Privacy Policy

Who is responsible

Talkquote is published by Alpenlume, the name under which Mariusz Maliszewski — a private individual resident in Switzerland, trading as a sole proprietor — publishes apps (“we”, “the developer”). Mariusz Maliszewski is the controller for the purposes of this policy.

For anything to do with your privacy, write to alpenlume@gmail.com; we answer every message ourselves. Our full postal address is given on request, and is shown with the app on the App Store in the European Union.

What we collect

Nothing. Talkquote has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no advertising identifier, no crash-reporting service and no tracking of any kind. We run no server for the app. We do not build profiles, and we do not sell, rent or share personal information — we do not have any.

The App Store's “App Privacy” label for Talkquote is therefore “Data Not Collected”.

What stays on your device

The information you put into Talkquote is stored only in the app's own storage on your iPhone or iPad, protected by iOS encryption and your passcode. That includes:

• your business profile — name, address, logo, tax number, terms and default rates
• the details of your clients and the jobs you quote for
• your quotations and the documents you export

When you record details of your clients in Talkquote, you decide what is kept and why. For that information you are the controller under data protection law; the developer never has access to it. Keep it only as long as you need it, and delete a client when you no longer do.

If your device backs up to iCloud or a computer, that backup is made by Apple's iOS under your settings and Apple's privacy policy; we never see it. Deleting the app deletes everything it stored.

Dictation

Speech recognition runs on your device whenever it has Apple's offline model for your language. When it does not, Talkquote stops and asks before sending that one recording to Apple's speech service, under Apple's privacy policy; nothing is sent unless you tap the button that says so. Talkquote remembers that answer, so the next dictation does not ask again; you can take it back at any time in Settings › Privacy, and after every dictation that went to Apple the screen says so. To recognise names and trade words better, the app gives the recogniser the names of your clients and the words of your own quotations, and builds from them, on your device, a small language model kept in the app's cache. It never leaves the device and is deleted with the app. No recording is saved.

Apple Intelligence

Where the parser cannot read a sentence, Talkquote asks for a second opinion: from the model on this iPhone, on its own — nothing leaves the phone — and, where that model is not there, from Apple's own Private Cloud Compute, only when you tap the button under a draft. Apple describes its Private Cloud Compute servers as built so that not even Apple can read what passes through them. Neither needs an account or a key, and neither is any company you have to choose. Every line either one adds is marked for you to check, and a figure it gives that you did not say is taken out.

Camera

You can photograph a business card, a letterhead or a supplier's receipt; the text is recognised on the device and the image is not kept.

Siri and Spotlight

A search you ask Siri, Spotlight or Shortcuts to make in the app is handed to the app on your device.

Face ID

Talkquote can be locked with Face ID or your passcode; the app receives only whether the check succeeded.

Permissions

Talkquote asks for a permission only at the moment a feature needs it, says why, and works without it where it can. You can change any of them at any time in Settings › Talkquote.

• Camera
• Microphone
• Speech Recognition
• Face ID

Apple, Siri and purchases

Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. Talkquote never sees your name, card or address; it asks the App Store only whether this Apple Account owns the app or a subscription. Apple's privacy policy (apple.com/legal/privacy) governs the transaction.

Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight. If you use Talkquote's actions with Siri or the Shortcuts app, your request is processed by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, and the app receives only the action and the values it needs to carry it out.

Sharing. When you share something from the app, iOS hands it to the app you pick, which sends it under its own privacy policy. Nothing is sent unless you send it, and we never learn where it went.

If you write to us

If you email alpenlume@gmail.com, we receive your email address, your message and anything you attach, and use them only to answer you. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering, or the performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(f) and (b) GDPR; Art. 31 FADP). Messages are kept for as long as the conversation needs and deleted within 24 months after it ends, unless the law requires us to keep them longer.

Our email is provided by Google (Gmail), which processes messages on our behalf and may do so in the United States and other countries, under Google's safeguards for international transfers, including standard contractual clauses. We share support messages with nobody else.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us what personal data we hold about you (usually none), and have it corrected, deleted or handed to you. In particular:

• Switzerland (FADP): the rights to information, correction, deletion and data portability, and to complain to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC, edoeb.admin.ch).
• EU and UK (GDPR): the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, to withdraw consent, and to complain to the supervisory authority where you live or work.
• California (CCPA/CPRA): the rights to know, delete and correct personal information, to opt out of its sale or sharing, and not to be discriminated against for using these rights. We have not sold or shared personal information in the past 12 months, do not use sensitive personal information, and have collected none except what you send by email, which is used only to answer you.

To use any of these rights, email alpenlume@gmail.com. We answer within 30 days and never charge for it.

Children

Talkquote is not directed at children under 13, or under the minimum age for consent in your country, and collects nothing from anybody. If you believe a child has sent us personal data by email, write to us and we will delete it.

Security and automated decisions

Because nothing leaves your device, your information is protected by your device's own security: its passcode, Face ID or Touch ID, and iOS encryption. Talkquote makes no automated decisions about you and does no profiling.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date, and a significant change will be noted in the app's release notes. A change will never permit collecting data retroactively.