Privacy: this site, and Meringo Minutes

This site

• It's static pages hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub logs each visitor's IP address for security, and says so in its own documentation.
• It sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
• Everything it loads comes from this site: no outside fonts, scripts or trackers.
• It stores one thing in your browser: your theme choice, in localStorage.
• The question box on the FAQ page runs in your browser. What you type there isn't sent anywhere.
• The demo recording loads only when you press play.
• The hat in the footer hides a small toy. It keeps a list of what you did on the page, in this tab's memory only, and never what you typed. Closing the tab clears it.
• If you email me, I get your address and what you wrote, and I use them to reply.

The app

What it connects to

In the current build, by default, the app itself connects to model downloads, the first time each model is needed, and to the Ollama server on your own Mac. Ollama fetches its own models from its own registry.

There's no account or sync, no analytics, telemetry or crash reporting, and no licence check, remote config or update check.

If you point the summariser at Ollama on another machine, each meeting's transcript is sent there, and the privacy panel turns orange and names it.

When the app gets an update check, this page changes in the same release and says what that check sends and where. The licence you get when you buy is planned to be verified by the app itself, with no call to a server.

Where it keeps things

• Everything lives in one folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Meringo Minutes/.
• The files are ordinary files, and the app adds no encryption of its own. macOS file permissions protect them, and FileVault does too if you've turned it on.
• Deleting a meeting moves its recording and files to the Trash, so a mistake can be undone until you empty it.

What it reads

• Your microphone, and the audio your Mac plays during a call. It hears the other side through a Core Audio tap, so it never asks for Screen Recording.
• Your calendar, to name a recording after the meeting it starts in and keep that meeting's invitee list.
• Reminders, when you send a commitment there.
• Your own Contacts card, only when you ask. The prompt says: Meringo Minutes reads only your own Contacts card, to know your name, and only when you ask it to. Nothing it reads leaves this Mac.
• Its signature asks for exactly three entitlements: audio input, address book and calendars.

Voices

No voiceprint is stored, and no voice is matched from one meeting to another. You name a voice in each meeting.