Privacy

Your voice stays home.

The one-paragraph version: WILCO stores almost nothing. Your voice is never recorded or kept. Your API keys (if you use your own) never leave your PC. What little we do store exists only to run invite codes and fair-use limits — and most of it deletes itself after 7 days.

What we store

  • Account — your login name, a salted hash of your password (we cannot read the password itself), and your email only if you choose to add one for recovery.
  • Invite code + usage counters — how many calls your code made per day, kept for 7 days, used only to run the fair daily allowance.
  • Session pings — which controller you flew with, for how many minutes, and the app version. No position data, no mission content, no chat.
  • Crash reports — technical error text sent automatically when the app crashes, deleted automatically after 7 days.
  • Site visits — an anonymous daily counter. No cookies, no fingerprinting, no third-party analytics.

What we never store

  • Your voice. Speech is turned into text in real time — on your own PC by default. If you pick cloud hearing, the audio passes through transiently and is never kept.
  • Recordings or transcripts on our side. Your radio transcripts live only in files on your own computer.
  • Card details. Payments (when live) are handled entirely by Dodo Payments, our merchant of record; we only receive your plan, its expiry date and the billing email.
  • Your API keys. If you use your own keys, they stay inside config.json on your PC. They are never uploaded anywhere.
  • What we do count. When a sortie ends, WILCO sends us a handful of numbers: minutes airborne, aircraft type, how many radio calls were understood, kills. That is the whole list — never your callsign, your name, the mission, your position, or a single word anyone said. They are added straight into a daily total, so even we cannot tell one pilot’s flying from another’s. Turn it off completely with "telemetry": {"enabled": false} in config.json.

Who processes what

By default, nobody: the brain, hearing and voices all run on your own PC — your radio calls never leave your machine. If you switch on the optional cloud services, those specific calls go through the WILCO relay to the providers involved, transiently.

Deleting your data

Open an issue on GitHub (or reach us in the app) and ask — we delete your account, code and counters. Crash reports and usage counters also expire on their own after 7 days.