DECIME

Privacy policy

Effective October 1, 2026. DECIME is operated by Kayne Young. Contact: kayne.young@gmail.com.

Your conversations

With your permission, online Talk and typed translation send your recording or text through DECIME’s Cloudflare-hosted service to OpenAI for transcription and translation. To create natural spoken responses, translated text is also sent to OpenAI. Practice and phrase pronunciation playback send the displayed words to OpenAI. These are AI-generated voices. Turn off “Allow OpenAI translation and voices” in Membership to stop these requests.

DECIME does not keep a server-side conversation or recording library. Recording files used for online translation are temporary on your iPhone and removed after the request finishes. Responses are displayed on your device. OpenAI may retain API content in abuse-monitoring logs, generally for up to 30 days unless a longer period is legally required. OpenAI’s API policy states that API content is not used to train models by default. See OpenAI’s data controls. Do not include information you do not want these services to process.

Photos, speech practice and Apple services

Photo translation uses on-device text recognition and Apple’s translation framework. DECIME does not upload your photos to its server or to OpenAI and does not save them to a DECIME photo archive. The updated native Photo flow does not report a DECIME usage event. Older app versions reported a Photo usage event to enforce their allowance. Apple speech recognition is used for pronunciation practice and the optional Apple translation path; processing may use Apple services depending on device and language availability. Camera, photo and microphone access are requested only for the features you use. Permissions can be changed in iPhone Settings.

Membership, purchases and usage

Apple handles payment. DECIME does not receive your card number. We verify Apple-signed installation and purchase records and retain a pseudonymous, app-specific Apple transaction identifier, purchased products, purchase and expiration dates, refund status, trial start, and usage balances. These records prevent duplicate charges or credits, support purchase restoration across devices and ensure the lifetime trial does not refill on reinstall. We do not receive your Apple Account password.

Our hosting service processes standard request metadata, such as network addresses and operational logs, to deliver and protect the service. DECIME also records usage totals such as translation counts, text lengths, recording sizes and token counts for service operation and cost measurement, not the text of your conversations. Usage and purchase records are retained while needed to honor purchases, maintain the lifetime trial restriction, prevent fraud and meet applicable obligations.

What stays on your iPhone

Saved phrases, practice progress, preferences and a cached membership status are stored locally. Spoken audio may be held temporarily in device memory for replay. Currency tools request reference rates from DolarAPI and ExchangeRate-API; those providers receive normal network request information, but entered currency amounts are not sent. Unit conversions run on your device.

Your choices

We do not sell personal data, serve third-party advertising, or track you across other companies’ apps for advertising. You can disable OpenAI processing in Membership, change device permissions, remove locally saved phrases or uninstall the app. To request access, correction or deletion of server records, contact us at the address above; we may need to verify the request and retain limited records needed for purchases, fraud prevention or legal obligations. Deletion does not cancel an Apple subscription: manage subscriptions in Apple Account settings.

If you email support, we use your email address and message to answer you. Please do not send passwords, payment details or sensitive recordings. This policy may be updated as the service changes; the effective date will be updated here.