Berceau Industries
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Privacy Policy

Gideon · Effective Date: October 23, 2026 · Last Updated: October 23, 2026

1. Introduction

Berceau Industries LLC ("we," "our," or "us") operates Gideon, a mobile application for iOS and Android phones and tablets, and the website at berceauindustries.com (together, the "Service"). Gideon is a speaking companion: you hold live voice conversations with an AI coach and get feedback on how you speak. Gideon also includes Hone, practice that brings material back on a schedule so it sticks.

This Privacy Policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, who processes it for us, how long we keep it, and the choices you have. By creating an account or using the Service, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with it, please do not use the Service.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

  • Account Data: Your name, email address, and password (stored in hashed form). If you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive your name, email address (or Apple's private relay address), and a unique identifier from that provider.
  • About You: Optional answers that tailor your coaching: your first languages, up to three goals, and your field.
  • Preferences: Your default conversation language, mode, coach, coaching style, and session options.
  • Communications: What you send us when you contact support or give feedback.

2.2 Voice and Conversation Data

  • Live Audio: When you start a conversation, your microphone audio streams directly from your device to our AI provider, OpenAI, so the coach can hear and answer you in real time. The live stream does not pass through our servers, and we do not store it.
  • Transcripts: The text of what you and the coach said in each turn of a conversation, with timing.
  • Assessments: Scores, measurements (such as pace and filler words), and feedback produced from your transcripts and, if you saved a recording, from your audio.
  • Recordings (optional): Only if you turn on "Save a recording of my voice" before a session (it is off by default) do we store an audio recording of your side of the conversation, in private storage. We use it so you can play it back and, on iOS, to score your pronunciation.

2.3 Hone Practice Data

The questions you answer, your answers, scores, review schedules, and practice session times.

2.4 Information Collected Automatically

  • Usage Limits: When each conversation starts and ends and the minutes you have used, so we can apply session and daily limits.
  • Technical Data: Device type, operating system and app version, and IP address, recorded in our server logs for security and troubleshooting.

Gideon contains no advertising or third-party analytics software. We do not use advertising identifiers and do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

2.5 Payments

Gideon Pro is a paid subscription. Purchases are processed by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We never receive your card details; we receive and keep your subscription status and purchase history.

3. How We Use Your Information

  • Providing the Service: To run your conversations, transcribe them, and produce your scores and feedback; and to run Hone.
  • Personalization: To tailor the coach's explanations and suggested practice to your languages, goals, and field.
  • Limits and Safety: To apply session and daily limits and to detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and security incidents.
  • Support: To answer your questions and requests.
  • Improvement: To understand, in aggregate, how the Service is used and where it fails.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws.

We do not sell your personal information, we do not share it for targeted advertising, and we do not use your recordings or transcripts to train AI models.

4. Who Processes Your Information

We share personal information only with service providers that process it on our behalf to run the Service:

  • OpenAI: Hosts the live voice conversation (it receives your audio and the conversation in real time) and writes the assessment of your transcripts. Under OpenAI's API terms, data sent through its API is not used to train its models; OpenAI may retain it for up to 30 days to monitor for abuse.
  • Microsoft Azure AI Speech: Scores the pronunciation of recordings you chose to save (iOS).
  • Supabase: Account sign-in, database, and private storage for saved recordings.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS): Hosts our servers.
  • Apple and Google: Sign-in with Apple or Google, and app distribution.
  • Expo: Delivers app updates.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect the rights and safety of our users or of Berceau Industries LLC, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, in which case this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your information.

5. Data Retention

  • Live audio: Not stored by us.
  • Recordings: Deleted automatically 30 days after they are saved. You can pin up to two recordings to keep them; unpinning one restarts its 30 days. Deleting a session deletes its recording.
  • Transcripts, scores, and feedback: Kept until you delete the session or your account.
  • Account, About You, and Hone data: Kept while your account is active and deleted when you delete your account.
  • Server logs: Kept for a limited period for security and troubleshooting.

6. Security

Data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. Recordings are kept in private storage and are uploaded and played back only through short-lived signed links. Access to production data is limited to staff who need it.

7. Your Rights and Choices

  • Microphone: Gideon asks for microphone access before your first conversation. Conversations need it; you can turn it off at any time in your device settings.
  • Recordings: Saving a recording is off by default and can be turned on or off before each session.
  • Delete: You can delete a session, or your whole account and its data, in the app's settings. You can also ask us by email.
  • Access, Correct, Export: Contact us and we will respond within 30 days.

Depending on where you live (for example, the EEA, the UK, or California), you may have additional rights under GDPR or CCPA/CPRA, including the right to object to or restrict processing and to complain to a data protection authority. To exercise your rights, contact us at [email protected].

8. Age Requirement

The Service is intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to use it. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18; if we learn that we have, we will delete it.

9. International Data Transfers

We are based in the United States, and your information is processed in the United States and wherever our service providers operate. When we transfer personal data from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you in the app and update the "Last Updated" date.

11. Contact Us

Berceau Industries LLC