Roar Privacy Policy

Roar is a dictation app. You hold a key, speak, and the words appear where you were typing. This policy explains, plainly, what that requires us to handle and what it never touches.

Who we are

Roar is made and operated by Foxnut Studios LLP, a limited liability partnership registered in India. Throughout this policy, "we", "us" and "our" mean Foxnut Studios LLP. We decide what Roar collects and why, which makes us the party responsible for it, and the party you can hold to everything written here.

Our registered office is at GF, Pl no 47, Kh no 46/10, Chhawla, New Delhi - 110071, India.

Write to support@roarvoice.app about anything in this policy, including a request to see, correct, export or delete what we hold about you. It is the only address we ask you to use, and it is the address meant everywhere below by "on request". We answer data requests ourselves; there is nobody in between.

What stays on your Mac

Your notes and your full dictation history are stored only in a local database on your own computer. They are never uploaded, synced, or copied to our servers. There is no note or dictation-history table on our side at all. If you delete a note or an entry from your history, it is gone; we never had it.

The same is true of the context Roar uses to pick a dictation style. To decide whether a dictation should be tidied one way or another, Roar can look at which app you are typing into and, only if you switch that on separately in Settings → Dictation → Style, which site a browser is showing. It reads the site name only (for example mail.google.com), never the rest of the address, never the page's contents, and never a window title. All of it is matched against your own rules on your own Mac. What reaches our servers is the name of the style you ended up with, never the app and never the site. Site-matching is off unless you turn it on.

What briefly leaves your Mac, and why

Turning speech into text is not something your Mac can do alone. Two things cross the network, each for one narrow purpose:

• Your audio is sent to a specialised third-party speech-recognition service to be turned into text. That service is bound to us by a signed data processing agreement. Under it, your audio and the transcript made from it are handled in memory only, are never written to storage at their end, and are used for nothing but producing your transcript: not to improve or train their models, and not for any other purpose. It may rely on infrastructure providers of its own to run; each of those is bound to the same restrictions, and the service remains answerable to us for them.
• The resulting text, never the audio itself, is optionally sent to a third-party AI language service to tidy it up. It runs on a paid service tier that does not train on your content and does not route it to human reviewers. You can turn this step off entirely in Settings → Dictation → Accuracy, in which case your text never reaches it at all.

How much that step may change your words depends on the style you pick, and the limit is enforced by us, not merely requested of the AI service. On Standard Cleanup, the default and what you get if you never open the picker, and on Smart Formatting, it may only correct mechanical errors: spelling, homophones, proper nouns, capitalisation, punctuation and number formatting. It may not rephrase you, reorder you, or answer anything. If you choose Email or LinkedIn Post, you are asking for a rewrite, and those styles may choose their own words. Every result is checked against the limit for the style you chose, and anything exceeding it is discarded in favour of your untouched transcript.

We do not name these processors here because doing so is not what protects you. What protects you is what they are contractually allowed to do with your data, which is what this section describes. Their identities are available on request: write to support@roarvoice.app and we will tell you who they are.

Importing a recording

You can also hand Roar a recording you already have, such as a voice memo or a voice note somebody sent you, instead of dictating live. The file stays a file you already own: Roar reads it on your Mac, splits it into pieces, and each piece leaves your Mac only for as long as it takes to turn it into text. We do not keep a copy of the recording on our servers, before or after that happens, and we do not keep its file name, its title, or the words that came out of it. What we do keep is how long it ran, counted the same way as an ordinary dictation. The text it produces, and any key points and actions drawn out of it, land in your notepad on your Mac, exactly like anything else you dictate.

People you talk about

When you dictate, you may name other people. A colleague, a client, a patient, a friend. They did not agree to anything, and they are not our customers. This section is about them, and it is here because it is a fair question that we would rather answer in advance than the first time somebody asks.

We do not hold what you said about them. The text of your dictation is written to your own Mac and never to our servers. The audio leaves your Mac only to be turned into text, and neither our server nor the service that transcribes it writes it to storage: both handle it in memory, and it is gone once the text is produced. There is no copy of it here, which means there is nothing here for us to search, disclose, sell, lose or hand over. That is not a promise about our intentions; it is a description of what we built.

What does reach us is counts. How many words, how many characters, how many seconds, how many dictations. Those numbers say nothing about who or what you were talking about.

What that means for a request from someone you mentioned. If a person writes to us asking what we hold about them, the honest and complete answer is nothing, and we can say so quickly. If they want a recording or a transcript removed, we cannot remove it, because we do not have it. The only copy is on your Mac, and you can delete it yourself in Roar at any time. We will say exactly that, and we will not pretend to a control we do not have.

What we ask of you. You decide what to say into your microphone, and in most places the law treats you, not us, as responsible for that choice. If you dictate about people in a professional setting, particularly anything about health, legal matters or finances, the obligations that already apply to your work apply to the words you dictate about it. Roar is not built or sold for handling patient records, and our terms of use say so.

What we store on our servers

• Your account: email address and a securely hashed password.
• Usage counters: words, characters, minutes and number of dictations, used to show you your own usage and to enforce plan limits. We never store or show a dollar cost to any user.

We do not store your audio. It exists only transiently, in transit, for the single request that produced your transcript.

Email we send you

We use external email service providers to deliver email on our behalf. This covers messages about your account, such as a link to reset your password or to confirm your address, and also onboarding, support, product tips and promotional email.

They receive your email address and the contents of the message, and nothing else. They never receive your notes, your dictations or your password. As with the processors above, we do not name them here, and their identities are available on request: write to support@roarvoice.app and we will tell you who they are.

You can stop the product email at any time, using the unsubscribe link in any message that carries one. Mail your account needs, such as a link to reset your password or to confirm your address, is not affected.

Paying for Roar

We never see your card. Roar has no card field and never will. Buying a plan opens your browser on a hosted checkout page, and the card details you type there go to the payment processor, not to us. We are told that a payment succeeded. We are never told the number, the expiry, or the security code.

What we do keep, for each account that has paid:

• Your subscription: which plan, when the period started and ends, and whether it was cancelled.
• Your invoices: the amount, the plan, the period it covers and the email it was billed to.
• A record of each payment event we were sent: a successful charge, a failed one, a cancellation. That is what makes it possible to show that your plan was granted for a reason.

These are financial records, not usage data, and they are the reason the section below exists.

Our website, cookies and advertising

The Roar app contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising trackers and no third-party scripts of any kind. It talks to our own server and to nothing else. The pages we serve from that server, including this one, set no cookies at all.

Our website is a different thing, and we would rather write it here plainly than leave you to find it. Like most businesses that sell software, we have to know which of our advertisements bring people to us and which are wasted money, so the website uses cookies and similar technologies, some belonging to the analytics and advertising companies we work with. They count visits, show us which pages people read, and connect a sign-up or a purchase back to the advertisement that led to it. That means those companies can be sent a record that a browser visited a page or completed a sign-up, an identifier for that browser, and, for measuring purchases, a scrambled version of the email address you signed up with.

Where the law requires your consent for any of that, our website asks before it sets such a cookie, and you can say no. Saying no leaves the site working exactly as it did, and it does not affect Roar itself in any way.

None of it touches what you dictate. Your notes, your dictation history and your transcripts are not on our servers for us to share, and no analytics or advertising company receives them in any form. As with the processors above we do not name these companies here, and we will tell you who they are on request.

Where your information goes

We are in India. The company that hosts our server and its database has no data centre in India, so our server is outside it, and the processors described above, for speech, for proofreading, for email and for payment, are in the United States and in Europe. The small amount of information we hold about you therefore crosses borders, and it does so wherever in the world you are. Each of those companies is bound by a contract that limits what it may do with what it receives, and each receives only the one thing it needs to do its job.

How we protect what we hold

Everything between Roar and our server travels over an encrypted connection. Passwords are stored only as scrypt hashes, never in a form anyone can read, so nobody here can see or recover yours and a reset replaces it rather than revealing it. The keys our server uses to reach its processors live on the server and are never shipped inside the app, which is the whole reason the app talks to us instead of talking to them directly.

No system is perfect and we will not claim ours is. What we can say is that the amount we hold is deliberately small, and that your notes are the safest thing of all, because we do not have them.

Children

Roar is not made for children. You must be at least 16 to have an account, or at least 13 if you are in the United States. We do not knowingly collect anything from anyone younger, and if you believe a child has an account with us, write to us and we will delete it.

How long we keep things

• Your audio: not at all. Our server never writes it to storage, and neither does the speech-recognition service, before or after your transcript is produced. On your own Mac, Roar records it to a temporary file while you hold the key and removes that file the moment you release it.
• Your account, usage counters and login credentials: until you delete your account. Then they are removed from our servers.
• Your invoices and payment records: six years or more, counted from the end of the financial year each payment falls in, including after you delete your account. Tax and company law require us to be able to produce a record of money we have received, and that obligation does not end because a customer leaves. Six years is the least we keep them for rather than the most: we do not delete financial records on a timetable, because the point of keeping one is that somebody can ask for it years later. A deleted account's records are detached from it and keep only what an audit needs: the amount, the plan, the dates, an account number, and the email address the payment was made under.
• Your notes and dictation history: we never had them, so there is nothing for us to keep. They are on your Mac for as long as you keep them there.

What we never do

• We never sell your data, to anyone, for any reason.
• We never use your dictated content for advertising, ours or a third party's.
• We never read your notes. We don't have them.
• We never receive your browsing history. Roar can read the name of the site your browser is showing, if you turn that on, but it uses it on your Mac and does not send it to us.

Your controls

• Turn AI proofreading off at any time in Settings → Dictation → Accuracy.
• Choose your dictation style, and turn app- and site-matching on or off, in Settings → Dictation → Style. Site-matching is off until you turn it on.
• Delete your account at any time from within the app. This removes your account, your usage counters and your login credentials from our servers. If you have paid us, your invoices and payment records are kept. See How long we keep things above; that is the one exception, and we cannot make it otherwise.
• Your notes and dictation history are only on your Mac, and you can delete them from within the app at any time. Uninstalling Roar does not remove them. They stay in your Library folder, at ~/Library/Application Support/Roar, until you delete that folder yourself. Moving Roar to the Trash leaves it behind.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what data we collect or how it's used, we'll update the effective date above and, for a material change, tell you directly rather than only updating this page.