What leaves your Mac

Short version: with a fresh install, nothing. Every choice that changes that is one you make yourself, and here is the complete list.

Always on your Mac

Audio recordings. They are written to your disk and never uploaded anywhere by anything, ever. No exceptions, no telemetry, no accounts.
Transcription, by default: the Whisper model runs on your machine and works with the network cable unplugged.
Meetings, transcripts, insights, reports: a local database in the app's own container.
Your API keys, if you add any: stored in the macOS Keychain, not in files.

Sent out only if you set it up

Copilot on Claude or a custom server: transcript text from the current call (plus matched knowledge base snippets and your profile's instructions) goes to that provider during calls and for reports. Audio never goes.
Instant document answers (TypeSafe AI): only with a TypeSafe key and only when the Copilot runs on Claude. When the other side asks a question, that question, the last couple of lines of the call, and the matching snippets of your documents go to TypeSafe AI, hosted in the United States, so the matching excerpt can show within a second. Audio never goes. TypeSafe states it does not train on what you send and keeps it only as long as needed to run the service.
Cloud transcription (Groq or Deepgram): the call audio is sent to them for speech-to-text as it happens. This is the one opt-in that sends sound. On-device stays the default.
Update check: once a day Parrot reads its update feed on GitHub Pages. The request carries the app's version and nothing about you or your calls. Updates are signed, download in the background and install when you quit, never during a recording. Turn off Keep Parrot up to date in Settings → General to install by hand.

And Ollama?

Ollama runs on your own machine, so a Copilot on Ollama keeps everything local: Parrot only ever talks to it on localhost. Local model, local transcription, zero outbound bytes. That combination is the whole reason Parrot exists.