Privacy Policy
Your scripts, your voice and your recordings never leave your device, and there is no account. The free version shows ads from Google AdMob, which collects some device and usage data described below. If you subscribe or buy lifetime access, the app shows no ads and the ad SDK never starts.
What stays on your device
- Your scripts. Each script is stored as a file on your device. We never receive it.
- Your voice. While you read, speech recognition runs on your device using Apple’s built-in speech framework. The words it hears are kept in memory only long enough to follow your place in the script. They are never written to storage, never logged and never sent anywhere.
- Your recordings. Audio and video are saved only when you choose to record a take, and they stay on the device. A take goes to your photo library only when you tap to save it there.
- Your settings. Display and reading preferences stay on the device.
Permissions we ask for
- Microphone and Speech Recognition — so the script can follow your voice.
- Camera — only if you record video of yourself reading.
- Photos (add only) — only to save a take you choose to keep. We cannot read your photo library.
You can decline any of these. Without the microphone, the script still scrolls by hand or at a steady pace.
Network use
The first time you use a language, iOS may download its speech model from Apple. That download is managed by Apple, not by us, and none of your content is part of it. After that, reading and recording work fully offline. In the free version, ads need a network connection; without one, the app simply shows no ads.
Purchases
Payment is handled entirely by Apple. We receive no payment details, no card numbers and no billing address.
To confirm that your purchase is active, the app uses RevenueCat. It receives your purchase history — what was bought and when — together with a random identifier created by the app. That identifier is not your Apple ID, is not linked to your name or email, and is not used to track you.
Ads (free version only)
The free version shows a banner in the script library, an occasional full-screen ad after you finish a session, and a video ad you can choose to watch to read a long script. Ads are provided by Google AdMob. Ads never appear while a script is on stage, during the countdown, while recording or saving, or while you edit a script.
For the first 3 days after you get the app, no banner or full-screen ads are shown and you are not asked about tracking. A video ad you choose to watch can appear at any time.
When the app requests an ad, Google’s SDK may collect:
- A device identifier — the advertising identifier (IDFA) only if you allow tracking, otherwise an identifier limited to this app or developer. Used for advertising and analytics, and, if you allow it, to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies.
- Approximate location, estimated from your IP address.
- Ad and app interaction data, such as which ads you have seen, taps and video views.
- Diagnostics, such as crash logs and performance data (for example app launch time).
None of your scripts, recognised words, audio or video is ever given to the ad SDK.
Your choices. Before the first ad, iOS asks whether the app may track you. If you decline, ads are still shown but are not personalised, and we do not ask again; you can change this at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland, Google’s consent form asks for your choice first, and you can decline. Subscribing or buying lifetime access removes all ads; the ad SDK is then never started and none of the data above is collected.
Google’s use of this data is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Analytics
The app contains no analytics SDK of its own and sends us no usage events. If you have chosen in iOS Settings to share crash reports with app developers, Apple may pass anonymous crash reports to us; you control that setting, not us.
Children
Suisheng is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from children. It has no chat, no user-to-user content and no social features.
Your rights
Because your content never reaches us, there is nothing of yours for us to hand over or erase. Data collected by Google for ads is governed by Google’s privacy policy, where you can also exercise your rights. Deleting the app removes your scripts, settings and any recordings you have not saved to Photos.
Changes
If a future version collects anything new, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will tell you when.