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Amie transcribes your meetings on your Mac. Your audio and transcripts stay there unless you turn on a cloud feature. This page explains exactly what Amie touches, where it goes, and what you can do about it.

1.Who we are

Amie is made by [COMPANY LEGAL NAME], [REGISTERED ADDRESS] (“we”, “us”). This policy covers the Amie app for macOS, the Amie for Google Meet browser extension, the Amie MCP server that ships with the app, and this website.

Where data protection law uses the term, we are the controller only for the small amount of data that actually reaches us, which is described below. Meeting audio and transcripts stay on your Mac, so they are under your control, not ours.

2.What stays on your Mac

Amie is built to work without a server. By default, everything below is processed and stored only on your computer:

  • Audio. Amie listens to your microphone and, if you allow it, your Mac’s system audio. The audio goes to a speech model running on your Mac and is transcribed as it is spoken. Amie does not save audio recordings. When a meeting ends, only the text is kept.
  • Transcripts and meetings. Transcripts, speaker labels, meeting titles, the context you add and summaries are stored in a database in Amie’s folder on your Mac (~/Library/Application Support/com.pavel.amie/).
  • Speaker names. For Zoom and Microsoft Teams, Amie can use macOS Accessibility, if you allow it, to read who is speaking from the meeting window. For Google Meet, the browser extension does this (see Amie for Google Meet). Names are used to label transcript lines and are stored with the transcript.
  • Settings and API keys. Your preferences, and any API keys you add for optional cloud features, are stored in Amie’s folder on your Mac. They are never sent to us.

We have no copy of your audio, transcripts or summaries, and we cannot see them, recover them or hand them to anyone.

3.Optional cloud features

Some features use a third‑party AI service. They are off until you turn them on, and they use an API key from your own account with that provider. Data goes straight from your Mac to the provider. It does not pass through us.

Cloud transcription

You can switch transcription from the local model to xAI’s speech service. While it is selected, Amie streams meeting audio to xAI to be transcribed. If you never choose it, no audio leaves your Mac.

Meeting summaries

To write a summary, Amie sends the meeting’s transcript, with speaker labels and any context you added, to the provider you pick: xAI, OpenAI or Google (Gemini). Summaries only run once you have added a key for that provider.

Once data is with a provider, their terms and privacy policy apply, including how long they keep it and whether they train on it. Check their policies before you turn these features on: xAI, OpenAI, Google.

4.Amie for Google Meet

The browser extension tells Amie who is speaking in a Google Meet call. Here is everything it does:

  • It runs only on meet.google.com. While you are in a call, it reads participant display names, which tile is speaking and whether your own microphone is muted in Meet. It does not read chat, captions, video or audio.
  • It sends that information only to the Amie app on the same Mac, over a local connection (127.0.0.1). It never sends it anywhere else. The connection is only open during a call.
  • When you are muted in Meet, Amie stops transcribing your microphone, so muted speech is not written down.
  • It keeps two technical values in the browser’s local extension storage: a random install ID and the port it last used to reach Amie.

It asks for these browser permissions: access to meet.google.com pages, access to http://127.0.0.1 to reach the Amie app, and storage for the two values above.

5.Local MCP

Amie includes an MCP server so AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can read your meetings. It runs on your Mac, opens no network port, and only works for the tools you connect to it yourself. It can read meetings, and unless you run it read‑only, it can edit titles, context and summaries and archive meetings. It cannot delete meetings or edit transcripts.

When you connect an AI tool, that tool can pass what it reads to its own model provider. That is covered by the tool’s privacy policy, not this one.

6.Other network requests

Apart from the optional features above, the app connects to:

  • The speech model download. On first run, Amie downloads its speech model from a public model repository. This is a normal file download. No meeting data is sent.
  • Update checks. If you downloaded Amie from this website, it checks GitHub for new releases and downloads updates from there. GitHub sees your IP address and the request, as with any download. If you got Amie from the Mac App Store, updates come through the App Store instead, and Apple’s privacy policy covers that.

The app has no analytics, no tracking and no crash reporting service built in. We do not run accounts, so there is no Amie login.

7.This website

This website does not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. It is hosted by [WEBSITE HOSTING PROVIDER], which, like any web host, processes your IP address and standard request details to serve the pages and keep the service secure.

If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write, and we use it to reply.

9.How long data is kept

  • On your Mac. Meetings stay until you delete them in Amie or delete Amie’s folder. Uninstalling the app does not delete that folder by itself.
  • With AI providers. If you use the optional cloud features, the provider’s own retention policy applies.
  • With us. Emails are kept as long as needed to deal with your request, then deleted within [EMAIL RETENTION PERIOD]. Hosting logs are kept for [HOSTING LOG RETENTION PERIOD].

10.Recording other people

Amie transcribes everyone on a call, not just you. Many places require that every participant knows about, or agrees to, a recording or transcript. You are responsible for telling people and getting consent where the law requires it. See our Terms.

11.Your rights

Your meeting data is on your Mac, so you can view, export, correct or delete it yourself at any time, without asking us.

For any personal data we hold about you, you can ask us to tell you what it is, give you a copy, correct it, delete it, or stop or limit how we use it. If you are in the EU, UK or a similar jurisdiction, these rights come from the GDPR. If you are a California resident, the CCPA gives you the right to know, delete and correct personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for using these rights. We do not sell or share personal information, so there is nothing to opt out of.

To make a request, email support@getamie.app. We will answer within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

12.Security

Because your meetings stay on your Mac, they are as safe as your Mac. Use a login password and turn on FileVault disk encryption. API keys you add are stored as files in Amie’s folder, readable by your macOS user account. Cloud features send data to providers over encrypted connections.

13.Children

Amie is not meant for children under [MINIMUM AGE], and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

14.Changes to this policy

If we change how Amie handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant, such as a new feature that sends data off your Mac by default, we will also tell you in the app or in the release notes before it takes effect.

15.Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@getamie.app or write to [COMPANY LEGAL NAME], [REGISTERED ADDRESS].