Privacy

The short version

Your voice is not the product. LARS makes money by selling hardware. Your whisprs are not sold, not shared with advertisers, and not used to train anyone’s models.

What we hold

• Your account. An email address and a hashed password. Nothing else is required to use LARS.
• Your whisprs. The audio you record, the transcript of it, what LARS understood, and what LARS did about it.
• Your things. The notes, todos, reminders and shopping items LARS created for you.
• Your devices. Which LARS units are paired to your account and when they were last seen.

Recordings are temporary

A recording is kept only long enough to be understood, and then for a short grace period so you can play it back and check LARS heard you correctly. By default that period is seven days, after which the audio is deleted automatically from storage. You can shorten it, or delete every recording immediately, in your settings.

Deleting the audio does not delete the transcript. If you want a whispr gone entirely, delete the whispr: the recording, the transcript and the interpretation all go with it.

Who else sees your whisprs

One company other than us processes the content of a whispr: Mistral AI, in France, which turns your audio into text and works out what you meant. They receive the audio and the transcript, and nothing that identifies you: no name, no email, no account number.

Everything else stays with us: our application servers and database are hosted by Scalingo in France, and recordings are stored in Scaleway object storage in Paris. Your data does not leave Europe.

If you joined the waitlist

The waitlist is separate from an account. We keep the address you typed, and we pass it to Letter, the tool that will send the email when LARS/01 ships. Letter holds nothing else about you, and no waitlist address is ever attached to a whispr. Ask us at privacy@heylars.ai and we will take you off both lists.

What we do not do

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No third-party analytics watching what you do in the app.
• No selling or renting of personal data, ever.
• No human at LARS listens to your whisprs.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Deleting your account deletes your whisprs, your recordings and everything LARS created for you. Write to privacy@heylars.ai and we will act within thirty days.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that affects how your data is handled, we will email you before it takes effect.