Privacy Policy for Speak to Type
Speak to Type has no server of its own. There is no account and no login. We never receive your notes or your voice. Your notes are saved on your phone.
Google is involved in three ways. Android's speech service turns your voice into text, Google AdMob shows the ad in the free version, and Google Play handles the one-time premium purchase. We do not sell your data to anyone.
Information we do not collect
The app never asks for your name, your email address, or any other personal detail, so we never collect one. There is no account system and no sign-in.
Your notes
Your notes are saved on your phone, in the app's own private storage. We have no server, so we never receive a copy. When you delete a note, or uninstall the app, it is gone from the phone. Your settings, such as your theme choice, are stored the same way.
Two features can move note text out of the app's storage. You control both.
- The copy button puts the text of a note on your phone's clipboard, so you can paste it into another app.
- Android's own backup feature can include this app's data in the backup it saves to your Google account. That backup goes straight from your phone to your own Google account. We do not receive it, see it, or have any way to access it. This is an Android setting, not an app setting, so you can turn it off yourself under Settings > Google > Backup if you would rather your notes never leave your phone.
Microphone and speech recognition
The app uses the microphone only while you are dictating, and only to turn your speech into text. Speak to Type does not run any speech or transcription servers, and it never stores or forwards your audio.
Android does the recognition work, not the app. Which service Android uses depends on your phone.
- If your phone has Google's on-device speech service installed (the package named
com.google.android.as), the app asks Android to use it. That service runs on the phone itself, so your speech stays there. - If your phone does not have that service, Android falls back to whatever speech service is set as the default, which is usually Google's. A default service of that kind may send your audio to its own servers to transcribe it. Google's privacy policy covers what Google then does with it.
https://policies.google.com/privacy
We cannot choose what your phone provides, so we cannot promise every phone works the first way. In both cases the audio goes from Android to the speech service, never to us.
Ads (free version)
The free version shows one banner ad, managed by Google AdMob. AdMob may work with other ad networks through its mediation feature, which lets more than one network bid to show the ad. Any partner added this way is covered by Google's own advertising and consent policies. There is no analytics software, no crash reporting, and no other tracking code of any kind.
To show and measure ads, AdMob may collect device information such as your Android advertising ID. That information goes to Google, not to us. Google explains how it is used here.
You can limit ad personalization for your phone under Settings > Google > Ads. The premium purchase removes the banner completely.
Premium purchase
Premium is a single purchase, not a subscription. The product is named premium_unlock. Google Play Billing handles the payment. We never see your card number, your billing address, or any other payment detail, because that information stays with Google. The app is only told that a purchase went through, and it uses that answer to unlock the premium features. The unlock is saved on your phone, and Google Play remembers the purchase so you can restore it later.
Data we do not sell or share
We do not sell your information. We do not pass it to advertisers, data brokers, or anyone else. Google is the only outside company involved, in the three ways described above, and none of them give Google your notes. We get no report or profile about you in return.
Children's privacy
Speak to Type is not made for children under 13. The app collects no personal information from any user, so there is nothing we could knowingly collect from a child.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top. If you keep using the app after a change, the new version applies to you.
Contact us
If you have a question about this policy, write to clearelm.app@gmail.com.