The short version
SiloMeet collects no data. None.
No analytics. No telemetry. No account. No personal data. No usage metrics. No error beacons. No advertising IDs. No fingerprinting. No crash reports. No data of any kind is collected, stored, transmitted, or shared by SiloMeet about you, your device, or your content.
Everything SiloMeet does runs on your Mac through Apple Speech, Apple Foundation Models when available, and an always-available deterministic local engine. There is no cloud component, hosted model, or SiloMeet account.
What we don't have, and therefore never see
Because SiloMeet has no server-side component, none of the following exists anywhere in our infrastructure (which consists of: nothing): your name, email, phone, or address; your IP address, device identifier, or any hardware fingerprint; your content and anything derived from it; session timing, feature usage, or behavioural data; crash reports. The app does not phone home, ever.
Meeting recording (explicit, never ambient)
SiloMeet records a meeting only when you start a session and stops the moment you end it. There is no ambient, continuous, or background capture — recording is always explicit and user-initiated. Everything about it stays on your device:
- On-device only. Capture, transcription, summaries, decisions, and action items all run locally on your Mac. Nothing recorded is ever transmitted anywhere.
- You start and stop it. A session begins when you tap record and ends when you tap stop. The app never listens outside a session you started.
- Cited, never fabricated. Every action item and decision links back to the exact transcript line it came from, and a deterministic validator rejects anything not grounded in your transcript.
- Stored locally.Transcripts and summaries live inside the app's on-device container, protected at rest by the operating system — never in any cloud.
- Yours to delete. Erase any meeting, or all of them, at any time from inside the app.
If you never start a session, nothing is captured.
Outbound traffic you initiate
The only outbound network traffic, all user-initiated, and none of it to SiloMeet:
- App Store updates.When Apple ships a SiloMeet update, the App Store delivers it. This traffic is between your Mac and Apple's servers. SiloMeet is not involved.
- Links you click. If you click an external link inside the app, your default browser handles the request. SiloMeet is not involved.
Permissions we request, and why
- Microphone. Record the meeting audio so it can be transcribed on-device.
- Speech Recognition. Transcribe recorded audio on-device with Apple Speech.
- Screen & System Audio (macOS). (optional) Capture meeting audio playing through your Mac (remote calls), so it can be transcribed alongside your mic.
SiloMeet does not request Camera, Contacts, Location, or Full Disk Access beyond what is listed above. If you grant nothing, it can read nothing.
On-device data you create
Your content and everything derived from it live on your disk under ~/Library/Containers/com.silosystems.silomeet/Data/Library/Application Support/SiloMeet/ (plus any folder you explicitly choose to export to). They are yours. We do not have access to them. Deleting SiloMeet removes the app; your work remains under its container until you delete it manually.
During recording finalization, SiloMeet may stage a recovery copy inside the app container. After a successful save it deletes that copy or surfaces an explicit cleanup action if deletion fails. If finalization fails, you choose Retry or Discard; the app does not silently upload or abandon it.
Third-party components
SiloMeet uses these Apple frameworks on-device. They do not receive your meeting as a hosted SiloMeet service:
- Apple Foundation Models — runs locally on-device.
- Apple Speech — runs locally on-device.
- Deterministic extractive engine — runs locally when Foundation Models are unavailable.
Children's privacy
SiloMeet is rated 4+. Because no personal data is collected from any user, no special treatment is required for users under 13. Same policy applies regardless of age: nothing collected.
Changes
If we ever materially change how SiloMeet handles data, we will publish an updated version of this page, announce the change prominently in the release notes, and require explicit consent in-app before any new collection begins. The current policy is: nothing is collected.
Contact
Questions about this policy: admin@ohmslaw.net
For non-private inquiries you can also open an issue at github.com/flowmar47/silomeet/issues.