ConsistoPrivacy Policy
The short version
- Your recordings are kept only on your phone. Short clips pass through our own server and Google Gemini, described below, to be scored, captioned and transcribed — nobody keeps the audio, and it is not tied to your account there.
- Your words are. Transcripts, corrections, your flashcards and your practice history are stored against your account so a second phone has them.
- No ads, no trackers, no analytics SDK. Nothing in the app follows you across other apps or websites, and we sell nothing to anyone.
- Delete account, in Settings, deletes everything. Immediately, on the server, no email to us required.
Who we are
Consisto is made and published by Steadify. If anything on this page is unclear, or you want a copy of what we hold about you, write to [email protected].
1. What the app collects, and why
Your account
You sign in with Apple, with Google, or with a link we email you. We keep the email address the provider verified, the display name it gave us (if any), and the provider's own identifier for you. If you use Apple's Hide My Email, we keep the relay address Apple gives us and nothing else. We use this to know which practice is yours and to let you sign in on another phone.
When you ask for a sign-in link, we record the IP address the request came from. This is used only to limit abuse — someone typing other people's addresses into the app to flood their inboxes.
What you say
The app is for speaking practice, so it records you when you press record and while a live conversation is running. The recordings themselves are kept only on your phone. What leaves it is described in the next section, and what we keep on our server is text: the transcript of what you said, the corrections the app suggested, and the flashcards made from them.
What you practised
Which steps you did and when, which lessons you finished and how each one went, your flashcard answers and their schedule, pronunciation scores, days you skipped, the language you chose for word meanings, your phone's time zone (so "today" means the same thing on every device), and a log of which paid services each session used. This is what your streak, your schedule and your monthly progress are made of.
2. Where it goes
Every recipient below is there to make one feature work. None of them receives anything for advertising or profiling.
| What | Goes to | For | Tied to your account there? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short recordings of you reading a sentence | Our own server | Pronunciation scoring | No |
| Your voice while you answer in the first lesson or in a lesson's speaking exercise, as you speak | Our own server | The captions you see while you talk | No |
| Recordings of your speaking rounds | Google Gemini | Transcripts and keywords | No |
| Your recorded answers in the first lesson | Google Gemini | Judging whether you said what the lesson asked | No |
| Transcripts and the sentences you said | Google Gemini | "Say it better" corrections and grammar notes | No |
| A message you ask to check, as text or as a screenshot you pick | Google Gemini | "Write it better" rewrites | No |
| Live audio, both directions, during a conversation | Google Gemini (Live) | The conversation itself | No |
| The text of a sentence to be spoken aloud | Our own server | Generating the model voice you hear | No |
| Transcripts, corrections, flashcards, scores, finished lessons, your chosen language, history, time zone, service usage | Our own server | Your account and sync between devices | Yes |
| Your email address | Resend (email delivery) | Sending the sign-in link | — |
| Sign-in token | Apple or Google | Signing you in | Per their policies |
About Google Gemini. The app uses Google's paid Gemini API tier for every request. Under Google's terms for that tier, Google does not use the content submitted — your voice, your messages or the transcripts of what you said — to improve its products, and keeps it only for a limited period to detect abuse and meet legal obligations. We do not send your name, email or account identifier with those requests.
Google Gemini and Resend process data on our behalf and under their own privacy terms. Apple and Google handle sign-in under theirs.
Our own server is operated by us and is not shared with any other company.
3. What stays on your phone
- The audio recordings you make. They are stored in the app's private storage, are never stored on our server, and are deleted when you delete the app.
- Cached model-voice clips, so a sentence you have heard once plays without a network request.
- Where you left off in a session.
4. What we do not do
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
- No third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDKs. The app contains no code from ad networks or data brokers.
- No tracking across other apps or websites, and no fingerprinting. The app's privacy manifest declares
NSPrivacyTracking = false, and that is true. - We do not sell, rent or share your data with anyone for their own purposes.
5. How long we keep it, and how to delete it
- Your account and everything under it is kept until you delete the account.
- Sign-in sessions expire after 60 days without use; each sign-in link is valid for 15 minutes.
- Deleting your account: Settings → Delete Account. This removes your account, your identities, your sessions, your practice history, your flashcards and your usage log from our server at once — the deletion cascades through every table. If you signed in with Apple, we also ask Apple to revoke the sign-in token. There is no grace period and no copy kept, so there is no way to undo it.
- Deleting the app removes the recordings and caches on your phone. It does not delete your account; do that first if you want both gone.
Our server scores and captions a recording as it arrives and keeps no copy. What Gemini receives is governed by Google's retention terms for the paid tier.
6. Children
Consisto is not directed at children under 13 (or the age of digital consent where you live), and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
7. Changes to this policy
If we change what the app collects or where it sends it, we will update this page and the effective date at the top. Changes that matter — for instance, adding a new service — will be called out here rather than buried.
8. Contact
9. Licences
The app uses artwork, fonts and a word list made by others, under these licences. This is the app's own list: Settings → Privacy policy opens this page.
| What | By | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Animated emoji (the animals and flowers on the lesson path) | Google, Noto Emoji Animation | CC BY 4.0 |
| Sparkles animation | LottieFiles | Lottie Simple License |
| The running dinosaur on the lesson path | min dai, LottieFiles | Lottie Simple License |
| Fonts: Baloo 2, Nunito, Figtree and Caprasimo | Their designers, via Google Fonts | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| The dictionary's word list | Kevin Atkinson, SCOWL (2020.12.07) | SCOWL permission notice, © 2000–2018 Kevin Atkinson |