Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-04-24

Cadenza is a Mac app that records, transcribes, and summarises meetings on your machine. This page describes what data the Cadenza app and the cadenzapp.com website collect, what they do with it, and what they don’t.

The short version: the website you are on right now does not collect personal data, and the Cadenza app does not send your audio, transcripts, or summaries to any server we operate.

1. What we collect

Website (cadenzapp.com). The web server (Caddy) writes access logs containing:

• Your IP address, masked to a /24 block (IPv4) or /48 block (IPv6) before being written to disk.
• Your user agent string.
• The URL path you requested, with query strings stripped.
• The timestamp of the request.

Referer, Authorization, and Cookie headers are dropped from the log format. Logs are retained for 30 days, then deleted by log rotation.

Cadenza app. The app does not collect telemetry, send crash reports, or phone home in any way.

2. What we don’t collect

• Audio recordings.
• Transcripts.
• AI-generated summaries.
• The contents of your calendar, emails, or any other macOS data.
• Anything from your Notion, Google, Zoom, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini accounts.

The website does not participate in the OAuth flow during the current Phase 1 release — authorization happens directly between the Cadenza app on your Mac and each provider, via a local-loopback redirect on your machine.

3. Third-party services

Cadenza talks to several third-party services on your behalf, with credentials you provide and that are stored in your macOS Keychain.

API keys (you supply, stored locally):

• OpenAI (transcription, summaries)
• Anthropic (summaries, AI Chat)
• Google Gemini (transcription, summaries)
• MiniMax (summaries)

OAuth (authorised on your Mac, tokens stored in Keychain):

• Google Calendar (read-only access to read your calendar)
• Notion (write access to create pages)
• Zoom (read-only meeting metadata)

When you use any of these, Cadenza calls the provider directly from your Mac. The cadenzapp.com website is not in the path.

4. Data deletion

Because we don’t collect your data, there is no server-side deletion request to make. To remove data:

• Delete recordings: in Cadenza, right-click any recording → Move to Trash, or remove the files under ~/Library/Containers/com.cadenzapp.cadenza/Data/Library/Application Support/.
• Disconnect OAuth: in Cadenza Settings → Integrations, disconnect the relevant provider. Then revoke access in the provider’s own account settings (Google: myaccount.google.com/permissions, Notion: settings → integrations, Zoom: marketplace.zoom.us → manage installed apps).
• Delete the app: drag Cadenza to the Trash. The container directory is removed automatically; if you want to be thorough, also delete ~/Library/Containers/com.cadenzapp.cadenza/.

5. Cookies and tracking

The website uses no cookies. There is no analytics, no tag manager, no third-party tracker.

6. Future changes

If Phase 1.5 (OAuth universal redirect) or Phase 2 (web playback via your Google Drive) ships, this page will be updated with a clear, dated note describing exactly what changes.

7. Contact

Questions or concerns: hello@cadenzapp.com.