Privacy policy

Who is responsible

Sajel is operated from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is the data controller for the personal data described here under the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL). Sajel is in private preview. While it is, the people using it are a small number of teams who agreed to test it, and this policy is part of that agreement.

What Sajel collects

Only when you press Record or hold the dictation key:

• Your microphone. Your own voice during a meeting you chose to record, or while you dictate.
• Meeting audio from Google Chrome. The other participants, heard through the browser tab running the call. Sajel uses the macOS “Screen & System Audio Recording” permission for this. Today it does not save or read what is on your screen.
• Transcripts, speaker labels, summaries and edits. The text produced from that audio and the changes you make to it. To keep each person as one speaker for a whole meeting, Sajel compares how the voices in that meeting sound, on its own servers. It keeps no voice print, and it never compares voices across meetings.
• Dictations and snippets. The text you dictate and the short phrases you save to reuse.
• Settings. Interface language, bar position and similar preferences.

Sajel never starts recording on its own. When it notices a meeting window or that your microphone is in use, it can suggest recording, and that suggestion is not stored or sent anywhere. The recording indicator is visible for the whole recording.

Your calendar, once you connect it. If you connect Google Calendar, Sajel reads your upcoming events and nothing else: titles, times, the people invited and the join link. They fill your schedule in the app so Sajel can offer to record when a call is about to start. Sajel never writes to your calendar, and it sends nothing to work tools such as Slack, Jira or Linear. The access tokens are held by the same hosted service that serves shared pages, never on your Mac, and disconnecting the calendar in Sajel deletes them and asks Google to end the access. After a recording linked to an event, Sajel sends the names of the people invited, never their addresses, with the parts of the transcript where someone is called by name to the service that writes your notes, so it can suggest who spoke. Nothing is renamed until you accept.

The website collects what you type into the access request form (name, work email, company) and standard server logs.

Where it is stored and processed

In the current preview, recordings, transcripts, summaries and settings are stored on your own Mac. Deleting a meeting in Sajel deletes its audio, transcript, summary and search data together.

To turn speech into text and text into notes, Sajel sends audio and transcript text to two kinds of external providers: a speech recognition service and a language model service. At the time of writing both run outside Saudi Arabia. They receive the audio or text for processing and return the result. Sajel chooses providers on the condition that data sent through their API is not used to train their models, and lists the current providers and their terms in its data handling description on request. Saudi-hosted processing is a stated requirement for general availability, not a preference, and this page will change when it is in place.

Share links. When you share a meeting, Sajel creates a page holding its notes, and the transcript only if you switched that on for the link. Anyone with the link can read that page, so send it as you would send the notes themselves. A link expires after 30 days unless you chose 7 days or never, and you can revoke it at any time, which takes the page down at once. Sajel keeps a count of how many times each link was opened. Shared pages are served from Sajel’s hosted service in Europe, not from your Mac.

AI assistants. If you connect an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT, it can read the list of your meetings and their notes and transcripts when you ask it something, under your own account with that company. It cannot hear the recordings, see pictures of the shared screen, or change anything. The text it reads goes to that company, under its terms and wherever it keeps data, which is your choice and outside where Sajel keeps your meetings. Text it has already read stays in your conversation with it, the same as text you paste in yourself. Sajel records every read and shows it to you in Settings, under MCPs, and you can disconnect the assistant there at any time, which stops it at its next request. Sajel never sends your meetings anywhere on its own.

Sajel does not sell personal data and does not show advertising.

Other people in your meetings

A meeting recording contains other people’s voices and words. You are responsible for telling participants that the meeting is being recorded and for having the right to do so under the law that applies to you and to them. Sajel makes this easier by keeping a visible indicator on and by never recording without your action, but it cannot ask on your behalf.

How long it is kept

• Meetings, dictations and their derived text stay until you delete them.
• Audio sent to the speech provider is processed live and is not retained by Sajel beyond your own copy on your Mac.
• A shared page stays up until its link expires (30 days by default, or 7, or never, as you chose) or until you revoke it.
• Access request details are kept while your request is open and for the life of your account once one exists.

Your rights

Under the PDPL you can ask what personal data Sajel holds about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, and withdraw consent for future processing. In the app you can already open, edit, export and delete every meeting and dictation yourself, correct your name, and delete your whole account under Settings, Account, which removes every meeting, recording, dictation, share link and setting with it and ends the access your calendar and AI assistants had. For anything else, write to sajelapp@gmail.com and expect a reply within 30 days. You can also complain to the Saudi Data & AI Authority (SDAIA) if you believe your data has been mishandled.

Planned features and what they would change

These are not in the app today. If they ship, this page will be updated first, and each one will be off until you turn it on.

• Reading the shared screen. With your explicit tap for that meeting, Sajel would read the text shown in the meeting window (slides, documents) on your Mac and keep that text and small thumbnails alongside the transcript. Screenshots would stay on your Mac; only text would go to the language model. A separate, clearly labelled option could send a small number of diagram images to a vision model for description.
• The Microsoft 365 calendar. The same read-only connection Google Calendar has today, for Outlook and Teams meetings on a work account. It would read events and nothing else, and it would write nothing back.
• Accounts and Saudi hosting. When accounts exist, your meetings would be tied to your account and stored with a hosting provider in the Gulf. The exact provider and location will be named here.

Changes to this policy

When this page changes, the date at the top changes and preview users are told by email before the change takes effect. The terms of use describe the rest of the agreement between you and Sajel.