Privacy Policy

Effective November 12, 2026

Who we are

Speck ("Speck", "we", "us") is an iOS app and website where people release short anonymous thoughts into a shared sky. Questions about this policy: hello@getspeck.app.

What Speck collects

• An account ID. The first time you release, save, report, or redeem something, Speck creates an account identified only by a random ID. We don't ask for your name, email, or phone number.
• Sign in with Apple, if you choose it. To keep your Sky across devices you can connect Sign in with Apple. Apple gives us an identifier for your Apple ID. Speck doesn't ask Apple for your name or email.
• The thoughts you release. The words, the mood you chose, when you released it, and its number in the Sky. These are public by design (see "Permanence" below).
• Where a thought sits in the Sky, if you turn it on. With "Place my thoughts above where I am" on, a released thought is placed above a point in the sky worked out from your phone's time zone and deliberately blurred by about 12 degrees. Speck never uses GPS or your precise location.
• What you do in the Sky. Thoughts you open, save, or mark as felt; replies you send or receive; reports you file; gift codes you create or redeem. We use these to run the features you use and to keep the Sky safe.
• Your blank specks and purchases. Your balance and a ledger of how it changed. For purchases: the product, the store (App Store or Stripe), the transaction ID, and the date. We never receive your card or bank details.
• Distill. When you use Distill, the draft you asked about is sent to our AI provider to suggest shorter versions. We count how many times you've used it.
• Notifications, if you allow them. A push token from Apple so we can tell you, for example, that someone felt your thought.
• Technical information. Our hosting providers keep standard server logs, which can include IP addresses and device or browser details, for security and reliability.

Dictation uses Apple's speech recognition, on your device when your iPhone supports it. Speck doesn't receive or keep audio.

What Speck doesn't do

• No advertising, and no ad or analytics trackers in the app.
• No tracking you across other companies' apps or websites.
• No selling, renting, or sharing your personal information for advertising.
• No access to your contacts, photos, or precise location.

Permanence

Speck is built around one promise: once a thought settles, it stays. After you release a thought you have 60 seconds to reclaim it. After that it is public, can't be edited or deleted by anyone, and is kept in our archive for as long as Speck exists. Please don't put information in a thought that could identify you or anyone else. Speck blocks some obvious personal details, like email addresses and phone numbers, but it can't catch everything.

Thoughts are never shown with your account ID or anything else that identifies you. For safety, we may hide a thought from the Sky (for example after a report). Every such change is recorded.

Safety and moderation

To keep the Sky safe, each thought is checked while it forms: against a list of blocked terms, and by an AI model that classifies it. A small team can review reported or flagged thoughts. Reviewers see the thought, never who wrote it.

Speck is not a crisis service. If you write about wanting to hurt yourself, the app shows crisis resources. In the U.S. you can call or text 988 at any time.

Who helps us run Speck

These providers process data on our behalf, only to provide their service to us:

• Supabase: database, accounts, file storage, and server functions.
• Apple: the App Store, Sign in with Apple, push notifications, and in-app purchases.
• RevenueCat: keeps track of purchases and Speck Plus across the App Store and the web. It receives your Speck account ID and your purchase history.
• Stripe: payments on the website. With Stripe Managed Payments, Stripe is the seller of record for web purchases and handles tax and payment details under its own privacy policy.
• Anthropic: the Claude AI models that check thoughts for safety and power Distill. They receive the text of the thought or draft, not your identity.
• Cloudflare: delivers the Sky to the app quickly and may help tell people from bots when you create an account.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety.

How long we keep things

• Released thoughts: permanently, without any link to you once your account is deleted.
• Your account and activity: until you delete your account.
• Purchase records: as long as tax and accounting rules require, without your account ID after you delete your account.
• Server logs: for a limited time set by our providers.

Deleting your account

In the app, open You → Delete account. This deletes your account, your blank specks and their history, your saves, what you've opened or felt, and your notification settings. If you connected Sign in with Apple, Speck also asks Apple to remove its access. Thoughts you released stay in the Sky, and records of gifts and reports stay for safety, but nothing links any of them to you anymore. Unused blank specks are lost when you delete your account.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live (for example California or the European Union), you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, or to get a copy. Email us and we'll respond within the time the law requires. Because your account has no name or email, we may ask you to send the request from within the app or to show that the account is yours. Because thoughts are anonymous and permanent, we can't remove them from the Sky, but we can make sure nothing connects them to you.

Children

Speck isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has an account, contact us and we'll delete it.

The beta

Until January 1, 2027, Speck runs a demo Sky for testers. Everything in it is deleted before launch.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. For significant changes we'll tell you in the app.