Privacy Policy
Speakmile is an English speaking partner. To do that job it has to read what you write or say in a conversation. This page explains exactly what we keep, who else sees it, and how you delete it.
Short version: no ads, no tracking, no selling data. Your conversations are stored in your account so you can pick up where you left off. Delete your account in the app and everything goes with it.
Who we are
Speakmile (“we”, “us”) is an independent app developed and operated from Turkey. For anything about your data, write to support@speakmile.com.
What we collect
| Data | Why | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Name and email address, and the sign-in method you chose (Apple, Google or email) | To create and secure your account | Firebase Authentication |
| Profile settings: level, preferred register | To tune the conversation to you | Your account (Cloud Firestore) |
| Conversation transcripts, corrections, Turkish explanations and summaries | So you can resume conversations and review them | Your account (Cloud Firestore) |
| Notebook items and your own lists | So you can keep and review phrases | Your account (Cloud Firestore) |
| Voice recordings of your messages | So you can play back what you said | Only on your iPhone. Never uploaded. |
| Generated speech audio | So a sentence you already heard plays instantly | Only on your iPhone, in its cache |
We do not collect your location, contacts, photos, advertising identifier or device analytics. The app contains no advertising or analytics SDKs.
Voice and speech
When you hold the microphone button, your speech is turned into text by Apple’s speech recognition. On iPhones that support it, this happens entirely on the device. On older devices Apple may process the audio on its servers under Apple’s privacy policy. Only the resulting text is sent to Speakmile. The recording itself stays on your phone.
Services that process your data
We use a small number of providers to run the app. Each receives only what it needs for its task.
- Google Firebase (Google Ireland Ltd. / Google LLC): sign-in, database and server functions. Server functions run in Frankfurt, Germany (europe-west3).
- Anthropic (Anthropic PBC, USA): the AI model that plays your conversation partner, corrects your sentences, explains words and writes summaries. It receives the text of the conversation you are in, your level and the scene. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms, data sent through its API is not used to train its models.
- ElevenLabs (Eleven Labs Inc.): turns partner replies and phrases into natural speech when you choose one of its voices. It receives only the sentence to be spoken.
- Apple: Sign in with Apple, speech recognition as described above, and payments for subscriptions. We never see your card details.
- Google Sign-In: if you choose to sign in with Google.
Some of these providers are in the United States. Transfers rely on the providers’ standard contractual safeguards.
How we use it
- To run conversations, corrections, explanations, summaries and level suggestions.
- To keep your conversations and notebook available across your devices.
- To answer you when you contact support.
- To keep the service secure and prevent abuse.
We do not sell or rent your data, share it for advertising, or read your conversations except when you ask us to look into a problem with a specific one.
How long we keep it
Your account data is kept while your account exists. You can delete single conversations and notebook items at any time. When you delete your account, your profile, conversations, notebook and lists are erased from our database, normally within minutes. Backups held by our providers expire on their own schedule, usually within 30 days.
Deleting your account
In the app: Profile → Delete account. You confirm your identity once more and everything is removed. If you cannot open the app, email support@speakmile.com from the address on your account and we will delete it for you.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, including under Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Law (KVKK) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you can ask to access, correct, export or delete your data, object to or restrict processing, and complain to your data protection authority. Write to support@speakmile.com and we will answer within 30 days.
Children
Speakmile is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
Security
Data travels over encrypted connections and is stored with Google Cloud encryption at rest. Database rules allow each account to read and write only its own data. API keys for our AI and voice providers are held on our servers and never ship in the app.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update the date above and tell you in the app before the change takes effect.