Voqey

Overview

This policy explains how the current dictation-only version of Voqey handles your voice, text, and other information. It covers the app, model downloads, direct-download updates, and privacy or support correspondence.

Voqey is developed by Ivan Tokar, publishing as TOKR Laboratory. Questions about privacy and your personal data go to privacy@tokrl.com. For help using the app, contact support@tokrl.com.

Website analytics and waitlist subscriptions are covered by the tokrl.com Privacy Policy.

Your voice and dictated text

Voqey records from your microphone only while you dictate. It transcribes the recording locally on your Mac using an embedded Whisper speech-recognition engine and a downloaded model.

Audio and the resulting text are held temporarily in memory for processing and delivery. Voqey does not save recordings or a transcript history, and it does not send them to us or to a cloud processing service.

Depending on your settings, Voqey inserts text into the active app or copies it to your clipboard. It may temporarily use the clipboard to perform automatic insertion. Text delivered to other apps or retained by clipboard managers is subject to their own storage and privacy practices.

Accounts and analytics

Voqey does not require an account. The app does not include advertising, behavioral analytics, or telemetry.

Network requests for model downloads and direct-download updates involve the technical information described below. If you contact us, we receive the information you choose to send.

Network access

Voqey downloads speech models from Hugging Face when you request them. Once a model is installed, dictation works without an internet connection.

The version downloaded directly from tokrl.com uses Sparkle to check for and download updates. You can control automatic update checks in Settings → General. The Mac App Store version has no updater of its own; the App Store delivers its updates.

Download and update services receive the technical information needed to handle requests, such as your IP address and request metadata. Update checks may also include app-version information. Voqey does not attach audio or dictated text to these requests.

Links to the Voqey website and this policy open in your browser.

Permissions

Voqey uses the following macOS permissions:

• Microphone access lets it record while you dictate.
• Accessibility or the corresponding macOS event-posting permission enables automatic text insertion into other apps. This applies to both distribution versions. You can instead choose “Copy to clipboard only”.
• Input Monitoring is requested if you choose a single modifier key, such as Right Command or Fn, as your global shortcut. Voqey watches modifier-key changes for that shortcut; it does not record what you type.

You can change or revoke permissions in macOS System Settings → Privacy & Security.

Local storage and deletion

Voqey stores your preferences and downloaded speech models on your Mac.

In Settings → Privacy & Permissions, you can reset preferences or delete downloaded models. Resetting preferences does not delete models.

Removing the app does not guarantee removal of its preferences or downloaded models. Use the model-deletion control before uninstalling if you want to remove those files.

Voqey does not revoke macOS permissions or erase your clipboard. Copies of text in other apps and services are outside Voqey’s control.

Third-party services

Hugging Face hosts downloadable speech models and may deliver them through its storage and content-delivery providers.

Amazon Web Services hosts Voqey downloads and the update feed on tokrl.com and processes the technical information associated with those requests.

Zoho Mail handles email sent to our privacy and support addresses.

Voqey bundles software that runs locally, including whisper.cpp. Sparkle is included only in the direct-download version.

Service providers may process data in countries other than your country of residence.

Support correspondence and your rights

If you email us, we receive your email address, message, and any attachments you choose to include. We use this information to respond and resolve your request. Please avoid including sensitive material that is not needed to explain the issue.

We retain correspondence only as needed to handle your request and related follow-up or legal obligations.

Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal data, restrict or object to its processing, or request a portable copy. Contact privacy@tokrl.com to exercise these rights. Where applicable, you may also complain to your local data-protection authority.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy when Voqey’s data-handling practices change and revise the date above. Where required, we will provide additional notice or request consent before introducing a new use of personal data.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to privacy@tokrl.com.

For help with Voqey, write to support@tokrl.com.