# Recording & Consent > Plain guidance on recording other people with Aurora: consent depends on your jurisdiction, an organization or venue may add its own rule, processing stays on the device, and the responsibility for asking is yours. Not legal advice. LEGAL  ·  UPDATED 18 SEPTEMBER 2026 Recording other people may need their agreement. Aurora keeps the audio on your device; asking is up to you. Aurora makes it easy to record a conversation. Whether you are allowed to is a separate question, and it depends on where you are and who is in the room. This page is practical guidance from the people who build Aurora. It is not legal advice, and it does not replace the law where you live. ## Consent depends on where you are Recording laws differ by country and, in some countries, by region. Broadly, there are two patterns. In one-party jurisdictions, a person who takes part in a conversation may record it without telling the others. In two-party or all-party jurisdictions, every participant has to agree first. Many places add rules on top: stricter treatment for phone calls, for workplaces, for public officials, or for conversations the participants reasonably expect to be private. In the EU, data-protection law also applies to a recording of an identifiable person, whether or not the recording itself was lawful. If you are not sure which pattern applies to you, assume you need everyone's agreement. Asking costs a sentence. Being wrong can cost a lot more. ## What Aurora does with the recording Aurora records through the microphone of the device you are holding. It does not join a call as a participant, so nothing on screen announces that a recording is happening; that disclosure is yours to make. Audio and transcripts are processed on the device and stay in the app's library there. Aurora does not upload them, and we do not receive them. The [Privacy Notice](https://auroraisyours.com/privacy/) lists the few named network paths that exist and what each one carries. Keeping the recording on your device does not change the law. Consent is about the act of recording, not about where the file ends up. ## You are responsible for consent Getting the agreement of the people you record, and keeping the recording within the purpose they agreed to, is your responsibility. Aurora cannot obtain it for you and cannot tell whether you have it. That includes what happens afterwards: sharing a transcript, exporting audio, or quoting a summary may need its own permission, even when the recording itself was agreed. ## In practice - **Ask, rather than announce.** Put it as a question before you start, and say what the recording is for: "Is everyone comfortable with me recording this conversation so I can make notes afterward?" That is an example of how to raise it, not a claim that one sentence satisfies the law where you are. - **Wait for the answer.** Silence is not agreement. If someone joins late, ask them too, and give them the same chance to say no. - **Stop when asked.** If anyone objects at any point, stop, and delete what they object to. Aurora deletes a session and its audio together. - **Keep it to the purpose.** A recording made for meeting notes is not automatically fine to forward, publish or feed into something else. - **Delete what you no longer need.** The safest recording of a private conversation is the one that no longer exists. ## Organizations and venues have their own rules The law is not the only thing that governs whether you may record. Your employer, your client, a university, a hospital, a courtroom, a conference or the building you are sitting in may have its own rule about recording, and that rule can be stricter than the law — a workplace policy, an ethics approval for research interviews, a condition of entry, a rule about devices in the room. Those rules also vary, and we cannot tell you which of them applies to you. Find out what governs the room you are in before you press record, and remember that permission from the people in the conversation is not the same as permission from the organization hosting it. ## Therapy, medical, legal and similar settings Conversations with a therapist, doctor, lawyer, or in any setting with professional confidentiality rules deserve extra care. The professional may be bound by rules that go beyond ordinary consent, and the recording may be treated as health or other special-category data under the GDPR. Ask before you record, expect that the answer may be no, and respect it. The same applies to conversations with children, in courtrooms, and in any place with its own rules about devices. ## This is guidance, not advice We are engineers, not lawyers, and the law changes. If a recording matters, for a dispute, for work, or for anything you might rely on later, ask a lawyer in your jurisdiction before you press record. ## See also 1. [Privacy Notice](https://auroraisyours.com/privacy/) — what the app keeps on your device and the named network paths. 2. [Terms of Use](https://auroraisyours.com/terms/) — your recordings are yours; the responsibility for them is too. 3. [Why Aurora does not send a bot to your meeting](https://auroraisyours.com/blog/no-meeting-bot) — why disclosure is something you do yourself.