Privacy notice

1. This website

whisper-line.com sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and embeds no third-party scripts. Nothing on these pages identifies you or follows you between them.

Two external requests exist, and only these two:

• One web font, served by Google Fonts. Loading it discloses your IP address and browser to Google, as any external request would.
• The promotional video, which loads from YouTube only after you press play. If you never press it, YouTube is never contacted and sets nothing.

Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs. If a privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics tool is ever added, this section will name it before it is switched on.

2. What stays on your machine

Whisper-Line is a desktop application. The following are held locally, in a folder separate from the program itself, and are not uploaded except where a section below says otherwise:

• Your settings, prompt blocks and any text you type into them
• Application logs
• Downloaded speech models
• Your journal of acknowledgments, which stays on your machine even after a copy is sent (see section 4)
• Your sign-in tokens, encrypted at rest by Windows

Speech is transcribed on your own computer, on every provider, including hosted ones. Your audio is not uploaded, and no recording of it is kept after the words are extracted.

Text discovered by the optional screen reader is held in memory only and is never written to disk. The screen reader is off by default and must be switched on deliberately each time.

3. What a hosted model receives

If you run a local model through Ollama, nothing about your session leaves your machine and this section does not apply to you.

If you use the hosted service, the assembled prompt is sent to it so it can be answered. That prompt is exactly what the Prompt Builder shows you before it is sent — typically the problem statement, whatever of your code you have chosen to include, and a window of the transcript.

The service records the size of each request and response and which model answered it. It does not record the content of your prompts unless a request is explicitly flagged to do so, which is not the default.

4. Account data

An account exists so the trial can be metered and a plan can be attached to it. It holds your email address, your authentication records, and a value derived from your machine that is used to stop one trial being claimed repeatedly.

It also holds a record of the terms and acknowledgments you accepted and when — the versions you agreed to, not what you were working on. Interview audio, transcripts and screen content are never part of that record. This is the evidence that the acceptance described in the terms actually happened, and it is kept for the same reason a signed form is kept.

5. Retention and deletion

Anything held on your own machine is removed when you delete it, and the app tells you where those folders are. Account deletion removes your account, its usage records and its acceptance records from the service. Exact retention periods belong in the reviewed version of this document.

6. Third parties

Delivering a hosted model means a hosting provider, an authentication provider and one or more model vendors are involved. The reviewed version of this document will name each one, say what it receives, and say where it operates. That list is not final while the service is unreleased, and naming a provider we might not use would be worse than saying so.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, and to object to some processing. The reviewed version will set out how to exercise each of them and how long a response takes.

8. Contact

Questions about this draft, or about what the app does with anything: privacy@whisper-line.com.

Last updated: this draft has not been published to a release yet.