Privacy Policy
Raven records lectures so you don’t have to take notes. That means it handles audio of you, your professors and your classmates. This page explains exactly what happens to it, in plain language.
The short version
- Raven only records when you press a button. It never records in the background.
- Your audio is deleted as soon as it has been turned into text — usually within seconds, and always by the end of processing.
- Transcripts and notes are stored so you can study from them. They are private to your account.
- We do not sell your data, and there is no advertising in Raven.
What we collect
Account information
Your email address, and if you sign in with Google, your name and profile picture. Authentication is handled by Supabase; we never see or store your Google password.
Audio
When you start a recording, Raven captures your microphone and — for online classes — the audio playing on your computer. Audio is saved in short segments, first on your own device and then uploaded over an encrypted connection for transcription.
Audio is not kept. Each segment is deleted from our servers immediately after it is transcribed, and a final sweep removes anything left when a lecture finishes processing. Raven has no audio player, because there is nothing to play. If you delete a lecture, any audio still in flight is removed with it.
Transcripts, notes and study material
The text of your lecture, the summary and notes generated from it, any edits you make, and flashcards or practice questions you generate. These are stored against your account so the app is useful the next day. They are retained until you delete them or close your account.
Technical information
Basic operational logs — timing, error and volume information used to keep transcription working. These deliberately exclude transcript text, audio locations, and the contents of your notes. Account identifiers in logs are hashed.
Recording other people
This is the part that matters most, so it is not buried.
When you record a lecture you are recording your professor and possibly your classmates. You are responsible for having permission to do that. Recording laws differ by state and country, and most universities have their own policy — NC State’s REG 02.20.11, for example, permits recording for personal study but requires your instructor’s permission and forbids sharing.
Raven asks you to confirm you have permission before your first recording, and will not open a recording without it. Raven does not join your meeting, does not appear as a participant, and is not visible to anyone else in the room or the call. That is a design choice about not being intrusive — it is not permission, and it does not make an unpermitted recording lawful.
Who your data is shared with
We use a small number of processors, each for one job:
- Supabase — database, authentication and file storage.
- Groq — speech-to-text. Audio segments are sent for transcription and are not retained by us afterwards.
- OpenRouter — routes transcript text to the language models that write your summary and notes.
- Vercel — hosting.
That is the complete list. We do not sell personal information, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use your lectures to train our own models.
Your choices
- Delete a lecture — removes its transcript, notes and any remaining audio.
- Delete your account — email us and everything associated with it is removed.
- Export — ask and we will send you your transcripts and notes.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Access is scoped per-account at the database level, so one student’s recordings are not reachable by another.
Raven is a small, new product built by a student. It has not been through a SOC 2 audit or any other formal certification, and we are not going to claim otherwise. If that matters for your situation, this is the honest answer.
Students under 18
Raven is intended for college students. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what happens to your recordings, we will tell you before it takes effect rather than quietly updating this page.
Contact
Questions, deletion requests, or anything else: jamesonackerman2024@gmail.com