Your voice should stay yours.

Information We Collect

Depending on how you use Aloud, we may collect:

• Email address, if you join the waitlist or contact support.
• App preferences and affirmation progress, such as your selected affirmations, app settings, streaks, and completion state.
• Voice input while you are using the spoken affirmation feature.
• Usage data, only if you choose to share it. See Usage Analytics below.
• Basic technical information needed to operate, secure, and improve the app and website.
• If you join a private beta, your name or nickname, email, invitation source, community name, iPhone model, iOS version, assigned test group, checklist results, notes, and progress.

Voice and Speech Recognition

Aloud uses microphone and speech recognition access so you can speak your daily affirmation and receive real-time feedback. Aloud does not intentionally store voice recordings. Speech input is used to recognize your words and complete the affirmation flow.

Speech recognition may be handled by device or platform services, such as Apple speech recognition, depending on your device settings and operating system.

Usage Analytics

If you choose Share on the "Share usage data?" screen, Aloud sends usage data to our analytics provider, Amplitude, Inc. If you choose Don't share, or never answer, none is sent.

What we send: which steps and features you use (such as completing onboarding, granting or declining Screen Time access, how many items you chose to block, speaking or typing an affirmation, and unlocking an app), session and app lifecycle events such as opening or updating the app, a random identifier created for this analytics, and device details such as model, operating system, language and app version.

What we never send: your name, your affirmations, your voice or transcripts of it, or which apps you block.

Why: to understand which parts of Aloud work and improve them. We do not use this data for advertising, and we do not combine it with other companies' data to track you.

How long we keep it: 12 months from when we receive it, then it is deleted.

Your choices: turn this off anytime in Aloud under Settings > Share usage data; nothing further is sent. Usage data is tied to the random identifier, not to your name or email, so we may not be able to find your data from an email alone. To ask about deleting data already sent, email us and we will tell you what we can do.

Amplitude processes this data for us as a service provider and is required to protect it to the same standard as this policy.

How We Use Information

We use information to provide the app experience, save your preferences, respond to support requests, send waitlist or launch updates you requested, prevent abuse, and improve reliability. For private beta participants, we also use registration details to balance device and community coverage, assign a test group, track completion, and investigate reported issues.

Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your information to track you across other companies' apps or websites. We may share limited information with service providers who help us run the website, email list, beta testing database, support, hosting, analytics, or app infrastructure. Airtable is used to store private beta registration details and checklist results. Amplitude receives usage data if you choose to share it.

Retention and Choices

We keep information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required by law. Private beta registration and test results are deleted or anonymized when they are no longer needed to evaluate the beta and resolve related issues. You can request deletion of your waitlist, beta, or support records by contacting us.

Children

Aloud is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes

We may update this policy as Aloud evolves. If the changes are meaningful, we will update the effective date and provide notice where appropriate.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact us at: