Privacy Policy

What Minutehand does

Minutehand records meeting audio (your microphone and your Mac's system audio), sends that audio to Deepgram for transcription using an API key you provide, and saves the resulting transcript as a Markdown file in a folder on your Mac that you choose. It can also read your Google Calendar to prompt you before meetings begin.

Data stored on your Mac

Audio recordings are written to your local disk and automatically deleted after a retention period you configure in Settings. They are never uploaded anywhere except to Deepgram, once, for transcription.

Transcripts are plain Markdown files saved to a folder you choose. They stay there until you move or delete them. We have no access to them.

Secrets — your Deepgram API key and Google sign-in tokens — are encrypted at rest using macOS secure storage (Keychain-backed). If secure storage is unavailable, Minutehand refuses to save them in plaintext.

Transcription (Deepgram)

Transcription is performed by Deepgram under your own Deepgram account and API key. Meeting audio is sent to Deepgram solely to produce the transcript. Your relationship with Deepgram — including how they handle audio — is governed by Deepgram's privacy policy. We are not a party to it and receive nothing from it.

Google Calendar

If you connect Google Calendar, Minutehand requests read-only calendar access (the calendar.readonly scope). It uses this on your Mac, and only to check for upcoming events so it can offer to record and to tag transcripts with meeting details (title, time, attendees).

Calendar data is processed locally, is never transmitted to us or any third party, and is not stored beyond what's written into your own transcript files. Minutehand's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. You can disconnect Google at any time in Settings or revoke access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

What we never collect

Minutehand has no accounts, no analytics, no telemetry, and no crash reporting that phones home. The application makes network requests to exactly two services: Deepgram (with your key) and Google (with your consent). That's the complete list.

Purchases

Purchases are processed by Polar, our merchant of record. Polar handles payment details and issues your licence key; we receive your order information (name, email, licence key) from Polar to provide support and licence activation. Payment card details never reach us. Licence activation checks send only your licence key to Polar's API — no meeting data, ever.

This website

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Changes & contact

If this policy changes, the date above will change with it. Questions: support@minutehand-app.com.