Privacy

Privacy

Short version: nothing ever leaves your PC.

Sabhalekh has no account, no cloud service, no analytics, no crash reporting and no update checks. Recording, transcription, speaker detection and search all run on your computer.

How that is enforced

This isn't just a promise in a privacy policy. The app is built so that it can't go online:

• The processing engine blocks every network connection except to itself on the same PC (127.0.0.1). An attempt to reach the internet raises an error instead. Settings → Privacy shows how many attempts were blocked in the current session; it should always be 0.
• The app window may only load files that ship with the app and talk to that local engine.
• Microsoft Edge WebView2's background services (SmartScreen lookups, translation, component updates) are switched off for the app window.
• The project's automated tests fail if any of this stops working.

The source code is public, so anyone can check.

The only links to the internet are the User guide, Report a problem and Source code buttons in Settings → About. They open in your own web browser, and only when you click them.

What is stored, and where

Everything lives in one folder: %APPDATA%\Sabhalekh (paste that into the File Explorer address bar to open it).

What	Where
Transcripts, speaker names, edits, settings	sabhalekh.db
Audio of each meeting	sessions\<number>\
Recordings in progress (for crash recovery)	recordings-in-progress\
Logs (technical messages, no transcript text)	logs\
Imported model packs	models\

Imported files are never copied whole and never changed: Sabhalekh keeps only its own audio copy for playback.

Deleting your data

• One meeting: open it, ⋯ → Delete…
• Audio only, automatically: Settings → Storage → Delete audio automatically after 7, 30 or 90 days or a year. Transcripts are kept; only the audio of finished meetings is removed.
• Everything: close Sabhalekh (tray icon → Quit) and delete the %APPDATA%\Sabhalekh folder.

Uninstalling the app keeps your data, in case you reinstall.

Recording other people

Sabhalekh makes recording easy, but the responsibility stays with you. Tell people when you record, and follow the law where you live and the rules of your workplace. In many places recording a conversation without consent is illegal.

The local engine

The window talks to its processing engine over HTTP on 127.0.0.1, on a random port, with a new random 256-bit password for every launch. Other computers on your network can't reach it, and other programs on your PC can't use it without that password.