LingoMic – Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-11-03
LingoMic is a Chrome extension and a Windows app that provide live transcription, translation and AI notes for online meetings. This policy explains what data LingoMic handles and where it goes.
Summary
- We never receive, store or sell your audio, transcripts, notes or API key.
- When you sign in with Google, our account server keeps only your Google account email and how long you use LingoMic (per meeting: start time and length), to manage your trial and plan and to prevent abuse.
- Audio and text you choose to process are sent directly from your browser to Google's Gemini API, using your own Gemini API key.
- Meetings, notes and settings are storedonly in your browser (
chrome.storage.local). Audio is never saved.
Data the extension handles
| Data | Why | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting audio (the tab you start recording, and your microphone if you allow it) | Live transcription; translation; optional "Translate my voice" | Streamed to Google's Gemini API while recording. Not saved by the extension. |
| Transcripts, translations, AI notes, your notes, AI chat | To show, search and export them | Stored locally in your browser. Text is sent to the Gemini API when it must be translated or summarised, or when you ask the AI a question. |
| Participant names shown on the meeting page | To label who is speaking | Read from the meeting page in your browser and kept in the local transcript. Sent to Gemini only as part of transcript text when you request notes. |
| Your Gemini API key | To authenticate your requests to Google | Stored locally in your browser. Sent only to Google's Gemini API. Never sent to us. |
| Settings (languages, theme, display name, shortcuts) | To remember your preferences | Stored locally in your browser. |
| Google account (email, name, profile picture) from "Sign in with Google" | To identify your account for the trial and your plan | Name and picture stay on your device. The email is sent to the LingoMic account server together with a Google sign-in token, which the server checks with Google. |
| Usage (per meeting: a random meeting id, start time, length in seconds, whether voice translation was on) | Trial and plan limits, preventing abuse | LingoMic account server. Never the meeting content, title, link or participants. |
The account server is hosted by Supabase (EU region) and acts only on our behalf. LingoMic does not collect browsing history, does not read pages outside Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, and uses no analytics, advertising or tracking.
Every few hours the extension downloads a small settings file (the names of the Gemini models to use) from kaokray.github.io. No user data is sent with this request.
Google Gemini API
Your audio and text are processed by Google under the terms of your Gemini API plan. On Google's free tier, Google may use submitted content to improve its products; paid plans are treated differently. If your meetings are confidential, use a paid key and read Google's current terms: ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms.
Recording and consent
You are responsible for telling participants before you record or transcribe a meeting and for following the laws and company policies that apply to you. The extension asks you to confirm this before first use.
Retention and deletion
Account data (email and usage) is kept while your account is active and deleted within 30 days of your request. Other data stays on your device until you delete it. In Settings you can export or delete all meetings and settings at any time. Uninstalling the extension removes its local data.
Sharing
We do not sell, rent or share user data. Third parties that receive data: Google (Gemini API, at your request and with your key; Google sign-in) and Supabase (hosting of the account server). Payment providers will receive the data needed to process a purchase when paid plans open. We do not use or transfer user data for purposes unrelated to the extension's single purpose, to determine creditworthiness or for lending, or for advertising.
Children
The extension is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date above is updated and material changes are described in the extension's release notes.
Contact
Questions, data requests or account deletion: [email protected]