Privacy

Last updated: 5 November 2026

In short: your recordings, transcripts and summaries stay on your Mac. We never receive them. Bandje has no account, no analytics and no crash reporting.

Who we are

Bandje is made by Neurendal B.V. in the Netherlands. Questions about privacy: bandje@neurendal.com.

What stays on your Mac

• Audio, transcripts, summaries and speaker names are stored in ~/Music/Bandje, or in the folder you choose. Delete a folder and it's gone.
• Speech and speaker recognition run on your Mac. Summaries use Apple Intelligence on your Mac (on-device models, not Apple's Private Cloud Compute).
• Dictation: the text goes to your clipboard and, if you allow it, is pasted into the app you're using. In the macOS system log, Bandje notes how long a dictation took, how many characters it had and which app it went to. Never the text itself. That log stays on your Mac.
• Bandje asks for the microphone, system audio and (for pasting) Accessibility. It uses them only for these features.

The one thing that leaves your Mac: a licence check

The speech models come from Desert Ant Labs B.V. (Netherlands). Their licence requires a licence check: at most once a month for each of the two models. It sends a random installation ID, the model and its version, the SDK version, the platform and Bandje's app ID. Never audio, never text, never your name or account. Desert Ant Labs uses this only to count active devices, and is the independent controller of that data. Their server sees your IP address, as every server does. More: desertant.com.

Buying through the App Store

Apple handles the purchase and payment; Apple's privacy policy applies to that. We only see the statistics Apple gives every developer. If you've chosen in macOS to share analytics with app developers, Apple may also send us anonymous crash reports.

This website

• band.je is a static website: no cookies, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party scripts or fonts.
• It is hosted on Amazon Web Services (S3 and CloudFront). To deliver the pages, AWS processes your IP address. We have no access logging switched on.
• Your country (derived from your IP address by CloudFront) is used only to show the App Store price in your currency, and your browser's language only to show the right language. Neither is stored.

Recording other people

Bandje is a tool: you decide what you record. Laws on recording calls and meetings differ per country. In some places the consent of one participant is enough; in others, such as Germany and several US states, everyone must agree beforehand. When you record for work, privacy law (in the EU the GDPR) usually requires you to inform the other people. You alone are responsible for recording lawfully, including informing participants or asking their consent where the law requires it. Bandje doesn't notify other participants. Neurendal B.V. accepts no liability for unlawful use of Bandje.

If you email us

We use your email address and message only to answer you, and delete them when they're no longer needed.

Your rights

You can ask us what we know about you (almost certainly nothing), and ask us to correct or delete it. Questions about the licence check go to Desert Ant Labs. You can also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.

Changes

If this changes, we update this page and the date at the top.