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Hushscribe

Hushscribe and your privacy

This page sums up what Hushscribe does with your data. The Hedgerow privacy policy covers every app, the website and purchases in full.

What stays on your PC

  • Settings and data live in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hedgerow\Hushscribe on your PC.
  • Your transcripts (text, timestamps and titles) in the library folder, which you can move in Settings › General.
  • The speech models you download.
  • Temporary decoded audio while a file is being transcribed, removed when the job finishes.
  • Up to 10 recent crash reports, kept on the PC whether or not sending is turned on.
  • A trial start date in the registry under your user account (Direct edition).
  • A Start-with-Windows entry under your user account, only while unfinished jobs are waiting, so they can resume (Direct edition). It is removed when the queue is empty.

When Hushscribe goes online

  • License activation (Direct edition): when you enter a key, Hushscribe sends the key, your PC’s name, the app’s name and an anonymous device ID to our license server. About once a week it checks the license again, sending the key and the activation’s ID.
  • Update checks (Direct edition): only when you choose Check for updates. The request includes the app’s name and version, nothing else.
  • Crash reports: off unless you turn them on. If Hushscribe crashes, it saves a report on your PC; with reports turned on it also sends that report, with file paths removed, to crash.hedgerowapps.com.
  • Speech models download from Hugging Face (huggingface.co) when you choose one during setup or in Settings › Models, or when you add a file and the chosen model isn’t installed yet. Only the model file is requested; no audio, text or personal details are sent.

Good to know

  • Audio is decoded and transcribed on the PC, in a separate Hushscribe process. Recordings and transcripts are never uploaded.
  • The “Try the sample” recording is made on the PC with Windows’ built-in voice.
  • Crash reports, if turned on, contain the app and Windows versions, the time and the error details, with file names and paths removed. They never include audio or transcript text.

There are no ads, and no analytics or usage tracking.

Microsoft Store edition

The Store edition doesn’t contact our license server or check for updates itself: Microsoft handles the purchase, the license and updates, under Microsoft’s privacy statement.