Privacy Policy for The Talk Ahead

Effective date: 25 August 2026

Last updated: 25 August 2026

The Talk Ahead is operated by Ademola Kevin Bello, located at Melissenweg 18, 4020 Linz, Austria (“The Talk Ahead,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you use The Talk Ahead mobile application and related services.

1. What The Talk Ahead does

The Talk Ahead is an AI-powered rehearsal tool for workplace conversations. It lets you practise curated or personal workplace situations by voice, interact with an AI-generated counterpart, rewind moments, and receive an AI-generated debrief and preparation plan.

The person you rehearse with, their reactions, inferred motivations, feedback, and coaching are simulated. They may not reflect a real person’s beliefs or likely behaviour.

2. Privacy summary

The Talk Ahead does not currently require an account or profile.
Saved sessions, transcripts, ratings, and debriefs are primarily stored locally on your device.
Your voice audio is temporarily recorded and sent to OpenAI for transcription. We do not intentionally retain audio as part of a saved session.
Transcripts, scenario details, and conversation state are sent to OpenAI to generate responses, speech, and coaching.
RevenueCat and the applicable app store process purchase and subscription information.
We do not currently sell personal information, display advertising, or use app activity for cross-context behavioural advertising.
Use aliases and do not provide unnecessary confidential or sensitive workplace information.

3. Information we process

Information	Purpose	Legal basis where GDPR applies	Recipients	Retention
Voice recordings	Transcribe a spoken rehearsal turn	Performance of our contract and steps taken at your request	OpenAI and our backend hosting provider	Temporarily held in memory or cache; deleted where possible after processing; provider retention may vary
Scenario details and observable facts	Create and run a rehearsal	Performance of our contract	OpenAI and our backend hosting provider	Saved locally until you delete the session or app data
Text transcripts	Maintain the conversation and generate replies, rewinds, and debriefs	Performance of our contract	OpenAI and our backend hosting provider	Saved locally until you delete the session or app data
AI replies, simulation state, debriefs, and plans	Provide and review the rehearsal	Performance of our contract	OpenAI processes the inputs used to generate them	Saved locally until you delete the session or app data
Readiness ratings and session metadata	Organise sessions and show readiness changes	Performance of our contract	Normally stored only on your device	Until you delete the session or app data
Onboarding and preference data	Remember onboarding completion and app settings	Performance of our contract	Stored locally; limited onboarding values may be sent to RevenueCat to personalise the paywall	Until app data is cleared or the app is uninstalled
Purchase and entitlement information	Process purchases, restore access, and manage subscriptions	Performance of our contract and legal obligations	RevenueCat, Apple, or Google	Under the applicable provider’s retention requirements
Anonymous purchase identifier and device information	Associate purchases with an installation and prevent fraud	Performance of our contract and our legitimate interest in purchase security	RevenueCat and the applicable app store	Under provider retention policies
Technical request information	Operate, secure, and troubleshoot the service	Our legitimate interest in service reliability and security	Our cloud hosting and infrastructure providers	Under provider log-retention settings
Support communications	Respond to requests	Performance of our contract or our legitimate interest in responding	Our support providers, if any	As reasonably necessary to resolve the request and meet legal obligations

4. Voice recordings and transcription

When you start recording, The Talk Ahead requests microphone access. Recording begins only after you take an action to start it.