Privacy Policy

Last updated: 26 October 2026 · Applies to Dictera 0.9 and later

What changed: Dictera now lives in the notch. This version of the Policy adds the notch's online features (the weather, cover art, synced lyrics and Recognize Song), clipboard history, screenshots and screen recordings, and a table of every feature at a glance. It also sets out the new privacy defaults - automatic answers start off, attendee names go to cloud engines only if you switch that on, and a meeting countdown you don't answer records nothing - plus how long AI Assistant sessions are kept, your license key and purchase email moving into the Keychain, and what happens when your trial or subscription ends. The section on tutorial videos is gone: the Website no longer has any, so nothing on it loads from YouTube.

The short version:

• Your voice is never uploaded. Speech is recognized on your Mac - for dictation, the AI Assistant and meetings - and the audio is never saved as a recording or sent anywhere, to us or to anyone. The one feature that sends anything about sound is Recognize Song: when you press it, Shazam gets a fingerprint of the sound, not a recording.
• What you make stays on your Mac. Your dictations, meeting notes and chats, clipboard history, screenshots and recordings are kept on your Mac, and we have no way to see them. The exception is an AI engine you connect yourself that isn't on your Mac, such as a cloud provider or Claude Code: the text a feature works on then goes to that provider, under your own account (Section 3.3).
• A few notch features go online, and you control each one. The weather (Apple Weather and Apple Maps) looks nothing up until you connect a location. Cover art for songs streamed from Apple Music (Apple's music catalog) has its own switch. Synced lyrics (LRCLIB) stay off until you switch them on. Recognize Song (Shazam) runs only when you press it. Each goes straight from your Mac to that service, never through us (Section 3.2).
• No account, no analytics, no telemetry. There is no account to create, and the App contains no analytics or tracking code. Google Analytics runs only on the Website, and only if you allow it (Section 4.6).
• From the App, we get only what a license needs. A hashed identifier of your Mac, to run your free trial and check your license, and once you buy, your license key and, when you activate it, the name of your Mac. Lemon Squeezy, which sells the subscription, passes on the order details we need, and update checks reach our hosting like any web request (Section 4).

Every feature at a glance

These tables follow the four groups of About Dictera ▸ Privacy Details in the App, which shows the same list for your copy as it is set up right now. Sections 2 to 8 give the detail.

On This Mac

AI Engines

On Dictera's built-in model, or on a server on your Mac such as Ollama or LM Studio, none of these send anything. The rows below apply only to a feature you point at a cloud provider, a server on another computer, or Claude Code (Section 3.3).

Online Features

Weather data is provided by Apple Weather. Its sources are listed on the Apple Weather attribution page.

Dictera Itself

1. Who we are (Data Controller)

Dictera (the "App") and the website at https://dictera.app (the "Website", together the "Services") are operated by Zahorulko Yevhen (TIE: Z2053423B), an independent professional (Autónomo) established in Spain ("we", "us", "our"). For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable Spanish data-protection law, we act as the data controller for the personal data described in this Policy.

Business address: Calle Pla de la Ramona 4, 46500 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.
Contact: info@dictera.app.

2. What stays on your Mac

Dictera keeps what it makes on your Mac. None of the following is sent to us, and we have no way to read it. It goes to no one else either, except where Section 3 says so - for example, the text a feature sends to an AI engine you connected yourself.

• Your voice. Dictation, the AI Assistant and meetings are transcribed on your Mac as you speak. The audio isn't saved as a recording and is never uploaded. A screen recording you make from the notch includes the microphone, or what the Mac is playing, only if you switch that on (both are off by default), and it is saved where you choose, like any other file.
• What you dictate. Your transcription history, vocabulary and statistics (counts only, never text).
• AI Assistant sessions. Transcripts, answers, notes, screenshots you capture or paste, the series labels you give your sessions and, if you connect Calendar, a snapshot of the meeting a session belongs to: its title, time, join link and the names on the invite, never email addresses. The diagrams in their answers are kept with them, as pictures, so a session opened again shows them at once.
• Clipboard history. Off until you switch on "Keep a Clipboard History" in Settings ▸ Notch. Then the text, links, pictures, files and colors you copy are kept, with the name of the app you copied from and any text Dictera reads in a picture (it reads it on your Mac). Anything a password manager marks as secret is never kept, and nothing is kept from the apps on the "Ignored Apps" list, which starts with Apple Passwords, Keychain Access, 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePassXC, LastPass and Enpass. A password copied from somewhere that doesn't mark it as secret, such as a text file, is kept like any other text.
• Screenshots and screen recordings. Screenshots you save, and screen recordings, go to the folder you choose - until you change it, the folder macOS saves its own screenshots to, usually the Desktop. Unless you switch off "Keep Recent Screenshots", the notch also keeps your last 20 screenshots on its Screenshots page. If iCloud syncs your Desktop or Documents, macOS syncs these files too.
• The notch's settings and history. Your Home layout, the apps on the Apps page, the folders the Downloads and Wallpaper pages look in, the pictures you added to Wallpaper, calculator history, the colors you picked, the emoji you use most, recent timers, and the weather's last reading with the place it was for (Section 3.2). Where the notch sits, the reminder lists it leaves out and the one new reminders go to.
• Your reminders. Once you connect Reminders, Dictera reads your reminders in the Reminders app on your Mac to show them on the notch, and adds, completes, moves or deletes one only when you ask. A reminder you say is transcribed on your Mac, like a dictation. Your reminders stay in Reminders, and Dictera keeps no copy: if your lists are in iCloud, Apple syncs them to your other devices as it syncs every reminder.
• What Dictera reads on your Mac to show it to you. The song playing in the Music app, your calendar (read-only, and only once you connect it), battery and accessory charge, processor, memory, disk and network use (only while the System Monitor page is open), the names, sizes and kinds of the files in the folders the Downloads page watches, and the sites they came from (only once you turn Downloads on), other apps' notifications, to show them on the notch (only once you turn that on; kept in memory until Dictera quits, never written to disk), the picture from your camera while the camera mirror is on screen (never recorded or saved), and the text just around your cursor when you dictate. These are read when needed and not stored, except where this section says so.

You control this data. Your transcriptions can be exported or deleted in Settings ▸ Dictation ▸ History and your AI Assistant sessions in Settings ▸ History, your vocabulary edited in Settings ▸ Dictation ▸ Vocabulary, your statistics reset in Settings ▸ Dictation ▸ Statistics, and the clipboard history, recent screenshots and picked colors cleared in Settings ▸ Notch.

Removing it. If you have a license, first deactivate it in Settings ▸ License: that frees the activation for this Mac and removes your license from the Keychain. Then quit Dictera and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Dictera/ (your history, sessions, clipboard history and recent screenshots), ~/Library/Application Support/FluidAudio/ (the speech models, which other apps built on FluidAudio may share), ~/Library/Preferences/app.dictera.plist and ~/Library/Caches/app.dictera/, then delete the app. Screenshots and recordings you saved stay where you saved them. Two items stay in the Keychain on your Mac until you remove them in Keychain Access: any AI provider API keys you added (app.dictera.remote-llm, also removed when you remove that engine in Settings ▸ Engine Models), and the date your free trial started (app.dictera.trial). The trial date is kept there on purpose, so that reinstalling doesn't restart the trial. If you didn't deactivate your license, it stays there too (app.dictera.license).

3. What leaves your Mac, and where it goes

Everything in this section goes straight from your Mac to the service named. Only the license check and the update check reach services we run. In the App, About Dictera ▸ Privacy Details shows this list for your copy as it is set up right now.

3.1 Dictera itself

• License check - to our licensing service (Section 4.1), at launch and then about once a day. It can't be switched off, because your trial and your license depend on it.
• Update check - to dictera.app, for the update feed: only the request itself, with the technical data any web request carries, such as your IP address (Section 4.5). Switch it off with "Automatically Check for Updates" in Settings ▸ General; you can still check by hand with Check for Updates….
• Model downloads - when you choose a speech or language model, it is downloaded from Hugging Face, which receives standard technical data such as your IP address. Apple's own speech model is downloaded by macOS, from Apple. Only the download request is sent: no audio, no text.

3.2 The notch's online features

• Weather (Apple Weather and Apple Maps). Nothing is looked up until you connect a location: "Use My Location", on the Weather card or in Settings ▸ Notch, or a town you type there. Then Apple Weather receives the coordinates of the place - the approximate location of your Mac (Dictera asks macOS only for reduced accuracy, never a precise position) or the town you typed. Apple Maps receives the same coordinates, once per town, to name the town and its time zone, or the name you typed, to find it. The weather is looked up when you open the notch and the last reading is more than 15 minutes old, and when you refresh the Weather page. Switch it off with "Show the Weather" in Settings ▸ Notch. Dictera keeps the last reading and the place it was for, with its coordinates, in its settings on your Mac - one place, not a history of where you have been. Weather data is provided by Apple Weather; its sources are listed on the Apple Weather attribution page.
• Cover art (Apple). When the Music app streams a song from Apple Music, Dictera looks up its cover in Apple's music catalog by title and artist, with your region, and downloads the picture from Apple. This happens for each new streamed song, whether or not the notch is open, but only once you have let Dictera use Music, and only while both "Show What's Playing" and "Find Cover Art Online" are on (both are on by default). Songs in your library show their own cover and are never looked up. Switch it off with "Find Cover Art Online" in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Music.
• Synced lyrics (LRCLIB). Off until you switch on "Synced Lyrics" in Settings ▸ Notch ▸ Music, or say yes on the notch's Music page. Then LRCLIB (lrclib.net), a free community lyrics service, receives the title, artist, album and length of the song whose lyrics the notch is showing, and which version of Dictera is asking. Songs that play while the notch is closed are never looked up.
• Recognize Song (Shazam). Only when you press Recognize Song, Dictera listens through the microphone for up to 15 seconds, and Shazam (Apple) receives a fingerprint of the sound - not a recording. If there's a match, its cover is downloaded from Apple. "Add to Shazam" saves the song to your own Shazam library; Dictera never saves one for you.

Everything else on the notch works on your Mac and sends nothing: clipboard history, screenshots and recordings, the color picker, timers, the calculator, emoji, apps, System Monitor, battery, the microphone switch, Keep Awake, Lock Keyboard and Focus, and Downloads, Displays, Wallpaper, other apps' notifications, Camera Mirror and Lock Screen. Reminders sends nothing either: your reminders stay in the Reminders app (Section 2).

3.3 AI engines you connect (optional)

Cleanup, translation and the AI Assistant run on Dictera's built-in model, on your Mac, unless you change that. In Settings you can point each feature at a different engine. The features are Cleanup (which also covers Correct Selection and Edit Selection), Translation, and the AI Assistant's three modes: Assist, Meeting Notes and Chat. The engines are:

• A server on your Mac, such as Ollama or LM Studio. The text stays on your Mac.
• A server on your local network. The text goes to that computer. If the connection isn't encrypted, Dictera tells you.
• A cloud provider (such as OpenAI, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek, Together AI or xAI, or any compatible service), using your own API key. The text the feature works on goes directly from your Mac to that provider, under your own account and subject to that provider's privacy policy. It never passes through our servers, and we have no access to it.
• Claude Code. Dictera runs the Claude Code tool already installed on your Mac, signed in with your own Claude account, and you choose the folders it may read. It sends your conversation and the contents of the files it reads in those folders to Anthropic - or to Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry or another endpoint, if your Claude Code settings send it there. To answer you, Claude Code can also search the web and open web pages, and use the connectors (MCP tools) you allow - by default, only the tools you tick. It can read your files but never change them. Screenshots you ask about are written to a temporary folder for it to read, then deleted. None of this passes through our servers, and we have no access to it.

When a feature runs on a cloud provider or Claude Code, this is what the provider receives:

• Cleanup - your dictated text, the text you select to correct, and the text you select to edit by voice, with your spoken instruction.
• Translation - the text you translate, dictated or selected.
• Assist - the call's transcript, what you ask, the latest screenshot you captured or pasted, and what the template you picked says (who you are, the other participants and any extra context you typed). It is sent when you ask for an answer. If you switch on Auto (the Auto button in the Assist panel, or "Answer questions automatically" in Settings ▸ AI Assistant - it is off by default), it is also sent each time the other person asks a question, without you pressing anything.
• Meeting Notes - the meeting's transcript, your Meeting Setup (who you are, who else is in the meeting and any background), the latest screenshot in the session, and what you ask about it. Notes are written each time a recording stops and whenever you ask for them. With Calendar connected, Dictera starts a meeting's recording by itself only if you chose "Record automatically" for "Before a meeting starts" in Settings ▸ Calendar. With the default, "Ask whether to record", nothing is recorded unless you press Record now on the countdown. By default, when a meeting ends, Dictera counts down and stops its recording unless you say to keep going ("When the meeting ends" in Settings ▸ Calendar), so notes can then be written without you pressing anything.
• Chat - what you write, including questions from Ask Dictera, and any pictures you add.
• When a saved session ends - the opening of its transcript and up to 12 of your series labels for that mode, so the engine can write the session's title and summary. This happens on its own; very short sessions are skipped, and nothing is sent while "Save Assistant Sessions" is off.
• Attendee names - with Calendar connected, the names on a meeting's invite go with that meeting's Assist and Meeting Notes requests only if you switch on "Send attendee names to remote engines" in Settings ▸ Calendar (it is off by default). Names you type into Meeting Setup yourself go with the request either way. Email addresses are never stored, so they are never sent.

Two things never go to a cloud engine: your voice, and the text around your cursor that Dictera looks at to place dictated words. That text is only ever handled by the built-in model or a server on your Mac. With a Claude Code engine selected for the AI Assistant, Dictera also asks Claude Code which connectors it can use when Dictera starts, if it last asked more than a day ago or found none the last time. That is one short request on your account.

Dictera warns you when you set up an engine that isn't on your Mac, and none of this happens unless you set it up yourself. You choose these providers and deal with them directly, and their own terms and privacy policies apply (Section 6).

3.4 Links you open

Links in the App open in your browser or mail app, and are not requests Dictera makes. They include a meeting's join link, a song's page on Apple Music or Shazam, the Apple Weather attribution page, a link from your clipboard history, the checkout and customer portal, and the license pages of the components and models in About ▸ Acknowledgements.

4. Information we do process

4.1 Licensing, activation & trial data

To run your free trial, activate your subscription, and check that it is still valid, the App communicates with our own licensing service (hosted on Google Cloud in the European Union), which in turn communicates with our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy (see Section 6). For these purposes the App sends, and our licensing service processes:

• A device identifier - a one-way hash (SHA-256) derived from the hardware identifier of your Mac, or from a random identifier if macOS doesn't provide one. We use it to apply the 14-day free trial once per device (so it can't be reset simply by reinstalling) and to manage your activations. It is not reversible and does not, by itself, identify you.
• Once you have one, your license key and an activation identifier.
• When you activate a license, the name of your Mac as set in System Settings (e.g. "Yevhen's MacBook Pro"), which may include your name. Each activation needs a name, and Dictera uses the one your Mac has. If you'd rather your name wasn't in it, rename your Mac before activating.

When the App checks. At launch, and then about once a day while it runs. It keeps checking for as long as it is installed and running, including after your trial or subscription has ended. When the trial or the subscription ends, dictation, the AI Assistant and the notch stop until you subscribe: the notch opens onto a single page that says so. Nothing you saved is deleted, and Settings, your dictation history and your saved AI Assistant sessions stay open. To stop the checks, quit Dictera and delete it.

What our licensing service stores. The device identifier together with the trial start and last-seen dates and, for an active subscription, your license key, subscription status, plan, renewal/expiry date, order and subscription identifiers, and the email address associated with your purchase.

What stays on your Mac. Your license key, the activation identifier and the purchase email are kept in the Keychain on your Mac (app.dictera.license), and are removed from it when you deactivate the license or it ends. If you update from an earlier version of Dictera, which kept them in its preferences file, they are moved into the Keychain the first time the new version starts; if the Keychain ever refuses them, Dictera keeps them in its preferences file until it can move them. Your plan, its renewal or expiry date, how many of your activations are in use, when your trial ends and the date of the last successful check are kept in Dictera's preferences file. The date your trial started is kept in three places: the preferences file, a small file in Dictera's folder, and the Keychain. The Keychain copy stays after you delete the App (Section 2).

4.2 Purchase data

When you buy a subscription, the purchase is processed by Lemon Squeezy acting as the "Merchant of Record". They collect the data needed to complete the sale (such as your name, email address, billing country, and payment details) and provide us with limited order information (such as your email address, name, and country) so we can deliver your license and meet our tax and accounting obligations. We do not receive or store your full payment-card details.

4.3 Support communications

If you email info@dictera.app, we process your email address and the contents of your message solely to respond to you. If you write from the link in About Dictera, the message starts with a short report of your setup, which you can read and edit before you send it: Dictera's version, the macOS version, the chip and model identifier of your Mac, the speech model, the model each feature uses and the kind of engine it runs on ("this Mac", a provider's name, or "remote server" - never an address or a folder name), and the App's language.

4.4 Enterprise customers

If your organization is interested in, or purchases, an Enterprise plan, we process the business contact details of the people who deal with us (such as name, work email address, company, and role) to prepare quotes and manage the relationship. Where an Enterprise purchase is invoiced directly by us rather than processed through Lemon Squeezy, we also process the organization's billing details (such as its legal name, address, and VAT/tax number) to issue invoices and meet our tax and accounting obligations. To issue and manage team licenses, we process the names and/or work email addresses of the team members the organization designates; this information is provided to us by the organization, which is responsible for informing its team members about this processing. (Legal bases: performance of a contract or steps prior to a contract; legal obligation; legitimate interests in managing our business relationships.)

4.5 Website & update technical data

When you visit the Website, download the App, or the App checks for updates, our hosting provider automatically logs standard technical data (such as IP address, browser or app version, and timestamps) for security and to operate the service. Our licensing service's request logs record the same kind of data. No audio or text is sent with these requests.

4.6 Website analytics

The Website uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are useful - for example how many people reach the download page, and where they came from. It is off until you allow it. We ask on your first visit, and Google's analytics code isn't loaded and no analytics cookie is set unless you choose "Allow". Either way, your answer is remembered in your browser's local storage (dictera-consent) so we don't ask on every page. You can change your mind at any time using Analytics settings in the footer of any page; declining also deletes the analytics cookies already set.

If you allow it, Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (_ga and _ga_*) and processes your IP address, approximate location at country/city level, device and browser type, the pages you view and the links you click. We have turned Google Signals off, so this is not joined to Google account profiles or used for advertising or remarketing, and we do not run Google Ads. Nothing you dictate, type or process in the App is ever sent to Google Analytics - the App contains no analytics code at all, as described on our Security & data handling page. The Website uses no advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.

5. How we use this information and our legal bases

• To provide the Services - running your trial, activating and checking your license, and delivering updates (legal basis: performance of a contract).
• To make the online features you use work - the App sends what each one needs straight to the service that provides it (Section 3.2), and we never receive it (legal basis: performance of a contract, as you use the feature).
• To run and protect the free trial - using a hashed device identifier, and the trial start date kept in your Keychain, so the trial applies once per device (legal basis: legitimate interests in preventing abuse of the free trial).
• To process payments and meet legal obligations - billing, tax, and accounting (legal bases: contract; legal obligation).
• To respond to support requests (legal basis: legitimate interests in assisting our users).
• To secure and maintain the Services (legal basis: legitimate interests in keeping the Services safe and reliable).
• To measure how the Website is used - counting visits and downloads so we can tell which pages help (legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time from any page's footer).

6. Third parties and sub-processors

Providers we use to run Dictera:

• Lemon Squeezy - payments (as Merchant of Record) and license activation/validation. See their privacy policy.
• Google Cloud (Cloud Run & Cloud SQL, EU region) - hosts our licensing service and stores the licensing, trial, and activation data described in Section 4.1. See Google's privacy policy.
• Google Firebase Hosting - hosts the Website, the app download, and the update feed; processes server logs. See Google's privacy policy.
• Google Analytics - website analytics, and only if you allow it (Section 4.6). See Google's privacy policy.

Services the App contacts on your behalf. We don't receive what they receive, and their own privacy policies apply:

• Apple - Apple Weather and Apple Maps (the weather), Apple's music catalog (cover art), Shazam (Recognize Song, and your Shazam library if you press "Add to Shazam"), and the speech model macOS downloads for you (Section 3). Apple also provides macOS and the on-device speech recognition the App can use, which sends us nothing. See Apple's privacy policy.
• LRCLIB (lrclib.net) - synced lyrics, only if you switch them on (Section 3.2).
• Hugging Face - hosts the model files the App downloads; receives standard technical data (such as your IP address) when a model is downloaded. See their privacy policy.

Providers you choose. If you connect your own third-party AI provider, or enable the Claude Code engine (Anthropic, or wherever your Claude Code settings send requests, such as Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI or Microsoft Foundry), as described in Section 3.3, that provider is not our sub-processor: you choose it, you contract with it directly, and its own privacy policy applies to the text you send it.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it for advertising.

7. International transfers

We are established in Spain, and our licensing data is stored in Google Cloud's EU region. Some of the services in Section 6 - Lemon Squeezy, Google, Apple, Hugging Face and LRCLIB - may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Where we transfer personal data outside the EEA through a provider we use, we rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where that provider is certified, or on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses. Services the App contacts at your request, and providers you choose yourself, transfer data under their own arrangements. You may contact us for more information.

8. Data retention

• On your Mac, under your control, and never received by us:
  • transcription history for 30 days by default, up to the 500 most recent entries (pick another period in "Keep Transcriptions For", or switch off "Save Transcription History", in Settings ▸ Dictation ▸ History; pinned entries stay until you unpin them);
  • statistics for your last 365 days of use;
  • AI Assistant sessions until you delete them, unless you pick 30 days, 90 days or 1 year in "Keep Sessions For" (Settings ▸ AI Assistant, or Settings ▸ History). The period counts from the last time a session was used, and a session that is open or recording is never deleted. Their screenshots are kept until that folder reaches 250 MB, when the oldest go first. Switch off "Save Assistant Sessions" and new sessions aren't saved; the diagrams drawn for their answers go with them, and any not used for 30 days go sooner;
  • clipboard history, if you switch it on, for 30 days by default (pick another period in "Keep Clips For" in Settings ▸ Notch), up to 500 clips that aren't pinned and 1 GB in all; pinned clips stay until you remove them;
  • your last 20 screenshots on the notch's Screenshots page; screenshots and recordings you saved stay in your folder until you delete them;
  • the weather's last reading and the place it was for, until the next lookup replaces them;
  • lyrics, cover art, song matches and System Monitor readings in memory only - they are gone when Dictera quits.
  Audio is never kept, except in a screen recording you chose to make with sound.
• In the Keychain on your Mac: your license key, activation identifier and purchase email until you deactivate the license or it ends; the trial start date until you delete it, including after the App is removed (Section 2).
• Licensing/activation data - retained for as long as your license is active and as needed to provide the Service, then deleted or anonymized within twelve (12) months after your license expires or is deactivated (except where we must keep records longer to meet legal obligations).
• Trial data (the hashed device identifier and trial dates) - retained for up to thirty-six (36) months from the start of the trial, to operate the free-trial period and prevent it from being reset.
• Purchase and tax records - retained by us and/or Lemon Squeezy for the periods required by applicable tax and accounting law.
• Support emails - retained for as long as needed to handle your request and a reasonable period afterwards.
• Website analytics (only if you allow it) - event and user data are retained by Google Analytics for fourteen (14) months, after which they are deleted automatically.
• Services that receive data directly from your Mac (Section 3.2), and AI providers you connect yourself (Section 3.3), keep what they receive under their own policies.

9. Other people's information

Some things you do with Dictera involve other people: a call the AI Assistant transcribes, the names on a calendar invite, a screen recording, or something you copy. Dictera keeps all of it on your Mac, and we never receive it. Deciding to record or transcribe a conversation, telling the people in it, and getting their consent where the law requires it is up to you (see "Recording and your responsibilities" in the Terms of Use). If you connect a cloud AI engine, their words can go to that provider, and so can the names on an invite if you switch that on. Section 3.3 explains how.

10. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal data, and to data portability. To exercise these rights, email info@dictera.app. We will respond within one month, as required by the GDPR; if a request is particularly complex we may extend this period as the GDPR allows, and we will tell you if so.

What you make with Dictera is kept on your Mac, so we can't access, export or delete it for you. You can do all three yourself in Dictera's Settings (Section 2). For data a service received directly from your Mac - Apple, LRCLIB, Hugging Face or an AI provider you chose - contact that service, because we never receive it. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting what was done before.

If you are in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you may also lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority - in Spain, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD, www.aepd.es). If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including the right to know and to delete; we do not sell your personal information.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data. What Dictera keeps on your Mac is protected by the security of your Mac. Dictera doesn't encrypt its files itself, so turn on FileVault if that matters to you. The clipboard history and recent screenshots folders can be read only by your macOS user account. AI provider API keys, and your license key, activation identifier and purchase email, are kept in the macOS Keychain (Section 4.1). The details are on the Security & data handling page. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. Children

The Services are not directed to children. If you are in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland you must be at least 16 (or the minimum age in your country) to use the Services. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact info@dictera.app.

13. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will revise the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Continued use of the Services after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.

14. Contact

Questions, requests, or complaints about this Policy or our data practices:
Email: info@dictera.app
Zahorulko Yevhen (Autónomo) · Calle Pla de la Ramona 4, 46500 Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.