Privacy Policy for Aloud

Effective date: 7 September 2026 · Last updated: 7 September 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how SUMMERCLOUDE PTE. LTD. ("we," "us," or "the developer") handles information in connection with the Aloud iPhone app ("the App").

The short version: there is no sign-in and no account. We never ask for your name, email or phone number. Your recordings and notes are stored on your device. To transcribe and polish a recording, the audio is sent securely for processing and is not stored on our servers.

No account, no sign-in

The App does not require you to create an account or log in. To operate the service we use anonymous identifiers that are tied to your device and App Store purchase, not to your real-world identity.

Your recordings and transcripts

Your recordings, transcripts, polished text and summaries are stored locally on your device and stay there until you delete them (or delete the App).

When you ask Aloud to transcribe and polish a recording, the audio is sent over an encrypted connection to our processing service, which forwards it to OpenAI to produce the transcript, title, polished text and summary. The results are returned to your device. We do not store your audio or transcripts on our servers — our backend passes them through for processing and does not retain them. Per OpenAI's API data-usage policies, data submitted through the API is not used to train OpenAI's models and is retained only briefly for abuse monitoring before deletion (see openai.com/policies).

Anonymous identifiers and security data

To meter usage fairly, grant the one-time free hour once per device, prevent abuse and secure our service, we process:

• An anonymous account identifier (a random value stored in your device Keychain).
• Apple DeviceCheck and App Attest data — Apple technologies that confirm requests come from a genuine, un-tampered app on a real device, and that the free hour is granted only once per device. We do not receive your Apple ID from these.
• Your IP address — processed by us and our infrastructure provider Cloudflare for security, rate-limiting and to limit abuse of the free tier. IP-based abuse counters reset daily.

Purchases

Aloud offers optional in-app purchases (hour packs). Payments are handled entirely by Apple — we never see your card or payment details. To credit the hours you bought, we store the Apple transaction identifier, the product purchased and the amount of time credited, linked to your anonymous account identifier.

Who processes your data

We use the following service providers to run the App:

• OpenAI — transcription and polishing of your audio and text (policies).
• Cloudflare — backend hosting and security; processes requests and IP addresses (policy).
• Apple — payments, DeviceCheck and App Attest (policy).

We do not sell your data, share it with data brokers, or use it for advertising or cross-app tracking.

Data retention and deletion

Recordings and transcripts are kept on your device until you delete them, and are not retained on our servers. Delete individual notes in the App, or delete the App to remove all locally stored recordings and transcripts. Our backend holds only anonymous usage counters and purchase records, retained while needed to operate metering and honour your purchased balance; IP abuse counters reset daily.

Your rights

Privacy laws such as the GDPR (EU/UK), Singapore's PDPA and the CCPA (California) give you rights over personal data held about you. Our backend holds only anonymous records with no name, email or other information that identifies you, so there is no personal profile to look up or export, and many requests can be satisfied simply by deleting the App. You are welcome to contact us to confirm this or to make a request.

Security

All data in transit uses TLS encryption. Our service is protected by Apple App Attest, which verifies genuine app instances, and by rate limiting. Identifiers are stored in the device Keychain.

Children's privacy

The App is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country), and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page with a new "last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy, or a request to make? Contact us:

SUMMERCLOUDE PTE. LTD. — registered in Singapore
[email protected]