Privacy Policy

The short version

Oris records meetings on your Mac, transcribes them on-device, and writes the result as Markdown into your own notes. Your audio, transcripts, and notes stay on your machine. Oris never uploads, stores, or sees them.

The parts that do touch a server are small and separate from your content: if you sign up for product updates we store your email; the website uses privacy-friendly, cookie-free analytics; and when the app checks for updates it sends anonymous, non-reversible usage counts. Each of those is spelled out below.

What Oris does not collect or see

Your recordings, transcripts, and notes

Recording happens on your Mac. Transcription runs on-device with WhisperKit, so there is no network call in the transcription path. The finished transcript and summary are written as plain Markdown into your Obsidian vault or local folder. Oris does not upload, store, proxy, or read any of it. There is no Oris account, and there is no Oris server that holds your content, because your content never gets sent anywhere.

Summarization is bring-your-own-key

By default, summaries are generated by a model running locally on your Mac, so that path is fully on-device too.

If you choose to configure a cloud model instead (for example OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, or a self-hosted Ollama endpoint), then your transcript text is sent to your chosen provider, under your API key and account. That is a direct relationship between you and that provider. Oris does not proxy that request, does not see the text, and does not store it. When you turn on a cloud provider, that provider's privacy policy governs what happens to the text you send it, so please read theirs.

What Oris does collect, and why

These are the server-side things. None of them include your recordings, transcripts, or notes.

Newsletter and product-update signups

If you sign up for updates on the website, we store your email address and a few fields that tell us how to serve and understand the signup:

• Your email address.
• Signup type (waitlist or newsletter).
• Whether you told us you're on an Apple silicon Mac.
• Whether you told us you're comfortable with a developer-style install.
• The time you signed up.
• Basic attribution: the marketing parameters on the link you arrived from (UTM values), the referring site, the landing page, and a coarse country, so we know which channel a signup came from.

We use this to email you product updates. You can unsubscribe at any time from the link in any email, and we'll stop. Email delivery and the contact list are handled by Resend (see subprocessors below).

Website analytics

The website uses GoatCounter, a privacy-friendly analytics tool. It sets no cookies, collects no personal data, and is hosted in the EU. It records aggregate page views only, enough to know which pages people read, nothing that identifies you.

Anonymous install and update telemetry

When the app checks for updates, it sends a small, anonymous measurement so we can count active installs and know which operating systems and hardware to support. It contains:

• A non-reversible, salted hash that acts as an install identifier. It can't be tied back to you or reversed into anything personal; it only lets us avoid counting the same install twice.
• The app version.
• Your macOS version.
• Your Mac model, CPU architecture, and core count.
• How much RAM the Mac has.
• Your language and country.

There is no account, no name, and none of your content in this. It exists to answer one question: how many people are running Oris, and on what?

Download counts

When you download the app, our host records anonymous request metadata: the date, the request method, and a coarse country. This contains no personal information. It lets us count downloads.

Who else is involved (subprocessors)

A few third parties help run the parts above. We keep the list short and name them plainly:

• Resend — sends our emails and holds the newsletter contact list.
• Cloudflare — hosts the website, stores the app downloads, serves the update feed, and provides the supporting analytics and delivery infrastructure.
• GoatCounter — provides the cookie-free website analytics.
• Your chosen LLM provider — only if you opt into cloud summarization. This is a direct relationship between you and that provider under your own key; Oris isn't in the middle.

How long we keep things

We keep your email on the newsletter list until you unsubscribe, at which point you're removed. The install, update, and download telemetry is anonymous and aggregate; it isn't tied to you and isn't something we can look up by person.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you (in practice, your newsletter email), and you can ask us to delete it. Email [email protected] and we'll take care of it. Because your recordings and notes live on your own Mac, deleting those is entirely in your hands; Oris never had a copy.

Children

Oris isn't directed at children, and it isn't intended for use by anyone under 13 (or the minimum age required in your country, such as 16 in parts of the EU). We don't knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

As Oris grows, this policy may change. When it does, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be reflected here rather than buried.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request about your data? Email [email protected].