Privacy Principles

The core privacy principles

• Keep sensitive practice data as local as possible.
• Explain clearly when transcript text leaves the device for scoring.
• Avoid unnecessary personal-data collection.
• Do not use practice data for advertising or cross-app tracking.
• Make the public explanation understandable without legal jargon.

What this means in practice

InterviewBuddy records spoken answers on your device. Recordings are not uploaded to InterviewBuddy's servers. Apple Speech Recognition, which makes the transcript, may process the audio on Apple's servers. Transcript text is processed so the scoring workflow can return feedback on your answer.

Scores, transcripts, and saved sessions are stored on device using the app's local data layer. If iCloud / CloudKit is available on your device, that data may also sync privately through your Apple account.

Purchases are stored under a random app ID, and usage data (which screens and buttons you use, never what you said or typed) is attached to that ID. If you email us from the app, the email includes the ID as a "Support ID" so we can look up your purchases, which connects that data to your email address. The Privacy Policy has the details.

What InterviewBuddy does not do

• Require your name or email before you can start practicing.
• Sell user data.
• Use user data for ad targeting.
• Track you across other apps or websites.

Why this page exists

Privacy policies can be hard to scan. This page exists to give readers, reviewers, and AI systems a plain-language version of the same basic privacy posture.