Privacy

What this page collects

The "Get early access" and "Request support" forms on this page collect the email address you type in, plus a short note describing what you selected (plan, message volume, or platform).

What it's used for

Your email is used only to reply about your beta request or support request — a transactional reply, not a newsletter. It is not added to any marketing list. If that ever changes, we will ask first.

How long we keep it

We keep the email and note from a form only for as long as it takes to answer it and, after that, in case you follow up. Email us and we'll delete or send you a copy of what we have sooner.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to understand overall traffic — how many people visit and roughly where from. It only starts, and only sets its own cookies, after you accept the cookie banner shown on your first visit; declining keeps it off. You can change your choice at any time via "Cookie preferences" in the footer, on any page. We don't run any other tracking beyond Analytics and the reCAPTCHA check below.

reCAPTCHA

Both forms are protected by Google reCAPTCHA, which runs a background check when you submit and shares a risk score with us. See Google's privacy policy and terms of service for how Google handles that check.

Videos

Demo videos are hosted on YouTube. Until you press play, the page shows a preview image from our own site and makes no requests to YouTube. Pressing play loads the YouTube player in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com); from then on YouTube receives the usual request data, such as your IP address, under Google's privacy policy. The "Watch on YouTube" link simply opens the video on youtube.com.

Sign in with Google

When you choose Continue with Google or Connect Google in the app, your browser opens Google authentication. Google sends our server your account identifier, email address and profile name so we can create your VerbaIDE account, sign you in, or connect Google to your existing account. This is separate from consent to usage counters. No recordings, transcripts or translations are sent to Google. You can also sign in with email and password. Google processes the authentication under its own privacy policy. Google Privacy Policy.

What the app sends over the network

VerbaIDE never uploads your audio, or the content it transcribes, translates or styles. Speech recognition, translation and tone rewriting all run on your Mac, on models stored there. There is no history of your dictations on our servers, because none is ever sent. The one exception is a dictation report you send yourself — see below.

The app reaches the network only for the following, and none of these requests carries audio or language content (the dictation report below is the only one that does):

1. Signing in, and creating an account during first-run setup — your email, your password, and a signature made with your installation key.
2. Fetching the licence token that says which features you paid for.
3. Usage counters, and only if you agreed to them. These are numbers and fixed labels: how long a dictation took, how many characters came out, which mode, language, preset and speech model were used. Never the text itself, and never the name of the app you dictated into.
4. Checking for a new version — only when you press the button in About. The app never checks on its own.
5. Translation dictionaries from cdn.verbaide.com: the catalogue when you open Settings or pick your languages, the dictionary files when you download them. Both without cookies or authorization headers.
6. The two speech recognition models, from huggingface.co. Dictation does not work at all until the first one is downloaded, including on the free tier.
7. The local styling model — its catalogue and manifest from cdn.verbaide.com, its weights from huggingface.co — and only once you have asked for the download.

The one exception: a dictation report you send yourself. First enable the independent “I want to help improve speech recognition” checkbox beside statistics consent in the app. It is off by default and sends nothing automatically. With it enabled, pressing ⌃⌥⌘B opens a window where you can browse your last three dictations. These are kept only in memory until you quit the app. Send submits only the selected dictation. With it off, the report menu item is hidden, the shortcut does not open the window, and sending is blocked. Nothing leaves your Mac until you press Send in that window. Then the app sends: the recording of that one dictation, the recognized text, the translation (for a dictation with translation), your corrections, your email if you typed one, the app and macOS versions, and an anonymous installation identifier — a fingerprint of the installation key, not your account, used only to limit how many reports one installation can send.

The report goes to our server at api.verbaide.com. The recording is stored in our file storage under an unlisted link, and the texts become a task in the developers' internal tracker that points to that link; your email stays on our server and is not copied into the task. We keep the report until we delete it by hand — there is no automatic deletion yet. To have a report deleted sooner, email contact@verbaide.com.

That is the complete list. If you need it in writing for a security review, email contact@verbaide.com.

Accessibility permission (the Mac app)

VerbaIDE asks for the Accessibility permission on macOS for one reason: to insert the text it recognized into the field you're already typing in, wherever that is. It does not use that permission to record keystrokes or monitor input in other fields or other apps — dictated text only moves when you hold the hotkey and speak.

Payments, once paid plans launch

When VerbaIDE ships paid plans, buying one hands your billing details — name, email, card or bank details, country — to Paddle, our reseller and the payment processor, so it can run the charge, calculate tax and issue receipts. Paddle handles that data as an independent controller under its own privacy policy; we only see the order status and receipt Paddle sends back to us, never your card or bank details.

Your requests

Email contact@verbaide.com to see, correct or delete the data we hold about you, or to ask a question about this page. For an order made through Paddle, Paddle is the one holding the billing record — see its buyer help for account and data requests about a specific order.

Contact

Questions about this page or your data: contact@verbaide.com.

Updated: October 2, 2026