Last updated: May 27, 2026
LocalScribe (“we”, “our”, or “the app”) is a meeting, lecture, and conversation recording, transcription, and AI-summarisation app developed by Secure and Alert (“the developer”). This policy describes what data the app handles, what we do with it, and what your rights are.
Audio recordings. The audio you capture is stored locally on your device in the app’s encrypted sandbox. Your audio never leaves your device unless you explicitly share or export it — on every tier. We never receive, store, or transmit your audio.
Transcripts. By default, transcription runs on-device using Apple’s iOS 26 speech engine and the text is stored locally. Cloud transcription via Deepgram Nova-3 is a separately opt-in feature on paid tiers. When you turn it on for a specific recording, that recording’s audio is sent to Deepgram for transcription and then deleted from their servers per their data-retention policy. Deepgram does not train on customer data.
AI summaries. The summary is a separate step from transcription. On the free tier it is produced on-device by Apple Intelligence. On paid tiers (Starter and Pro) it can instead be produced by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8, with multi-pass fact verification. For cloud summaries (Claude Opus 4.8), only the transcript text is sent — never your audio. For cloud transcription (Deepgram) and Tone & Nuance (OpenAI gpt-audio), audio IS sent — both features are opt-in per recording and clearly labelled before use. Each recording has a per-recording cloud toggle so you can keep any individual summary on-device even as a paid subscriber.
References. When you use the optional “Add References” feature, the app identifies notable terms in your summary on-device, then sends each individual term (e.g. the word “Benzene”) to Wikipedia to verify a reference link. Only the term is sent — never your transcript, summary, or audio.
Calendar data. If you enable Calendar access, LocalScribe reads your upcoming events on-device only; calendar data is never transmitted. If you start a recording from an event, that event’s title and attendees are saved on the recording for searchability.
Speaker voiceprints. If you tag speakers, LocalScribe may store voice-feature data on-device to recognise the same speaker in future recordings. This data stays on your device and, if iCloud sync is on, travels through Apple’s iCloud (encrypted by Apple in transit and at rest; end-to-end encrypted with Advanced Data Protection enabled). We never receive it.
Subscription receipts. When you subscribe, Apple provides a signed StoreKit receipt. We forward it to our backend solely to verify you are an active subscriber before processing a cloud-feature request. We do not store it; it is validated per request and discarded.
App Store data. Apple gives us aggregate, anonymised download, rating, and subscription metrics. This is never connected to individual identity.
When you use a cloud-powered feature, the relevant data passes through one of the providers below. Each is opt-in per recording or per feature, and none of them trains on customer data.
All providers contractually do not train on customer data.
When you generate a paid-tier summary, the transcript text passes through Anthropic’s Claude API. Per Anthropic’s stated API data-usage policy: data submitted through the API is not used to train their models, and submissions are retained only as long as needed to return the result and run abuse monitoring before being deleted.
If this is unacceptable for your use case (e.g. legally privileged or clinical conversations), use the free tier or set the recording’s per-recording cloud toggle to keep that summary on-device — either way the summary stays 100% on-device.
Our backend is a stateless Cloudflare Worker that holds API keys for Anthropic, Deepgram, and OpenAI, and brokers requests to them. The Worker stores nothing about your recording beyond what’s required to complete the request. It does not log request bodies. We keep no databases — no user accounts, profiles, audio, transcripts, or summaries on our side.
If you have iCloud enabled, your recordings sync across devices signed into the same Apple ID. Apple encrypts this data in transit and at rest; if you have Advanced Data Protection enabled, it is end-to-end encrypted. LocalScribe never receives or stores this data. Disable iCloud for LocalScribe any time in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → LocalScribe.
LocalScribe is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 13.
If we change how the app handles data, we’ll update this page and the date above. Significant changes will be announced with an in-app notice.
For privacy questions, email jon@secureandalert.com. EU users may also contact their local data protection authority.
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