Recording and consent
Recording a session in New Hampshire.
Every party to a New Hampshire conversation has to agree before it is recorded, and the offence does not require the recorder to have been hiding. That is New Hampshire Revised Statutes 570-A:2, and the sentence a practitioner says out loud before recording is the same one in every country on this site.
This is a plain summary, not legal advice. Laws change. If the answer matters to your business, check with a lawyer in your own country.
01The sentence
Say this, out loud, before anything else is said.
I am going to record this session so I can write you a proper report afterwards. Is that all right with you?
It is the same sentence everywhere, because a specific disclosure followed by a direct question is what recording guidance favours over a vague notice, and because everybody in the session agreeing is safe in every jurisdiction on this site. What changes by place is who has to answer it.
02Who has to agree
In New Hampshire the rule is all party.
The statute New Hampshire Revised Statutes 570-A:2
Chapter 570-A is New Hampshire's wiretapping and eavesdropping act, and section 570-A:2 makes the interception of an oral communication a felony unless all parties have consented. New Hampshire's courts have applied it to participants rather than only to third parties, which is the distinction that makes Michigan and Delaware difficult and makes New Hampshire straightforward. There is no exception for a recording made openly, so openness alone, which is the Massachusetts answer, is not the New Hampshire answer.
Get it in writing once, say it out loud every time, and store the written consent where somebody other than the practitioner can find it. New Hampshire is one of the states where the criminal exposure is personal to the individual who pressed record.
03A client under 18
What changes when the person in the session is a child.
Where a client is under 18, collect the guardian's consent before the first recorded session and do not rely on the student having heard the sentence. New Hampshire's statute is a felony statute, so the sensible practice is a written parental consent held by the practice, refreshed when the student moves to a new tutor or a new coach.
04The data law
The recording is personal data under the New Hampshire Data Privacy Act.
New Hampshire's privacy act took effect on 1 January 2025 and follows the Connecticut shape: access, correction, deletion, portability and an opt out of targeted advertising, with a low enough volume threshold that a busy agency could reach it. It also requires a data protection assessment where processing presents a heightened risk, and sensitive data cannot be processed without consent.
05What Slide Practice does
The audio goes as soon as the report is written.
At upload the practitioner confirms on screen that everyone in the session agreed. That confirmation is stored, and the footer of the report prints the date it was given.
Session audio is deleted as soon as the write-up is made. The The text of what was said, written out from the recording. stays with the The written page a client receives after a session: what was covered, what went well, what they agreed to do, and what is next., on the client's own page, and both are kept until the account is closed. Closing an account starts a 30 day window, at the end of which everything is deleted rather than archived.
Nothing is drafted from a recording until the practitioner has confirmed that everyone agreed, and nothing reaches a client until a person has read it. The whole of what is kept, and for how long, is on the security page and in the privacy policy.
06Where this came from
Two primary sources, and neither of them is us.
- New Hampshire RSA 570-A:2, New Hampshire General Court
- New Hampshire RSA 507-H, Data Privacy Act, New Hampshire General Court
This is a plain summary, not legal advice. Laws change. If the answer matters to your business, check with a lawyer in your own country.
Nearby
- Recording a session in Oregon
- Recording a session in Pennsylvania
- Every jurisdiction, and how permission works in the product
- What the report itself looks like, practice by practice
Bring one recording you already have permission for, and read what comes back. No account and no card.