Legal and privacy

Controller

This website

heyaside.com is a static page hosted by Vercel Inc. (USA). Vercel processes standard server request data, such as your IP address and browser metadata, to deliver the site and keep it secure. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating the site (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Contacting us by email or on X is entirely voluntary. Some illustrations on this site were created with AI image tools.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to see how many people find this site and where they arrive from. It records a page view with the referring site, a country, and a device class such as phone or desktop, and reports all of it to us as aggregate numbers. It sets no cookies, it stores no identifier that could follow you to another site, and it does not build a profile of you. None of it is sold or shared with anyone. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing whether the site is working (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the measurement script is never loaded at all. You can also switch it off for one browser by opening heyaside.com/?noanalytics=1, which remembers your choice in a single value on your device named aside-noanalytics and nothing else. Opening heyaside.com/?analytics=1 removes that value again.

The launch list

Until Aside is released, every page offers a field for your email address. Leaving it there stores the address in a mailing list at Resend, Inc. (USA), which is also the service that sends the mail, and it is used for exactly one message: the one telling you Aside is out. There is no newsletter, the address is passed to nobody else, and it is never used to identify you on this site. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given by submitting the address. Email hey@heyaside.com to have it deleted at any time, before or after that one mail.

The Aside app

Aside runs on your Mac and is built to keep your meetings on your machine. Audio is transcribed on-device and is never uploaded. Your notes are written as Markdown files into a folder you own, not to our servers. Using the app requires no account, and we do not collect your recordings, transcripts, or notes.

Writing the note

Transcription runs on your Mac and the audio never leaves it. Writing the note does leave: to write it, Aside sends transcript text to the AI you picked, which is Aside cloud by default, your own API key with a provider you choose, or a local model. That text is sent to produce that note and for nothing else. Point Aside at a local model with Ollama and nothing is sent anywhere at all.

The AI, the model and the service are yours to change at any time in the app.

When Aside cloud writes the note, that transcript text is processed on our behalf by Anthropic, PBC (USA), which runs the model. We pass the text through, we do not store it, and we do not use it for anything but writing your note or answering the question you asked. The legal basis is the performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). If you would rather this did not happen at all, use your own API key with a provider you choose, or run a local model with Ollama.

Asking the copilot

When you ask the in-app copilot a question during or after a meeting, the relevant transcript text (not audio) is sent to the AI model provider that answers it, solely to generate that answer. On Aside cloud that provider is Anthropic, PBC (USA), the same one that writes the notes. You can see and control this in the app.

How long Anthropic keeps it

Anthropic's published policy for the interface Aside cloud uses is that they automatically delete inputs and outputs on their backend within 30 days of receipt or generation. Their commercial terms state that Anthropic may not train models on Customer Content. We have no zero data retention agreement with them, so the 30 days is the term that applies to Aside cloud, and we cannot promise you a shorter one.

Their published exceptions apply to us as well. If their automated trust and safety systems flag a request as violating their usage policy, they retain the inputs and outputs for up to 2 years and the classification scores for up to 7 years. They may also retain material for longer where the law requires it.

Our own relay stores no transcript text at all. It passes the request to Anthropic and streams the answer back to your Mac, and the only things it writes to its own storage are per-day call counters, an install id and its access token.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, and to object to processing, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To exercise any of these, email hey@heyaside.com.

Operator

Represented by

Dominik Martin, Managing Director

Contact

Email: hey@heyaside.com

Register

Commercial register: Amtsgericht Passau
Registration number: HRB 13070

VAT ID

VAT identification number pursuant to § 27 a UStG: DE360600174

Responsible for content (§ 18 Abs. 2 MStV)

Dominik Martin, address as above.