Privacy Policy for TakAboutIt

Last updated: April 12, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
• Application refers to TakAboutIt, the software program provided by the Company.
• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to TakAbout.
• Country refers to: United Kingdom
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Application.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. Key Service Providers are detailed in the "Sharing Your Personal Information" section.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with or collect certain personally identifiable information. This may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address (when registering with email/password or through a Third-Party Social Media Service)
• Name (if provided by a Third-Party Social Media Service during login)
• Language Preferences (selected target language, source language(s), translation mode)
• Subscription and Purchase Information (related to Google Play Billing transactions)
• Usage Data (detailed below)

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

The Company allows You to create an account and log in to use the Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services:

• Google
• Facebook

If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal Data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your name and Your email address. This data is used primarily for authentication and account setup.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Audio and Text Data (Conversations)

When You engage in a real-time chat session within the Application:

• Audio Data: We collect the audio input from Your microphone when You speak during an active chat session. This audio is streamed in real-time to our Service Provider (OpenAI) for transcription and to generate AI responses.
• Text Data: We collect the text content of messages You type and the text generated from transcriptions and AI responses.

This audio and text data is essential for the core functionality of the real-time conversation and translation features.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version (if applicable), the pages or screens of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages/screens, unique device identifiers, mobile operating system, mobile Internet browser type, and other diagnostic data.

Specifically for the Application, Usage Data also includes:

• Real-time chat session metrics (e.g., connection status changes, session duration, start/end times, OpenAI models used based on tier).
• Interaction data within a chat (e.g., microphone mute/unmute actions, noise reduction setting changes, text-only mode activation).
• Language identification results for Your messages (processed on-device using ML Kit).
• Information related to subscription status and tier limits (e.g., daily session counts).
• Identifiers or data collected by advertising partners (Google AdMob) if You are using an ad-supported tier, subject to their privacy policies.
• Details related to errors or crashes.

Information Collected via On-Device Technologies

• ML Kit Language Identification: We use Google's ML Kit on Your device to identify the language of your completed messages. This processing happens locally on your device to help display language information accurately within the chat.
• Local Storage (Preferences & History): We use mechanisms like SharedPreferences and local databases on your device to store your settings (like language preferences) and your conversation history. See "Local Data Storage" below.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data, Audio Data, Text Data, and Usage Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including the core real-time chat, transcription, translation features (utilizing OpenAI), and monitoring the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration and authentication as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service.
• To manage Your Subscription: To determine your subscription tier, enforce usage limits (session count, duration), process payments via Google Play Billing, handle purchase verification, and manage subscription status based on information from Google Play.
• To provide Advertisements: To load and display advertisements (via Google AdMob) if your subscription tier includes them.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the subscription services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
• To contact You: To contact You by email or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation. (Note: Push notifications require explicit permission).
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us, including support inquiries.
• To process Content Reports: To receive, review, and act upon reports of inappropriate or problematic content submitted by users.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis (e.g., analyzing session logs to improve service), identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
• To enable Conversation History: To save your completed conversations locally on your device for you to review, search, and manage.
• To identify Language: To use on-device ML Kit to identify the language of your messages for display purposes.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We may share Your personal information, audio data, text data, and usage data in the following situations with the following parties:

• With Service Providers: We share information with third-party companies and individuals who perform services on our behalf or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These include:
  • OpenAI: We share real-time audio data, text messages, and session configuration settings (like language, noise reduction mode) with OpenAI to provide the core AI conversation, transcription, and translation features via their Realtime Sessions API. OpenAI's use of data is governed by their privacy policy and terms.
  • Firebase (Google): We use various Firebase services:
    • Authentication: For user sign-up, sign-in, and account management.
    • Firestore: To store your subscription status, expiry dates, and daily session usage counts, linked to your user ID.
    • Cloud Functions: For backend logic such as generating OpenAI tokens, verifying Google Play purchases, logging session metrics, and handling subscription notifications from Google Play. These functions may process your user ID, purchase data, and session metadata.
    • Remote Config: To fetch configuration details for subscription tiers. The service receives basic app instance information.
  • Google Play Billing: To process subscription purchases, query product details, handle purchase updates, and manage subscriptions. Information necessary for the transaction is shared with Google Play according to their terms.
  • Google AdMob: If you are on an ad-supported tier, we integrate the Google Mobile Ads SDK which may collect and share device identifiers and usage data with Google AdMob to display personalized or non-personalized ads, subject to Google's advertising privacy policies.
  • Azure Functions (Microsoft): When you submit a content report, the reported message content, reason, and optional feedback are sent to an endpoint hosted on Azure Functions for processing and review.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions, only if you have consented to such sharing where required.
• With other users: If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity, based on the settings and permissions of that service. (Note: TakAboutIt itself does not appear to have public user profiles based on the readme).
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your explicit consent.

Local Data Storage (On Your Device)

• Conversation History: Completed chat conversations (summaries and full message lists) are stored automatically in a local database on Your Device. This data remains on your device unless you choose to delete it using the features within the Application. It is not automatically uploaded to our servers.
• Settings and Preferences: Your language preferences, selected modes, and other settings are stored locally on Your Device using mechanisms like SharedPreferences for persistence between sessions.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data (such as account information, subscription status in Firestore) only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and to manage your account and subscription status. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws, like financial records for subscriptions), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Conversation History data is stored locally on Your device and is retained until You choose to delete it through the Application's features.

The Company will also retain Usage Data (like session logs stored in Firebase) for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, Audio Data, and Text Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and by our Service Providers (like OpenAI, Firebase, Azure) which may be located internationally. This means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information (e.g., through Standard Contractual Clauses or adequacy decisions where applicable).

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service provides you with the ability to delete certain information directly:

• Conversation History: You can delete individual conversations or all conversation history stored locally on your device from within the Application settings.

You may update, amend, or delete Your Account information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us (see Contact Us section).

Account Deletion: You can request the deletion of your entire Account through the Application. This process may require re-authentication for security. Initiating account deletion will trigger a request via Firebase Authentication. We rely on backend processes (potentially including Firebase Extensions) to handle the deletion of associated data stored on our servers (like Your subscription status and session counts in Firestore) following an account deletion request, subject to legal retention requirements.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information (e.g., related to financial transactions or legal compliance) when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so, even after a deletion request.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, including utilizing secure protocols for data transmission (like HTTPS and WSS) and leveraging the security features of our Service Providers (like Firebase and OpenAI). However, remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Content Reporting

If you choose to report a message within the application, we collect the content of the reported message, the reason you selected for reporting, any additional feedback you provide, and a timestamp. This information is sent to our designated backend service (hosted on Azure Functions) for review and potential action to maintain the safety and integrity of the Service.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information. (Note: The age of consent may be higher than 13 in some jurisdictions, e.g., 16 under GDPR in some EU countries).

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites or services that are not operated by Us (e.g., links to manage subscriptions in the Google Play Store, links to Service Provider privacy policies). If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page within the Application or on our website.

We may let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: dubaisolve@gmail.com
• By visiting this page on our website: https://baitedinyou.com/

Disclaimer: This Privacy Policy was generated with AI assistance based on user-provided information and a template. It aims to reflect the data practices described but does not constitute legal advice. It is strongly recommended to have this policy reviewed by a qualified legal professional to ensure full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations before publication.