Privacy policy

Effective 29 July 2026

TalkWithMe is a language-learning app. This page says plainly what we store, why, and what you can do about it.

What we store

• Your account — an email address, managed by Google's Firebase Authentication (email/password or Google sign-in). We never see or store your password.
• Your learning content, if you sync — decks, cards, images, pronunciation audio, review history, and word lists are backed up to your account so your devices stay in step. They live in Google Cloud Storage in the EU, encrypted at rest, and — apart from the shared pictures below — are readable only by your account.
• Pictures shared with other learners — when the AI generates a card image for you, a copy joins a community pool that other learners can search and reuse. Stored alongside it: the word it illustrates, its translations, the prompt it came from, a short AI-written description, the language, and an internal reference to the account that generated it. This is on by default; Settings → "Share generated pictures" turns it off for future pictures. Photos you upload and pictures you find on the web never join the pool.
• Usage counters and your credit balance — a tally of your AI usage plus a per-account credit balance with its purchase/spend history (when it moved and by how much). Numbers, not content.
• Payments — credit packs are bought through Stripe, our payment processor. Stripe receives what a card payment needs (card details, your email, the amount); we never see or store your card number — our servers keep only the credited pack and a reference id for the transaction.
• Crash reports — when the app breaks, it sends us the error type, a short error message, and the list of code files and line numbers involved, plus which build and platform you're on. No card content, no chat text, no account identifier, no location. This is on by default; Settings → "Send crash reports" turns it off, which also discards anything still waiting to be sent.

How AI features work

When you use an AI feature — generating a card image, chatting, transcribing your voice, describing a photo you picked — the inputs you provide are sent through our server to Google's Gemini API to produce the result. Chat conversations are kept on your device, not on our server. We don't use your content to train anything.

Generated pictures that join the community pool are described and indexed by the same API, so other learners can find them by meaning rather than by filename.

What we don't do

• No ads. We never sell your data. It goes to third parties only where a feature needs a processor to work — Google Cloud for storage and the Gemini API, Stripe for payments — and the only content other people can see is the shared picture pool described above.
• No third-party analytics or tracking in the app. The crash reports above go to our own server, not to an analytics company, and they record failures — never what you do in the app.
• Error monitoring (Sentry), when enabled, is configured to exclude personal data.

Your data, your calls

• Export — every deck exports to a standard Anki file with full progress, plus an image bundle, from inside the app. Your cards are yours — take them anywhere.
• Delete — Settings → Delete account removes your account, your synced content, your usage records, and your credit balance and its history from our servers, and erases that account's cards from this device too. Export first if you want to keep them. Pictures already shared to the community pool stay in it; write to us if you need one taken down. Stripe retains its own record of past payments (a legal requirement for payment processors) — that record is theirs, not ours to delete.
• Offline — reviewing your cards never needs an account or a connection.

Questions

Email zach.eberhart@gmail.com — for data questions, deletions we can help with, or anything this page didn't answer. If this policy changes, the date above changes with it.