PUSHTYPE Privacy Policy
DRAFT. Not legal advice. California's Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) requires a commercial website that collects personal information from Californians to post a privacy policy. This is it. Review it before launch.
Effective: October 13, 2026 · Who we are: Elias Atalah, California ("we"). Contact: support@pushtype.app
The short version
Your voice and your typing stay on your Mac. PUSHTYPE turns speech into text and suggests what you'll type next on your Mac's own chip. We never receive your audio, your transcripts or what you type, and there's nothing to opt out of because we don't collect it. PUSHTYPE has no analytics, no ads and no account.
What PUSHTYPE does on your Mac
- Audio from the microphone is held in memory while you dictate, turned into text, and then thrown away. It's never saved to disk or sent anywhere.
- Transcripts are pasted where you're typing, through the clipboard. PUSHTYPE doesn't keep a history of them.
- What you type (Type, the autocomplete). To suggest how your sentence goes on, PUSHTYPE reads the text before and around your cursor, and anything you copied in the last few minutes, at the moment it makes a suggestion. It's held in memory and never saved or sent. Password and sign-in fields are never read, and neither is anything a password manager copies.
- Text on screen (optional). If you allow Screen Recording, PUSHTYPE reads the text of the few apps that only draw it on screen, the same way and for the same moment. Nothing is recorded or kept.
- Learn from my writing and voice (off unless you turn it on). PUSHTYPE keeps what you type and dictate where suggestions are on, so they sound like you. It's encrypted with a key in your Mac's Keychain, stored at
~/Library/Application Support/PUSH/TypingHistory.sealed, never synced and never sent. Settings ▸ Personal ▸ Delete All erases it and its key. - A diagnostic log at
~/Library/Application Support/PUSH/push_debug.logrecords operational events such as "model loaded" and timings. It never records what you said. It stays on your Mac unless you send it to us yourself.
The network connections PUSHTYPE makes
| When | To whom | What they receive | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| You press Download for a speech or typing model | Hugging Face (huggingface.co) | A standard download request: your IP address and the files requested | To fetch the open model you picked. Hugging Face privacy policy |
| Once a day, if automatic updates are on | Our update feed on GitHub (raw.githubusercontent.com) | A standard web request: your IP address, PUSHTYPE version and macOS version | To check for updates (Sparkle). |
| If "Sync settings and dictionary across my Macs" is on (Settings ▸ General) | Apple iCloud, through your own iCloud account | Your PUSHTYPE settings and personal dictionary entries | To keep your Macs in step. We can't read this data; it's stored under your Apple Account. Switch it off at any time. |
| When you enter a licence key, when you remove a Mac from your licence, and at most once a day to confirm the licence is still valid | Polar (polar.sh), our merchant of record | Your licence key, an activation ID, and your Mac's model (for example "Mac mini (M4)") so you can tell your Macs apart. Like any web request, it also carries your IP address | To check the key is genuine and to count Macs (3 per licence). Polar's privacy policy |
None of these connections carries audio, transcripts or anything you type.
When you buy PUSHTYPE
The Buy buttons on our website open Polar's checkout. Polar, our merchant of record, collects your name, email, billing details and payment information to process the sale, under Polar's privacy policy. We receive your name, email, country and order details so we can deliver your licence, support you and issue refunds. We never see your full card number.
We use your email only for your purchase and for support. We'll send occasional product news only if you opt in, and every email lets you unsubscribe.
The website
pushtype.app is hosted by Netlify, which keeps standard server logs (IP address, pages requested) for security and operations. We don't use advertising cookies or cross-site tracking.
If you use the form on our support page, Netlify stores what you send (your email address, the topic and your message) and emails it to us so we can reply. We use it only to answer you, and delete old messages regularly.
Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or opt out of marketing email by writing to support@pushtype.app. We'll answer within 30 days. We don't sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, as the CCPA/CPRA defines it. PUSHTYPE isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change would materially affect you, we'll say so in the release notes.