Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2, 2026

Sayspoke is a social app where people share personal Moments with mutual Adds outside Communities, post Moments or Finds within Communities under each Community's rules, publish public Finds through Finds creator profiles, and back visible content with specific Backing Tags instead of generic likes.

This Privacy Policy explains what information Sayspoke collects, how we use it, how we protect it, and what choices you have.

Sayspoke is currently in open beta. Access is open to eligible users, but features, privacy controls, analytics, safety tools, and data practices may change as the product develops. When we make material changes to this policy, we will update the date above and provide additional notice when required.

1. Who this policy applies to

This policy applies when you use Sayspoke, including when you:

• Create or manage an account
• Create or manage a normal Sayspoke profile
• Post or view Moments
• Create, manage, follow, or view a Finds creator profile
• Publish, view, save, or interact with Finds
• Draft, edit, export, or publish written works through Writer Lab
• Join or participate in Communities
• Upload photos or videos
• Back visible content with Backing Tags
• Leave Notes or replies
• Send or receive Add requests
• Follow Finds creator profiles
• Send private messages
• Use profile, privacy, trust, reporting, moderation, or account controls
• Visit Sayspoke pages that use cookies, local storage, analytics, or operational measurement

2. Information you give us

We collect information you choose to provide, including:

• Account information, such as your name, email address, authentication method, and information associated with Google sign-in if you use Google login
• Age-eligibility information, such as the date of birth you enter during signup to confirm that you are old enough to use Sayspoke
• Normal profile information, such as your display name, username, profile picture, bio, location text, privacy settings, message settings, Add-request settings, and other profile details
• Finds creator profile information, such as a creator handle, creator display name, creator profile photo, description, focus, links, business information, and local-discovery details
• Content you submit, such as Moments, Finds, Community posts, captions, descriptions, photos, videos, Backing Tags, Notes, replies, saved content, Writer Lab drafts, published written works, document formatting, and text or files you import into Writer Lab
• Media you upload, such as photos, videos, thumbnails, profile images, creator avatars, and related file metadata
• Communications you send to us, such as reports, appeals, safety messages, support requests, feedback, and other correspondence
• Account-lifecycle requests, such as account pausing, deletion, restoration, or support requests
• Payment, tax, or payout information if Sayspoke offers creator monetization and you choose to participate

Sayspoke does not store your full date of birth after using it to confirm signup eligibility. We may store limited verification facts, such as:

• When age eligibility was checked
• The minimum age confirmed
• The verification method used
• Whether you were under 18 at signup

Do not submit private, sensitive, confidential, or legally restricted information unless you are comfortable providing it to Sayspoke and, where applicable, sharing it under the selected content or Community rules.

3. Information created when you use Sayspoke

When you use Sayspoke, we may collect or generate information such as:

• Content you create, edit, remove, save, view, or interact with
• Writer Lab draft identifiers, revisions, save and recovery state, publication status, export activity, and deletion or unpublishing requests
• Reading activity connected to public written works, such as page views, reading progress, saves, shares, Backings, Notes, and advertising-delivery signals where those features exist
• Backing Tags you give or receive
• Notes, replies, reactions to Notes or replies, and other engagement activity
• Add requests, mutual Add connections, creator follows, Community memberships, and related relationship activity
• Find views, watch activity, completion activity, saves, shares, Backings, and other product signals
• Discovery and recommendation signals, such as which public Finds you view, watch, save, back, follow, skip, or report
• Device, browser, IP address, approximate location, log, diagnostic, security, and performance information
• Pseudonymous or aggregated operational signals used to understand whether the service is active and functioning
• Preferences, such as message sound settings, feed video settings, desktop layout settings, cookie choices, and other interface preferences
• Open-beta signup state, age-eligibility status, login status, email-verification status, and account status
• Moderation, trust, safety, reporting, administrative, and abuse-prevention records
• Advertising and monetization information associated with eligible public Find surfaces, such as sponsored-placement delivery, Find impressions, video-ad progress, invalid activity, and creator revenue calculations

We use these signals to operate Sayspoke, provide personal Moment feeds to authors and eligible mutual Adds outside Communities, provide Community content through the applicable Community, personalize public Find discovery, manage creator subscriptions, support Communities, prevent abuse, debug issues, measure performance, and understand whether Sayspoke is working.

Personal Moments are not used as public Find-discovery candidates or advertising inventory.

4. Personal profiles, Finds creator profiles, and Communities

Sayspoke has distinct personal, public creator, and Community surfaces.

Normal Sayspoke profiles and Adds

A normal Sayspoke profile represents a person’s personal identity.

An Add is an approved, mutual connection between two normal Sayspoke profiles. Sending an Add request does not create a connection. When an Add request is approved, both profiles become connected.

Users may disable incoming Add requests. Blocking or removing an Add may end or override the connection.

Add relationships and Finds creator follows are separate systems. Adding someone does not automatically follow their Finds creator profile, and following a Finds creator profile does not create an Add or expose personal Moments.

Moments

Outside Communities, Moments are personal posts visible only to:

• The person who posted the Moment
• People who are currently mutual Adds with that person

Personal Moments are not publicly discoverable. They do not appear in public Find discovery, search-engine sitemaps, logged-out pages, public recommendations, public creator feeds, or advertising inventory.

Removing an Add or blocking a person may remove their future access to personal Moments. This cannot prevent someone who previously had access from retaining a screenshot, copy, or other record.

Finds and Finds creator profiles

A Finds creator profile is a separate public publishing identity.

Following a Finds creator profile is a one-way subscription to that creator’s public Finds. It does not create a personal Add relationship.

Global Finds are public creator posts and may appear in:

• Public Finds feeds
• Personalized discovery
• Creator-following feeds
• Local discovery
• Search and Backing Tag collections
• Public Finds creator profiles
• Public sharing previews
• Search-engine results
• Sponsored or monetized Find surfaces

A creator’s normal profile information, personal Add relationships, and personal Moments are not automatically included on the creator profile.

Writer Lab drafts and published written works

The public Writer Lab test may store drafts in browser local storage on the device. Those device-only drafts are not cloud-synced or stored in Sayspoke’s database. Clearing browser site data, using a private-browsing mode, changing browsers or devices, or losing access to the device may remove them.

When you use the account-connected Writer Lab, Sayspoke may store draft content, document structure, formatting, revisions, timestamps, and recovery information to provide autosave, synchronization, recovery, export, and publishing.

Unpublished Writer Lab drafts are not publicly visible, public discovery candidates, or advertising inventory. When you choose to publish a written work, the work and associated author information become public and may appear on public reading pages, author or creator surfaces, search, recommendations, Backing Tag collections, sharing previews, and other public discovery surfaces.

Communities

Communities are the only Sayspoke surface where Moments and Finds may appear together for people who are not mutual Adds.

Community content is governed by the Community’s visibility, membership, posting, approval, and moderation rules.

A Moment posted in a Community remains on that Community surface under the Community's rules. It does not enter personal Moment feeds, global Finds, unrelated discovery or recommendation surfaces, or advertising inventory.

A Find posted specifically in a Community does not automatically enter global Find discovery unless Sayspoke provides and the creator uses a separate global-publication action. Community placement alone does not make Community content globally discoverable.

Public Communities may be visible to non-members where the Community’s rules allow it. Private or membership-restricted Communities are visible only as permitted by their access rules.

Moments do not become advertising inventory merely because they appear in a Community that also contains Finds.

5. Visible information and interactions

Depending on the feature, relationship, privacy setting, and Community rules, other people may see information such as:

• Normal profile details that your settings allow them to see
• Whether an Add request is pending, accepted, declined, removed, or unavailable where the relevant interface displays that status
• Personal Moments outside Communities when the viewer is the author or a current mutual Add
• Public Finds and Finds creator profiles
• Public creator-follower counts or relationships where the feature displays them
• Community Moments and Community Finds that the Community permits the viewer to access on that Community surface
• Backing Tags, Notes, replies, saves, and other engagement information where the relevant feature makes them visible
• Public Find performance information, sponsorship disclosures, or creator information

Some information may remain stored after you change a setting or remove content, including where the information:

• Was already viewed or copied by another person
• Was included in a report, appeal, or safety investigation
• Is contained in system logs or backups
• Is needed to prevent fraud, abuse, or policy evasion
• Must be preserved for legal, security, financial, or operational reasons

6. Private messages

Sayspoke private messages are designed to use client-side encryption for message text.

We may store:

• Encrypted message content
• Conversation and participant records
• Message timestamps
• Delivery and read status
• Conversation state
• Message-key records
• Presence or typing state
• Block and message-privacy settings
• Abuse-prevention and security records

Encryption of message text does not necessarily conceal all message metadata, such as who participated in a conversation or when messages were sent.

During beta, do not use Sayspoke private messages for highly sensitive, emergency, financial, medical, legal, or confidential information. Encryption and key-management systems may continue to change as the product develops.

7. Location and place information

Sayspoke may let you add, search, display, or use location-related information for normal profiles, Finds creator profiles, Moments, Finds, Communities, or local discovery.

This may include:

• Location text you enter
• Place names
• City, region, or country
• Map and place-search results
• Approximate device or network location
• Location metadata connected to content you submit
• Local-discovery settings for creator profiles

We may use location-related information to support:

• Local Find discovery
• Maps and place features
• Content context
• Search and recommendations
• Community features
• Safety review
• Fraud and abuse prevention

Do not add a precise location to content unless you are comfortable with eligible viewers seeing it under the applicable relationship, publication, or Community rules.

8. Video, media, and content processing

Sayspoke may process uploaded media to provide the service. This may include:

• Uploading and storing media files
• Creating thumbnails, previews, and processed video versions
• Reading file and media metadata
• Measuring file size, format, duration, and processing status
• Running video-processing jobs
• Diagnosing failed uploads or playback issues
• Reviewing media connected to reports, safety concerns, intellectual-property complaints, or abuse prevention

Sayspoke may use automated or model-assisted tools to:

• Categorize content
• Suggest, evaluate, or organize Backing Tags
• Identify media or content type
• Improve public Find recommendations
• Detect possible spam, abuse, or policy violations
• Assist human moderation
• Improve product quality

Automated tools may be inaccurate. They are not intended to replace human review where human judgment is appropriate.

Sayspoke does not use unpublished Writer Lab drafts to select advertisements, promote Sayspoke, or train generative AI models without separate express permission. Published written works may be processed as needed for formatting, search, recommendations, safety, moderation, and the public reading experience.

9. Analytics, service measurement, and operational presence

Sayspoke uses three separate measurement systems. They do not share the same purpose, controls, data, or retention.

Optional Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a third-party analytics service. It is off by default and does not load until you grant analytics consent through Sayspoke's Cookie Settings.

When enabled, Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• Pages viewed
• Time and navigation patterns
• Referring pages
• Browser and device information
• Approximate location based on IP address
• Interaction and usage events
• Google Analytics cookies or similar identifiers

Sayspoke configures Google Analytics with advertising storage, advertising user data, and advertising personalization denied. Sayspoke uses Google Analytics to measure traffic, understand feature usage, diagnose product issues, improve onboarding, and make Sayspoke easier to use. Google processes this information under its own terms and policies.

How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

Google Analytics is not used to read private-message text. You can grant or withdraw Google Analytics consent through Cookie Settings. Withdrawing consent applies to future collection and does not necessarily delete information Google already processed.

First-party service measurement

First-party service measurement is operated by Sayspoke and does not send events to Google. It is enabled by default, but you can turn it off separately in App Settings.

When enabled, Sayspoke records only daily aggregate counts for:

• A broad route section, such as Finds, Support, Settings, or Other
• A broad referrer category, such as direct, internal, search, social, or other
• The number of page views in that daily route-and-referrer bucket

The service-measurement record does not include a profile or account ID, device ID, IP address, full URL, raw referrer, content, or individual browsing history. It does not create a visitor-level event history. This historical aggregate measurement is separate from both Google Analytics and operational presence tracking.

Operational presence tracking

Operational presence tracking is a narrow first-party system used to estimate whether browsers are currently active, whether active browsers are signed in or anonymous, and the country-level distribution of active use. It does not record which page a browser is viewing.

While a Sayspoke page is visible, the browser sends a presence heartbeat approximately once per minute. Sayspoke creates a keyed hash from an account ID for a signed-in user, or from IP address and browser user-agent information for an anonymous visitor. The account ID, raw IP address, and raw user-agent value used to create the hash are not stored in the presence tables.

The active presence record contains only the hash, signed-in or anonymous status, a two-letter country code when available, and the most recent heartbeat time. Active records expire after about two minutes without another heartbeat. Sayspoke retains daily aggregate average and peak presence counts, separated by signed-in or anonymous status and coarse country code, for up to 400 days.

Operational presence runs independently of Google Analytics consent and the first-party service-measurement preference because it is used for live operational counts and service reliability. It does not use Google Analytics, create a page-view history, or record message or post content.

10. Cookies and similar technologies

Sayspoke uses cookies, local storage, session storage, first-party requests, and similar technologies to:

• Keep you signed in
• Support authentication and Google login
• Support signup, OAuth, age-eligibility, and account-flow state
• Store user and interface preferences
• Remember Cookie Settings and the separate service-measurement preference
• Protect accounts and sessions
• Maintain core application functionality
• Perform operational presence tracking
• Perform first-party service measurement when that preference is enabled
• Load Google Analytics only after analytics consent
• Diagnose bugs, failures, and performance issues

The Google Analytics choice in Cookie Settings does not control first-party service measurement or operational presence. First-party service measurement has a separate control in App Settings. Operational presence continues independently as described above.

For more information, see the Cookie Policy.

11. How we use information

We use information to:

• Create, authenticate, and manage accounts
• Confirm signup eligibility
• Create and manage normal profiles and Finds creator profiles
• Provide Add requests and mutual Add connections
• Provide personal Moments to their authors and eligible mutual Adds outside Communities
• Provide Community Moments only through the applicable Community under its access and moderation rules
• Publish and distribute public Finds
• Store, sync, recover, format, export, and publish Writer Lab drafts and written works
• Operate public reading experiences and contextual advertising around eligible published written works
• Provide creator follows and subscription feeds
• Operate Communities
• Provide Backing Tags, Notes, replies, saves, messages, and profile features
• Operate public Find feeds, discovery, recommendation, ranking, search, and creator tools
• Provide sponsored Find placements and eligible creator monetization
• Process media uploads and playback
• Maintain trust, safety, moderation, reports, appeals, and blocking tools
• Send account, security, support, and product messages
• Protect against spam, fraud, abuse, scraping, security attacks, and policy violations
• Debug, test, monitor, and improve Sayspoke
• Understand product usage during open beta
• Enforce our Terms of Service
• Comply with legal obligations

We do not use personal Moments as public advertising inventory.

12. How we share information

We may disclose information in the following circumstances.

With other users

Information is shared with other users according to the applicable product surface:

• Normal profile information is shown according to profile and relationship settings.
• Outside Communities, personal Moments are shown only to their authors and current mutual Adds.
• Public Finds and Finds creator profiles may be shown publicly.
• Unpublished Writer Lab drafts are not shown to other users.
• Published written works may be shown publicly through reading pages, discovery, search, author or creator surfaces, sharing previews, and related public features.
• Community Moments and Community Finds are shown only through the applicable Community according to its rules.
• Backings, Notes, replies, follows, saves, and other interactions are shown where the relevant feature permits.

With service providers

We use service providers to operate Sayspoke. These may include providers for:

• Hosting
• Databases and storage
• Authentication
• Email delivery
• Analytics
• Maps and place search
• Media processing
• Security
• Infrastructure
• Payment and payout processing

These providers may process information as needed to provide services to Sayspoke, subject to their agreements, policies, and our configuration.

For safety, security, and legal reasons

We may access, preserve, or disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to:

• Comply with law, regulation, court order, or legal process
• Enforce our Terms of Service
• Investigate abuse, fraud, spam, security incidents, or policy violations
• Protect users, Sayspoke, or the public
• Respond to reports, appeals, or support issues
• Prevent harm or illegal activity
• Protect the integrity of creator monetization or advertising systems

Business transfers

If Sayspoke is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

13. Sponsored placements and creator monetization

Sayspoke may display sponsored placements or promotional content on eligible public Find surfaces and published written-work reading surfaces.

Moments never display advertising.

Unpublished Writer Lab drafts are not advertising inventory and are not used to select advertisements.

Sayspoke may use information about eligible public Finds and Find interactions to:

• Select contextually relevant sponsored placements
• Measure sponsored-placement delivery and performance
• Detect invalid or manipulated activity
• Calculate creator-monetization eligibility or revenue
• Provide reporting to creators or advertisers

Personal Moment views and Add relationships are not treated as monetized Find impressions.

For published written works, Sayspoke may use the public work’s subject matter, page context, and aggregate reading or advertising-delivery signals to select contextual advertisements, measure delivery and performance, and prevent invalid activity. Sayspoke does not sell or license a written work as advertising creative, and an advertisement shown with a work does not mean the author endorses the advertiser. Sayspoke may receive revenue from advertisements displayed during the public reading experience; this does not change ownership of the work.

Sayspoke does not currently use third-party advertising networks to conduct cross-site behavioral advertising. If this changes, we will update this policy and provide any notices or controls required by law.

Sayspoke does not currently sell personal information for money. If our practices change in a way that is treated as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under applicable law, we will provide the required disclosures and choices.

14. Data retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Provide the service
• Maintain your account
• Preserve content and interactions
• Support safety, moderation, reporting, and appeals
• Prevent fraud, abuse, and policy evasion
• Administer creator monetization or financial records
• Meet legal, tax, accounting, security, and operational requirements
• Maintain backups and logs
• Resolve disputes
• Enforce our Terms of Service

Different categories of information may have different retention periods.

Device-only Writer Lab test drafts remain in the browser until you delete them, clear site data, or the browser removes them. Account-connected Writer Lab drafts and published written works are retained while needed to provide the service and until you delete, unpublish, or close the associated account, subject to the limitations below.

When you delete content or request account deletion, we take reasonable steps to remove or deactivate information, subject to limits such as:

• Backups
• Security and diagnostic logs
• Safety and moderation records
• Legal requirements
• Financial records
• Information copied by other users
• Information needed to protect users or prevent abuse

15. Account deletion

You may request deletion of your account through available account tools or by contacting us.

Account deletion may remove or deactivate your:

• Account access
• Normal profile
• Finds creator profile
• Personal Moments
• Public Finds
• Writer Lab drafts and published written works
• Community participation
• Add and creator-follow relationships

Some information may remain for legitimate reasons, including:

• Security logs
• Legal, tax, accounting, or compliance records
• Reports, appeals, and moderation records
• Backups retained for a limited period
• Information needed to protect other users
• Information needed to prevent repeat abuse or ban evasion
• Information already copied or retained by other people
• Records connected to completed creator payments or advertising activity

16. Security

We use technical and organizational measures designed to protect information.

These may include:

• Authentication controls
• Row-level database security
• Access controls
• Encryption for some data
• Rate limiting
• Logging and monitoring
• Administrative restrictions
• Security review
• Account and session protections

No security system is perfect. Sayspoke is in open beta, and bugs or vulnerabilities may exist.

Please report suspected security or privacy issues promptly through Sayspoke Support.

17. Your choices

Depending on the feature and applicable law, you may be able to:

• Edit your normal profile
• Edit or manage a Finds creator profile
• Change privacy and trust settings
• Disable incoming Add requests
• Approve, decline, remove, or block personal connections
• Follow or unfollow Finds creator profiles
• Delete or edit content
• Export Writer Lab drafts and published written works
• Unpublish or delete published written works
• Leave or manage Communities
• Control who can message you
• Save or unsave content
• Manage creator or monetization settings
• Pause or delete your account
• Change optional analytics consent
• Control cookies through your browser
• Use Google Analytics opt-out tools
• Request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain information

Some choices cannot remove information that has already been:

• Viewed or copied by another person
• Processed in a completed transaction
• Included in a safety report
• Retained in backups
• Preserved for legal or security reasons

18. Children and teenagers

Sayspoke is available only to people who are at least 16 years old.

Sayspoke is not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly allow children under 16 to create accounts.

If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 16, we may suspend or delete the account and take reasonable steps to remove associated information.

If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Sayspoke only if:

• Your parent or legal guardian permits it where required
• You are allowed to use Sayspoke under the laws that apply to you
• You meet any higher minimum age required where you live

If you believe someone under 16 has provided information to Sayspoke, contact us so we can review the account.

19. U.S. state privacy rights

Depending on where you live and whether an applicable law covers Sayspoke, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

These may include the right to:

• Confirm whether we process your information
• Access certain information
• Correct inaccurate information
• Delete certain information
• Obtain a portable copy of certain information
• Opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling
• Appeal the denial of a privacy request
• Exercise privacy rights without unlawful discrimination

Sayspoke does not currently sell personal information for money or use third-party behavioral advertising networks.

To submit a privacy request, contact us at the address below. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

We may deny or limit a request where permitted by law, including where information must be retained for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, financial records, or the rights of another person.

20. International users

Sayspoke is currently operated from the United States.

If you use Sayspoke from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. Those countries may have data-protection laws different from those where you live.

Your use of Sayspoke must comply with the laws applicable to you.

21. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as Sayspoke changes.

The updated version will be posted with a revised “Last updated” date. We may also provide notice inside Sayspoke or by email when changes are material.

Where applicable law requires consent or another specific process, we will follow that process.

22. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact:

Email: [email protected]