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    Privacy Policy

    Last updated: October 8, 2026

    Overview

    Chirp Go is a voice-to-text application for desktop computers, Android and iPhone. Your privacy is fundamental to how we built the product. Audio processing happens on-device where supported and never leaves your device.

    Data We Do Not Collect

    • Audio recordings: all speech-to-text processing is local
    • Transcription content when AI Polish is off: your text stays on your device
    • Keystrokes or screen content
    • Personal files or documents

    Optional AI Polish

    Premium users may explicitly enable AI Polish. Speech recognition still happens on-device; only the resulting transcript text is sent to our API and Microsoft Azure OpenAI for short-lived cleanup. Audio, screen content, and surrounding documents are never sent. Requests use storage-disabled processing and transcript text is not written to our application database or logs.

    Data We May Collect

    When you purchase a subscription through Paddle:

    • Purchase information: transaction ID, subscription status, and plan type, processed by Paddle
    • Anonymous analytics: basic app usage events (e.g., app launches, feature usage) with no personally identifiable information. These may be collected to improve the product.

    On-Device Processing

    Speech-recognition models run locally on your computer. Internet connectivity is required only for subscription validation, support, app updates, and optional AI Polish.

    Android and iPhone Apps

    The Chirp Go apps for Android and iPhone recognise speech entirely on the phone. They have no account, no ads and no analytics. Audio is kept in memory only while you dictate and is discarded after transcription; it is never uploaded or stored. The apps connect to the internet to download the speech model from Hugging Face and, if you enter a Chirp Go licence key, to check that key with our licensing service: the app sends the key, a random identifier created for this installation and the phone model, and we keep them with your licence so you can manage its devices. Subscriptions bought in the app are handled by Google Play or the App Store; we do not receive your payment details. The apps count how many minutes of the free hour you have used on the phone itself. Recent transcripts are kept on the phone so you can copy them again, and you can clear them at any time. AI Polish is not available in the mobile apps.

    • Android accessibility service: used only to type your finished dictation into the text field you are using. It acts only when you finish a dictation and does not read, collect, store or share screen content.
    • Android display over other apps: shows the floating microphone button.
    • iPhone keyboard Full Access: lets the Chirp Go keyboard receive your dictated text from the Chirp Go app through a container shared between them on the phone. Nothing you type is collected or sent anywhere.
    • iPhone background audio: while you keep a dictation session open, the app keeps the microphone ready so the keyboard can dictate; audio is kept only between your taps on the microphone.

    Platform Permissions

    Chirp Go may request the following system permissions depending on platform and enabled features:

    • Microphone: to capture audio for transcription (processed locally)
    • Accessibility: to register a global hotkey and paste transcribed text

    These permissions are required for core functionality and can be revoked at any time in your operating system settings.

    Website ad measurement

    With your permission, our website loads the Google Ads tag to measure when someone who visited from an ad starts a Chirp Go download. Google may use cookies and ad click identifiers for this measurement. We do not send your audio or transcripts to Google. The tag stays off until you allow it, and it stays off when your browser sends a privacy signal. You can change your choice using the control.

    Third Parties

    We do not sell your data. Payment processing is handled by Paddle, subject to their privacy policy. Optional AI Polish text is processed by Microsoft Azure under Microsoft's privacy and data-protection terms. If you allow website ad measurement, Google processes the ad conversion data under its privacy policy.

    Changes

    We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated through the app or this page.

    Contact

    Questions or concerns? Reach us at our support board or email info@applifyer.com.