Privacy

Last updated: 2026-11-15

ÇatPat English is a speaking practice app. This page says in plain words what happens to your data.

Who provides the app

• For users in Türkiye: ZincirX Bilişim Teknoloji ve Danışmanlık A.Ş., Gülbahçe Mah. Gülbahçe Cad. İYTE Sitesi No: 1/40 İç Kapı No: 51, 35430 Urla/İzmir, Türkiye.
• For users everywhere else: ZincirX Inc., c/o Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 131 Continental Drive, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713, United States.

The app is published on Google Play under the developer name "figs softwares", which is the Google Play account of ZincirX A.Ş. Contact for everything on this page: info@zincirx.com.

Adults only

The app is for people aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly process data of anyone younger. If you are under 18, please do not use the app.

What is processed

• Your voice. When you press the microphone, your phone's own speech recognizer (a feature of Android, provided by the phone's speech service, usually Google's) turns your speech into text. The app does not record your voice, and no audio is sent to our server.
• The text of the conversation. The words the recognizer produced, and the tutor's answers, are sent to our server and from there to Google's Gemini service, which writes the tutor's reply, the feedback after a session, and the tutor's voice. Our server passes this text on and does not keep it.
• Your purchase. When you subscribe, Google Play gives the app a purchase token. Our server keeps this token (encrypted), the state of your subscription (plan, renewal date, active or not) and checks it with Google Play. We never see your card details, name or e-mail address: payment is handled by Google Play.
• Usage counters. To apply the limits we count seconds: your talk time per day and the AI-voice time per month. Counters only, no content.
• The free placement talk. To stop abuse of the free demo, the server keeps a scrambled (hashed) form of a random number created by the app on your phone and of your IP address, for two days.
• Reports. If you use "Report this reply", the reply you reported, the sentence you said just before it, your reason and your optional note are stored so that we can review it.
• On your phone only. Your level, goal, streak, session history, scores and feedback are stored in the app on your phone and are not sent to our server.
• Technical logs. Like any web server, ours logs requests (time, IP address, address requested) for security and troubleshooting. Our application logs contain counts and error notes, never conversation text.

What we do not do

• No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
• No sale of data, and no sharing for marketing.
• No account, name, e-mail address, contact list or location is asked for.
• No voice recordings are stored, and the app does not judge your pronunciation.

Who receives data

• Google (Gemini API) receives the conversation text to produce replies, feedback and voice, and processes it under its own terms for that service, on Google's infrastructure, which may be outside your country.
• Google Play handles the subscription and payment and tells our server whether the subscription is active.
• Our hosting provider runs the server on which the items above are stored.

Why we may process it

To provide the service you asked for (the conversation, the feedback, the subscription), to keep the service safe and within its limits, and to meet legal duties such as tax records kept by the payment provider.

How long it is kept

• Conversation text: not kept on our server (except what a report contains).
• Demo records: two days.
• Usage counters: about 100 days.
• Subscription record: while the subscription lasts and up to 12 months after it ends, or until you delete it.
• Reports: until reviewed and no longer needed, or until you delete your data.

Deleting your data

In the app, open Settings and choose "Delete my data". This removes your record, counters and reports from our server and clears the app's data on your phone. Deleting your data does not cancel your subscription: cancel it in Google Play (Payments and subscriptions). You can also write to info@zincirx.com.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under KVKK in Türkiye or the GDPR in the European Union), you may ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, object to its use, and complain to your data protection authority. Because we hold no name or e-mail address, the surest way to delete your record is "Delete my data" in the app; for other requests we may ask for details of your purchase (such as the Google Play order number) so that we can find your record.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. Please look at it again from time to time.