Privacy policy

The short version

• Speakeeper is not available yet. It is coming in 2027. This policy explains how the app will handle your family's information when it launches, and how this website handles information today.
• Your family's recordings stay with your family. We will never sell them, never use them for ads and never use them to train computer programs.
• There will be no ads and no third-party tracking or advertising code in Speakeeper or on this website.
• A parent gives consent before we keep any information about a child, and every adult who is recorded agrees for themselves first.
• Parents can review, download and delete their family's information at any time.

Who we are

Speakeeper is operated by Hausbound, LLC, 1300 Rt 17 North Ste 1, Ramsey, NJ 07446. You can reach us by email at support@speakeeper.com or by phone at (201) 785-7309. In this policy, "we" and "us" mean Hausbound, LLC.

Speakeeper is made for families with young children, so it is directed in part to children under 13. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) applies to it, and this policy is our notice to parents under that law.

This website

This website has no analytics, no ads and no third-party tracking code. Reading its pages, such as this policy, does not set any cookie and does not ask for any information about you or your child.

Parents can sign in to the parent area of this website with email (we send a sign-in link), Sign in with Apple or Google sign-in. Signing in sets one cookie that keeps you signed in. It is strictly necessary, it is set only for a signed-in adult, and it is removed when you sign out. During an Apple or Google sign-in, a second cookie that protects the sign-in is set for a few minutes. Children and family adults never sign in, so these cookies are never set for them.

Like any website, our hosting provider receives the technical details your browser sends to load a page, such as your IP address. We do not use them to identify you. They are kept for up to 30 days.

Who will use Speakeeper

• A parent creates the family account, gives consent and manages everything. Up to two parents can have a login.
• Children ages 3 to 8 play the games and record their practice. A family can add up to four children.
• Family adults, such as a grandparent, aunt or uncle, are invited by a parent with a private link. They do not create an account and are never asked for an email address or phone number.
• A person who buys a gift year for a family gives only their email address.

What we will collect from children

Only a parent can add a child, and we collect the minimum needed for the games to work:

• A nickname and an age band (3 to 4, 5 to 6, or 7 to 8), entered by the parent.
• An avatar, saved as a list of picture parts chosen in the app, never a photo.
• Voice recordings the child makes: practice tries at saying a word, and the English words the child teaches a family adult.
• Progress and play activity, such as games played, words learned and words taught.

We will never ask for a child's last name, birth date, photo, school, location or contacts, and the child profile has no place to enter them.

Speakeeper does not use speech recognition. We will not score, analyze or identify anyone's voice. A child's recording can pick up voices nearby; any parent can delete any recording.

What we will collect from adults

From parents:

• Your email address, and which sign-in methods you use: an emailed sign-in link, Sign in with Apple or Google sign-in. If you hide your email with Sign in with Apple, we receive only Apple's private relay address. Apple and Google may send us your name and photo; we do not keep them.
• A record of each signed-in session, so you stay signed in. We do not store your IP address or device type with it.
• Your name as you type it on an invite to a second parent, and the email address you send the invite to.
• Your consent records: which version of this notice you accepted, when, and how, and whether our email confirming your consent was delivered.
• Purchase records: the amount, the date, where you bought (our website, the App Store or Google Play) and the payment processor's reference. We never see or store your full card number.
• Recordings you make, if you choose to learn alongside your child.
• A notification token for your phone, if you allow notifications.

From family adults a parent invites:

• The family title the parent enters for them, such as Grandma, Uncle or Tía. It is the only name of theirs we keep.
• Their recordings and their own recording consent record.
• A random code saved on their phone so their private link keeps working on up to two devices, and a notification subscription if they allow notifications.

From gift givers: an email address, used only to send the gift code.

If we offer printed books and a parent orders one: the shipping address.

Parental consent

You can create your family account, invite the other parent and invite family adults without giving consent for a child. We ask for it once, when you add your first child, because a child's profile is the first information about a child we keep. Nothing about a child is saved before a parent has read this notice and agreed.

How you give consent: in the app or the parent area, after reading this notice, you tap to agree from your own signed-in parent login with a confirmed email address. About 24 hours later we email you to confirm it. That email says what we keep about your child and who can hear it, and it has a link you can use to withdraw your consent at any time. If the email cannot reach you, the parent area asks you to check your address and lets you send it again.

Sharing outside your family needs a second step. Your child's recordings and information stay inside your family's account: only the parents and the family adults you invite can see or hear them in the app. If you choose to put your child's voice or picture on something that works outside your family (a printed household label, the family's Voice Book link or a printed book), we first ask for a card check: a charge of 50 cents through our payment processor, Stripe, refunded right away, followed by an email that names the charge, what you agreed to and how to withdraw. Without it, those choices stay locked and we tell you why.

A second parent who joins the family reads this notice and accepts it before they can see any child's information.

If we make a material change to this notice, recording stays off for children until a parent reviews the new version and agrees again.

You can withdraw consent at any time in the parent area or with the link in the confirmation email. Your children stop recording at once. If no other parent's consent remains, we delete your children's profiles right away and their recordings within 30 days.

The legal basis for children's information: everything a child creates in Speakeeper, or that we collect from a child, is kept only with a parent's consent under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The one exception is the error reports described below, which carry no identifier of any kind and are used only to keep the service working, as COPPA allows for the internal operations of a service. Speakeeper is offered only in the United States, so we do not rely on the European data protection law (GDPR).

Consent from every adult who is recorded

Before we save any adult's voice, that adult agrees for themselves, in their own language. A family adult reads a short notice in their own language, or listens to it read aloud, and taps one button to agree; on a shared family tablet, a parent also confirms that the adult was there and agreed. A parent who records agrees in the parent area.

The notice tells them that we record only when they press the microphone, that recordings are kept on our server in the United States, who can hear them, and that a parent can download recordings and share copies. An adult can stop at any time, from the "Mi voz" button or through a parent, and can choose to have their recordings deleted. Copies a parent already downloaded or shared are outside our control and cannot be deleted by us.

How we will use information

• To run the games, word cards and daily activities, and to play recordings to your own family.
• To send the daily prompt to a family adult who allowed notifications.
• To run your account and plan, and to send the emails the service needs: your consent confirmation, reminders before a trial ends or a plan renews, and notices before anything is deleted.
• To keep the service secure and to find and fix errors.

We will never sell your family's information, never show ads, never build advertising profiles and never use anyone's voice to train computer programs.

Who can hear your family's recordings

Inside the app, only your family can hear your recordings: the parents, the children and the family adults you invite. The family adults you invite can hear your child's practice tries and the English words your child teaches them.

A parent can also choose to put recordings on things that work by link or code: printed household labels, the family's Voice Book link and printed books with QR codes. Anyone who holds one of those links or printed codes can hear the recordings on it. A child's practice tries are never included, and a child's English words or avatar only if a parent turns that on after the card check described above. A parent can turn off any link at any time.

A parent can download the family's recordings and share copies, for example on WhatsApp. Copies that were downloaded or shared are outside our control.

Our staff can reach a recording only when a parent asks for help, and every such access is logged.

Speakeeper will have no chat, no messaging and no way for anyone outside your family to contact you or your child.

No ads and no tracking

There will be no ads in Speakeeper. The app and this website contain no third-party advertising, analytics or tracking code.

If the app or one of our web pages hits an error, it sends us a short report so we can fix it. The report carries no identifier of any kind: it has the error's name, a shortened message with anything that looks like an email address or a long number removed, the page type, the app version and the day. It never includes cookies, your IP address, your device type or an account. We use these reports only to keep Speakeeper working, and we delete them after 90 days.

Companies that help us run Speakeeper

We will use a small number of service providers. Each receives only the information it needs to do its job for us. None of them receives your family's recordings except the hosting and storage providers that keep and deliver them for us.

• Hosting and server functions through Vercel, which deliver the app's data and this website.
• Database and file storage through Supabase, in the United States, where your family's information and recordings are kept, encrypted at rest.
• Email delivery through Mailgun, for the emails described above.
• Payments through Stripe (including the card check for sharing outside your family, and sales tax), and through the Apple App Store and Google Play for purchases made in the app.
• Sign-in with Apple or Google, if a parent chooses it.
• Notification delivery through Apple, Google, the Expo push service and your browser's push service, if you allow notifications.
• A security service that limits repeated requests to private links, which sees the IP address of those requests.
• Server error monitoring, which receives error reports from our servers with personal information removed.
• A print company, only if you order a printed book. It receives the page images and your shipping address, never audio or account information.

We disclose information only when the law requires it. If Speakeeper is sold, we will tell parents first and give them the chance to delete their family's information, and any buyer must keep it under this policy. If Speakeeper closes, we delete all family information.

How long we keep information

Nothing about your family is kept forever. Information ends when the family is deleted, under the inactivity rule below, or under the Voice Book rule.

• A child's practice tries are deleted automatically 90 days after they are made, unless a parent marks one to keep.
• Other recordings, word cards and progress are kept while your family has an account.
• If a family has no activity for 18 months and no plan that gives access, we email every parent 60 days and 30 days before deleting anything. If neither email reaches you, nothing is deleted by this rule. A family with a plan that gives access is never deleted for inactivity.
• When a plan ends, the family can keep downloading its Voice Book for 60 days. We email you the day the plan ends and 14 days before that window closes. Then our copy of the Voice Book is deleted; the files you downloaded stay yours.
• Printed labels and printed books play recordings only while your family has an account.
• Error reports are deleted after 90 days.
• A gift giver's email address is deleted 30 days after the gift code is used or expires.
• A shipping address for a printed book is deleted 90 days after delivery.
• Purchase records (amount, date, where bought and the payment reference, never any child information) are kept only as long as tax law requires.
• Deleted information may stay in encrypted backup copies for up to 30 days, and then it is gone.

Deleting your family's information

• Any parent can delete any recording. It stops playing everywhere within 1 minute.
• A parent can delete a child or a family adult, with all their recordings and avatars, within 24 hours.
• A parent can delete the whole family. If you are the only parent with a login, it happens right away. If there are two, both can agree, or the other parent has 30 days to stop it; if no one stops it, the family is deleted after 30 days.
• Any parent can remove their own login and information at any time.

After a family is deleted, no link of that family plays anything within 1 minute, and the family's information is erased within 30 days. We email you the date the backup copies expire. A subscription bought on our website is canceled for you; we tell you how to cancel one bought through the App Store or Google Play.

Your rights as a parent

• Review: see your child's information in the parent area, and download every recording at any time, even after a plan ends.
• Delete: delete any recording, a child's profile or the whole family, as described above.
• Refuse further collection: withdraw consent, and we stop collecting from your child at once.

You can also ask us to do any of these by email, mail or phone (see Contact us below). To protect your family, we confirm that a request comes from a parent: a parent can make it while signed in to the app, or reply from the email address on the family account. For a request by mail or phone, we confirm it by email to that address.

We will not ask a child for more information than a game needs, and a child never has to give information to play.

How we will protect information

Recordings will be kept in private storage in the United States, encrypted at rest, with no public web addresses. Every time a recording plays, our server checks that the person asking is allowed to hear it. Private links use long random codes that a parent can turn off. We will keep a written information security program.

United States only

Speakeeper will be offered only in the United States, and your family's information will be stored in the United States.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy, we will post the new version here with a new effective date. If a change is material, parents will see it in the app, and children cannot record until a parent has reviewed it. If the notice adults agree to before they are recorded changes, each adult is asked again before their next recording.

Contact us

Hausbound, LLC, 1300 Rt 17 North Ste 1, Ramsey, NJ 07446

Email: support@speakeeper.com. Phone: (201) 785-7309.