Diagnostics and support.
The app keeps a log on your Mac to help diagnose problems; it stays there. If you contact support you may choose to export a bug report (Settings › Diagnostics › Export Bug Report…): a file you save, can inspect and send yourself. It holds logs and a redacted status snapshot, never any transcript or document content, and crash reports only if you tick that box. Nothing is sent automatically, ever.
Children.
Aftersaid is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.
Your rights.
Data-protection laws give you rights over the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none. Your data is on your Mac under your control: the app exports transcripts, and erasing a recording deletes it, from your iCloud too if sync is on. “Remove from iCloud…” deletes all synced recordings and document files at once.
This website.
aftersaid.app is a static site hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, and runs no advertising or tracking scripts; its fonts and images are served from the site itself. To count visits we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which adds one small script, loaded from static.cloudflareinsights.com, to each page. It reports which page you viewed, the site that linked you here, your country, your browser, operating system and type of device, and how the page loaded and how quickly. Cloudflare says Web Analytics uses no cookies or local storage, does not fingerprint visitors by IP address, browser details or anything else, does not record the query part of a web address, and does not track individual visitors across websites. As the host, Cloudflare handles each request the way any web host does, which includes your IP address; Cloudflare’s privacy policy covers that. The Aftersaid app itself sends nothing to this website or to us.
Changes.
If the app ever starts collecting anything, this page will say so before the version that does it ships, plainly, not by a date bump.
Contact.
support@aftersaid.app. VECTORY LLC.
