This Privacy Policy explains how PulsarVoice handles information. The short version is simple: PulsarVoice does not collect your personal data. It runs entirely on your own computer, and the parts that handle your voice never connect to a network.
PulsarVoice is a free desktop application for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It gives terminal based AI agents a local voice, so an agent can speak its work out loud and hear your spoken replies, with several agents able to share one microphone in an orderly way. You download it from a website and run it on your own machine.
This policy is published by:
PulsarOS Intelligence Inc.
A Canadian federal corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act.
Corporation number: 17777191
Business number: 730610631RC0001
Registered mailing address: [REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Privacy contact: [privacy@pulsaros.ca]
Legal contact: [legal@pulsaros.ca]
Website: voice.pulsaros.ca
Throughout this policy, "PulsarVoice", "we", "us", and "our" refer to PulsarOS Intelligence Inc. and the PulsarVoice application. "You" refers to the person who downloads, installs, or uses the application.
PulsarVoice is built so that there is nothing for us to collect. We want to be precise rather than to overclaim, so here is exactly what that means.
We do not operate any account system, login, or user profile for the running product. We do not use telemetry, usage analytics, usage measurement, crash reporting, fingerprinting, tracking, or advertising of any kind. The application does not report what you do with it. The one exception to total silence is the optional update check described in Section 6: it asks our update server whether a newer version exists and sends no information about you. Apart from that check, there is no behind the scenes channel contacting us while you use the application.
Because we collect nothing, there is no personal data held by us to sell, share, rent, profile, or transfer. There is no data broker relationship. There is no marketing list built from your use of the product.
Nothing.
To be specific, PulsarVoice does not collect or transmit any of the following to us or to any third party:
PulsarVoice exists to handle speech, so this section is the most important one.
Speech synthesis (turning an agent's text into spoken audio) and speech to text (turning your spoken words into text) both run entirely on your own machine using local models that are installed on your computer. The voice path makes no network connection.
When you speak, your microphone audio is captured on your device, transcribed locally on your device, and handed to the agent on your device. No audio, no transcript, and no resulting text ever leaves your computer through PulsarVoice. We never receive it, we never see it, and we never store it.
This is a design property, not a promise to behave. The voice processing has no network code path to us, so there is no channel through which your voice could reach us even in principle.
PulsarVoice keeps everything it needs as ordinary files inside your own user directory on your own computer. These files belong to you and stay under your control. They include:
Because these are plain files in your own directory, you can read them, back them up, copy them, move them, or delete them at any time using your operating system, exactly as you would manage any other file you own. Deleting these files removes the corresponding information from your machine. We hold no copy, so there is nothing on our side to also delete.
PulsarVoice connects to the internet for one purpose only, and only at the moments described here.
First, when you choose to install the application, your device downloads the application and its speech models once from our website at voice.pulsaros.ca. This is an ordinary file download, the same as downloading any program from any website.
Second, PulsarVoice can check whether a newer version is available. By default it does this automatically in the background, and you can turn automatic checks off in the application's preferences. A check is a single request to our update source that asks only whether a newer version exists. It sends no personal data, no usage data, and no identifier beyond the ordinary version string that accompanies the request. If a newer version is available, it is downloaded and applied only after you choose to install it, and the download is verified against a published checksum before it is used.
Outside of these download and update actions, PulsarVoice runs offline. The application does not need an internet connection to do its work, and the voice features in particular never use the network at all.
As with any web request, the server that delivers a download or an update will, by the ordinary mechanics of the internet, momentarily receive the connecting device's network address in order to send the requested files back. We do not use that connection to build a profile of you, to track you across sessions, or to associate downloads with an identity.
PulsarVoice allows several AI agents, or several terminal sessions, to share a single microphone and a single set of speakers in an orderly way. To do this politely, the application needs to know which agent is speaking, which agent is listening, and where a given spoken reply should be routed.
This coordination, including any local certificates or identifiers used to keep agents distinct and to route an answer to the correct agent, happens entirely on your own machine. The certificate routing is local. None of this coordination data is sent to us or to any third party. It is part of the local file and floor state described in Section 5, and it stays on your device.
PulsarVoice is a general purpose developer tool and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children, because the application does not collect personal information from any user at all. Since no personal data is collected on our side, there is no children's data for us to hold, process, or be asked to remove.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in Canada, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and the United Kingdom, and the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA and CPRA) in California. We respect these rights.
The important point is that these rights generally apply to personal data that an organization holds about you. PulsarVoice collects no personal data and we hold none. As a result, the substantive obligations these laws place on us are satisfied by design rather than by procedure.
PIPEDA governs how organizations collect, use, and disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity. Because PulsarVoice does not collect, use, or disclose personal information, the consent, collection, use, retention, and disclosure obligations have no personal information to attach to. There is no personal information held by us for you to access or correct, because none is collected.
The GDPR grants rights such as access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection over personal data that a controller processes. Because we do not process your personal data, there is no personal data held by us to which these rights can attach. We do not act as a controller or processor of your personal data through the running application, since the application sends us none.
The CCPA and CPRA give California residents rights to know, to delete, to correct, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We do not collect personal information through PulsarVoice, we do not sell or share personal information, and we do not use it for cross context behavioral advertising. There is no personal information held by us to disclose, delete, or correct, and there is nothing to opt out of because nothing is sold or shared.
Because there is no data on our side, the most direct way to remove any PulsarVoice related information is to delete the local files on your own machine, as described in Section 5, and to uninstall the application. If you nonetheless wish to make a privacy request or ask a question about this policy, you may contact us at [privacy@pulsaros.ca]. We will respond as required by applicable law, while noting that in most cases the honest answer is that we hold no personal data about you to act upon.
PulsarVoice is published from Canada and is available to users in many countries. Because the application runs locally on your device and does not transmit your personal data to us, there is no cross border transfer of your personal data by the running product. Your voice, transcripts, and local files stay on your own computer in your own country. The only network activity, the initial download and any updates you request, retrieves files from our distribution infrastructure and does not send your personal data to us.
If you choose to contact us by email, that correspondence will reach us in Canada and will be handled under the laws described in Section 13.
Our security posture follows directly from the design.
The strongest protection for your information is that it does not travel. Your voice, transcripts, and local files are not transmitted to us, so there is no data in transit between you and us for an attacker to intercept, and there is no central store of user data on our side to breach.
PulsarVoice verifies its own integrity locally. The application uses a digital signature to confirm that its own files have not been tampered with, and this verification happens on your machine using a locally included reference implementation of the signature check. This integrity check is about confirming the application is genuine and unaltered; it does not transmit any of your information.
You also share responsibility for the security of your own device. Because your PulsarVoice files live in your user directory, protecting them means keeping your computer secure with the usual measures: a strong account password, device encryption where available, current operating system updates, and limiting who has access to your machine.
No software can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. We describe our approach honestly and do not claim absolute security, but we have deliberately designed PulsarVoice so that the most sensitive information never leaves your control in the first place.
PulsarVoice is built using a number of open and freely licensed software components, and it relies on certain models and libraries that run locally on your machine. These components are part of the application and run on your device under the same no network principle described above; including them does not change the fact that your voice and your data stay local. The components are listed, with their attributions and license details, in the separate Third-Party Notices document that accompanies the application.
One component is worth noting here specifically. PulsarVoice uses a separate audio tool, ffmpeg, for capturing and playing back audio. PulsarVoice does not include or redistribute ffmpeg. It is software that you provide on your own system, and PulsarVoice invokes it locally. This does not create any network transmission of your data.
This Privacy Policy and any matter relating to it are governed by the laws of the Province of [ONTARIO] and the federal laws of Canada applicable in that province, without regard to conflict of laws principles. This does not deprive you of any mandatory protections available to you under the laws of your own place of residence.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example to reflect changes in the application or in applicable law. When we make a material change, we will update the effective date at the top of this document and publish the revised policy at voice.pulsaros.ca. Because the application does not collect contact information, we cannot notify you individually, so we encourage you to review the current version on the website. Your continued use of PulsarVoice after a revised policy is published constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your privacy in relation to PulsarVoice, you can reach us at:
PulsarOS Intelligence Inc.
Privacy: [privacy@pulsaros.ca]
Legal: [legal@pulsaros.ca]
Mailing address: [REGISTERED ADDRESS]
Website: voice.pulsaros.ca
We will respond to legitimate privacy inquiries within the time required by applicable law.