Accord Suite Privacy Policy

Accord Suite is a Mac app made by Quantum Accord Business Group ("Quantum Accord", "we", "us"). This policy covers the app, both the version on the Mac App Store and the version downloaded from this site. The website and its shop have their own privacy policy.

Your files stay on your Mac, and we receive nothing from the app. Accord AI is optional: if you turn it on, it sends text to OpenAI on your own account, as set out below.

No account, no tracking. The app has no sign-in and no account. It contains no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and it does not send us your documents, your media, or how you use it.

Accord AI (from version 2.0.0). Accord AI is optional and uses an API key from your own OpenAI account, kept in your Mac's Keychain. Nothing of your work is sent until you save a key and agree to what is sent, in Settings ▸ Accord AI. Requests then go from your Mac straight to OpenAI, under your OpenAI account and OpenAI's terms, and OpenAI bills that account. They never pass through us, and we never see your key. OpenAI does not train its models on what its API is sent unless your OpenAI account has chosen to share it, and may keep it for up to 30 days to watch for abuse.

• What is sent: the words you type or speak (your voice is turned into text on your Mac first); a short text summary of the page you are on, such as names of layers, clips and tracks, short text and the project's brief; the matching parts of the How to Use guide; details of the layers, clips and media Accord AI asks about; and the app's measurements of the picture and sound, which are numbers. When it searches your media for a shot, the words that describe what is in it.
• Only if you choose them: the words of captions you translate with Accord AI; the parts of files it reads from a software project folder you open; and, from a GitHub repository you connect, what it reads there. Files that may hold secrets are never read, and secrets found in other files are hidden first.
• What is never sent: your recordings, your pictures or frames, where files are on your Mac, files outside a folder or repository you chose, or other projects.
• Your control: remove your key, or take your agreement back, in Settings ▸ Accord AI at any time.

Your documents and media. Pictures, films, sound, drawings and projects stay in the files and folders you choose on your Mac. When you share a project through a folder you pick (for example one that iCloud Drive or another service keeps in step), it goes wherever that folder goes, under that service's terms; it does not pass through us.

Recording and captions. The app uses the microphone only when you press record on the Audio Core page, where the recording is saved into your project, or click the microphone in Accord AI, where your voice is turned into text on your Mac. Captions made from speech are made on your Mac with Apple's on-device speech recognition; the app does not let that speech leave your Mac.

Crash and hang reports. Kept only on your Mac, and only if you turn them on in Settings. The app does not send them anywhere.

When the app goes online. Only when you ask it to, and only to these places:

• Accord AI. To OpenAI, on your own key, after you agree, as described above.
• GitHub. Only if you connect one repository with your own token, kept in your Mac's Keychain. A pull request is opened as a draft, and only when you confirm it.
• Downloading an image model. Fill from a Prompt and depth tools need a model file, downloaded once when you choose to. It comes from Hugging Face, which, like any download server, sees your internet address. Nothing about you or your work is sent.
• Buying Accord Suite Pro in the Mac App Store version. The purchase is made through Apple; Apple handles the payment, and we never see your card or payment details.
• Checking for updates (the version from this site only). Off unless you turn it on, or choose Accord Suite ▸ Check for Updates…. It asks this site for the list of releases; nothing about you or your documents is sent.
• Generate a Shot (the version from this site only). Sends the description you type, and any starting or ending picture you choose, from your Mac to Google's Gemini API, under your own Google account and Google's terms, using your own API key and only after you agree. Google keeps the request and the film as its terms say. Your project and other files are not sent.
• The local model (the version from this site only). Off until you turn it on. It is downloaded from Hugging Face when you ask and describes your films and pictures on your Mac; the frames stay on your Mac. If you use Accord AI, those short descriptions can be sent when it searches for a shot.
• Google Imagen (the version from this site only). An optional image model that runs on Google's servers, through your own Google Cloud account. It is off by default and asks for your permission for each document; only then is the selected area of your picture sent to Google, under Google's terms. The Mac App Store version does not include it.

Licence codes (the version from this site only). Accord Suite Pro bought on this site comes with a licence code. The app checks it on your Mac; it is not sent anywhere.

Children. We collect no personal data from anyone through the app, including children. Accord AI needs an OpenAI account, which has its own terms.

Changes. If the app ever changes what it does with data, this page will say so first, with a new date at the top.

Questions. Write to us through the contact page.