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Privacy

We don't talk about promises here. We talk about architecture.

Manifesto

Privacy isn't a promise, it's the architecture.

Three sentences about privacy soothe no one. Four architectural decisions do.

  1. Audio lives in memory.

    Skald never writes audio files to disk. Not as a cache, not as a debug artefact. What you say is heard once — and then it's gone.

  2. Skald servers in the EU.

    Audio leaves your machine only to be turned into text. Our own servers are in the EU. For speech recognition and AI cleanup we work with specialised partners — each one named in the privacy policy, each one with model training on your data turned off.

  3. No model training on your voice.

    Your voice is never used to train anyone's models. We pay the surcharge to keep your speech out of training data — that's on us, not on you.

  4. In the product: no tracking, no telemetry.

    No analytics pixel in the product. No crash reporter. No "anonymous" heartbeat from your Mac, Windows, or Linux app. Your audio stays in memory and is never written to disk.

  5. Website analytics

    This website is measured. Cookieless, EU-hosted, no cross-site tracking. We see which texts get read — not who you are or where else you've been.