Effective October 3, 2026. This policy covers the Feedcast app for Mac, both the Mac App Store version and the version downloaded from feedcast.org. Feedcast is made by Berenike Krause ("we"). Contact: contact@feedcast.org.
Feedcast has no account. Your episodes, audio, video and transcripts are stored and transcribed on your Mac. This page lists everything that does leave your Mac, why, and for how long it is kept.
Once a day, Feedcast sends one message to events.feedcast.org so we know how many people use Feedcast and which versions are in use. It contains the app version, the edition (App Store or direct download), the macOS version, the system language, whether Premium is active, whether setup is finished, whether you chose to share usage data, and whether this is the first message of the day, week or month or from a new install. Our server adds the country of the connection. The message contains no identifier, your IP address is not stored, and the messages are only kept as totals per day. This happens whether or not you share usage data.
On a new install, Feedcast sends a one-time anonymous message the first time you reach certain steps, such as each onboarding screen, adding your first episode, a first episode finishing processing, or a podcast app first loading your feed, together with roughly how long after installing it happened. These messages contain no identifier and are only kept as totals per day. They show us where new users get stuck.
Feedcast asks once whether you want to share usage data. If you choose Share, Feedcast sends detailed information about how the app is used and how well it works, so we can fix problems and decide what to improve:
Usage data never includes episode or feed titles, descriptions, file names, web addresses, transcripts, audio or video. Error messages are sent with web addresses and file paths removed. The random identifier is not connected to your Apple ID, your purchase or your license. Until you answer the question, usage data stays on your Mac. If you choose Don't Share, it is deleted. You can change your choice at any time in Settings, General, Privacy, and turning it off deletes data that has not been sent yet.
Because usage data is not linked to your identity, we usually cannot tell which records belong to you. If you can give us details that let us find them, we will delete them on request.
When Feedcast generates chapters or finds sponsor segments in an episode, it sends the episode's transcript text, never the audio, through our server at licenses.feedcast.org to Google's Gemini API, which returns the chapters. We do not store the transcript. Our server logs only technical details such as the size of the request and how long it took. Google processes the text under the Gemini API terms.
In the App Store version, the free episodes are counted using the purchase receipt that Apple includes with every App Store download (the app transaction), so the count follows your Apple account across reinstalls.
Premium in the App Store version is sold and managed by Apple. To provide Premium features, Feedcast sends information about your subscription transaction, a random device identifier and the name of your Mac to licenses.feedcast.org, which stores them to issue and check your license. The direct-download version sends your license code, a random device identifier and the name of your Mac to activate Premium and keep it to one active Mac per subscription. This information is only used to provide licensing and is not used for advertising.
Unless a feed is set to Local Only, Feedcast uploads the feed's listing (its title, episode details and links) to feeds.feedcast.org so podcast apps can load it. Your audio and video files are not uploaded, they stream from your Mac. Deleting a feed or making it Local Only removes the listing. Listings that are not updated for 60 days are deleted automatically.
Our servers run on Cloudflare, which processes data on our behalf and may do so outside the European Union under the EU Commission's adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. Transcript text is processed by Google as described above. We do not sell data, do not use it for advertising, do not share it with data brokers and do not track you across other apps or websites.
For people in the European Union, we process usage data based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time in Settings. Licensing, chapter generation and online feeds are needed to provide the features you use (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). The anonymous daily count and setup milestones are based on our legitimate interest in knowing how many people use Feedcast and where setup fails (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
You can ask for access to, correction or deletion of your data, restrict or object to its processing, and ask for a copy of it, by writing to contact@feedcast.org. You can also complain to a data protection authority.
Feedcast is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
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