Privacy Policy

Overview

Voxxy is designed with privacy at its core. Your voice data is processed on your device and never sent to external servers by Voxxy. This policy covers both the Voxxy Mac app and this website.

Data Collection

The Voxxy Mac app does not collect, store, or transmit your voice recordings or transcripts. It has no analytics, advertising, user accounts, or external crash reporting.

If you buy a license through this website, we collect the email address you provide. Your email address is used to send your license key and to validate your license when you activate Voxxy in the app. If you contact support through this website, we collect the name, email address, subject, and message you provide so we can respond to your request.

Speech Recognition

Voxxy uses Whisper, the open-source speech recognition model originally released by OpenAI, to transcribe your voice. Whisper runs entirely on-device through WhisperKit, which uses Apple's Core ML framework for hardware-accelerated inference on your Mac.

All transcription happens locally on your Mac. Your voice is never sent to OpenAI, Apple, or any other external server. Voxxy does not depend on Siri, Dictation, or any system speech recognition service. It works even with those features disabled.

A small Whisper model is bundled with the app so Voxxy works immediately on first launch without any download. If you choose a larger, more accurate model in settings, Voxxy downloads it one time from the WhisperKit model repository on Hugging Face and caches it locally. This model download request contains the public model name and standard HTTP headers. No voice data, transcripts, or account identifiers are transmitted with the model download request.

Microphone Access

Voxxy requires microphone access to record your voice for transcription. Audio is only recorded while you actively hold your configured hotkey or press the record button. No audio is stored permanently. It is discarded immediately after transcription.

Transcription History

Your transcription history is stored locally on your Mac using UserDefaults. It never leaves your device. You can clear your history at any time from within the app.

Accessibility Permission

Voxxy requests Accessibility permission to detect your configured hotkey (FN, Option, Command, Control, or Shift) globally and to paste transcribed text into active text fields. This permission is only used for keyboard event detection and simulating paste commands.

Third-Party Services

Voxxy uses Stripe to process payments. Payment details are handled by Stripe; Voxxy receives the information needed to confirm the purchase and issue a license.

Your email address is used for license email delivery and by the license server to validate your license activation.

Apart from license activation or validation, payment-related communication, support requests, and optional model downloads, the Voxxy Mac app does not transmit voice recordings or transcripts to external servers. If you choose a Whisper model that is not bundled with the app, Voxxy downloads the model files from Hugging Face, a public model repository. The request contains only the public model name (for example, openai_whisper-small.en) and standard HTTP headers. No personal data, account identifiers, voice data, or transcripts are transmitted with the model download request.

Downloaded models are cached locally and reused. If you only use the model bundled with the app and do not activate or validate a license, Voxxy can be used fully offline. Hugging Face's own privacy practices are governed by their privacy policy.

Children's Privacy

Voxxy is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.

Contact

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