Data handling in DeskCapsule
This section explains what data DeskCapsule processes, where, and what is shared with third parties. By installing or using the software you agree to these terms.
1. Who we are
Operator: IE Kalendzhyan A. (SOVREST). Contact: info@sovrest.com, Telegram: @sovrestbot.
2. What the software does, and what is free
DeskCapsule is a Windows utility. The layout switcher, clipboard history, screenshots, notes, on-device translation and on-device speech recognition (a local Whisper model) work free of charge and without any network access, in any licence state.
Three cloud features come with the subscription: translation, AI chat and voice input through our server. Each runs only on your explicit action and is described below.
3. Processed on your computer, never leaving it
- Clipboard history, screenshots and notes are stored locally and are never transmitted. They are never mixed into a cloud request automatically.
- On-device translation and speech recognition (ONNX Runtime, Whisper.net) run locally. These libraries are bundled in the program and make no network requests.
- Your licence key and tokens are kept on your computer in Windows protected storage (DPAPI, current user) so the licence can be verified offline.
- The installation identifier (
device_id) is a random UUID generated once at install. It is not derived from your hardware: not a serial number, not a MAC address, not a hardware fingerprint.
4. Sent to our server — only when you invoke a cloud feature
- Translation: the text you typed into the translator field and the language codes, sent when you press the button. Clipboard history and notes are not added.
- AI chat: your current question and a limited conversation context held in the program's memory. Chat history lives in memory only and is erased when you start a new chat and when you exit. No attachments from other sections are sent.
- Voice input: one complete microphone recording that you started and stopped manually. It is not a stream and not background recording — the program does not listen continuously. Audio and transcript live in memory; no file is written to disk in normal operation.
- Licence checks: the licence key, installation identifier and token, on activation, refresh and deactivation.
5. Third-party sub-processors
Cloud features are performed with third-party AI services. The program reaches them only through our server and never directly:
- Translation and AI chat — OpenRouter, Inc. (USA), a model-routing service that passes the request to the language model we selected.
- Speech recognition — Groq, Inc. (USA), in Zero Data Retention mode.
Your voice is never used to identify you: the recording is processed solely to convert speech to text, and no biometric characteristics (voice profile etc.) are extracted or stored.
6. Cross-border transfer
The cloud providers are located outside the Russian Federation (USA), so the data sent to them leaves Russian territory. By starting to use a cloud feature you consent to such transfer. Do not type or speak personal data — yours or third parties' (names, phone numbers, addresses, passport or payment details).
7. Retention
Text and audio sent for processing are handled in memory and are not stored on our servers afterwards; we do not log their contents. Service logs record only technical details without text or audio — licence and application identifiers, request volume, processing cost, status, duration, request IP and origin — kept for 90 days for billing and abuse protection. Licence activation records (key, device identifier, timestamps) are kept for as long as the licence exists: they are what enforces the device limit.
8. Telemetry and advertising
There is no telemetry. The software contains no advertising or analytics SDKs. Local diagnostics are limited to technical details (time, event category, error type) — your text, audio, tokens and response bodies never enter it.
9. Opting out of the cloud features
Voice input is off by default and must be enabled explicitly; you can type instead, or use on-device recognition, which makes no network request at all. Cloud translation and AI chat can simply be left unused — this does not affect the free functionality.
10. Your rights
You may request information about the processing of your personal data, its correction or deletion, via the contacts above. You may deactivate the licence (freeing a device slot) and uninstall the software — this removes locally stored settings, the key and tokens.