Privacy
The short version: your audio never leaves your Mac and Rede does not store your dictation content. Managed cloud cleanup processes the text through our relay and Google’s paid Gemini API, where it is not used to improve Google products. When you select bring-your-own-provider cleanup, the text goes directly to the provider you configure instead.
Who we are
Rede is a macOS app operated by Roltaire, at Rede, Roltaire, Town End, Gildersome, Leeds, UK, LS27 2HF. We are the data controller for the limited information described below. For anything in this policy, reach us at support@torede.com.
Your audio
Speech is recorded and transcribed entirely on your device by a local model. We never receive, store, or upload your audio. There is no audio server.
Your dictation text
Transcribed text stays on your Mac. If you turn on cloud cleanup, the text of a dictation is sent, through our relay, to Google’s Gemini models to be polished and returned. We use Google’s paid API, where prompts and responses are not used to improve Google products. Google’s published abuse-monitoring policy says it retains prompts, context, and output for 55 days to detect and prevent prohibited use and make required legal or regulatory disclosures. Automated systems scan API use; a suspicious project can be flagged for manual review, and authorized Google employees may assess flagged content. Google says this data is used for policy enforcement and is not used to train or fine-tune general AI models. Rede sends a single text request and does not use Gemini grounding, file uploads, stored interactions, or explicit context caching. Rede itself does not keep a copy. You can turn cloud cleanup off, use the basic on-device cleanup, or select bring-your-own-provider cleanup. When selected, that option sends text directly to the provider and endpoint you configure, such as OpenRouter, under that provider’s terms.
Your custom words
Vocabulary and spelling rules you add are stored and applied on your Mac. We do not collect your dictations or custom words to train any model.
Purchase & licence
Payments are processed by our merchant of record, Dodo Payments, who collects the billing information needed to complete your purchase and issue a licence key. We receive your licence status and the email tied to it so we can support your account. We never see your full card details.
Why we process information
We process licence, purchase-status, and support information to provide the product you bought and respond to you. We process limited service-security information where necessary to prevent abuse, protect the cleanup service, and keep it reliable. Dodo Payments processes buyer information as an independent controller for payment, tax, fraud, and legal obligations under its own privacy policy.
Usage analytics
Rede collects privacy-preserving product analytics through Aptabase (for example, how often a feature is used) to keep the app stable and guide what we build. It never includes your dictation content and is not sold or used for advertising. It is on by default; you can switch it off in the app’s settings at any time.
Hosting
Our website and the managed cloud-cleanup relay are hosted on Vercel. When you use Rede’s managed cleanup, your request passes through that relay so your own provider key is never required; the relay does not store your text. When selected, bring-your-own-provider cleanup goes directly to the endpoint you configure instead.
The services we rely on
- Dodo Payments: checkout, billing, and licensing.
- Google Gemini (paid API): only when you use managed cloud cleanup, for text only.
- Your configured provider: only when you choose bring-your-own-provider cleanup.
- Aptabase: product analytics, never dictation content.
- Vercel: website and cloud-cleanup hosting.
Some of these providers may process information outside the UK. Where Rede initiates a restricted transfer, we rely on an applicable adequacy regulation or contractual safeguards made available by the provider, as required by UK data protection law.
How long we keep things
We keep your licence record and the email tied to it while needed to provide and support the licence, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations. Ask us to delete information we control and we will do so unless we must retain it. Dodo Payments is an independent controller for its buyer records, so requests about those records are handled under its privacy policy. Product analytics contain no dictation text or account credentials. Rede does not retain cleanup text; Google’s abuse-monitoring policy describes 55-day retention by Google for prompts, context, and output.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of what we hold about your account, ask us to correct or delete it, or object to a use. Email support@torede.com and we’ll action it. You also have the right to complain to the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Children
Rede is a productivity tool for adults and is not directed toward, or intended for use by, anyone under 18.
Changes
If we change this policy we’ll update the date above, and flag anything significant in the app or on this page.
Questions about privacy? Email support@torede.com and we’ll answer plainly. See also our Terms.