Privacy Policy

🔒 1. Zero Telemetry & Zero Data Collection

Vacanam contains no telemetry code, no tracking SDKs, no analytics tools, and no identifier generation. Specifically:

• We do not collect names, email addresses, IP addresses, or device identifiers.
• We do not record session durations, keystrokes, or usage patterns.
• No background telemetry pings or analytics requests are ever dispatched.

🎙️ 2. Microphone & Audio Stream Handling

When you hold the global Push-to-Talk hotkey (Ctrl + Space):

• Microphone audio is captured via Windows WASAPI and held strictly in temporary volatile RAM.
• As soon as speech inference completes, the in-memory audio buffer is immediately wiped and freed.
• Raw microphone audio is never written to disk or saved as audio files.

⚡ 3. 100% Local Inference (Whisper & LLM)

All AI computation executes locally on your hardware:

• Whisper Speech Recognition: Executed locally via Whisper.net (CPU/GPU) with local quantized GGML models.
• LLM Text Refinement (AI Mode): Executed locally via LLamaSharp using local GGUF models.
• No Cloud AI Services: We do not connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or any external AI endpoints.

📋 4. Clipboard & Text Injection Safety

When using the default Clipboard + Paste text injection strategy:

• Vacanam saves a temporary snapshot of your existing clipboard data.
• The transcribed text is placed on the clipboard and injected into your active application via a simulated Ctrl+V keystroke.
• Your original clipboard contents are restored within ~25 milliseconds.
• Vacanam never logs, inspects, or transmits clipboard contents.

📜 5. Local SQLite History (Opt-In)

Transcript history is disabled by default. If you choose to enable it in Settings:

• Transcripts are stored exclusively in a local SQLite file: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Vacanam\history.db.
• You retain 100% ownership of your data with instant search, individual record deletion, and a one-click Clear All History option.

🌐 6. Network Access Policy

Vacanam only connects to the internet in two transparent scenarios:

• Downloading open-source AI model weights from Hugging Face when requested by the user.
• Checking GitHub Releases for version updates when triggered.

🔍 7. Open Source & Auditability

Vacanam is distributed under the open-source MIT License. You can inspect, audit, or build the entire codebase from source on GitHub:

https://github.com/avikeid2007/Vacanam

💬 8. Contact & Issues

If you have any questions or security inquiries regarding Vacanam's privacy architecture, please open an issue on GitHub:

https://github.com/avikeid2007/Vacanam/issues