Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Civic Brief, LLC runs Speakfarer and is responsible for your personal information. Speakfarer is offered to invited adults in the United States. Contact: support@civiary.com.

2. What we collect

Account: your email address, and the display name, language, theme, time zone and daily goal you choose.

Learning: your level-check results and levels, conversation turns with the tutor (what you typed or said, as text, and its replies and corrections), writing exercises and feedback, texts you read and your answers, saved words and review history, missions, streak and points.

Usage: how much voice practice and AI use your account had each day, to apply the daily limits.

Voice: when you use the microphone, your recording is sent to our speech-recognition server, turned into text, and discarded. We do not store your voice recordings.

Reports: if you report a tutor reply, we keep that reply with the reason and any details you add, to review it.

Reviewers only: invited reviewers who help check the German may send notes, screenshots of the app, and recordings of practice sentences. These come only from reviewer accounts.

We do not collect your location, contacts, device identifiers or payment details, and we use no advertising or analytics tools.

3. How we use it

To run your lessons: generate the tutor's replies and corrections, check your writing, choose texts at your level, schedule word reviews, and keep your progress.

To keep the service working and fair: daily limits, preventing abuse, fixing problems, and improving lessons. Corrections suggested by reviewers are used to fix the app's German.

We do not sell your personal information, share it for advertising, or use it to build profiles about you for anyone else.

4. Service providers

We use these providers to run Speakfarer. They process data only for us and under contract:

Vercel (web app and API hosting); Supabase (database, sign-in and sign-in emails); Anthropic (the AI tutor: it receives the text of your conversations, writing and the words you look up to generate replies, and under its commercial terms does not use it to train its models); Cloudflare (secure connection to our own speech servers); Google Play (app distribution, for the Android app).

Speech recognition and the tutor's voice run on servers we operate ourselves. Audio of the tutor's lines is cached and reused for all learners; it contains no personal information.

5. Cookies

The website uses two cookies: one to keep you signed in and one to remember your language. Neither is used for tracking or advertising. The Android app keeps your sign-in and settings on your device.

6. Retention, export and deletion

We keep your data while your account is open. You can download all of it on the website in Profile → Export my data (on Android: Profile → Export or delete your data on the web).

When you delete your account (website: Profile → Delete account), we delete your account and all your learning data immediately; reviewer uploads are deleted too. Copies in our providers' backups expire within 30 days.

7. Security

All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS). Database rules ensure each account can only read its own data, and AI and voice provider keys stay on our servers, never in the app.

No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your personal information, we will tell you as the law requires.

8. Your rights

Wherever you live in the US, you can ask to access, correct, export or delete your personal information, and we will not treat you differently for asking. Most of this you can do yourself in Profile; for the rest, email support@civiary.com. Residents of states with privacy laws (such as California) have these rights under those laws.

9. Children

Speakfarer is for adults (18+). We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has an account, contact support@civiary.com and we will delete it.

10. Changes and contact

We will update this policy when the app changes how it uses data, show the new effective date here, and tell you in the app or by email about important changes.

Questions or requests: support@civiary.com.