# Dscvry Record privacy policy Speech is turned into text on your computer. Your voice and your meetings are not sent to Dscvry. ## How the app handles your data Effective date: 10 November 2026. This policy covers the Dscvry Record desktop app (Windows during the beta). The beta sign-up form on this website is covered by the [Dscvry privacy policy](https://dscvryai.com/legal/privacy/). **The short version** - Speech is turned into text **on your PC**. Your voice and your meetings are not sent to Dscvry. - There is **no Dscvry account**. **Usage statistics and crash reports are off** unless you turn them on, and they never contain your words, audio, titles, names or files. - The only Dscvry server the app talks to is record.dscvryai.com: to check for updates, and to send usage statistics and crash reports if you turn them on. - Other data leaves your PC only for things you turn on: a cloud AI provider for meeting notes (with your own key), your Outlook calendar, and downloading the speech models. - What the app keeps is on your PC, and you can delete it in the app. ### 1. Who we are Dscvry Record is published by **ReDscvry Technology Private Limited**, incorporated in India (CIN U63111TS2024PTC183007), SY:11 WeWork Krishe Emerald, Kondapur Main Road, Laxmi Cyber City, Whitefields, Serilingampally Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, India, part of Dscvry with Discovery AI Limited (United Kingdom). Questions and requests: [privacy@dscvryai.com](mailto:privacy@dscvryai.com). ### 2. What happens on your PC **Dictation.** While Dscvry Record runs, it keeps your microphone open so the first word you say isn't cut off (Windows shows its microphone indicator). The audio stays in memory: only the last half-second is held before you press the dictation keys, and nothing is saved. What you dictate is turned into text on your PC and typed into the window in front of you. **Dictation history.** The text you dictated (never the audio) is kept on your PC for 7 days so you can copy it again if a paste didn't land. It is on by default. Turning it off deletes it; you can also clear it at any time. **Meetings.** A meeting is recorded only when you click Start. The app records your microphone and the sound of the call app you choose (or everything your PC plays, if you choose that). The transcript is made on your PC. The recording is deleted as soon as the transcript is saved, unless you turn on “keep meeting audio”; if making the transcript fails, the recording is kept so it can be tried again, until you delete the meeting. Transcripts, notes, titles and the names you give to voices stay on your PC until you delete the meeting. **Telling voices apart** and **search** run on your PC. **“Record this call?” suggestion** (off by default). When it is on, the app checks which apps on your PC are playing sound, to notice when a call may have started. It only asks; it never starts recording. ### 3. What leaves your PC, and only if you choose it **Meeting notes with a cloud AI provider.** Notes can be made on your PC, or by a cloud AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Cloudflare AI Gateway, or another service you enter) using **your own API key**. If you choose a cloud provider, the meeting transcript, with the names of the speakers, is sent to that provider each time a meeting’s transcript is ready, under your own account with them and their terms. Dscvry does not receive it. Your key is kept in Windows Credential Manager on your PC. **Outlook / Microsoft 365 calendar.** If you connect your calendar, the app reads your events from Microsoft: times, titles, location, the online-meeting link, the organiser and who was invited. It does not read the invitation text or attachments (Microsoft permission “Calendars.ReadBasic”). Events are held in memory while the app runs. A meeting you record during a scheduled event keeps that event’s title and the names of the people invited, as suggestions for naming voices. Your Microsoft sign-in is kept in Windows Credential Manager. Disconnecting removes it from your PC. You can also remove the app’s access in your Microsoft account: for a work or school account at [myapps.microsoft.com](https://myapps.microsoft.com/), and for a personal account at [account.live.com/consent/Manage](https://account.live.com/consent/Manage). **Downloading speech and notes models.** The first time you set up a language or notes on your PC, the app downloads model files from Hugging Face and GitHub. Like any download, the server sees your IP address and the request. Nothing about you or your meetings is sent. **Checking for updates** (on by default; Settings > About). A minute after the app starts and twice a day, it asks record.dscvryai.com whether a newer version exists. The request carries no identifier and nothing about you, your PC or your meetings. Cloudflare, which hosts record.dscvryai.com, processes standard request data (such as your IP address) to answer it and to protect the site; we do not use that data to identify or profile you. An update is installed only when you click Install, after the app checks it carries Dscvry’s signature. **Usage statistics** (off unless you turn them on). You turn them on, or off again, in Settings > Privacy and data. When on, the app records these events, and only these fields, and sends them to record.dscvryai.com twice a day: - app started: processor type, memory size in GB, number of processor cores, the dictation and meeting languages, the kind of notes engine (none, on this PC, your own server, or a cloud provider with your key), and whether live transcript, dictation history, recording suggestions and the calendar are on; - a dictation: language, seconds of audio, milliseconds until the text appeared, and whether it was pasted, held, failed, empty or had no speech; - a meeting transcribed: language, the kind of source (Teams, Zoom, a browser, another app, or everything the computer plays), length in minutes, number of voices, seconds to transcribe, whether it was transcribed live, and whether it worked; - notes made: the kind of engine (on this PC, your own server, or the provider family: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Cloudflare or other), seconds taken, and whether they worked; - a search: the number of results (at most one a minute); - calendar connected or disconnected; an update that failed to install. Each event carries the hour it happened, and each batch carries the app version, the Windows version and a random ID made for this purpose, so we can count how many installs use a feature. The ID is not linked to you, your Microsoft account or your computer’s name. Turning usage statistics off deletes the ID and anything not yet sent; turning them on again makes a new ID. The events never include your words, audio, transcripts, notes, meeting titles, people’s names, file or folder names, or the names of the apps you dictate into. The server refuses any event or field not on this list. **Crash reports** (off unless you turn them on). When the app crashes, it saves a short report and sends it with the next twice-daily send, or a couple of minutes after it next starts: the kind of crash, the error message with file paths, email addresses, long numbers and quoted text removed, the place in our code where it happened (or, for a crash inside a program library, the library’s file name, the position in it and the exception code), the app version and the Windows version. If the app didn’t close normally, for example after a power cut, the report just says that. Crash reports carry no ID. No memory contents or screen images are ever included. Turning crash reports off deletes reports not yet sent. **What Dscvry keeps.** Usage statistics and crash reports are stored in our own Cloudflare account, never shared with an advertising or analytics company, and deleted automatically after 365 days. We do not store your IP address with them, not even in hashed form: only the country Cloudflare reports for the request and the day it arrived. We use them to find and fix problems and to decide what to improve. Basis: your consent (UK and EU GDPR Article 6(1)(a)), which you can withdraw at any time by turning them off. ### 4. Where your data is kept On your PC, for your Windows user (the beta runs on Windows): - settings, dictation history, and usage statistics and crash reports waiting to be sent (only if you turned them on): `%APPDATA%\com.dscvry.record` - meetings (recordings until transcribed, transcripts, notes) and downloaded models: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\com.dscvry.record` - API keys and the calendar sign-in: Windows Credential Manager, under “Dscvry Record/” When you uninstall the app, tick “Delete the application data” to remove both folders; otherwise they stay on your PC. Uninstalling does not remove the API keys or the calendar sign-in from Windows Credential Manager: remove them in the app first (disconnect the calendar, clear the keys), or delete the “Dscvry Record/” entries in Credential Manager. ### 5. Recording other people Meeting recordings include other people’s voices. You are responsible for telling the people in a call that you are recording and for getting any consent the law where you and they are requires. ### 6. Your rights Because the app keeps your data on your PC, you can see, copy and delete it yourself. Dscvry does not hold your recordings, transcripts, notes, dictated text or calendar data. Usage statistics can’t be traced back to you because their ID isn’t linked to you; if you want us to delete what was sent from your install, tell us your ID (in the file `telemetry-id` in the settings folder above) before you turn usage statistics off. For questions or requests about any personal data Dscvry holds about you (for example, from the beta sign-up form), write to [privacy@dscvryai.com](mailto:privacy@dscvryai.com). Your rights, and how to complain to a data protection authority, are set out in section 11 of the [Dscvry privacy policy](https://dscvryai.com/legal/privacy/). ### 7. Children Dscvry Record is not meant for anyone under 18. ### 8. Changes If we change what the app does with data, we will update this page before the change reaches the app, and change the date at the top.