this page is short because the room does little. where something is uncertain, it says so rather than reassuring you.
it is recorded in this browser and stored in this browser. it is not sent anywhere. there is no account, and no server involved. clearing this browser's data deletes every stream in it, and nothing anywhere else has a copy — take is how you keep one elsewhere.
your streams are encrypted on your device before they leave it. the server stores the encrypted form and holds no key, so it cannot listen to them — and neither can anyone who takes them from it.
a room is paid for through dodo payments, who handle the transaction as merchant of record. your card details are entered on their page and are never sent to this room, never pass through our server, and are never stored by us — we could not show you your own card number if you asked.
what we are told is your email address, that a subscription is active, and when it changes. that is what opens the room and keeps it open. the email you pay with is the email the room opens for, which is why it cannot be edited at the counter.
nothing is ever transcribed automatically. recording does not do it, syncing does not do it, and there is no background job that does it later. the only thing that sends a recording out is you tapping read on that one stream, and it sends only that stream.
when you do, that recording goes as plain audio to sarvam ai, a transcription service. this is the one time a recording leaves your device unencrypted. a stream you never tap read on is never sent, and no one at this end can send it for you.
sarvam's terms say recordings are not used for training without opt-in, and are deleted on request within thirty days. we asked how long they are kept otherwise and have not had an answer, so we cannot tell you how long sarvam retains what you send it. if that matters to you, do not ask for words — everything else in the room works without them.
the room is also not your only option. take downloads a stream, and you can transcribe it yourself with a tool that runs on your own machine and sends nothing anywhere. the room will not have those words, but you will.
your email address. that your subscription is active. when each stream was made, and how long it runs. not what is in it.
no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no cookies. if you have signed in, the session is kept in this browser's own storage and stays there until you use leave or clear the browser — closing the tab does not end it. cloudflare serves the site and sees what any web host sees, including your address and the times you visited.
nothing is deleted. the encrypted copies stay where they are, and there is no clock running against them — come back in a year and everything is where you left it.
what stops is the room opening. signing in needs a subscription, so until you start again the room will not let you in. if you encrypted the room, that includes the copies in this browser, because an encrypted room is opened by signing in and there is no other way through it. that is worth knowing before you need it: take is how you keep a copy that does not depend on us, on a subscription, or on this browser surviving.
empty the room deletes everything: what is here, and what is held for you. what has already gone to sarvam is beyond our reach, and the room will not pretend otherwise.