Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account data — email address, a Supabase-managed password hash, and a Stripe customer ID once you subscribe.
• Chat content— the messages you send to the agent and the assistant replies, stored on your Mac. They're sent to our AI providers at request time to generate each reply (details below).
• No screenshots — Studio Buddy does not take screenshots of your screen and does not send or store pictures of your Logic window. The macOS Screen Recording permission lets the app check the color of a few pixels in a Logic plugin window on your Mac, which is how it tells whether a button is lit; those pixels never leave your Mac. If you drag an image into the chat yourself, that image is sent to our AI provider to answer your message and is not stored on our servers.
• Audio clips— if you ask Studio Buddy to listen and you've allowed audio analysis, short clips of your playback audio are sent to our AI provider for analysis. Processed transiently; we don't store the clips.
• Usage counters — per-billing-period token counts and request counts, used to enforce the monthly plan budget.
• Crash / bug reports — if you flag an assistant reply or submit a bug report, the flagged text (and any note you add) is stored server-side so we can investigate.
• Shared conversations (default on; opt-out in Settings) — your messages, the assistant replies, and the tool-call summaries from each completed turn are uploaded so we can review them and improve the product, along with the analysis pictures made during that turn (spectrograms: images of frequency over time, which contain no audio and cannot be played back). Audio and images of your screen are not included in these uploads. When a tool call fails, the automatic error report includes the tool name and its input and output data. This is on by default for new accounts so we can learn what works while the product is early. You can turn it off any time in the Companion app under Settings → Privacy; once off, no further turns are uploaded.

Where it goes

We use a small set of service providers (sub-processors) to run Studio Buddy:

• OpenAI (API)— chat messages, mix context, the analysis pictures described above, and any image you add to the chat yourself are sent to OpenAI's API at request time to generate replies. We use the paid API: OpenAI does not use API data to train its models by default, and retains it for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring before deleting it.
• Google (Gemini API)— with your permission, short clips of your playback audio are sent to Google's Gemini API for the listening analysis. We use the paid API tier: Google does not use this data to train or improve its models, and retains it only briefly for abuse monitoring.
• Stripe — billing identifiers and invoices. We never see your card number.
• Supabase — account credentials, subscription state, usage counters, and shared conversations. US region.
• Vercel— runs our API proxy and serves this website. Request metadata (IP, user-agent) passes through Vercel's edge logs per Vercel's standard retention. US primary region.
• Your Mac — chat threads, conversation history, song briefs, and the plugin-streamed audio metrics live on-device at `~/Library/Application Support/Studio Buddy/`.

For users in the EU/UK: we process account and chat data to perform our contract with you, and product-security data under legitimate interest. Transfers to the US providers above are covered by their standard contractual clauses / data processing agreements.

Audio data

The Studio Buddy plugin computes metrics (loudness, spectral balance, stereo width, phase correlation) on your tracks and sends only those metrics to the companion app on your Mac. Those metrics never leave your machine.

Separately, when you ask Studio Buddy to listen, the companion can send short clips of your playback audio to our AI provider for analysis. This only happens after you explicitly allow it in an in-app permission prompt, and you can turn it off anytime in Settings → Privacy under "Audio analysis." We don't store the clips.

Analytics and cookies

This site uses Vercel Analytics for anonymous, cookieless page-view counts. No tracking cookies and no advertising pixels. Only the Supabase session cookie is set after you sign in, and it's required for the site to recognize you across pages. Because we don't track you, we don't respond to browser Do Not Track signals — there's nothing to turn off.

Your rights

You can request a copy of the data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — regardless of where you live. EU/UK users additionally have the rights to portability, restriction, and objection under GDPR, and can lodge a complaint with their supervisory authority. To exercise any of these, email support@studiobuddy.ai from the address on your account; we respond within 30 days.

Deleting your data

Email support@studiobuddy.ai from the address on your account. We remove your Supabase account, subscription record, usage history, shared conversations, and any flagged-reply notes within 7 days. Local on-device data you control directly — delete `~/Library/Application Support/Studio Buddy/` to wipe it.

Changes

If we change what we collect or where it goes, we'll update this page and note the new effective date above. Material changes will also be announced by email.

Contact

Questions, data requests, or concerns: support@studiobuddy.ai.