Last updated: September 2026
Your audio stays on your computer. We run no analytics inside the app, no account system, and no cloud storage of your projects. Uninstalling removes the program but keeps your settings, license and ARIA's local memory in your Windows user profile (the AppData folders named in the installation guide), so a reinstall picks up where you left off; delete those folders to remove everything. The only things that ever leave your machine are license checks (to us) and ARIA requests (to OpenAI, under your own key).
When you activate or renew, the app sends our licensing server your license key and an anonymous machine identifier (a hardware fingerprint hash, not your files, name, or contents). We store this to enforce the one-machine license and to support key transfers and refunds.
ARIA's understanding and answers are powered by OpenAI models using your own API key. When you talk or type to ARIA, your message (and, for voice, audio of your command) is sent to OpenAI for processing under OpenAI's terms and privacy policy. Your multitrack audio and project files are never uploaded. We send only the commands and the session metadata ARIA needs to act (track names, levels, plugin names).
Session Bud draws its interface with Microsoft Edge WebView2, a component of Windows. Like Windows itself, WebView2 sends diagnostic data to Microsoft: some of it is required, and the rest follows your Windows setting under Settings > Privacy & security > Diagnostics & feedback. If a WebView2 process crashes, a crash report is sent to Microsoft. Session Bud also includes Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, a security feature of WebView2, which collects and sends information to Microsoft as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement and in SmartScreen in Microsoft Edge. This data goes to Microsoft, not to us, and Microsoft handles it under its own privacy statement.
Payments are processed by our merchant of record; we never see or store your card details. We receive your email address in order to deliver your license key and provide support.
We use your email for delivery, support, and important product notices. No marketing lists without explicit opt-in. Unsubscribe by replying "stop".
When you ask for a trial on the "Try Session Bud free" form, we store your email address, the time of the request, the IP address and browser identifier of the request, and the consent text you agreed to. The address is used to send you one confirmation email and then your trial serial (and, if you buy later, your full serial and support replies). The IP address and browser identifier exist only to stop abuse of the form (rate limits). Confirmation links expire after 48 hours, and only a hash of the link is stored, never the link itself. The form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which tells people from bots inside its own frame and sees your IP address for that purpose. A trial serial is a license record like any other: when you enter it, the app sends the machine identifier described above, and the trial is tied to that one computer. You can have your trial record deleted at any time by emailing support@sessionbud.com; a deleted trial cannot be started again on the same computer.
These providers operate globally, so the data above may be processed outside your own country (including in the United States) under the providers' standard data-protection terms.
License records are kept for as long as your license is active, plus what tax law requires for purchase records. Trial sign-ups are kept for as long as the trial serial exists, or until you ask to be removed, whichever comes first. Support emails are kept as long as needed to help you.
The controller of the data described here, meaning the person responsible for it, is Itay Lavi, sole trader (Israel), trading as Session Bud. For anything in this policy: support@sessionbud.com
You can ask what we store about you, ask for a copy, correct it, or have it deleted (after a refund, or out of the trial records, at any time). Email us and we'll handle it: support@sessionbud.com