Privacy policy
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Your voice, your scripts and your videos stay on your iPhone. The app collects no data.
Who we are
The Parlando app and this website are published by Tessel (SIREN 830 081 410), the data controller under the GDPR. Contact: parlando.support@tesselapps.com.
What the app doesn't do
- No account, no sign-up, no email address asked.
- No usage analytics, no audience measurement, no third-party crash reporting.
- No ads, no trackers, no cross-app tracking.
- No data sold or shared.
- The app sends nothing to our servers: we don't have any.
Everything happens on the iPhone
Recognizing your voice (to scroll the script and time the captions), creating the captions, translating them and exporting the videos all happen on your iPhone, with Apple's tools built into iOS. The app requires on-device recognition: if it isn't available for a language, the app doesn't fall back to Apple's servers. Your voice, your scripts and your videos are not sent to any server.
The first time a language is used for recognition or translation, iOS may download that language's files from Apple. iOS does this download, and it carries neither your voice nor your scripts.
What the app stores, and where
- Your scripts and teleprompter settings: in a file on your iPhone, with backup copies on the device (the last 14 days).
- Your takes (video, sound, captions and translations): on your iPhone, inside the app. They are excluded from the device backup and Parlando never copies them to iCloud.
- All of this is erased if you delete the app, except the iCloud copy of your scripts described below.
iCloud, if you want it
If iCloud is on, your scripts and teleprompter settings sync to the private database of your iCloud account (CloudKit), so you find them on your other devices. Apple stores them in your iCloud space; we have no access to them. Your videos and your voice are never copied there. If iCloud is off for Parlando, everything stays on your iPhone only.
Photos
Parlando saves your finished videos to Photos with add-only permission: the app does not read your library. To caption a video already in Photos, you pick it yourself in Apple's picker; only that video is copied into the app. If iCloud Photos is on, Photos syncs your videos according to your settings.
Permissions
Parlando asks for the camera and microphone (to film), speech recognition (to follow your reading and create captions), adding to Photos (to save your videos) and notifications (to remind you the day before the trial ends). You can turn them off at any time in the iPhone Settings. The reminder is scheduled on the iPhone, with no server; Parlando sends no marketing notifications.
Sharing and erasing
You choose where to send a video, a caption file or a script. “Erase my data”, in the app's settings, erases your scripts, takes, settings and their backup copies on the iPhone, and your scripts in iCloud. Videos already saved to Photos stay, and your purchase is not affected.
Purchases
The free trial and Lifetime Access are in-app purchases processed by Apple. We don't receive your name, email address or payment details. The app only asks Apple whether the trial or the purchase exists, and when the trial started. Apple's privacy policy applies to these purchases.
Crash reports
If you allowed it in your iPhone's settings (Share With App Developers), Apple may send us anonymous crash reports. We use them only to fix bugs. You can turn this off in Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements.
If you email us
If you email us, we use your address and message only to reply. This relies on our legitimate interest in answering requests. We keep these exchanges for at most 3 years after the last message, then delete them.
This website
This website uses no cookies, no analytics and no external fonts or scripts. It is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (United States), which processes technical logs (IP address, date, page requested) for security and service operation, for a short period. Cloudflare is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which covers this transfer.
Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, erase, object to, restrict and port your data. To use them, write to parlando.support@tesselapps.com. We reply within one month. You can also complain to the French data protection authority, the CNIL (cnil.fr), or to the authority in your country.
Children
The app collects no data, including about children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with its date. If the app ever needed to collect data, it would ask you first.