Privacy policy

This policy explains how the language-learning app Danish Talk ("the app") for iPhone and Android handles information. The app is made by FlashBite Studios ("we", "us"). Contact: support@flashbitestudios.com.

The short version

• There is no account and no sign-up. The app never asks for your name, email or phone number.
• When you speak, your voice is turned into text on your phone. Recordings are never uploaded and are not kept.
• Your progress and settings are saved on your phone only. We run no servers for the app, and it sends nothing over the internet. On Android it does not even have permission to use the internet.
• There are no ads, no analytics and no tracking, and the app does not read device identifiers.

1. The microphone and your voice

The app asks for microphone access so you can answer out loud in speaking exercises and conversations. It records only while you answer: from when you tap the microphone until you stop speaking, tap it again or let go of it.

Speech recognition software built into the app (whisper.cpp) turns the recording into text on your device. The app compares that text with the Danish it expected, shows you the result and deletes the recording. Recordings are never uploaded, never shared and never saved to storage. The microphone check in Settings can play your last recording back to you; it holds it in memory only and discards it when you leave that screen.

You can refuse microphone access, or turn it off later in your phone's settings. Speaking practice then can't hear you, but lessons, reviews and everything else keep working.

2. Information stored on your device

The app saves your learning progress in one file on your device: your interface language (English or Turkish), the level, reasons and daily goal you chose when you started, your settings, which words, lessons and conversations you have practised and how they went, your review schedule and your achievements. It holds no name, email, device identifier or recording, and it is not sent to us.

The file is removed when you use Settings → Reset all progress or delete the app. If your phone backs up apps (iCloud Backup, or Android's backup to your Google account), that backup can include the file. Backups are made and kept by Apple or Google, not by us.

3. App stores and crash reports

Apple and Google provide downloads and updates under their own privacy policies. If you have chosen in your phone's settings to share diagnostics with app developers, they may give us crash and performance statistics for the app that do not identify you. We use them only to fix problems.

4. Support

If you email us, we receive your email address and your message, and use them only to answer you.

5. Sharing

The app does not collect personal information, so we have nothing to share or sell. It contains no advertising, analytics or tracking software from anyone.

6. How long information is kept

• On your device: until you reset your progress or delete the app.
• Recordings: not kept. Each is deleted as soon as it has been turned into text.
• Support emails: as long as needed to help you, then deleted.

7. Your rights and choices

• Delete your progress: Settings → Reset all progress, or delete the app.
• Microphone: allow or refuse it in your phone's settings at any time.
• Access, correction and deletion: depending on where you live (for example the EU or UK under the GDPR, California and other US states, or Canada under PIPEDA), you may have rights over your personal information. Because the app keeps everything on your device, you control it there. For anything else, including support emails, write to support@flashbitestudios.com.
• Complaints: you can complain to your local data protection authority.

8. Children

Danish Talk is made for adults and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

9. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and update the effective date. If the app ever starts to collect information, we will update this policy and the stores' privacy details before that version is released.

10. Contact

FlashBite Studios. Email: support@flashbitestudios.com