Privacy

Blair Aloud, the browser extension

• Reading aloud, text in images, voice commands and live captions all run on your computer, with voices and engines that are inside the extension or already on your computer. Online voices are never used.
• The pages you read, the text in pictures, your voice and the sound of your tabs are never sent anywhere and are not stored. Captions are saved only if you press Save, as a text file on your computer.
• Password fields are not read aloud unless you turn that on.
• On your computer, the extension keeps your settings, the names you teach it for unlabeled buttons, a random install id and your signed licence.
• It uses the internet once: when you press Activate, it sends your licence key, the app's name and two random ids it made (one for this browser, one for this computer) to api.softblair.app. After that it works offline and never checks back.

Buying a licence

• Creem (creem.io) is our merchant of record and payment processor: payment happens on Creem's secure checkout page, and Creem keeps the payment details it needs under its own privacy policy. Your card details go to Creem, never to us.
• From Creem we receive your email address, the price, Creem's checkout and order numbers, and later whether the order was refunded or disputed. We keep them with your licence key, the app and the number of computers it covers, so we can find and resend your key if you lose it.
• For each unlocked computer we keep the random ids above and when it was activated. Nothing else: no names, no addresses, no browser details.
• We don't store IP addresses. To stop people guessing keys, requests are counted for a minute in memory only, then forgotten.
• Checkouts that were started but not paid are deleted after 30 days.

This website

• No cookies, no analytics, no trackers, no third-party scripts or fonts.
• Your browser keeps a few things for you, on this computer only: your Calm mode choice, your set-up progress, and after you buy, your key, so the set-up guide can show it. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes them.
• When the set-up guide reads aloud, it uses your computer's own voices.

Your choices

Want to know what we hold about you, or want it deleted? Write to hello@radiohead.media from the email you bought with. Deleting your order means we can't resend your key later, but Blair Aloud keeps working on the computers it's already unlocked on.

Last updated 30 October 2026. See also our terms and refund policy.