Privacy Policy for Sayer

Effective date: 28 June 2026 Last updated: 10 November 2026

Sayer ("Sayer", "we", "us", or "our") is an audio-first social app for sharing short voice notes — feelings, stories and everyday moments. This Privacy Policy explains what information the Sayer mobile app (package/bundle ID voice.mrsah.sayer) and its servers collect, how we use it, and the choices and rights you have.

The short version. You don't give us your real name, email or phone number. You appear under a stage name you choose. What you share publicly is public; what you share anonymously shows "Anonymous" to everyone else. Some things never leave your phone (private voices, drafts, listening history, recent searches). If you don't subscribe to Sayer Plus we show non-personalized ads from Google AdMob. We use no third-party analytics and do not track you across other apps or websites. Delete everything in Settings removes your account and content.

Sayer is a social, entertainment-focused community. Content is created by other users and reflects their personal views — it is not professional advice of any kind.

1. Who we are (data controller)

• Provider: Your Legal Name / Company
• Contact email: techykrisham02@gmail.com
• Address: Your business address, if applicable

2. Your account — no real-world identity required

When you first open Sayer, the app creates an account for you. We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number, contacts or social logins.

• Sign-in. A sign-in token is kept in your device's secure storage (iOS Keychain / Android Keystore-backed storage). There is no password.
• Stage name. Your account has a public username (a stage name). We suggest one; you can change it (at most once a week). It never has to be your real name.
• Recovery code (optional). Shown to you once; we store only a hashed form and cannot see or resend it. With your stage name and the code you can restore your account on a new phone. Attempts are rate-limited.
• Log out of this phone removes the account from the phone (it stays on Sayer; your recovery code brings it back). Delete everything removes it from Sayer (Section 9).

3. Information we collect

a) Your public profile (optional, chosen by you)

• Display name, bio, creator category and a profile photo. Photos are re-encoded on our server to a 512-pixel square JPEG, which removes location and camera data (EXIF/GPS). Your profile photo is shown on your profile and public voices — never on anonymous ones.
• Interests you pick during setup (e.g. "Stand-up", "Travel stories"), used to choose which creators and categories to show you first.

b) Content you share

• Voices (audio), with the title, description, category and language you give them, and a waveform used to draw the player. If a transcript/caption is available it is stored with the voice. Optional noise reduction removes background hiss and hum on your phone; it never changes your voice.
• Comments (text or voice), replies, and pinned comments.
• Battle entries (public voices you enter into a comedy battle) and your battle votes. Votes are never shown to anyone; only totals appear after results.
• Each voice is shared publicly (with your stage name and photo) or anonymously (see Section 6).

c) Your activity on Sayer

• Likes, reactions (e.g. 😂 🔥), saves, follows, pins, and blocks and mutes you make.
• Listens and shares. When you listen to a voice for at least a few seconds, or share it, we record that it happened that day (and how long you listened) to count plays and rank trending voices. These records are stored under a keyed one-way hash of your account, not your account ID; they are never shown to anyone, and the voice's creator never sees who listened.
• Notification preferences and the notifications we send you (e.g. a new follower, a comment, a battle result), so the notification centre works.
• Your email address, only if you add one (optional, for creators). We use it only to confirm it with a code and to send creator-programme notices you asked for, such as an email when you reach the monetization goals. It is never shown on your profile or your voices (including anonymous ones), never used for marketing, and deleted when you remove it or delete your account. [Draft wording: needs legal review.]
• Listeners (only if you join). When you joined, which version of the Listener pledge you accepted, and the last time (date and time) you opened Sayer, so speakers can see how many listeners are around right now. Only a count is ever shown, never who. We also record which listener was asked to hear which unanswered voice, so nobody is asked too often. All of it is deleted when you stop being a Listener or delete your account.
• Reports you submit, and moderation records (e.g. removed content, account suspensions and their reason).

d) Technical information needed to run the service

• Last active day (draft, needs legal review). The date — not the time — of the most recent day you used Sayer, so we can count how many people use Sayer each day and month. Only that one date is kept, it is never combined with what you did, and it is deleted with your account.
• Push token (optional). If you allow notifications, your device's Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) token, used only to deliver them. With it, your phone's time zone (as minutes from UTC, not your location) and its app language, so the evening question arrives at 8 pm your time and in your language. They are replaced whenever your phone registers again and deleted with your account.
• Connection data. Your IP address and platform are processed to deliver the service and protect it. IP addresses are used for short-lived abuse counters (rate limits) that are discarded after their time window; we don't store your IP address with your account or content.
• App language. The app sends its interface language (English, Hindi or Nepali) with requests so labels come back in that language.
• Searches are processed to answer them and are not stored on our servers.

What we do not collect

Your name, email, phone number, contacts, precise or background location, health records, financial details (purchases are handled by Apple/Google), or browsing history. We do not use advertising identifiers for tracking or personalized ads.

4. Information stored only on your device

• Private voices ("Keep it private") — never uploaded.
• Drafts — never uploaded until you share them.
• Your mood calendar: how you said you felt each day. It never leaves your phone.
• Listening history and recent searches.
• Settings (theme, app language, feed language, captions, autoplay, noise reduction, low-data mode) and onboarding/permission state.

This data is removed when you delete the app, log out of the phone, or use Delete everything.

5. How we use information

• Provide the service: record, share, play, comment, react, follow, save, run comedy battles, and show profiles.
• Choose what to show you. Feeds, trending lists and suggestions use aggregate activity on Sayer (plays, likes, comments, shares), your language, your interests and who you follow. This is not used for advertising and is not shared with advertisers.
• Send the notifications you've chosen in Settings → Notifications.
• Keep the community safe: review reports (within 24 hours), remove content, block, mute, suspend and ban.
• Maintain, secure and troubleshoot the service; prevent abuse; meet legal obligations.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use your content or activity for personalized advertising or cross-app tracking.

6. What other people can see

• Public voices show your stage name, display name and photo, and appear on your profile, in feeds, search, trending and battles.
• Anonymous voices show "Anonymous" instead of your name, photo or profile, never appear on your profile, never count towards your profile statistics, and can't be found by searching your name. If you reply on your own anonymous voice, you appear as "Author". Sayer still stores which account shared it, so we can moderate, honour reports and blocks, and apply our rules. Anonymous is not untraceable: your voice may be recognisable, and we may disclose information when the law requires it. If you make a voice anonymous after sharing it publicly, people who already saw it with your name may remember.
• Your profile shows your stage name, display name, photo, bio, category, badges, follower/following counts and totals for your public voices.
• Share links. "Share" creates a link to a public web page where anyone with the link can hear the voice (or see a public profile), inside or outside the app. Anonymous voices' pages never show who shared them.
• People you block can't see your content and you can't see theirs; they aren't told. People you mute aren't told either.

7. Service providers and sharing

• Google Firebase Cloud Messaging — delivers push notifications (https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy).
• Google AdMob — non-personalized ads for people without Sayer Plus (see Advertising).
• RevenueCat — confirms Sayer Plus purchases (see Subscriptions).
• Hosting: DigitalOcean (our hosting provider), in country/region of your hosting.
• Legal and safety. We may disclose information if required by law, or where we believe in good faith it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, enforce our Terms, or protect the rights, safety or property of users or the public.

We do not share your content, stage name or account with advertisers or data brokers.

Advertising (Google AdMob) — draft, needs legal review

If you don't subscribe to Sayer Plus, Sayer shows clearly labelled sponsored cards from Google AdMob. They are non-personalized: they are not chosen using your profile or your activity in other apps.

To serve, cap and measure these ads and prevent fraud, Google receives information from your device such as your IP address, device and app information, and — on Android — the device's advertising ID. On iOS we do not ask for permission to track, so Google does not receive the IDFA. Google acts under its own terms; see https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

In the EEA, UK and Switzerland we ask for your consent through Google's consent message before any ad is requested. You can reset or delete the advertising ID in your Android settings. Sayer Plus removes ads entirely. We never send Google your voice recordings, comments, stage name or recovery code.

Product analytics (first-party) — draft, needs legal review

To understand whether Sayer Plus and ads work for people, the app sends Sayer anonymous counts of a few actions — opening the Sayer Plus screen, purchase and restore outcomes, using Plus features, and ads shown — with only the app version and platform. We store no account ID, IP address, stage name, content or device identifier with these counts, and they are not shared with third parties.

Error reports (first-party) — draft, needs legal review

If the app crashes or hits an unexpected error, it sends Sayer a short technical report: the type of error, a message with identifiers, links, addresses and file paths removed on your device, the place in our code where it happened, and the app version and platform. Reports carry no account ID, IP address, stage name, content or device identifier, are grouped with identical errors, kept for up to 90 days to fix bugs, and are not shared with third parties.

Subscriptions (Sayer Plus) — draft, needs legal review

Purchases are handled by Apple or Google; we never see your card or payment details. RevenueCat processes your purchase records on our behalf to confirm your subscription (privacy: https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy). We store your subscription status, plan, renewal and expiry dates, store, country, currency and price, linked to your Sayer account, to grant Plus and for accounting. If you Delete everything, these financial records are kept for accounting and tax obligations but no longer linked to your account. Deleting Sayer does not cancel a subscription — cancel it in your Apple or Google account.

8. Device permissions

• Microphone — only while you record. Never in the background.
• Photos — only when you choose a profile photo (the photo you pick is uploaded; nothing else is read).
• Notifications — optional; manage them in your phone's settings and in Settings → Notifications.

9. Your choices, deletion and data rights

• Delete everything (Settings) permanently removes, from our servers: your voices and their audio, comments and voice replies, likes, reactions, saves, follows (both ways), blocks and mutes, listen and share records, battle entries and votes, notifications, reports you made, your profile and photo, and your account — and then wipes the app's data on your phone. It can't be undone. (Subscription records are kept unlinked, see above.)
• Delete a single voice or comment anytime from its ⋯ menu.
• Edit or remove your profile details and photo in Edit profile.
• Choose which notifications you get in Settings → Notifications.
• Clear your listening history in Profile → Listening history.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data, or to object or request portability (e.g. under the EU/UK GDPR or the CCPA/CPRA). Because Sayer doesn't hold your real-world identity, we may need your stage name and recovery code (or another way to confirm the account is yours) to act on a request. Email techykrisham02@gmail.com. We do not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

Data in transit is protected with encryption (HTTPS/TLS).

10. Data retention

• Voices, comments and profile data: until you delete them, use Delete everything, or they are removed through moderation.
• Listen and share records: kept to compute play counts and rankings; removed with Delete everything.
• Notifications: until you delete your account (or the voice they refer to is deleted).
• Rate-limit counters: minutes to hours. Error reports: up to 90 days.
• Push tokens: while notifications are enabled.
• We may keep limited information longer where needed to comply with the law, resolve disputes, or enforce our Terms and safety policies (for example, a record that an account was banned).

11. Children

Sayer is rated 18+ and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child is using Sayer, contact us and we will take appropriate steps.

12. International users

We process and store information on servers located in country/region of your hosting. If you use Sayer from another country, your information may be transferred to and processed in places with different data-protection laws. Where required, we put appropriate safeguards in place.

13. Security

We use technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information, including encryption in transit, OS-backed secure storage for your sign-in on the device, hashed recovery codes, and keyed hashes for listen and share records. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure.

14. Changes to this policy

When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, tell you in the app.

15. Contact us

• Email: techykrisham02@gmail.com
• Provider: Your Legal Name / Company

This policy describes Sayer's actual data practices as built (checked against the app and server code on 6 November 2026). It is not legal advice. Fill in every ... placeholder and have it reviewed for the laws that apply to you before publishing it at your Privacy Policy URL.