Effective date: 2 June 2026 Last updated: 2 June 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is handled by the Windows desktop applications published by Christopher Fitzsimons, trading as Classic Desktop ("Classic Desktop", "we", "us", "our") and distributed through the Microsoft Store. It currently applies to Reflect Today and to other Classic Desktop applications as they are released. It is separate from the privacy policy that covers this website.
The short version
Classic Desktop applications are local-only. Everything you create or import stays on your own PC. We do not collect it, transmit it, upload it, or have any access to it. We do not run accounts, analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking. We never see your files, recordings, transcripts, or anything else you do in the app.
The only network activity is (a) Microsoft Store licence validation and update checks, and (b) where a specific app feature needs it, narrowly-scoped lookups described in that app's section below. Your content is not part of any of that traffic.
1. Who is responsible for your information
The applications are published by Christopher Fitzsimons, trading as Classic Desktop, a sole trader based in the United Kingdom. Because the applications keep all of your content on your own device and we never receive it, there is very little personal information for which we act as a controller. Where we do (for example, if you email us for support), we are the controller of that limited information and handle it as described below.
Your purchase is made through the Microsoft Store. Microsoft is the party that processes the transaction and, in most markets, collects any applicable tax. Microsoft is the controller of the personal information involved in that purchase. That information is governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement (https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement), not by this policy. We only ever receive aggregated, de-identified sales and payout reporting from Microsoft; we do not receive your payment details or identity.
2. What the app accesses on your device
Depending on the application, the software may access your camera, microphone, files, and folders on your PC in order to do its job. Any such access happens entirely on your device. Data is written to, and read from, locations on your own PC that you control. None of it is sent to us or to any third party.
3. What we receive
In normal use of the applications: nothing personal. We do not collect telemetry, usage analytics, crash data tied to you, device identifiers, or your content. The only situations in which we hold any personal information about you are if you contact us (for example, by email for support), in which case we receive whatever you choose to include and use it solely to respond to you; and aggregated Microsoft Store reporting, which does not identify individual customers.
4. Network activity
The app confirms your licence state and checks for updates using Microsoft Store APIs; this is handled by Microsoft and involves no content of yours. Per-app feature lookups, only where a specific app needs them, are described in that app's section below. We do not run user accounts of our own, upload or sync your content to any cloud, include analytics or telemetry SDKs, serve advertising, or share or sell your information to third parties.
5. Per-application details
Reflect Today
Reflect Today is a personal video-journaling application. It records short video sessions using a webcam and microphone you select, organises them against a calendar, transcribes them, and lets you search and export them.
- Camera and microphone. Used only while you are actively recording, to capture the video session you initiate. The
webcamandmicrophonecapabilities are declared so Windows can grant this access; you can review and revoke them in Windows Settings at any time. - What is stored, and where. Your recordings (MP4 files) are saved to a storage location you choose on your own PC. Associated metadata is held in a local database file on your PC. You control all of it.
- Transcription is fully offline. Speech-to-text runs on your machine using a local model (Vosk). Your audio is never uploaded for recognition and no online speech service is used.
- Export is local-to-local. Exporting produces a copy of your recording at a destination you choose, with your title, description, and transcript written into the file's own metadata. Nothing is uploaded.
- Network activity: Microsoft Store licence validation and update checks only. Reflect Today performs no other network communication.
- Microsoft Store listing: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NXHGL5QWF47
Other applications
Other Classic Desktop applications follow the same local-only posture. Each will be described in its own section here as it is released.
6. Children
The applications are general-purpose tools and are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and in normal use we do not collect personal information from anyone.
7. Security and your control of your data
Your content lives on your own PC under your Windows user account, protected by your own device and account security. You choose where it is stored and you can move or delete it at any time. Because we never receive your content, we cannot lose, expose, or misuse it.
8. Your rights
Under UK data protection law (UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018) you have rights over personal data held about you. In practice we hold almost no personal data about you, so for most requests there is nothing for us to act on. For personal information connected to your Microsoft Store purchase, Microsoft is the controller. If you have concerns, you may contact the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at https://ico.org.uk.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as applications change or are added. The current version is always available at this URL.
10. Contact
Christopher Fitzsimons, trading as Classic Desktop. 55 Common Lane, Benfleet, England, SS7 3TB, United Kingdom. Email: privacy@classicdesktop.com