Effective date: 23 July 2026
This summarises our privacy practices. For more information, see our full Privacy Policy below.
SpeechPath doesn't have user accounts and doesn't collect personal data from you. Everything you create—your Paths, tags, and preferences—stays on your device. We never see it, and we can't access it.
We don't run advertising or third-party tracking SDKs. The only outside data we ever see is anonymised website analytics and, if you're a TestFlight beta tester, anonymised diagnostic logs from Apple.
Read our full Privacy Policy below.
Questions? Contact me, or email me directly for any urgent privacy-related requests at privacy@myungjoon.com
Welcome to SpeechPath's Privacy Policy. SpeechPath exists to make spoken English accessible to people with hearing disabilities, and we built it so you could use it without worrying about what happens to your information. This Policy explains, in plain terms, what we collect, why, and what rights you have over it — while also covering the legal ground required under regulations like the GDPR (EU/UK), CCPA/CPRA (California), and PIPA (Korea).
By using SpeechPath or visiting myungjoon.com/speechpath, you're agreeing to what's laid out here. If anything in this Policy doesn't sit right with you, please don't hesitate to reach out before continuing to use the app.
The following are the terms that are frequently used in the policy:
Personal Data, “personally identifiable information,” or “PII” refers to any information that could be used to identify you specifically. Data that's been fully anonymised and can't be traced back to you isn't considered as such.
Service Providers are the outside tools we rely on to run SpeechPath and its website:
Framer, which builds and hosts the website;
Framer Analytics, which gives us anonymised, aggregated insight into who's visiting the site;
TestFlight, Apple's platform for beta testing; and
App Store, which is how you download the app.
SpeechPath is built and run by Myung Joon Kang, an independent student developer. We're the one responsible for SpeechPath and any data described in this Policy. There's no company or team behind this, just us.
Using the app.
SpeechPath doesn't collect any personal data from you. When you create a "Path," the app saves the details you set—things like your tag, duration, and difficulty preferences—along with some metadata like timestamps, internal IDs, and the name you gave it. All of that lives locally on your device. We never see it, and we can't access it.
Using the app as a beta tester.
If you're helping us test SpeechPath through TestFlight, Apple may share some device info with us—your device type, OS version, battery level, and any crash or diagnostic logs. We only use this to squash bugs and improve the app; it's never used to track you elsewhere.
Visiting our website.
The site doesn't collect anything that identifies you personally. We do use Framer Analytics to see anonymised, aggregated statistics—referrer, pages visited, general country, OS, browser, and device type—but none of it can be tracked back to you as an individual.
If you reach out to us.
If you email us directly, we'll see whatever you choose to share (your name, email, and message). We'll only use it to reply to you.
If your based in the EU or UK, here's the legal basis under the GDPR for the little data that does pass through: mostly our legitimate interest in keeping SpeechPath running smoothly and responding to you when you write in (Article 6(1)(f)), and occasionally the fact that processing is necessary to give you a feature you've asked for (Article 6(1)(b)).
Whatever limited data does reach us, we use it only to: keep the app and site running well, fix bugs, respond to your messages, and meet any legal obligations we're subject to. We don't use anything to build a profile of you or make automated decisions about you.
7. The Tools We Rely On
The Service Providers listed in Section 2 help us run SpeechPath and its website—they’re not allowed to use your data for anything beyond that. We don’t sell, rent, or trade your data, and we never have. We’d only ever share information if the law required it, or if it were genuinely necessary to protect someone’s safety or rights.
8. How Long We Keep Things
Data you create in the app (Section 4) stays on your device—we don’t have a copy, so it’s really up to you how long it sticks around. TestFlight diagnostic data is kept only as long as it takes us to sort out the underlying issue. Analytics stay with our Service Provider in aggregated form, per their own retention practices. If you’ve contacted us, we’ll hang on to that conversation for as long as feels reasonable to keep good records.
9. Where Your Data Travels
We're based between Korea and Canada, and the Service Providers we use may process data in the US, the EU, or elsewhere. Where that happens, we lean on the safeguards those providers already have in place to keep things protected.
10. Keeping Things Secure
We take reasonable steps to protect any data that does pass through our hands.
11. Your Rights
If GDPR or UK GDPR applies to you, you have the right to ask for a copy of your data, correct it, have it deleted, restrict how it's processed, object to processing based on legitimate interest, request it in a portable format, and complain to your local supervisory authority if you're unhappy with how we've handled things. Since most SpeechPath data lives only on your device, you can exercise a lot of these rights yourself simply by deleting data in the app. For anything else, contact us, or if it's urgent, email us directly at privacy@myungjoon.com.
12. If You’re in California
If you're a California resident, the CCPA/CPRA gives you the right to know what we collect and why, ask us to delete it, correct it if it's wrong, opt out of any sale or sharing of it (which we don't do), and not be treated differently for exercising these rights. Just contact us and we'll take care of it.
13. Children’s Privacy
SpeechPath isn't directed at children under 13 (or the relevant age where you live), and we don't knowingly collect personal data from kids. If we ever find out that's happened by accident, we'll delete it as soon as we can.
14. Tracking
We don't track you across other apps or websites for advertising purposes, so we don't ask for tracking permission through Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework.
15. Cookies and Site Analytics
The website may use cookies through our Service Providers, but only to generate the anonymised analytics mentioned in Section 4—nothing that builds a personal profile of you. You can turn cookies off in your browser if you’d like, though some site features might not work as smoothly.
We’re based in Korea, so Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) applies to how we handle personal information, in addition to the GDPR and CCPA/CPRA protections described above. Under PIPA, you have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, and suspension of processing of your personal information, and to be told how any of it is used or shared. In practice, this covers the limited data described in Section 4—mainly TestFlight diagnostics, aggregated site analytics, and anything you’ve sent us directly by email. We don’t operate a separate Chief Privacy Officer function given the small scale of processing involved, but we are personally accountable for PIPA compliance and will handle any request under this section the same way we handle requests under Section 11. If you’d like to exercise a PIPA-specific right, just say so when you contact us and we’ll treat it accordingly.
As SpeechPath grows and changes, this Policy might need updates too. Whenever that happens, we'll update the Effective Date at the top so you can tell something's changed.
18. Get in Touch
Questions? Contact me, or email me directly for any urgent privacy-related requests at privacy@myungjoon.com
