Privacy policy
The short version. Scribio records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your Mac, and keeps them there. There is no Scribio account, and no Scribio server receives your recordings, transcripts or summaries. Summaries and answers are written by a model running on your Mac. A few things reach the internet only when you ask for them, and each is listed below with how to turn it off.
1. What stays on your Mac
- Your recordings, transcripts, summaries, tasks and notes.
- The people Scribio has identified, their names, and the voice profiles used to recognise them.
- Face data, if you turn on face recognition: kept encrypted, and only after you agree to it on a separate consent screen.
- Meeting titles and attendees read from the calendars on your Mac, with your permission.
- Your settings.
All of this is stored in Scribio’s folder on your Mac. Deleting Scribio’s data deletes it.
2. What can leave your Mac, and when
| What | What is sent | When |
|---|---|---|
| Downloading a model | The name of the model file. Model files come to your Mac from Scribio’s download service or Hugging Face; nothing about your meetings is sent. | When you choose or download a model. |
| Checking for updates | Your Scribio version and macOS version. | Once a day if “Check for updates automatically” is on, or when you press Check now. |
| Checking your license | Your license key and an anonymous identifier for this Mac. | When you enter a key, and from time to time to confirm it. |
| Feedback | What you write, an e-mail address if you add one, and your Scribio, macOS and Mac model. | Only when you press Send. |
| Crash reports | A crash log with transcript text, names, file paths and other personal details removed. | Only if you turn on Settings › Privacy › Sharing with Scribio › Send anonymous crash reports. Off unless you turn it on. |
| Durability health | Counts only — for example how many meetings and backups exist. No titles, names or text. | Only if you turn it on, in the same place. |
| Backups | An encrypted copy of your library, to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive or a drive you choose. It goes to your account, not to Scribio. | Only if you set up a backup in Settings › General › Storage. |
| Export to a folder | Each meeting’s summary and/or transcript, as files in a folder you choose. If that folder is synced by Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud Drive, that service’s own app uploads it. | Only if you turn on Settings › Integrations › Export to a folder. |
| iCloud Sync | Your library, between your own Macs, through your iCloud account. | Only if you turn it on and it is available in your version. |
3. What Scribio never does
- It does not send your recordings, transcripts or summaries to Scribio or to any AI service. Every summary and answer is produced on your Mac.
- It does not send voice or face data anywhere, and does not sync face data between devices.
- It contains no advertising and no analytics or tracking tools.
- It does not sell, rent or share your data.
4. Voice and face data
Voice profiles and face data are biometric data under laws such as the EU and UK GDPR and the California CCPA. Scribio asks for your consent before it processes faces, keeps face data encrypted on your Mac with a key held in the Mac’s secure storage, discards camera frames once they have been processed, and never sends voice or face data off your Mac. You can delete all of it at any time in Settings › Privacy › Biometrics.
5. Your choices
- Turn off anything in section 2 in Scribio’s Settings, as listed there.
- Take a copy of everything with Settings › Integrations › Export everything now.
- Delete a meeting from the Meetings list, or your biometric data from Settings › Privacy.
- Correct any name, transcript line or summary directly in the app.
6. Children
Scribio is not meant for children under 13 (16 in the EU and UK), and does not knowingly process their data.
7. Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes, and important changes are noted in Scribio’s release notes.