Privacy Policy — Bebetalk

Translation. The French text is the authoritative version: Français. This page exists so that you can understand it in English. This document is not legal advice.

In one sentence

Bebetalk collects nothing. Everything you write stays in your phone's memory, goes nowhere, and nobody but you has access to it — not even us.

1. Who publishes this app

Saidou Ijab Soule — Indonesia bebetalk3@gmail.com

Last updated: 2 August 2026 App version covered: 0.9

2. What the app records, and where

Bebetalk records only what you enter yourself:

What you enter	Example
Your child's first name	Lina
Their date of birth	18 April 2026
Feeds	type, time, volume in millilitres, food written by you, approximate amount
Nappy changes	time and type
Sleep	start time, end time
The sounds you record	the audio file, its length, the time, and the measured sound level
What you write around a sound	the label you give it, your note, what settled them
Your child's words	the form you write (tatapf), what you say it means, and the dates
Your settings	which child is shown, the light you chose, whether the intro has been seen

All of this is written into the app's private storage, on your phone. That storage is accessible neither to other apps nor to us.

What the app does not record: no account, no email address, no password, no phone number, no location, no contacts, no photos, no advertising identifier, no device identifier.

The microphone, and exactly what it does

Since the version that adds sounds, the app asks for the Microphone permission (RECORD_AUDIO). Here is precisely what it does with it:

It only records while you press. There is no background service in the app, no automatic trigger, and no component able to start a capture without you. Standby listening does not exist in this version.
The sounds do not leave the phone. The app contains no code capable of sending anything: no network client, no server to reach. A recording is therefore sent nowhere. (Until 1 August 2026 this sentence rested on the absence of the INTERNET permission; it is now declared — see §3, which explains why and what it changes.)
Nothing is analysed elsewhere, or by anyone. The only computation performed on a sound is a sound-level measurement, on your phone, to draw a curve.
You can refuse. Everything else in the app works without the microphone: feeds, nappies, sleep, the log, the exports.

Audio files are kept in the app's private storage. Deleting a sound erases it and erases its file with it; there is no bin.

3. What leaves the phone

Nothing.

This is not an intention. Here is what it rests on, point by point:

The app declares android.permission.INTERNET, and that must be said. It did not always have it. It has had it since the full version became purchasable: Google Play's billing library declares it, and you cannot sell on Play without it.
What that does not change: there is no Bebetalk server. There is nowhere to send anything. The app contains no network code — no HTTP client, no request library, no analytics SDK, no ad network. The only thing that travels over the network is the purchase, handled end to end by Google Play. We learn nothing about you, not even that you bought: Play remembers it, and that is also what lets you restore your purchase on another phone without an account with us.
Google's automatic backup is disabled (allowBackup="false"), as is transfer to a new device. Your data does not go up to online storage without your knowledge.
No analytics, no statistics tool, no ad network is integrated into the app.
No sharing with any third party, for any reason, including commercial.

The permissions you will see in the system list

Microphone (RECORD_AUDIO) is the only permission the app asks you for explicitly, and the paragraph above says what it does with it. Alongside it, the app declares four so-called "normal" permissions, which never ask for your consent because they give access to no personal data:

Permission	What it is for here
`ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`	knowing whether a network exists — does not allow connecting to it
`FOREGROUND_SERVICE`, `WAKE_LOCK`, `RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`	internal machinery of the library that draws the home-screen widget

They come from an Android library (Jetpack Glance / WorkManager) and none of them alone allows data to be transmitted.

INTERNET is declared — the first paragraph of this section says so and gives the reason. What protects your data is therefore not the absence of that permission, but the fact that no code in the app uses it: no HTTP client, no server to reach, no account. That is verifiable by reading the code; an absent permission was no more verifiable than that.

3 bis. The files you create, which are no longer ours

The app sends no data out by itself. But it offers you three actions that do write a file outside the app — because that is their whole point:

The action	What it produces
Settings → Export my data	a ZIP archive of CSV files and of your audio recordings, in the clear
Settings → Create a backup	a single file, encrypted with the password you choose
Settings → Create the summary	a PDF of what you noted over the chosen period, in the clear

In all three cases:

You are the one who says where the file goes. The app goes through the system file picker; it has no storage permission and drops nothing into a folder it chose on its own.
The moment the file is written, it leaves our perimeter. It then obeys wherever you put it: a folder on your phone, a memory card, or an online space if that is what you point to. The app has no further way to protect it, or to delete it — including when you delete a book or uninstall the app.
Two of those three files are readable by anyone: the CSV export and the PDF summary are deliberately not encrypted — a file you cannot open without us would be useless. Only the backup is encrypted.
The export contains your audio recordings, as ordinary WAV. That is intended: they are your sounds, they must not stay locked inside the app. But a shared folder then contains your child's voice — choose where you put it knowing that. ⚠️ The encrypted backup does not contain the audio: a text file cannot carry it. It restores the rows and their file names; the sounds themselves travel via the export.

The backup password is not known to us and is written nowhere. It does not leave your phone, and there is no way to recover a backup whose password has been lost — neither for you nor for us. The app tells you so before creating it.

4. Why this data is recorded

For one reason only: to give it back to you. The "since the last feed" counter, the log and your own child's averages are computed on your phone, from your entries, and exist only for you.

None of this data is used to profile, to compare, to train a model, or to improve a product.

5. How long it is kept

As long as you keep the app, and not a second longer.

Deleting a child from Settings immediately and permanently erases their name, date of birth, feeds, nappies and sleeps.
Uninstalling the app erases everything.

There is no copy anywhere else. That is the flip side of the "everything stays on the phone" choice: nothing can be recovered after deletion, neither by you nor by us. The app tells you so before every deletion.

6. What you can do with your data

Right	How
Get it back	Settings → Export my data. You get a ZIP archive containing CSV files readable by any spreadsheet. Free, no account, no limit, and it will stay that way.
Correct it	Every entry can be edited in the app.
Erase it	Settings → the child's profile → Delete the book. Or uninstall the app. ⚠️ This does not erase the files you exported yourself — see §3 bis.
Take it elsewhere	The CSV export is an open format, with no lock.
Keep it safe from a broken phone	Settings → Create a backup. A file encrypted with your password, which you store wherever you like.
Print it	Settings → Create the summary. A PDF of what you noted over the chosen period: the times, the volumes, the durations, each day's total. No average, no comparison, no interpretation — these are your figures, laid out. What you then do with it is your business alone.

Since nothing is transmitted to us, there is nothing to ask us for: these rights are exercised directly in the app, without writing to us and without delay.

7. Children

The app talks about a child, but its user is an adult — that is the audience declared on Google Play.

The information about the child (their name, date of birth, feeds) is entered by their parent or the person caring for them, stays on that person's phone, and is transmitted to nobody.

The app never addresses a child, offers them no content, and does not seek to know who they are.

8. What Bebetalk does not do, which concerns you too

Bebetalk is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition.
Bebetalk says nothing about your child: no comparison to an average or to other children, no norm, no nutritional advice, no recommended schedule. The app gives back what you noted, and nothing else.
Bebetalk does not claim to interpret crying. It records the sounds you capture and gives them back to you to listen to — it never tells you what they mean, and nobody knows how to. The only figure it shows about a cry is an intensity relative to your own child, with no reference value, no threshold, and no recommendation to act.
Bebetalk recognises no words. The word list keeps what you write: the form you hear and the meaning you give it. No model listens in order to guess, nothing is grouped automatically, nothing is counted in order to be compared, and there is no reference age anywhere.
The printable summary is not a medical document and is intended for no professional in particular. It is your own entries, laid out. It contains no average, no norm, no trend, and nothing resembling a judgement about your child.

9. Security

Data is recorded in the app's private space, isolated by Android from other installed apps. On a phone whose screen is locked, that space is encrypted by the system.

The best protection remains locking your phone. Since nothing is copied elsewhere, the security of your data is that of your device.

The encrypted backup uses AES-256-GCM, with a key derived from your password (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256). It deliberately does not use Android's keystore: a device-bound key would make the file unreadable on the next phone — that is to say, exactly in the case where you would need it. The trade-off is stated above: a lost password loses the file.

10. If this policy changes

If a future version adds a feature that changes the above — online backup, usage statistics — this page will be updated before that version is published, and the change will be announced in the app.

What will not change: the free and permanent export, the absence of advertising, and never selling or sharing your data.

11. Contacting us

bebetalk3@gmail.com

Bebetalk — English