Privacy

Privacy Policy

Effective October 22, 2026 · Spēk is made by ArtemisWorx LLC, New Hampshire, USA

The short version. Spēk clones your voice only after you agree, uses it only to speak your own translated words, and deletes it when you ask. We do not sell your data, we do not show ads, and your voice is not used to train anyone's models.

You can delete your voice, or your whole account, inside the app at any time.

What we collect, and why

What	Why	How long
Your voice recording and the voice model made from it	So translations are spoken in your own voice. This is biometric data, and we collect it only with your explicit consent on the recording screen.	Until you delete your voice or your account
What you say while using the app (audio)	Turned into text and translated. The audio itself is processed and not kept by us.	Not stored
The text of what you said and its translation	To deliver the conversation, to let you replay or save a line, and to find and fix problems.	Up to 30 days in our logs. A two-phone conversation stays in its room until 7 days after the room was last used.
Photos you take with "Translate a sign or menu"	Read and translated, then discarded. The text that was read is kept like any other translation.	The photo is not stored by us
Profile: name, photo, language, city, state, country	So friends can recognise you. If "Discoverable" is on, other Spēk users can find you by these.	Until you change them or delete your account
Email address	To sign you back in on a new phone or browser, and to send your confirmation and welcome emails. Product news only if you tick the box.	Until you remove it or delete your account
Precise location	Only if you choose "Show my actual location" for your map pin. The pin then moves with you: when you open Spēk at least 25 km from where it sits, it is updated to where you are (using the location permission you already gave, never asking again). Otherwise your pin is placed at the city you typed.	Until you switch it off or delete your account
Friends list and friend requests	To connect you with the people you choose.	Until you remove a friend or delete your account
Notification token	To tell you when someone is waiting to talk or has sent a message.	Until you turn notifications off or delete your account
Usage counts, device type, country, and network address	To run the free daily allowance, prevent abuse, keep the service working, and understand which features are used.	Daily totals (how many turns, how many seconds, what it cost us) are kept for our records. They contain no words and no voice, and after your account is deleted they point to an account that no longer exists.
Spēk Romance profile: birth year, how you describe yourself, who you would like to meet, photos and your voice line	Only if you turn on Spēk Romance, so other people in Romance can see your profile and hear your line in their language. Your age is shown as a decade, never your birth year.	Until you leave Romance or delete your account
Links from other apps	When you open Spēk from a link in another app or website, the link tells us the two languages and the name of that app. We use the name only to count how much each partner's travelers use Spēk. We receive nothing else from the other app about you.	Kept in our daily totals, like other usage counts
Purchases	Spēk Plus is bought in the app through the App Store or Google Play; Apple or Google take the payment and tell us which account has an active subscription. Purchases on our website go through our payment processor, which sends us confirmation and your email. We never see your card number.	As required for tax and accounting records

Your voice

We ask for your consent, in your language, before a single second is recorded.
Your recording is sent to our voice cloning partner in the United States to create your voice model. Our partner may change as technology advances; the commitments on this page will not.
Your voice model is used only to speak your own translated sentences in Spēk. It is never sold, never shared for anyone else's use, and never used to train other models.
"Forget voice" in the app deletes the model from our partner and from your phone. Deleting your account does the same.
If you try "Hear yourself" on our website, the recording and the voice made there are deleted automatically unless you choose to keep them: within 7 days if you gave us an email address, within 24 hours if you did not. Before you hear the voice we ask for your email address. We use it to send you the link that keeps your voice, one reminder after three days and one warning two days before the voice is deleted, and nothing else; if you keep the voice it becomes your account email. If you do not keep the voice, the address is kept for 14 days after the voice is deleted so that link still works, then deleted.
We keep your voice only for as long as you keep it in Spēk. It is deleted when you delete it or your account.

Who helps us run Spēk

We share data only with companies that process it on our behalf, and only what each one needs:

Voice cloning, speech recognition and speech synthesis partner (USA): your enrollment recording, the audio of what you say, and the text to be spoken.
AI translation provider (USA): the text to be translated and photos of signs or menus you choose to translate.
Hosting, storage and message delivery providers (USA): your account, your conversations in transit, and notification delivery through Apple and Google.
Email provider (USA): your email address and the emails we send you.
Payment processor (USA): purchases made on our website.
Subscription service (USA): your account ID and the status of a Spēk Plus subscription bought in the app, so the app knows it is active.
Apple and Google: payment for subscriptions bought in the app, under their own privacy policies.
Map and place lookup services: the city and country you typed, to place your pin.

We do not sell personal information, we do not share it for advertising, and Spēk contains no third-party advertising or tracking across other companies' apps and websites.

Your choices

Delete your voice: Voices → Forget voice.
Delete your account: Profile → Delete my account. This permanently removes your voice, your profile, your friends list, your sign-in code and the stored text of your recent conversations.
Leave the directory and the map: Profile → turn off Discoverable.
Stop product news: untick the box in Profile.
Microphone, camera, location and notifications: each is asked for when first needed and can be switched off in your phone's settings.
Access, correction or a copy of your data: write to hello@spek2me.com. We answer within 30 days.

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in Europe, the LGPD in Brazil, or US state privacy laws), you may have additional rights, including to object, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your data protection authority. Withdrawing consent for your voice is the same as deleting it: use "Forget voice" or write to us.

Where your data is processed

Spēk is operated from the United States and your data is processed there. If you use Spēk from another country, your data is transferred to the United States. For voice data we rely on your explicit consent.

Children

Spēk is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. You must be 18 or older to record and clone your voice. If you believe a child has given us data, write to us and we will delete it.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Access to stored data is limited to what is needed to run and support the service. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your data, we will tell you as the law requires.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will say so in the app or by email before the change takes effect. The date at the top shows the current version.

Contact

ArtemisWorx LLC · hello@spek2me.com

See also the Terms of Use and the Community rules.