Privacy Policy

We use information collected through SlideNote to provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Service. Specifically, we may use information:

• To create and authenticate your account and associate your content securely with your account.
• To store, display, process, and synchronize your presentation files, slides, notes, highlights, and transcripts.
• To provide real-time speech-to-text transcription when you activate the transcription feature.
• To remember your settings and preferences.
• To understand how people use the website and application and improve their experience.
• To respond to support requests and troubleshoot technical problems.
• To detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity.
• To maintain and improve the security, reliability, performance, and functionality of SlideNote.
• To comply with applicable legal obligations and enforce our terms and policies.

No Model Training on User Data: SlideNote does not use your presentation files, notes, transcripts, or microphone audio to train our own artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

Audio Processing: When you activate transcription, SlideNote streams microphone audio in real time to AssemblyAI, our third-party speech recognition provider, to convert speech into text. This processing occurs only while the transcription feature is active.

Streaming Audio and Transcript Retention: SlideNote has configured its AssemblyAI account to use the applicable privacy and data controls for its real-time streaming service. Under our current configuration, AssemblyAI provides zero retention of streaming audio and transcript content. AssemblyAI may retain limited metadata for purposes such as logging, security, and billing.

Model Training: SlideNote has opted out of AssemblyAI’s Model Improvement Program. Subject to the applicable terms, plan, and configuration of our AssemblyAI account, AssemblyAI does not use SlideNote customer data to train its artificial intelligence or machine learning models, use deidentified customer data for such training, or perform benchmarking.

Storage of Generated Text: The generated text is returned to SlideNote and may be stored in your private SlideNote account. AssemblyAI’s streaming-data controls do not prevent SlideNote from storing the resulting transcript when storage is necessary to provide the features you request.

AssemblyAI’s services, terms, and data practices may change. If a material change affects how SlideNote processes microphone audio or transcripts, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any additional notice required by law.

SlideNote Account Content: Your presentation files, extracted slide data, notes, highlights, transcripts, and preferences remain associated with your account until you delete the applicable content or delete your account, unless a longer retention period is reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or enforcement of our agreements.

Raw Microphone Audio: SlideNote does not intentionally save raw microphone audio to your SlideNote account or application database. Audio is streamed for real-time speech recognition while transcription is active.

Transcription Usage Records: Session and provider connection records remain associated with your account until account deletion, subject to the exceptions described below. Monthly quota counters are periodically cleaned after they are no longer needed for the allowance.

AssemblyAI Streaming Data: Under our current AssemblyAI account configuration, streaming audio and transcript content receive zero data retention from AssemblyAI. Limited metadata may still be retained by AssemblyAI for purposes such as logging, security, and billing.

Deletion and Backup Systems: When you delete content or your account, we will delete or deidentify the affected information within a reasonable period, subject to applicable legal and technical limitations. Residual copies may temporarily remain in backup, security, or disaster-recovery systems until those systems are overwritten in the ordinary course of operations. Information may also be retained when reasonably necessary to comply with law, prevent fraud or abuse, resolve disputes, or protect the rights and safety of SlideNote and others.

We do not sell or rent your personal information, presentation files, notes, transcripts, or microphone audio. We also do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We disclose information to service providers only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, deliver, and support SlideNote. Our principal service providers currently include:

• Google, Microsoft, and Firebase for account authentication and related application services.
• Firebase Cloud Firestore for storing and synchronizing application data such as account-related data, notes, preferences, transcripts, and other SlideNote content.
• Google Cloud for application hosting, computing, file storage, and related cloud infrastructure used to operate SlideNote.
• Google Analytics for measuring and reporting website and application usage.
• Cloudflare for application traffic proxying, network delivery, security, and related infrastructure services. Cloudflare may process technical information associated with requests, such as IP addresses, request metadata, and security-related information, as necessary to provide these services.
• AssemblyAI for real-time speech-to-text processing when you activate transcription.
• Paddle for paid checkout, subscription billing, payment details, invoices, and tax handling. SlideNote stores billing identifiers, subscription status, and allowance-period information; full payment card details are handled by Paddle.

These providers process information on our behalf according to their agreements with us and their applicable terms and privacy commitments. The information each provider receives depends on the service it performs.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or a valid governmental request; enforce our agreements or policies; investigate fraud, misuse, or security incidents; or protect the rights, property, and safety of SlideNote, our users, or others.

If SlideNote is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law and appropriate confidentiality protections.

Microphone access is optional. SlideNote requests microphone permission only when you activate the transcription feature. You may grant, deny, or revoke microphone permission through your browser or device settings at any time.

SlideNote does not intentionally access your microphone when transcription is not active. Ending the transcription session stops SlideNote from sending additional microphone audio for speech recognition.

If you deny or revoke microphone permission, you may continue using other SlideNote features, but real-time transcription will not function.

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have the right to:

• Know or access the personal information we collect, use, and disclose.
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Request deletion of your personal information, subject to applicable exceptions.
• Request a portable copy of certain personal information.
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information where those rights apply.
• Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information where applicable.
• Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request where applicable.
• Exercise your privacy rights without unlawful discrimination or retaliation.

SlideNote does not currently sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

You may delete individual decks and their associated slides, notes, highlights, and transcripts using the controls available in SlideNote. You may also use the available account controls to request deletion of your account.

To submit another privacy request, contact us at [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. You may use an authorized agent where permitted by law, but we may request evidence of the agent’s authority and verification of your identity.

SlideNote uses essential cookies, browser storage, and similar technologies as needed to authenticate users, maintain signed-in sessions, protect account security, remember preferences, and manage active application or offline state.

We use Google Analytics, a third-party analytics service, on our website and application. It uses first-party cookies, including _ga and _ga_<container-id>, to distinguish visitors and sessions. Google Analytics receives information about page visits and usage as described above. We do not use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies and locally stored data. Google also offers a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Disabling essential storage may prevent authentication or other SlideNote features from working correctly.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no internet transmission, cloud service, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for protecting access to your Google or Microsoft account, device, and active SlideNote sessions.

SlideNote provides transcription tools, but you are responsible for using them lawfully and appropriately. Before capturing or transcribing a lecture, class discussion, meeting, presentation, or other conversation, you must obtain any permission or consent required by applicable law, institutional policy, contractual obligation, or the circumstances.

SlideNote does not determine whether a particular transcription is lawful or permitted. Requirements may differ based on the location of the participants, the nature of the conversation, and applicable school, university, workplace, or organizational policies.

You are also responsible for respecting copyright and other rights relating to presentation files, lecture materials, recordings, and transcripts that you upload, create, or retain through SlideNote.

SlideNote is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If applicable law requires a higher minimum age for use of the Service or collection of personal information, that higher age applies.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child below the applicable minimum age without legally valid authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it. If you believe a child has provided personal information to SlideNote in violation of this section, please contact us at [email protected].

SlideNote and its service providers may process and store information in the United States and other countries where they operate. These locations may have data-protection laws that differ from those in your country or region.

Where required, we take appropriate steps designed to provide lawful safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to SlideNote, our service providers, our data practices, or applicable legal requirements.

When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice through the Service, by email, or by another appropriate method where required by law.