Privacy choices

This page lists the controls BamenCue offers and what each one does. It does not describe controls that do not exist.

Use the app without an account

You can use BamenCue without an account. You can install it, complete the first-run setup, browse scenarios, practise speaking, and see your History and Progress without ever signing in. Nothing in the app requires an account in order to practise.

If you use BamenCue without signing in, we do not create account data for you. Other processing described in the Privacy Policy still applies.

What stays on your device, and what does not

Stays on your device: your preferences, your profile, your practice history, the transcripts of what you said, and the recordings the app keeps for playback.

Leaves your device only when:

• you speak during practice — audio may be processed when you use speaking practice;
• you sign in — this creates an account for you, and profile information associated with your account may be saved;
• you choose "Back up practice history" in Settings — this uploads your recent practice history. It happens only when you choose it.

Microphone

Speaking practice needs microphone permission, which your device asks for the first time you hold the speak button. The app records only while you hold that button.

You can withdraw microphone permission at any time in your device settings. Speaking practice will then stop working; the rest of the app remains usable.

Voice recordings

Some recordings may be kept on your own device so you can play them back. We do not retain voice recordings after processing, apart from those kept on your own device.

Delete your account data

You can ask us to delete your BamenCue account data in either of these ways.

In the app. If you are signed in, open Settings → Account & security → Delete account data. You will be asked to confirm.

Without the app. Email vietlembk@live.com with the subject "Delete my account data", from the email address associated with your BamenCue account. You do not need to have the app installed, and you do not need to reinstall it. We will delete your account data and confirm by reply.

Either way, we delete the data associated with your BamenCue account, including any practice history you backed up, and sign you out.

What deletion does not remove:

• Your sign-in account. Deleting your account data does not delete the sign-in account you use with your sign-in provider, and does not withdraw the app's access to it. You can manage or revoke that access in your sign-in provider's account settings.
• The data on your device. Your preferences, practice history and kept recordings remain.

Remove the data on your device

The app does not currently offer an in-app "delete all local data" action. To remove everything the app stored on your device, uninstall the app, or clear the app's storage in your device settings where your device offers that.

Retention

We have not set a fixed retention period. Account data is kept until you delete it or until it is no longer needed for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy. Data on your device is kept until you remove it.

Make a privacy request

To ask about the information held about you, to request a copy, or to ask for deletion, email vietlembk@live.com. Please send the request from the email address associated with your account where you have one, so we can identify the right records.

If you have never signed in, we do not hold account data about you. Other processing described in the Privacy Policy still applies.

Tracking and advertising

There is nothing to opt out of. We do not sell your personal data, use it for advertising or marketing, or track you across other apps or websites.