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# Recording consent — legal notice
**Recording conversations may be illegal without consent.**
Laws vary widely by jurisdiction:
- **One-party consent**: you may record conversations you participate in.
- **All-party consent** (many US states, and many other countries): every
participant must consent before recording begins.
- Recording conversations you are *not* part of is illegal in essentially
every jurisdiction.
S.H.O.N.A.R. is a tool. **You** are solely responsible for knowing and
following the law where you are.
## What the app does (and never does)
- Shows a consent reminder on first launch and persistently on the recording
screen.
- **Never records silently.** Recording runs as a foreground service with an
ongoing notification, and Android's own microphone indicator is visible on
Android 12+.
- Provides an always-visible stop control on the recording screen and in the
notification.
- Has no remote-trigger recording capability of any kind.
- Collects no telemetry and sends no data anywhere. There is no server,
no account, no network permission — recordings never leave the phone
except through file sync you set up yourself.
## Recommended practice
Before recording, tell everyone present that the conversation is being
recorded and obtain their agreement. Where written consent is required, get
it in writing.