Privacy
This is a plain-language placeholder for the owner to review before launch. It is not legal advice.
What the app stores
- Your name, email, and a password hash.
- Check-in answers and the practice plan built from them.
- Practice sessions: which exercise, how long, and a self-rating.
- Mood notes and stammer notes you choose to type and save.
- Coach profile answers you type during personalisation.
If you continue as a guest, what you do is saved to an anonymous guest account with no email or password; it stays only while this browser keeps its sign-in cookie, and moves to your account if you create one from the guest banner.
Anonymous usage analytics
To see which parts of the app help people, SpeakEase counts anonymous usage: which pages are opened, which features are used (for example that a drill was started or a check-in was saved), the site or link you arrived from, your country, and whether you are on a phone or computer. A random id in a first-party cookie tells repeat visits apart. Your IP address is not stored, nothing is shared with advertisers, and your speech, transcripts, typed messages, mood notes and check-in answers are never part of analytics. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the app does not count you this way. The site also uses Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights, which collect anonymous page and performance data without cookies.
Voice
A spoken check-in is sent to the server so it can be turned into text when a speech provider is configured. The account stores that text and your check-in answers. A mood-page recording stays in the browser and is not uploaded; type the note if you want it saved. Coach voice practice sends your recording to our speech-to-text provider, Deepgram, to get the words and their timings. SpeakEase does not store that audio or transcript. SpeakEase is not a medical record system.
Who can see it
Your notes are tied to your login. Other people using the app should not be able to read them. The person running this deployment can access the database. There is no separate public profile.
What this is not
SpeakEase does not diagnose, treat, or cure stammering. It is a practice companion. If you want clinical support, talk with a speech and language therapist or a stammering organisation such as STAMMA or the Stuttering Foundation.
The conversation coach and the tester pilot
Your practice is private, and SpeakEase keeps as little as it can. Here is exactly what happens when you use the conversation coach.
To understand you and reply, SpeakEase uses two trusted service providers. Your voice recording is sent to Deepgram, which turns it into text, and the text of the conversation is sent to OpenAI, which writes the coach’s replies. Both are based in the US, so your data may be processed outside the EU. Those transfers are covered by each provider’s data-processing terms. SpeakEase never stores your audio.
During the tester pilot, SpeakEase also keeps a few simple measurements to check that the coach gives people enough time: how many turns there were, how long each recording was and whether it reached the time limit, how long the coach took to reply, any technical problems (for example a blocked microphone), the language, and a rough device type (phone, tablet or computer, plus the browser and system family). It does not keep your raw browser details, your IP address or any audio. None of it rates how you speak. These measurements are kept on the basis of legitimate interests: making sure the pilot works well and never rushes anyone.
Conversation text is not kept by default. You can choose to share it to help improve SpeakEase, using “Change my privacy choices” under the coach. Because a transcript can show that you stammer, which is health-related information, it is kept only with your explicit consent (GDPR Article 9(2)(a)), and only for conversations started after you turn sharing on. You can turn it off at any time, and any text you shared is then deleted. The coach works exactly the same either way.
The developer, Lucy, can view the pilot measurements and the text of conversations people chose to share. No one else can.
Before your first conversation, SpeakEase asks you to confirm that you are 18 or over, and saves that with the date and time. SpeakEase is for adults (18+). Your sharing choice is also saved with the date and time you made it.
The feedback form does not ask for your name, and the contact question is optional. Your answers are linked to a conversation only if you are signed in or using guest mode and tick the box to link them.
All pilot data (feedback answers including any contact details, consent records, conversation measurements, technical problems and shared text) is deleted 90 days after it was collected.
You can ask to see or delete your pilot data at any time. Contact the developer (see the Help page) and include the session ID shown after your conversation. If you are unhappy with how your data is handled, you can complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland (dataprotection.ie).