What's said in your sessions never leaves your machine.
SideSense runs on two planes. Everything spoken in your interviews, meetings, and classes is processed on your device and stays there. A small amount of account data (your name, email, and plan) runs licensing, billing, and sync. This page is exactly where the line sits.
Last updated: July 7, 2026
Content stays. The account runs the service.
We used to say "nothing is uploaded, there is no server." That was true when SideSense had no accounts. It now has sign-in, licensing, and billing, so here is the precise version.
Captured, transcribed, and stored locally. Never recorded to a SideSense server, never uploaded, never our copy to keep.
Stored securely so sign-in, your license, billing, and device sync work. This is ordinary account data, not the substance of your sessions.
Nowhere it shouldn't.
Three lanes. You pick which one.
A draft needs a language model. Where the text for that draft goes depends entirely on the lane you choose.
Open models run entirely on your machine. No API key, no usage cost, no internet needed once installed. Nothing about the session leaves your PC at all. This is the fully private default.
Plug in your own key from any provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq, and others). Only the text needed for a draft is sent, directly to the provider you chose, under their terms. We do not store your key and never see that text.
Pro+, Max, and Ultra will include a managed transcription and AI lane; it has not launched yet. When it does, the excerpt needed for a draft is processed to generate your answer, then discarded right away. It is never stored on our servers and never used to train any model.
What we store, and why
Our payment processor is Razorpay, which handles the card or UPI details you enter at checkout under its own terms. We do not receive or store your full payment credentials.
Access, export, and deletion
Export or erase transcripts, notes, and your question bank from inside the app at any time. Because it lives on your machine, you are always in control of it directly.
You can request a copy of the account data we hold, ask us to correct it, or delete your account entirely. Deleting the account removes your profile and account records from our systems; billing records we are legally required to keep are retained only as long as the law requires.
If you are in the EU, UK, or California, you have rights to access, correction, deletion, portability, and to object to certain processing. We do not sell personal information. To exercise any of these, email hello@sidesense.app and we will action it.
SideSense captures audio on your device so it can help you. Whether and how you record, transcribe, or use assistance during a real conversation is your responsibility, including any disclosure or consent obligations toward interviewers, students, or meeting participants under the laws of your location. We build the tool; you own how it is used.
The site itself
If you join the waitlist or send feedback, we store the email and details you submit through our email provider so we can reach you. Unsubscribe any time; ask us to remove you at hello@sidesense.app.
We use privacy-friendly, cookie-free analytics to count visits and see which pages help. It does not track you across other sites and does not build an advertising profile.
Plain-language promises
There is no ad model and no data broker. The product is the software, not your conversations. We never sell, rent, or trade any of it.
Audio and transcripts live in local storage you control. We hold no server-side copy of what is said in your sessions, on any plan.
Session data is yours to export or wipe from the app. Account data can be exported or deleted by deleting your account. Offline-only with Ollama is always available.
Questions about anything here? Email hello@sidesense.app and we will answer directly. We will update the date at the top when this policy changes.
Private by default. Honest about the rest.
Try SideSense free while in early access, fully local if you want.