Privacy

The short version: your recordings are never sent anywhere, and nothing about you is collected unless you write in.

Your microphone audio

When you press record, the browser asks for permission to use your microphone. The audio it captures is held in the tab, mixed there, and encoded into a file there. It is never transmitted, never written to a server and never seen by anyone but you. You can withdraw the permission at any time in your browser's site settings.

What is stored

Your project, and what the recorder needs to run. The layers and clips are kept in your browser's own storage (IndexedDB) on this device, so a refresh or a closed window brings them back. While you record, the take in progress is written to the same storage every few seconds, so a tab that crashes or is closed mid-take can offer it back on your next visit; once the take is part of the project, that extra copy is deleted. Your settings, such as the microphone, the countdown and the download options, are remembered in the browser's local storage.

When a project gets its first take, the recorder asks the browser to keep this storage rather than clear it when space runs low; some browsers put that question to you.

None of it leaves the device. Starting a new project deletes the old one, and clearing this site's data in your browser removes everything. Untick File → Autosave in this browser and the kept project and any unfinished take is deleted at once, and none is written from then on. Your settings stay, including that choice. There is no account and no copy anywhere else, so download your file, or save a project file, once the recording is good — nothing can be recovered for you after the fact.

Messages you send

The feedback form — on the contact page and behind Send feedback in the recorder — is the only part of the site that sends anything you have written or recorded, and only when you press Send. It sends what you typed, your email address if you gave one, and the page you sent it from; the server also sees your IP address and your browser's user-agent string (the browser, its version, the operating system and sometimes the device model), as every request carries them, and passes all of it on to Alex Chuev, who makes the recorder, as a message in Telegram. The server runs on Amazon Web Services in the United States and keeps nothing itself, beyond holding your IP address in memory for up to ten minutes to count how often the form is sent. Telegram is a separate company, and the message stays on its servers, under its own privacy policy, until it is deleted. No audio is ever attached.

It is used to answer you, to fix what you report and to stop the form being flooded, and nothing else. To that end the IP address may be looked up with a public service that says roughly where it is and who provides it, to tell a person from abuse.

Cookies, tracking and third parties

The application sets no cookies and loads no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts. Its fonts are served from this domain rather than fetched from a font provider, so simply opening the page does not announce your visit to anyone else. The company hosting the site may keep ordinary server access logs, as any web host does.

Your rights

You keep every right to whatever you record. Nothing here claims a licence over your audio, because nothing here ever receives it. Beyond a message you sent, there is no data of yours to request, correct or delete. Ask, and a message is deleted. See the terms for the rest of the arrangement.

Questions about any of this go to alex@chuev.com.