Cued

Privacy Policy

Effective 22 October 2026

Cued is a private meeting assistant for macOS. Its recording, transcription, summaries, notes, and meeting preparation are designed to run on your Mac.

Cued is made and sold by Harshit Maurya, an individual based in India, who is responsible for the personal data described in this policy. In this policy, “we” and “us” means Harshit Maurya. You can reach us at contact@getcued.pro.

Google user data Cued accesses

When you connect your Google account, Cued asks for these permissions, and uses each only for the feature described:

• Name, email address, and profile picture — to show who is signed in.
• Google Calendar events (calendar.events) — to show your upcoming meetings, and to create, update, or cancel the meetings you ask Cued to schedule or remove.
• Google Meet spaces created by Cued (meetings.space.created) — to create meeting links. Cued can only see Meet spaces it created itself.
• Google Contacts and Other contacts, read-only (contacts.readonly, contacts.other.readonly) — to suggest people when you invite someone, and to show names and photos for meeting attendees. Cued never changes or deletes a contact.

Cued also uses the Mac's own Calendar and Contacts (if you allow it) and, only while you use Cued recording features, your screen and microphone audio.

How Google user data is used

Cued uses Google user data only to provide and improve these user-facing features: meeting detection, scheduling, attendee context, and meeting preparation. Google user data is not used for advertising, is not sold, and is not used to develop, improve, or train generalized AI or machine-learning models.

Cued's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Limited Use statement. The use of raw or derived user data received from Google Workspace APIs will adhere to the Google User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google user data, whether raw, aggregated, anonymized, or derived, is never used to create, train, or improve foundational or generalized AI or machine-learning models.

AI models and Google user data

Every AI feature in Cued runs offline, on your own Mac. Cued does not integrate with any third-party AI service, AI API, model aggregator, or model gateway, on any plan or tier, and it never sends Google user data to an AI or model provider.

• Summaries and meeting preparation are written by Apple's on-device language model (the Foundation Models framework in Apple Intelligence). If that model is not available on your Mac, Cued uses Qwen 3.5 (4B), an open model, running locally through Apple's MLX framework.
• Transcription uses Apple's on-device speech recognition, or the open-source Whisper speech model running locally through WhisperKit.
• Self-hosted and offline. These models are public files that Cued downloads once and then runs on your Mac. Calendar details, attendee names, recordings, transcripts, and summaries are processed only on your Mac and are never transmitted to Apple, Microsoft, OpenAI, or any other model provider, for training or for any other purpose.

Who we share, transfer, or disclose Google user data with

Cued does not have a server that keeps your Google user data. Cued on your Mac talks to Google directly, so your calendar, contacts, and profile information go from Google to your Mac and nowhere else, apart from the licence check and the buy button described under “Only when you ask” below. Specifically:

• We do not sell, rent, or share Google user data with advertisers, data brokers, or any other third party.
• We do not transfer Google user data to the developer, to any server operated by Cued, or to any cloud AI, transcription, or summary service, except your email address and name when you press one of the two buttons described below. Those are used for that request and not stored.
• Only when you ask. If you invite someone, Cued sends the invitee's email address to Google Calendar so Google can create the event and send the invitation. If you press a button to draft a follow-up email, Cued opens Gmail or your mail app with a draft you review and send yourself. For meeting preparation, Cued's on-device model writes a research prompt from the invite and the public websites it names, and shows it inside Cued. Cued does not send that prompt anywhere. If you press Copy, it goes only to your clipboard, and you decide whether to paste it into an assistant of your choice. When you sign in with Google, when Cued starts while it is still locked, and when you press “I already bought Cued”, Cued sends Cued's website a sign-in confirmation from Google containing your email address and name, only to check whether that email bought Cued and unlock it; it is checked with Google and then discarded. If you press the button to buy Cued, the same confirmation fills in your email address on the checkout page of Dodo Payments, our merchant of record, so the purchase stays linked to the Google account you use in Cued.
• Legal and safety. We would disclose information only if required by law. Because Cued holds no copy of your Google user data, there is nothing for us to hand over.

How we protect Google user data

• Stays on your Mac. Calendar events, contact names and photos, recordings, transcripts, summaries, notes, and preparation are processed and stored only in Cued's application storage on your Mac. Transcription and summaries run on the device.
• Secure sign-in tokens. Google authorization tokens are stored in the macOS Keychain, not in plain files. Sign-in uses OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, and Cued never sees or stores your Google password.
• Encrypted in transit. Every request Cued makes to Google uses HTTPS (TLS).
• Least access. Cued requests only the permissions listed above. Contacts are read-only, and Meet access is limited to spaces Cued creates.
• Sandboxed by macOS permissions. Screen, microphone, calendar, and contacts access are each controlled by macOS, and you can turn any of them off in System Settings.
• No analytics in the app. The Mac app has no telemetry or analytics and does not send usage data anywhere. The only exception is a crash or freeze report, and only after you choose to send it (see “Crash and freeze reports” below).
• Protected storage. Your data is as protected as your Mac: it benefits from macOS account security and, if you turn it on, FileVault disk encryption. We recommend keeping FileVault on.

Where meeting data is stored

Your recordings, transcripts, summaries, notes, and generated preparation stay in Cued's local application storage on your Mac. Cued does not use a cloud transcription or cloud summary service. The only things Cued downloads are public files that contain none of your data: the on-device language and speech models, once, and a small daily file for naming speakers in Google Meet (see “Speaker names in Google Meet” below). When you ask Cued to prepare for a meeting, it may read public websites named in your invite directly from your Mac, in the same way your browser would.

Retention and deletion

Cued keeps your meeting data on your Mac until you delete it, and you can delete any recording or all of its data from inside Cued. When you sign out, Cued asks Google to revoke its access and deletes its sign-in token from your Keychain. Calendar and contact information that Cued shows is read from Google when needed. You can also revoke Cued at any time from your Google Account permissions page.

Purchases and licence keys

Cued is sold through Dodo Payments, which acts as our reseller and merchant of record. When you buy Cued, Dodo Payments collects your name, email address, billing country and payment details to take the payment, calculate tax, prevent fraud and send your receipt and licence key. We never see or store your full card number. Dodo Payments shares with us the order details we need to support you: your name, email address, country, what you bought, the price paid and your licence key. We keep these records for as long as tax and accounting law requires, and use them only to provide your licence, support and refunds. We do not sell them or use them for advertising.

What the app sends to check a licence. When you enter a licence key, and from time to time after that, Cued sends Dodo Payments the licence key and a name for your Mac (for example “Sam's MacBook Air”) so you can see and remove your activations. Because a licence works on one Mac at a time, Cued first sends the licence key and a short code made from your Mac's hardware number (not the number itself) to Cued's website, which frees the licence on any other Mac and keeps a scrambled copy of the key with the date for 30 days, to limit moves to 3 a month. That is all. No meetings, recordings, transcripts, calendar or contact data, Google account data, or app activity are sent, and the licence check is not used for analytics.

Update checks. Cued asks getcued.pro whether a newer version is available. That request contains the app's version and your macOS version, like any app update check, and nothing about you or your meetings.

Speaker names in Google Meet. To name who said each line of a Google Meet call, Cued reads, on your Mac, the names on Meet's video tiles and which tile shows someone speaking. The names and times stay on your Mac with the recording. Google changes Meet's page from time to time, so once a day Cued downloads a small public file from getcued.pro that says which parts of the page to look for. That request sends nothing about you, your calls or your meetings, the same as opening a public web page.

Website data

If you request private-beta access, the landing page emails the address you submit to Cued's support inbox (through Cloudflare's email service) and keeps a copy so Cued can review the request and contact you about access. Website hosting, email and database providers process that submission only to operate access requests. It is not sold or used for unrelated advertising.

Emails about new versions (optional)

Cued has a switch, “Email me about new versions”, at the end of setup and in Settings. It is off unless you turn it on. When you turn it on, Cued sends one thing to Cued's website: the email address shown next to the switch. If you are signed in with Google, that field starts with your Google email address, which is sent only if you turn the switch on. Nothing else is sent: no meetings, recordings, transcripts, calendar or contact data, or app activity.

We use the address only to tell you about new versions of Cued. It is stored with Cued's website database and email providers to run the list, and is never sold or shared for advertising. To stop, turn the switch off (Cued then sends an unsubscribe for that address), use the unsubscribe link in any email, or write to contact@getcued.pro.

Unlocking Cued with your email (optional)

If you don't sign in with Google, Cued can unlock with the email address you paid with. When you choose “Email me a code”, Cued sends that address to Cued's website, which checks with Dodo Payments whether it bought Cued and emails it a 6-digit code (or, if it didn't, an email saying no purchase was found). Typing the code in Cued unlocks it with your licence key. The website keeps only a scrambled copy of the code for 10 minutes and, for a day, when codes were sent to the address, so it can limit how many go out. The emails are sent from codes@getcued.pro by Resend, our email provider, which receives only the address and the email's text.

Crash and freeze reports (optional)

If Cued crashes or freezes, it asks you the next time whether to send a short report, and shows you the whole report first. Nothing is sent unless you press Send Report, or choose “Send automatically” in that question or in Settings → Privacy. You can change this to “Never send” at any time.

A report contains the error, the part of Cued's code where it happened, how long a freeze lasted, Cued's version, your Mac's model, memory and macOS version, and a random number made for this purpose so we can tell how many different Macs are affected. It never contains meetings, recordings, transcripts, notes, calendar or contact data, names, email addresses, or Google account data; file paths in your home folder are removed. The website also keeps the country your connection comes from, but not your IP address. Reports are stored in Cued's website database, used only to find and fix problems, and deleted after 12 months.

Website analytics

The website counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-friendly service from our website host, Cloudflare. It records which pages are viewed, the site that sent you (for example a link on another website), your country, and your type of device, browser, and operating system. It does not use cookies, stores nothing in your browser, does not follow you across other websites, and does not identify you; we only see totals.

The website's own server also counts each page opened in a browser: the page, the time, the address of the website that linked to it (for example google.com, never the full link) or the source a link names (like ?ref=reddit), and the country your connection comes from. It does not store your IP address, set cookies, or keep anything that identifies you, and it skips known bots and link previews. We only look at totals.

When you download Cued, the website also counts the download: the time, the version, and the country your connection comes from. It does not store your IP address or anything else that identifies you. Cued does not send your access-request email, meeting data, recordings, transcripts, or app activity to website analytics. The Mac app has no analytics at all.

Two requests the app already makes are also counted by the website: when you press the button to buy Cued, and when a locked Cued that is signed in with Google checks whether you bought it (described under “Only when you ask” above), including whether that check found a purchase. For each, the website keeps only the time, which of the two it was, and the country your connection comes from. It does not store your email address, name, sign-in confirmation, IP address, or anything else that identifies you, and the app sends nothing extra for it. We only look at totals.

Questions and changes

We will update this page and its effective date if our practices change. For a privacy question, a request concerning your purchase records or your waitlist email, email contact@getcued.pro or use the “Report a bug or missing feature” link inside the app.