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Rooster edits video on your Mac. Your recordings, transcripts and projects stay in your own files and are never uploaded to us. We do not operate a server that receives your media, so there is nothing on our side to hand over, sell or lose. This page is mostly a list of the few things that do cross the network, so that the claim above can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Last updated: 11 August 2026

1. Who we are

Rooster is operated from 25 Wilton Road, Pimlico, London SW1V 1LW, United Kingdom. For anything on this page, including any request about your own data, write to support@rooster.cam. We are the data controller for the limited personal data described below.

2. What never leaves your Mac

Video and audio you record or import, the transcripts Rooster produces from them, your projects and edit history, and any media you export. Transcription and the Studio Sound, Eye Contact and Green Screen effects all run in the application on your own hardware. None of it is sent to us, and Rooster has no account to sign in to.

3. What does cross the network

There are three cases, and they are the complete list.

  1. Downloading transcription models

    Rooster transcribes with a model that it downloads the first time you need it, from Hugging Face. That request necessarily discloses your IP address to the host serving the file, in the same way as visiting any website. No recording or transcript is involved: the traffic runs in the other direction. Once the model is on disk, transcription works with networking switched off.

  2. Transcription with your own API key

    If you choose to supply a key for an OpenAI-compatible service, audio from the file you are transcribing is sent to that provider so it can be transcribed, and your key is stored on your Mac. This is off unless you turn it on and provide a key. Your relationship in that case is with the provider you chose, under their terms and their privacy policy, not ours.

  3. Buying Rooster

    Purchases and subscriptions are handled by Apple through the Mac App Store. Apple processes the payment and tells us only what it reports to any developer, which does not include your payment details. If you have turned on Apple’s sharing of crash reports with developers, Apple may pass us diagnostic reports; that setting is yours and lives in macOS, not in Rooster.

4. This website

The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking scripts. It is hosted by Vercel, which processes requests on our behalf and keeps short-lived operational logs that include IP addresses, as any web host must in order to serve and protect a site. If we ever add analytics we will say so here first.

5. Legal basis and your rights

Where we do process personal data, the basis is our legitimate interest in operating and securing the website and in supporting people who write to us. Under UK GDPR you have the right to ask what we hold, to have it corrected or erased, to object to processing, and to receive a copy. In practice we hold very little beyond the emails you send us. Write to support@rooster.cam and we will respond within one month.

If you are not satisfied, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk. We would rather you told us first so we can put it right.

6. Keeping and sharing data

We keep support correspondence for as long as it is useful to the person who sent it and then delete it. We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it except with the providers named on this page acting on our instructions, or where the law requires it.

7. Children

Rooster is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data.

8. Changes

If this policy changes we will update the date above. Where a change materially affects what leaves your Mac, we will say so in the application as well, because a website nobody revisits is a poor place to hide a change of that kind.