Words After Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 4, 2026

Words After is operated by HUANG Tzu-Yun (“we,” “us,” or “our”). This policy explains how information is handled when you use the Words After app, visit our website, or contact us.

Privacy contact: itjustforfb@gmail.com.

Your content and on-device processing

Words After stores your recordings, transcripts, notes and their versions, speaker labels, folders, tags, and vocabulary on your device. You do not need a Words After account to use the app.

Transcription and optional on-device note generation run on your device. The app does not send your recordings, transcripts, notes, or vocabulary to a remote transcription or AI service to perform these features. If a required local model or system resource is unavailable, the feature cannot run; it does not switch to cloud processing.

Importing a file creates a local copy without changing the source file. Files received through the share sheet may first be stored in a local inbox shared by Words After and its extension. The source app or file provider may retain its own copy.

Model downloads and Apple services

Downloading transcription or speaker-separation models requires an internet connection. These model files are currently hosted on Hugging Face and may be delivered through its content delivery providers. Download requests expose connection information, such as your IP address and the requested model file, to those services. The requests do not include your recordings, transcripts, notes, or vocabulary. See the Hugging Face Privacy Policy.

Apple-managed speech and on-device AI resources may also require downloads or system setup. Apple handles its services under the Apple Privacy Policy and any feature-specific notices.

Installed, supported models can be used for on-device transcription without an internet connection. Model availability depends on the device, operating system, language, and installed resources.

Sharing, exports, and external AI

Copying text places it on the system clipboard; it does not by itself submit the text to an external AI service. The app’s note-preparation and vocabulary-generation workflows require you to choose a service and paste the material there yourself.

When you share or export content, or paste it into another app or service, that destination receives the content you provide. Its handling of those copies is governed by its own privacy policy and terms. This includes cloud file providers and external AI services.

Words After does not automatically send your content to a chat service. Material you choose to send outside the app is no longer handled exclusively on your device. Review the destination’s practices before sending sensitive content.

Recording, playback, and information visible on screen

Words After requests microphone access when you choose to record and permission is needed. You can revoke access in your device’s Settings. Microphone access is needed for recording, but not for importing an existing audio file.

Recording Live Activities may display the recording title, status, and elapsed time on the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island. Playback information, including the title and progress, may appear in system media controls. If you enable Picture in Picture captions, the recording title, captions, and available speaker labels may appear over other apps.

These displays can be visible to people who can see your screen. Recording Live Activities are updated locally and do not use remote push notifications.

Support correspondence

When you email us, we receive your email address, any name included in your email, your message, and any attachments or technical information you choose to send. We use this information to respond to your request and investigate the issue you report.

Our support mailbox uses Gmail, so Google processes these messages as the email service provider. Google describes its processing, international transfers, and deletion practices in the Google Privacy Policy. Support correspondence may be processed outside your country.

Providing support information is voluntary. Without a reply address or enough information about an issue, we may be unable to respond or resolve it. You can continue using the app without contacting support. Please do not send passwords, private recordings, or sensitive transcripts. If a sample is necessary, use a short sample that you are permitted to share and that contains no sensitive information.

We retain support correspondence and attachments for 12 months after the most recent message in the conversation, with deletion at the next monthly manual review. Any longer retention must have a specific, lawful purpose, such as a legal obligation or an unresolved legal claim, and last only as long as that purpose requires. You can request deletion using the contact address above.

Website visits

When you visit this website, requests pass through Cloudflare and Cloudflare Tunnel to our server in Taiwan. Cloudflare and our server process connection and request information, including IP addresses, requested URLs, request times, browser and protocol information, response status, and error details, to deliver pages, maintain reliability, and protect the service. Serving a request involves this processing even when routine access logging is disabled.

Routine access logging is disabled for this website at our server. Operational error logs may contain connection IP addresses, request URLs, timestamps, and diagnostic details. These logs rotate daily, keeping 14 archives; archived files older than 30 days are removed when rotation runs. Shared tunnel diagnostics also enter the system journal, which rotates according to size and available disk space without a fixed deletion deadline, and forwarded system logs, which rotate weekly with four archives. These rotation rules depend on scheduled jobs running and are not exact deletion guarantees.

Cloudflare’s default network-error reporting is enabled. Your browser may automatically send failed-connection reports, including the requested URL, error type, and connection timing, to Cloudflare’s reporting endpoint. Cloudflare also receives the IP address used to send a report. The reporting policy and endpoint information may be stored by your browser for up to seven days. This reporting concerns website connections and does not receive your Words After recordings, transcripts, notes, or vocabulary.

We do not set cookies or run visitor analytics, tracking pixels, embedded third-party widgets, or JavaScript on this website. Its pages use only a local stylesheet and have no accounts, uploads, or contact form. Ordinary external links load their destinations only when you follow them. Email to our support address is handled as described in Support correspondence above.

The operator administers the server logs. Cloudflare and its service providers can process connection, network, and security information internationally, including outside Taiwan and your country. Cloudflare’s retention criteria depend on processing purposes, the information’s nature and sensitivity, security needs, and legal requirements; its records are not governed by our server-log rotation schedule. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy for its processing, recipients, international transfers, and retention practices.

Local storage, retention, and deletion

Your library is stored locally. Moving an item to Recently Deleted keeps its recording, transcript, and associated notes available for restoration. Recently Deleted is not automatically emptied. Use the permanent-deletion action there to remove an item from your library and delete its associated local audio files. If cleanup fails, the app may need to retry it when reopened.

Unfinished shared imports and interrupted recording sessions may leave separate local copies for recovery. Successful receipt or saving triggers cleanup of the corresponding recovery files; failed transfers or cleanup may leave copies for a later retry. Deleting a library item should not be treated as clearing every pending import or recovery session.

Deleting an item does not delete the original imported file, exported files, clipboard copies, material shared with other people, or copies held by another app, service, or backup. Removing a downloaded model does not delete transcripts or notes created with it. Deletion is not a guarantee that every underlying storage or backup copy has been securely erased.

Words After does not provide cloud synchronization or an online backup of your library. The app marks its library, recording recovery files, shared import inbox, and downloaded models for exclusion from system backups. Backup and restoration behavior is ultimately controlled by the operating system and any backup services you use.

Removing the app or losing your device can cause loss of local content. Keep the original audio files and export important text separately. Transcript, subtitle, and note exports are not a complete backup of your library.

Your choices and privacy rights

You can manage microphone permission in device Settings, choose whether to download models, and choose whether to share content with another service. Revoking microphone permission stops future microphone access; it does not delete existing recordings.

Under applicable law, you may have rights to access, obtain a copy of, correct, or delete personal information we hold about you; to restrict or object to processing; or to receive information in a portable format. Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. You may also have the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority.

To exercise these rights, email itjustforfb@gmail.com. We respond within the time limits required by applicable law and may request information reasonably necessary to verify that a request concerns your data. You do not need to send us your recordings to make a privacy request.

Requests to us concern information we hold, such as support correspondence. We cannot remotely access, restore, or delete a library stored only on your device; use the app’s controls to manage that content.

Changes to this policy

We will publish changes on this page and update the effective date. If a change requires additional notice or consent under applicable law, we will provide that notice or obtain that consent before applying the change. Updating this policy does not itself authorize new uses of your information.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact HUANG Tzu-Yun at itjustforfb@gmail.com.