Privacy

This policy covers pines.rocks and the software published by Pines Rocks. It is written in plain language and describes what actually happens.

This website

The site counts page views using a self-hosted installation of Umami, which is cookieless. It records the page visited, the referring site, and coarse details of the browser and country. It also counts two actions, without anything that identifies you: a download and a finished sign-in. It does not set cookies, does not fingerprint you, does not build a profile, and does not follow you to other websites. The data lives on our own server and is not shared with or sold to anyone.

There are no third-party trackers, advertising pixels, embedded social widgets, or shared analytics accounts on this site. The site sets no cookies of its own.

Pines Voice

Pines Voice runs on your Mac. Your audio and your transcripts never reach us: the app either processes them locally or sends them straight from your Mac to the transcription provider you supplied a key for.

• Local transcription. Audio is processed on your own machine and never leaves it.
• Cloud transcription. If you choose a cloud engine, the app sends your audio directly from your Mac to the provider you supplied a key for, currently OpenAI or OpenRouter. That provider’s own privacy policy governs what they do with it. We are not in the path and receive no copy.
• Transcripts, word counts and spend are stored on your Mac and computed there. Deleting the app’s data folder deletes them.
• API keys are stored in the macOS Keychain and are sent only to the provider they belong to.
• Account. Pines Voice requires an account. You sign in at pines.rocks/link, with your email and a password, or with Google. We store your email address and the records that keep the account working, such as when it was created and when it last signed in. Never your audio, never your transcripts. This account data lives on our own server in Vienna, Austria. We can tell you what we hold on your account and delete it on request; see Your rights below.

The app contacts the network for four things only: downloading a local model when you ask for one, transcribing when you have chosen a cloud engine, checking for updates, and signing in to your account. The sign-in carries your account only, never what you dictate.

Email

If you write to support@pines.rocks we keep the correspondence so we can follow up and remember context if you write again. We do not add you to a mailing list from a support conversation.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for a copy, or ask us to delete it, by writing to support@pines.rocks. In practice the answer is usually short, because most of what this policy describes never reaches us in the first place. Deleting your account removes your email and the account records from our server.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. See also our terms.