Privacy Policy

Who we are

Fast Talk (“we”, “us”) makes the Fast Talk apps for Mac and iPhone and runs the website at fast.talk. If you have a question about this policy or your data, write to [email protected].

What stays on your device

Fast Talk keeps your work on your Mac and iPhone:

• Recordings and their audio files.
• Transcripts, notes and your Library, including the original transcript behind every cleaned-up dictation.
• Your modes, vocabulary and what Memory has learned from your edits.
• Voice profiles used to label speakers in meetings. They’re made only when you name or confirm a speaker, and they never leave your Mac.
• On iPhone, recordings and notes stay in the app’s private storage and are shared only with the Fast Talk keyboard.

You can delete any of it in the app at any time. On iPhone, deleting the app also removes it. On Mac, deleting the app leaves your Library and recordings on the Mac, so delete them in Fast Talk first, or remove the FastTalk folder in ~/Library/Application Support.

Speech recognition

When you dictate or record, Fast Talk sends the audio over an encrypted connection to Soniox, our speech recognition provider, and receives the text back. On Mac, Fast Talk asks you to agree to this the first time you open it. On iPhone, it happens every time you dictate. With each request, Soniox also receives a reference code derived from your license or device, which it keeps in its usage logs.

Soniox doesn’t use your audio or transcripts to train its models and doesn’t keep them after transcribing live speech. Recordings sent as files (audio you import, and retries and re-transcriptions on iPhone) are held by Soniox for at most 30 days, then deleted automatically. See Soniox security and privacy.

With the audio, Fast Talk can send recognition hints that help it spell things right: your vocabulary and, only if you turn on context awareness, the name of the app or website you’re dictating into. Context awareness is off until you turn it on.

On the free plan, audio passes through Fast Talk’s server on its way to Soniox so free minutes can be counted. It isn’t stored there.

AI clean-up and Note Intelligence

Some features send text, never audio, to a language model: cleaning up a dictation, writing it in a mode’s style, and for meetings, summaries, action items and Ask This Note. The text goes through Fast Talk’s gateway, which runs on Cloudflare, to our model providers: Cerebras, and Groq when Cerebras is slow or unavailable for mode styles and Note Intelligence.

If you turn on context awareness for a mode, the text sent for clean-up and the mode’s style also includes what Fast Talk reads in the window you’re dictating into: the app’s name, the window title, the website, the text already in the field (up to 2,000 characters), any selected text (up to 2,000 characters) and up to 3,000 characters of the text visible in the window. Fast Talk never reads secure fields, password managers, Keychain Access, Passwords or System Settings.

Note Intelligence is off until you turn it on. When it’s on, a meeting’s transcript text and speaker labels are sent. The audio and voice profiles are not. Questions you ask in Ask This Note aren’t saved.

In release versions of Fast Talk, our gateway doesn’t store the text of these requests, and Cerebras doesn’t keep inputs or outputs after answering. Groq processes requests under its own privacy policy. In beta versions of Fast Talk for Mac, if Share crash reports is on, request text may be logged so we can find and fix problems. Turn off Share crash reports in Settings > General to stop it.

iCloud sync and share links

If you turn on sync, your Library is stored in your own iCloud account and is covered by Apple’s privacy policy. We can’t read it.

When you share a note, a copy of it is stored in your iCloud, and anyone with the link who is signed in to iCloud can import it. You choose what the link includes. A copy someone has already imported can’t be withdrawn.

Your license, account and free minutes

On Mac, Pro is a license key. To check it and to count this Mac as one of the license’s seats, Fast Talk sends the key and this Mac’s hardware identifier to LicenseSeat, our licensing provider. When you buy a license, our payment provider, named at checkout, processes your payment. We receive your email address and what you bought, never your full card details.

On iPhone, Pro is an App Store subscription handled by Apple. To turn on Pro, the app sends your signed App Store purchase to our server, which keeps its transaction ID linked to this iPhone. Signing in with your email is optional. It finds your Mac license or a Pro gift and lets us email you a Mac license. We send these emails through Cloudflare. To remove your email, choose Settings > Account > Delete Account.

Free minutes are counted per device and per network. To do that, the app proves it’s a genuine copy using Apple’s App Attest, and our server keeps a record of your device: a one-way hash of a device identifier that stays the same if you reinstall Fast Talk, and the key App Attest created for it. Daily counts, tied to that record and to a one-way hash of your network address, are deleted after three days. The device record is kept so that reinstalling doesn’t reset the free limit.

Crash reports and diagnostics

If Share crash reports is on, Fast Talk sends crash and error reports to Sentry. Reports never include recordings or transcripts, and personal details are removed before they’re sent. You can turn this off in Settings > General.

Our servers keep request logs for seven days to keep the service running and secure. While Share crash reports is on, those logs and our AI gateway records also carry a pseudonymous ID, so we can connect a report to the requests behind it. Usage metrics without your identity, such as country, data center and whether a request worked, are kept for 90 days. Our AI gateway keeps a record of each language model request, such as a pseudonymous ID, the feature, your plan and token counts. These records have no fixed end date and are deleted as newer ones replace them.

This website

fast.talk has no advertising, no analytics and no tracking cookies.

If you join the waitlist, we store your email address, which devices you want Fast Talk for, the page you joined from and when. To stop abuse, we also store a salted, one-way hash of your IP address and use Cloudflare Turnstile to check that you’re a person. Cloudflare hosts this site and its database.

We use your waitlist email only to tell you about Fast Talk. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete your entry at any time.

Who we share data with

We share data only with the providers that run Fast Talk for us, and only what each one needs:

• Soniox: speech recognition.
• Cerebras and Groq: the language models behind clean-up, modes and Note Intelligence.
• Cloudflare: our servers, gateway, email delivery, website and waitlist.
• LicenseSeat: Mac license checks and seat activations.
• Our payment provider, named at checkout: Mac purchases, billing and receipts.
• Sentry: crash and error reports.
• Apple: App Store purchases, iCloud sync and App Attest.

We don’t sell or rent personal data, and we don’t share it for advertising. We may disclose information when the law requires it.

How long we keep data

• On your devices: until you delete it.
• Live audio sent to Soniox: not kept after it’s transcribed. Recordings sent as files: up to 30 days.
• Text sent for clean-up, modes and Note Intelligence: not stored by our gateway in release versions.
• Free-minute counts: three days. The device record behind them: kept with no fixed end date.
• Server request logs: seven days. Usage metrics: 90 days. AI gateway request records: until newer records replace them.
• Your account email: until you delete your account.
• Waitlist entries: until we stop sending launch updates, or sooner if you ask.

Your choices and rights

You can see, export, correct and delete your data in the app, turn off context awareness, Note Intelligence and crash reports, and delete your account.

Depending on where you live, including the EU, the UK and California, you may also have the right to access, correct, delete or move your personal data, and to object to or restrict how we use it. Write to [email protected] and we’ll answer within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Where the GDPR applies, we process data to provide the service you asked for, including speech recognition; with your consent for context awareness, Note Intelligence and the waitlist; and for our legitimate interest in keeping Fast Talk secure and working, such as preventing abuse and fixing crashes.

International transfers

Our providers may process data in the United States and other countries. Where the law requires it, we rely on safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

Children

Fast Talk isn’t intended for children under 13, or under 16 in the EU. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child has given us personal information, write to us and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we’ll post the new version here and update the date above. If a change is significant, we’ll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.