If you choose not to provide the Personal Information we request, you can still visit most of NCH Software’s Web sites, but you may be unable to download or purchase our software. Please review the Personal Information section of the Introduction in order to make this decision. “You may choose whether or not to provide Personal Information to NCH Software.In these cases the data collected will never contain anything that can personally identify you.” “Our programs may collect anonymous usage data which may be sent back to use for analysis, such as the number of times a menu or option is used within the program.NCH is headquartered in Canberra ACT, Australia with a satellite office in Denver Colorado, USA.Īccording to their website the firm’s privacy statements includes: Ocenaudio’s website is devoid of ownership and privacy related information. Unfortunately, their site contains no information on corporate ownership or privacy. They represent that, “We decide to code software that would be useful for everyone who want to do audio editing (cut, copy, paste, mix, loop, etc.) on their audio files and use their favorite VST effects inside Wavosaur.” We reviewed the websites of Wavosaur free audio editor, Ocenaudio, and WavePad and found:Īccording to their website, “The Wasosaur team is composed of developers from France, Groenland (Greenland) and Feroe Island.” Well, we may give WavePad Audio Editing Software a try. So why take the risk associated with installing Russian owned Audacity when there are other options available at little or no cost? Is there a perceived risk in using Kaspersky software? Yes. Has anyone experienced a problem using Kaspersky software? Not that I can recall. The exception being Amazon who is selling the antivirus app for three devices for $11.99 US down from $59.99 a couple of months ago. When we have choices, why accept one that poses an unknown but potential risk to our PCs.Īlmost all North American retailers have removed Kaspersky’s Anti-Virus software from their sites. We are at a time when a totalitarian state – Russia – is at war with the Ukraine and they are being threatened with economic and other sanctions by the European Community and its friends.Īnd Russia is threatening to use nuclear weapons, should assume that there is a potential risk associated with downloading and using Audacity (an app owned by a Russian company) that is greater than telemetry alone. Moving forward, we may install Audacity on a PC that is not connected to the internet but for now we have decided to put the digitization project on hold. The firm’s website is devoid of any contact information.Ĭonsistent with our boycott of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab due to their country’s invasion of the Ukraine we immediately uninstalled Audacity and restored the computer to the state it was in prior to the installation. Something that cannot be discovered by looking through the Muse Group’s website. It turns out that their privacy policies have come into question by a number of journalists at responsible organizations.Īnd the Muse Group’s (owners of Audacity) main office is in Russia. Who owns Audacity, what are their privacy policies, and where are they based? Without giving it much thought, we downloaded and installed the app. When I started the digitization project earlier today, a quick internet search pointed us in the direction of Audacity.
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