Privacy Policy

Electron Recorder (by Watertontech) records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings on macOS, iOS, and the web. Your meeting recordings, transcripts, summaries, and notes are stored on your device. This policy explains exactly what data we collect, how we collect it, how it is used, and the third parties it is shared with.

What we collect, how, and why

• Meeting audio — captured from your microphone (and, on desktop, optionally system audio) only while you are actively recording. It is streamed to our third-party speech-to-text provider to produce your transcript. We do not store your audio on our servers.
• Transcript text — generated from your audio. When you use the summary, action-item, coaching, or translation features, the relevant transcript text is sent to our third-party AI provider to generate that output. We do not retain it beyond what is needed to return the result to you.
• Account & subscription data — your email address and license key, which you provide at sign-in. We use them to verify your subscription, record aggregate usage (minutes transcribed), and provide support. Billing is processed by Stripe (web) and Apple (in-app purchases); we never receive your full payment-card details.
• Optional diagnostics — if you opt in to anonymous crash reports, we receive crash diagnostics. No transcripts, audio, or keys are ever included.

Sharing with third-party services (including AI)

We share data only with the service providers needed to deliver the features you use, and only the data those features require:

• Speech-to-text provider — receives your meeting audio to produce a transcript.
• AI provider — receives transcript text to generate summaries, action items, coaching, and translations.
• Billing & infrastructure — Stripe (payments), Apple (in-app purchases), and our hosting/database providers (account and usage records).

We require each of these third parties, by contract, to protect your data with the same or equal protections described in this policy, to use it only to provide their service to us, and not to retain it longer than necessary or use it to train their own models. We never sell or rent your personal data.

Your consent and control

Before any audio or transcript leaves your device, the app asks for your explicit consent to send that data to the transcription and AI providers described above. You can review or withdraw this consent at any time in the app under Settings → Data sharing & AI; withdrawing it disables transcription and AI features. You may also delete your account and associated data at any time from Settings → Account → Delete account.

Retention

Recordings, transcripts, and notes remain on your device under your control. On our servers we retain only your account, subscription, and aggregate usage records for as long as your account is active, and we delete them after account deletion except where we must keep limited records for legal or financial obligations.

Questions or requests: privacy@watertontech.com.