Privacy

The short version

The same is true of the text Blurt produces. Transcripts are written to a file on your machine and stay there. We hold no copy. We cannot read your transcripts, and we cannot recover them for you if you delete them.

Polish, which cleans up your dictated text, also runs locally using a model on your machine. It makes no API call and sends nothing anywhere. Meeting mode captures system audio on your machine and follows exactly the same rules as normal dictation.

What does leave your Mac

We would rather state this plainly than bury it. Once you have activated a licence, Blurt makes these network requests and no others on your behalf:

• A licence check to evolveratechnologies.com, about once a week. Blurt sends your licence key so we can confirm the subscription is still valid. The request also carries your operating system name, the Blurt version you are running, and a device label taken from your computer's hostname so you can tell your own devices apart. Nothing else.
• Activation, to the same endpoint. When you first enter a licence key on a device, Blurt sends the same information to claim that device's slot against your licence.
• Update checks to downloads.evolveratechnologies.com, which serves a signed version manifest and the update itself. You can switch this off in Settings.
• Model downloads from huggingface.co, once, when you choose an engine. The models are public builds of Whisper and Parakeet fetched straight from the model host, so that request goes to them and not to us. After it, dictation works with the wifi off.
• Feedback to feedback.evolveratechnologies.com, and only when you press Send feedback. It carries what you typed and the email address you chose to give, and it is never opened on its own.

What we never collect

Stated explicitly, because privacy policies usually only tell you what is taken. We do not collect, receive, or store:

• Your audio, or any recording of it
• Your transcripts, or any text you dictate
• What you dictate about, or any analytics derived from it
• Your keystrokes
• The contents of your screen, or the apps you dictate into
• Your files or documents

What the app reads on your Mac, and never sends

Two optional features read things outside the microphone to get your spelling right. Both are switches in Settings, both are off unless you turn them on, and neither sends anything anywhere.

• Context awareness reads the title of the window you are dictating into and the text field you are focused on, so names and jargon already on screen are spelled the way they appear.
• Learn your project names reads the names of git repositories and branches under your development folders, and the names of your installed apps, and uses them to spot words it would otherwise mangle. It reads names, not file contents.

What we hold about you

If you buy Blurt, we hold your email address, which plan you bought, whether your subscription is active, your licence key, and which devices that key is activated on. That is the entire list.

We run no database of our own. Our licensing server is a stateless proxy: it passes your licence key to Polar, returns the answer to your app, and keeps nothing. The record of your purchase lives with Polar.

We process your licence and subscription data to give you the software you paid for, which is performance of our contract with you. We check for updates on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping installed software working and secure.

Cookies

If you accept, Google Analytics 4 sets two cookies in your browser: `_ga`, which lasts two years, and `_ga_` followed by our measurement ID, which also lasts two years. Both hold a randomly generated identifier that lets Google count you as one returning visitor rather than several new ones. Neither carries your name, your email, or anything you have dictated.

Your choice is remembered in local storage under `blurt-analytics-consent`, not in a cookie, so declining leaves you with an empty cookie jar. That single entry is the only thing this site stores on a declining visitor's device, and it exists so we do not ask you again on every page.

You can change your mind at any time. `Cookie settings` at the bottom of any page reopens the question, and choosing Decline stops any further collection. Clearing your browser's site data for theblurt.app removes everything described here.

There are no advertising cookies, no remarketing tags, no session recording and no A/B testing tool. Google's advertising and personalisation signals are switched off explicitly in our configuration rather than merely left unused.

This website

With your consent, this website uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits, see which pages people read and which searches bring them here. That is the whole purpose. There is no tag manager, no advertising tag, no remarketing, no session recording and no A/B testing tool.

This is the one place where the website is less private than the app. The app measures nothing at all and cannot be made to; the website asks. If you would rather it did not, decline, and nothing about your visit reaches Google.

There are no third-party embeds. The fonts are served from this site rather than from a font CDN, so loading a page does not tell a font host your IP address, whatever you answered. The only other outbound links are the ones you click: the checkout at Polar, the download, and our company site.

• What Google receives if you accept: the pages you view on this site, roughly where you are from your IP address, your browser and device type, and how you arrived — a search, a link, or directly. IP anonymisation is on.
• What it never receives: anything you dictate. Audio and transcripts stay on your Mac and are not part of any website measurement, because the website never has them in the first place.
• Our hosting provider and our CDN keep their own short-term request logs, as every web host does, in order to serve pages and absorb attacks. Those logs contain IP addresses. We do not build profiles from them and we do not join them to anything else, but we do not control their retention and would rather say so than pretend the internet works without them.
• Legal basis: your consent, under the ePrivacy rules and Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You can withdraw it as easily as you gave it, from `Cookie settings` at the bottom of any page.

Where your data is

Evolvera Technologies is based in Pakistan, so the little we hold — your email, your plan, your licence key and its activations — is handled from there.

Polar, our payment processor and merchant of record, operates from the United States and holds the record of your purchase. If you accepted analytics, Google also processes your visit data in the United States. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, both therefore involve your data leaving your country, under the safeguards set out in their own terms — and the analytics half of that happens only because you agreed to it, and stops the moment you withdraw.

Nothing you dictate is involved in any of this. Your audio and transcripts never leave your Mac, so they never cross a border at all.

Payments

We never see your card details. Not the number, not the expiry, not the security code. Payments are processed by Polar, which acts as our merchant of record, meaning Polar is the seller of record for your purchase and handles payment processing and sales tax.

From Polar we receive your email address, the plan you bought, your subscription status, and your licence key. Cancellations, invoices and card changes all happen in Polar's customer portal, not with us.

Who else is involved

• Polar processes payments and issues licence keys, and holds your customer record as described above.
• Google Analytics measures traffic on this website, and only if you accepted the cookie banner. Google acts as our processor for that measurement and holds the data under its own terms. Decline and Google receives nothing.
• Our hosting provider serves this website and the licensing endpoint your app talks to. Like any web host, it processes the IP addresses of incoming requests in order to answer them.
• The release manifest and the installer are served from downloads.evolveratechnologies.com. Fetching them tells that host your IP address, as fetching any file from any host does.

How long things are kept

Licence and subscription data is kept for as long as your licence is active, and afterwards for as long as Polar needs it to meet tax and accounting obligations.

Website analytics, if you accepted them, are retained by Google for 14 months from your last visit and then deleted. The two cookies in your browser expire after two years, or immediately if you clear site data or press Decline in Cookie settings.

Everything Blurt creates on your Mac stays on your Mac, and you can delete it yourself at any time. Your transcript history lives in history.json inside Blurt's folder under ~/Library/Application Support/. Deleting that file removes your history permanently. Because we never had a copy, we cannot restore it.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Since what we hold is limited to your email, plan, subscription status, licence key and its activations, these requests are quick to answer.

Email us and we will respond within 30 days. Deleting your licence data ends your ability to activate Blurt on new devices, so we will confirm before doing it.

Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to object to processing, to restrict it, or to complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

Blurt is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13, or under 16 in the European Union. If you believe a child has provided us with information, email us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change what Blurt sends or what we hold, we will update this page and change the date at the top before the change ships. For anything that meaningfully affects your privacy, we will also say so in the app's release notes.

Contact

Evolvera Technologies, contact@evolveratechnologies.com.