> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.screenshepherd.live/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Privacy

> What stays on your Mac, what does not, and when.

## During a service, nothing leaves the Mac

This is the important one, and it has no exceptions.

Everything happens on the Mac in your booth. Nothing is sent anywhere while a
service is running. You can unplug the network or switch the wifi off and it
works exactly the same.

## What is saved

Each service is saved on that Mac: which songs, how long, how many times the
slide moved.

**There are no lyrics in it.** Nothing anyone sang or said is in it. Neither is
the talk. It is numbers and references.

There is also an audio recording of the vocal channel, kept on the Mac. It is
what lets someone work out what happened if a service went oddly.

Both live in the same place. **general** → **session records** → **show in
finder**, or the menu bar icon → **Show session logs**.

## What is sent, and when

**Only if this Mac is signed in to a church account**, and only after a service
has finished:

* The service record goes to your church's account.
* Your settings are shared with your church's other Macs.

Never during a service.

If the Mac is not signed in, nothing about your services is sent anywhere at
all. Signing in is optional and separate from paying — see
[Licence and account](/setup/account).

## Payment

Stripe handles payment. Your card details go to Stripe and never to us. We
hold your email address, your church's name, and what Stripe tells us about
whether the subscription is paid. See [Billing](/reference/billing).

## Updates

New versions download in the background, but **never while ScreenShepherd is
listening**. If a service starts mid-download, the download stops and waits.

## The microphone

ScreenShepherd listens to the channel you choose, and only while it is
listening — that is, between you pressing **start** and **stop**.

macOS asks your permission the first time, and you can take it away at any
point in system settings.

## Deleting the records

They are ordinary files on your Mac. **show in finder**, then drag what you
want to the bin.

If your church has an account and you want records removed from it, ask
whoever set your account up.