Privacy policy

Last updated 7 November 2026.

Prates is built to keep your words on your Mac. This policy explains what stays there, the few things Prates sends, and who receives them. Sondre Vigerust in Oslo, Norway is responsible for the data described here and can be reached at support@prates.ai.

What stays on your Mac

Recordings, transcripts, History, your dictionary, and everything Prates learns about how you write are stored on your Mac, and speech recognition runs there too. We never receive any of it, and Prates has no analytics. Text leaves your Mac only when you turn on one of the last two items in the list below: a cloud model or AI tool you choose, or a backup to your own Git repository. Recordings never leave it.

What Prates sends, and to whom

• To sign you in, Prates sends this website your email address, and the website uses it only to email you a sign-in code through Resend, an email delivery service, which receives the address and the code to deliver them. The website does not keep the address. Prates keeps it on your Mac, to show who is signed in and to fill in the checkout. The website keeps a keyed one-way hash of it instead, which names your account and your customer record at Polar and cannot be turned back into the address. With the code, Prates sends the public half of a key your Mac made for itself, your Mac’s name, whether it is a virtual machine, and when Prates first ran on it. The website keeps these with your account, so you can see and remove your Macs, and Prates signs every later request with that key.
• To remember your trial, Prates sends an identifier for your Mac. The identifier is a one-way hash of your Mac’s hardware identifier: it tells your Mac apart from others but cannot be turned back into the hardware identifier, and no other app uses the same one. The website keeps it with the trial’s start for two years, so the trial cannot start again on the same Mac.
• To check your subscription, Prates sends this website your account’s hash and your Mac’s identifier about once a day, and the website asks Polar whether the subscription is active.
• When you subscribe from Prates, it asks this website to open a checkout for your account and sends your email address so the checkout can fill it in. Polar then collects the name, email address, and payment details you enter at checkout.
• When you delete your account in Prates, the website removes your Macs and anything pending from it, and keeps only when your trial began and whether it had one, so a trial cannot start again.
• To check for updates, Prates asks this website for the latest version once a day and says which version it is running.
• Only if you choose a cloud model or an AI tool for rewriting, learning, or the writing companion, Prates sends text to that provider or tool, never audio. Setup names the destination first. Anything beyond the transcript, such as the text around your cursor, your notes, or messages to learn from, needs your separate consent for that exact provider and address, or that exact command, and changing any of them withdraws it. If you also allow web lookups for drafts, the tool may search the web while writing them. That provider’s privacy policy applies.
• Only if you turn on backup, Prates sends your notes, what it learned from your edits, and your dictionary to a Git repository you own, about a minute after any of them change. It asks first, naming the repository, and never sends History or recordings. The privacy policy of the service that hosts the repository applies.

This website

The website runs on Cloudflare. It sets no cookies and uses no analytics. Like any web server, it receives your IP address and browser details with each request, and Cloudflare keeps request logs for a short time to keep the site running and secure. Sign-in codes are sent through Resend, Inc., which keeps a record of each email it delivers for a limited time, as described in Resend’s privacy policy.

Payments

Polar Software, Inc. sells Prates as the merchant of record. It processes your payment, keeps your billing details, and sends receipts, as described in Polar’s privacy policy. We can see your name, email address, country, and subscription status in Polar, and use them only to provide your subscription and answer you when you write to us.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, by writing to support@prates.ai. You can delete what Prates stores on your Mac at any time from inside Prates. If you think we have handled your data wrongly, you can complain to Datatilsynet, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, or to the authority where you live.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in Prates and on this page before the change takes effect.