EdgeDraft Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2026 ยท Version: 2026.1 Provided by: Business Research & Applications Limited ("we", "us") App: EdgeDraft for Android
1. The short version
- EdgeDraft turns speech into text, summaries and action items on your phone. We do not run servers that receive your recordings, transcripts, summaries or contacts.
- Audio from the microphone is processed in memory and thrown away as soon as it has been turned into text. It is never saved and never sent anywhere.
- Your transcripts and summaries stay on your phone, encrypted. The app has no app lock, so anyone who can unlock your phone can open it.
- The app has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking.
- The app uses the internet to download its AI model files and, through Google Play, for installs, updates and purchases. Those services see your IP address (section 4).
- Files you export, share or copy leave the app's protection. What happens to them is up to you.
2. Who we are
Business Research & Applications Limited, a company registered in England and Wales. Company number: 07863481. Registered office: 20 Farnaby Road, SE9 6BG London, UK.
Contact for anything in this policy: support@matterof.biz
3. What the app handles, and where it stays
| Information | What happens to it | Leaves your phone? |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone audio | Processed in memory while you record. Discarded once converted to text. Never written to storage. | No |
| Transcripts | Saved on your phone when you stop a recording, encrypted. An unsaved transcript is also kept (encrypted) so you can recover it if the app closes. | No |
| Summaries, action items, tags | Created on your phone by an AI model that runs on your phone. Saved with the meeting. | No |
| Speaker names and meeting attendees | Names you type or pick. Saved with the meeting. The app does not identify voices. | No |
| People Directory | Names, roles, email addresses and departments of colleagues, if you choose to enter them. Saved encrypted on your phone. | No |
| Settings | Download preferences, custom tag rules and a one-time speed measurement for your phone. | No |
| Your agreement records | The date and version of the EULA you accepted and that you confirmed the recording notice. | No |
| Phone readings | Free memory, thermal state, phone model and number of CPU cores, read on the Setup screen so it can show how the phone is coping. Not stored. | No |
| Purchase status | When Pro is offered: whether Google Play says you own it. We never see your card or payment details. | Handled by Google |
Other people appear in your recordings and transcripts. We never receive that content. See section 8.
4. What does leave your phone
AI model downloads. On first setup the app downloads two model files (a speech model and a summary model, over 1 GB in total). By default they come from Hugging Face (huggingface.co) and its content delivery network. To serve the file, Hugging Face sees your IP address, the file requested, and that the request came from "EdgeDraft-Android", and handles this under its own privacy policy. The app checks each file against a fixed checksum and rejects it if it does not match. Nothing from your recordings or meetings is part of these requests.
Google Play. Installing and updating the app, and any purchase of Pro, go through Google Play and are covered by Google's privacy policy. If we add server-side purchase checks in future, we will update this policy before doing so.
Files you export, share or copy. Export saves a PDF, text or Markdown file to your phone's Downloads/EdgeDraft folder. These files are not encrypted and sit outside the app's protection. Share hands the content to the app you pick. Copy puts it on the clipboard, which other apps on your phone may be able to read. We do not receive any of this.
If you contact us. Your email address and what you write reach us, and we use them only to reply and to keep a record of the conversation. We keep them as long as we need for that, and delete them on request unless the law requires us to keep them.
What we do not do. The app contains no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting software. We do not sell or share your personal information. The part of the app that draws its screens is technically blocked from contacting any server.
5. Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
RECORD_AUDIO |
To hear speech while you record. |
MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS |
Declared by the app. It is not currently used to change any audio setting on your phone. |
FOREGROUND_SERVICE and FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MICROPHONE |
To keep recording with the screen off, with a visible notification. |
POST_NOTIFICATIONS |
To show that notification (Android 13 and later). |
WAKE_LOCK |
To keep the processor awake while recording or writing a summary. |
INTERNET |
Only to download the model files. |
FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC |
To keep a model download going when you leave the app. |
com.android.vending.BILLING |
For Google Play purchases. |
6. How your data is protected
- Saved meetings, the People Directory and any unsaved transcript are encrypted with AES-256-GCM. The key is held in the Android Keystore and does not leave your phone.
- Android's automatic cloud backup is turned off for the app, so your meetings are not copied to Google's backup. The result is that they cannot be restored onto a new phone, and if the Keystore key is lost the old data cannot be read.
- The release version of the app does not write the words of your transcripts to the Android system log.
- Limits. There is no app lock or biometric prompt, so anyone who can unlock your phone can read your meetings. Exported files are not encrypted. If you used an earlier version that stored meetings unencrypted, remnants can stay in Android's web-view storage until Android tidies it; clearing the app's data removes them. No system is perfectly secure.
7. How long we keep things, and deleting them
Everything the app stores stays on your phone until you remove it.
- A meeting: delete it in the Summaries tab.
- Models: delete them in Setup.
- Everything: clear the app's storage in Android Settings, or uninstall the app.
- Exported files: delete them yourself from Downloads/EdgeDraft. Uninstalling the app does not remove them.
- Audio: not kept, so there is nothing to delete.
Because we hold none of your content, we cannot retrieve or restore it for you.
8. Recording other people
You decide when to record and you are responsible for telling people and getting their permission, as the law where you are requires. The app reminds you before your first recording. We never receive recordings, transcripts or summaries, so we cannot find, correct or delete them. If you were recorded and want something removed, ask the person who recorded you.
For the content you create, you are in control of it, and if you use the app for work or to record others you may be responsible under data protection law as the "controller". We are the controller only of the small amount of information we hold ourselves, which is your correspondence with us.
9. Your rights
If you are in the UK or EU, you can ask us for access to, correction or deletion of the personal information we hold about you (in practice, emails you sent us), and you can ask us to restrict or stop using it, or to give it to you in a portable form. Our basis for handling support correspondence is our legitimate interest in answering you (and, where you are our customer, performing our contract with you). Write to support@matterof.biz and we will reply within one month. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) or your local data protection authority.
If you are in California or another US state with a privacy law, you have similar rights to know, delete and correct. We do not sell your personal information or share it for advertising, and we do not collect the content of your recordings. Write to the address above to make a request.
10. Children
EdgeDraft is not designed for children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
11. International transfers
We do not receive your recordings or meeting content. Google and Hugging Face, which see the technical details described in section 4, may process them outside the UK and EU under their own terms.
12. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will change the date above, and for significant changes we will tell you in the app. If we ever change the app so that your information leaves your phone in a new way, we will update this policy before releasing that version.