Privacy Policy

Version 2026-10-19 · Last updated 19 October 2026

Short version: your voice never leaves your Mac. The free version doesn't need an account and sends nothing. If you use Pro, we keep only what's needed to sign you in, count your credits and record payments, and you can download or delete it any time.

Who we are

SpeechNet is made by SpeechNet (New Zealand). Contact: Tyrianhelp@gmail.com.

The app, free version (no account)

• Your voice: turned into text on your Mac by Apple's on-device speech recognition. It isn't recorded to a file and never leaves your Mac.
• Your text: cleaned up on your Mac. Not sent anywhere.
• History and dictionary: stored in a folder on your Mac. Clear history in the app any time. Deleting the app and that folder removes everything.
• Password fields: nothing dictated while a password field is active is ever saved.
• Permissions: the microphone (only while you're dictating) and Accessibility, used to press ⌘V and to find where your cursor is so the caption can sit under it. SpeechNet doesn't read your screen or record your typing.
• Update check: once a day the app asks our website which version is newest. That request carries nothing about you.

Accounts and Pro

You only need an account for Pro. When you have one, this is what we hold and why:

• Your email address, to send sign-in codes and connect your purchases. We don't send marketing.
• Sign-in codes: stored only in scrambled (hashed) form, for at most 10 minutes.
• Signed-in devices: for each, a scrambled copy of the sign-in token, the device's name (like "Sam's MacBook"), and when it was created and last used. So you can see where you're signed in and sign out everywhere. Sessions end when you sign out, or after 180 days.
• Plan and credits: which plan you're on, when it renews, your Paddle customer and subscription IDs (so the app can open Paddle's page for managing your plan), your credit balances, how many dictations Smart Polish has cleaned up, and a log of plan payments, purchases, refunds and gifts.
• Which version of these terms you accepted, and when.
• Abuse protection: to stop people hammering the sign-in page, we count requests per network using a scrambled form of the IP address. The IP address itself isn't stored.

Smart Polish (Pro)

The text of each dictation (never the audio), plus words from your personal dictionary, is sent over an encrypted connection to our server. The server passes it to Anthropic's Claude to clean up, then returns the result. We don't store or log the text. Anthropic processes it under its commercial API terms, under which it doesn't train its models on this text by default (Anthropic's privacy policy). Turn Smart Polish off in Settings and the app goes fully offline again.

Payments

Credit packs are sold by Paddle, our merchant of record. Paddle is the legal seller: it collects your payment details, billing address and tax information, sends receipts, and handles refunds, under Paddle's privacy policy. We never see your card number. Paddle tells us a payment went through, so we keep the transaction ID, which pack it was, the credits added, and the date.

Who helps us run SpeechNet

These companies process data for us, only to provide the service:

• Cloudflare: hosts this website and our server, and stores the account data above.
• Resend: sends the sign-in code emails (sees your email address and the code).
• Anthropic: cleans up text for Smart Polish (sees the dictated text).
• Paddle: handles payments (as above).

Their servers may be outside New Zealand, including in the United States and Europe. We don't sell your data and don't share it with anyone else, unless the law requires it.

This website

• No cookies, no tracking, no analytics on any page, except the payment page. Fonts are hosted here, so your browser doesn't contact Google.
• The payment page loads Paddle's checkout, which may set cookies needed to process the payment safely and prevent fraud. These are strictly necessary for paying, so there's no consent banner.
• Cloudflare may keep standard technical logs (like IP addresses) for security and to keep the site running.

How long we keep things

• Sign-in codes: 10 minutes. Signed-in devices: until you sign out, or 180 days.
• Your account and credit log: until you delete your account.
• Payment records: kept as long as tax law requires. If you delete your account, our copy is no longer linked to you. Paddle keeps its own records.

Your controls and rights

In SpeechNet → Settings → Account and Pro → Account, you can download my data (everything our server holds about you, as a file), sign out on all devices, and delete my account, which removes your account, sessions and credit log straight away. Under the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020, and laws like the GDPR where they apply, you can also ask us to correct your information or explain how it's used: email Tyrianhelp@gmail.com. You can complain to the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, or your local data protection authority.

Security

Everything travels encrypted (HTTPS). Sign-in codes and session tokens are stored only in hashed form, so a leak of our database wouldn't let anyone sign in as you. On your Mac, your sign-in is kept in the macOS Keychain. Sign-in attempts are limited, and a code stops working after 5 wrong tries.

Children

SpeechNet isn't aimed at children under 13, and accounts are for people 13 and older. Under-18s need a parent or guardian's permission to create an account or buy credits. If you think a child under 13 has an account, contact us and we'll delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes, the version at the top changes, and the app asks you to accept it the next time you sign in.