Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 13, 2026

In short

LigoVox does not collect personal data. The app has no account, no ads, no analytics or tracking tools, and sends nothing to me as the developer. Your audio files, transcripts, e-books and projects stay on your Mac.

Controller

Daniel Zeltner
Ulmweg 5
91126 Schwabach, Germany
Email: privacy@ligovox.app

What stays on your Mac

Everything you work on in LigoVox is processed and stored only locally: audio files, chapters, book details, cover art, transcripts and project files. Transcripts and speech models are kept in the app’s protected container. Settings are stored in the macOS defaults system. You can delete saved transcripts and models in the app’s settings at any time.

When the app goes online

LigoVox only connects to the internet when you explicitly use one of the following features. As with any internet request, the respective provider receives your IP address and the requested content. I do not receive this data.

• Book details search via Apple Books: your search terms (title, author) and the selected country are sent to Apple Inc.’s iTunes Search API. Cover art is loaded from Apple’s servers. Apple’s privacy policy applies.
• Book details search via the German National Library: your search terms are sent to the catalog interface of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The DNB’s privacy policy applies.
• Downloading a speech model for transcription: the model is downloaded from Hugging Face, Inc. (USA). No audio is transmitted. Hugging Face’s privacy policy applies.
• Cover search on audiobookcovers.com: the app only opens your browser with title and author in the address and makes no connection itself. audiobookcovers.com governs what happens to your data there.

The legal basis is fulfilling your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Transcription itself runs entirely on your Mac; audio is never uploaded.

Purchase and crash reports

Purchase, download and updates are handled by Apple through the Mac App Store. If you have agreed in macOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple provides me with anonymized crash and usage statistics. You can turn this off in System Settings under Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.

This website

This website is served by Cloudflare Workers from Cloudflare, Inc. (USA). When you visit it, Cloudflare processes technically necessary data such as your IP address in server logs to deliver the site and protect it from abuse (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Cloudflare’s privacy policy applies. This website sets no cookies, loads no external fonts and uses no analytics tools.

Contact by email

If you write to me, I use your email address and the content of your message only to answer your request (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR) and delete them when they are no longer needed.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. As LigoVox itself does not collect data about you, I usually only hold emails you have sent me.

Changes

If the app or this website changes in a way that processes other data, I will update this policy. The version published here applies.