Updates
eyeHear, LLC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at anytime. Updates will be noted in the release notes of any updates, and a current version is always available at eyehear.app/privacy.
Promises
eyeHear respects your privacy. Our Privacy Policy makes a few, simple promises:
- eyeHear, LLC collects as little data as is possible to operate efficiently.
- eyeHear, LLC does not sell any personal or analytical data.
- eyeHear does not collect any recordings or captions of conversations captioned.
- Any information collected by eyeHear, LLC is documented clearly and thoroughly here in the privacy policy.
- Any services run by entities other than eyeHear, LLC that eyeHear, LLC shares information with in order to operate are documented and explained here in the privacy policy.
Third Party Services
eyeHear, LLC, like all businesses, operates on a foundation of technologies provided by other organizations. All third-party services are documented on a per property basis in this document.
eyeHear for iOS app
eyeHear collects as little data as possible while operating to ensure your privacy. We never collect your conversations contents or recordings. Recordings from the microphone are not stored any longer than it takes to process them into captions. Captions are stored locally on your device. eyeHear does not connect to any servers other than Apple's captioning service via SFSpeechRecognizer API.
- eyeHear for iOS uses Apple's SFSpeechRecognizer API. All network traffic between your device and Apple's servers is encrypted. You can learn more about Apple's Speech APIs at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech.
- eyeHear for iOS uses Apple's default app analytics. You can learn more about what Apple shares with all developers at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-analytics/. You can learn more about managing and opting out of Apple's analytics at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202100.
- eyeHear for iOS requires Microphone and Speech Recognition permission to operate. eyeHear for iOS will request this on first launch. Controls for both permissions can be found under Privacy in the iOS Settings app or by selecting eyeHear from the apps listing in the iOS settings app. The app requests no other permissions — it does not access your location, contacts, or photos, and contains no advertising or third-party tracking.
- Your caption history is stored only on your device. It is never sent to eyeHear, and it leaves your device only if you choose to share or export it using the iOS share sheet. You can clear your history at any time from within the app.
- View all of Apple's most up-to-date user agreements at https://www.apple.com/legal/.
- View Apple's latest privacy policy at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/.
- View Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula.
Managed Devices (MDM)
If you received eyeHear through an organization that manages your device (for example, a hospital, school, or employer using Mobile Device Management), your administrator can deploy eyeHear with a managed app configuration that changes how the app behaves. Depending on the policy your administrator sets, in-app sharing may be turned off and on-device caption history may be disabled — when history is disabled, any captions already stored on the device are deleted.
This configuration is delivered by your organization's device-management system and is applied and enforced entirely on your device. eyeHear, LLC does not set, receive, or store this configuration, and the app adds no telemetry or reporting as a result of it. If you have questions about a policy applied to your managed device, please contact your organization's administrator.
eyeHear.app Website
- eyehear.app is hosted on Cloudflare. You can find Cloudflare's Privacy Policy here https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/and Cloudflare's Terms of Service here https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/. As our hosting provider, Cloudflare processes the network requests you make to our site, including your IP address, in order to serve and protect the site. Fonts and other assets are served directly from eyehear.app — our website does not load resources from third-party content delivery networks or font services.
Support Form
When you contact us through the support form at eyehear.app/support, we collect the email address and message you provide so that we can respond. This information is processed on eyeHear's Cloudflare-based infrastructure and may also be processed by our AI tooling (see AI Tooling):
- Your submission is stored in our Cloudflare D1 database so our team can read and reply to it.
- A notification containing your submission is delivered to our support team's inbox via Cloudflare Email Routing.
- If our team replies to your request, a staff member sends that reply from their own Gmail or Google Workspace account, after using an internal, audit-logged tool to reveal your email address. This means Google/Google Workspace processes your revealed email address and the content of that reply. You can find Google's privacy policy here https://policies.google.com/privacy.
- The form is protected from spam and abuse by Cloudflare Turnstile, and your IP address is processed by Cloudflare to enforce rate limits. We do not store your IP address in our support database.
eyeHear Surveys
eyeHear uses surveys as a way to collect information from users so that we can improve our product and services.
- Surveys run on eyeHear's own infrastructure hosted on Cloudflare — the same systems that power our support form. Survey responses are stored in eyeHear's systems and are not shared with any third-party form processor. Participation is always optional. Survey responses may be processed by our AI tooling as described under AI Tooling.
Outbound Email
eyeHear uses Resend to deliver occasional service or product emails from our team, sent from our admin dashboard to people who have contacted support, completed a survey, or otherwise become an eyeHear contact. Resend is not used for direct replies to a support request — see Support Form above. You can find Resend's privacy policy here https://resend.com/legal/privacy-policy.
- To send a message, Resend receives the recipient email address, the subject and body content of the message, and a reply-to address (support@eyehear.app) on every message, so if you reply to any email from us it reaches our support inbox. Every message is addressed to a single recipient — we never CC or BCC multiple people together, so recipients can't see each other's addresses.
- Resend reports delivery, bounce, and spam-complaint status back to us via a signed webhook. We use this to show delivery status in our internal tools and, for a hard bounce or spam complaint, to stop emailing that address again. If your contact record is later deleted, we scrub the stored address from this suppression record but keep a salted, non-reversible hash of it, so the opt-out still holds even though your address is gone (see Data Retention).
- Most of these emails are commercial or product updates and include an unsubscribe link that honors your opt-out. A small number are transactional — required notices about your account or our service, like a change to these policies — and may be sent even if you've previously opted out, since we're obligated to deliver them.
AI Tooling
- eyeHear uses Anthropic's Claude to help process and respond to support requests and survey responses. This content, including any personal information you provide, may be processed by Anthropic on eyeHear's behalf for those purposes. Anthropic does not use this data to train its models, and it is not sold or used for advertising. Anthropic's privacy policy: https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
Personally Identifiable Information and User Data
eyeHear avoids collecting user data or personally identifiable information (PII) as a general practice in order to ensure your privacy. For instance, the eyeHear app doesn't share any data at all with eyeHear about what you caption, or how you use the application. However, there are cases where we must collect PII or user data in order to offer our services.
- eyeHear collects PII via our product surveys. This information is used for followup communications and product improvements. We do not sell your personal information or use it for advertising. We share it only with service providers who process it on our behalf to operate eyeHear, under contracts that restrict how they may use it (see Third Party Services).
- eyeHear collects PII during the course of support. The information collected is stored securely and minimized to the information needed to resolve your issue.
- If you would like to have your PII or user data removed from our systems, please contact support. We honor these requests except where we're required or permitted to retain information — for example, to comply with a legal obligation, resolve a dispute, or because a record is under an active legal hold (see Data Retention).
Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purpose it was collected.
- Support tickets. The email address and message you send through our support form are retained while we work your request and for up to one year after the case is closed, after which they are deleted.
- Survey responses. Retained for up to 18 months from the date you submit them, after which they are deleted or aggregated.
- Microphone audio. Held only on your device. eyeHear never receives, stores, or transmits your microphone audio to its own servers; it is kept on-device only as long as needed to produce a caption and is then discarded. Transcription itself is performed using Apple's Speech framework, as described under eyeHear for iOS app above.
- Captions. Stored locally on your device and never on eyeHear's servers. You can delete your caption history at any time from within the app. On organization-managed devices, your administrator may disable history retention (see Managed Devices (MDM) above).
- Internal access logs. When a staff member uses our internal tool to reveal your email address while working a support case (see Support Form above), we keep an audit-only record of that access — who accessed it and when — for up to 2 years, for security and fraud-prevention purposes, and then delete it.
- Legal holds. If a record becomes subject to an active legal hold — for example, because of pending litigation, a dispute, or a legal obligation — we retain it until the hold is lifted, even past the periods above or in response to a deletion request.
- Legal-hold history. Separately from the record placed under a hold, we keep an internal log of when a legal hold was placed or lifted on an account — who took the action and when — indefinitely, for legal and security-forensic purposes (for example, to reconstruct a hold's timeline if it is ever contested). This history can outlast the hold itself and can persist even after we've deleted your other information. If we later delete your information, we remove any explanatory notes staff entered when placing the hold; the record that a hold was placed and lifted, and when, is retained.
Your Privacy Rights (United States)
eyeHear does not sell or share your personal information, and does not use it for targeted advertising or to profile you. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under your state's privacy laws, including the right to know what personal information we hold about you, the right to access or correct it, and the right to ask us to delete it — except where we're required or permitted to retain it, such as to comply with a legal obligation, resolve a dispute, or because a record is under an active legal hold (see Data Retention). To exercise any of these rights, contact us through our support page. We will respond within 45 days. We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal.
California (CCPA/CPRA)
California residents have the right to know, access, correct, and delete their personal information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. eyeHear does not sell or share personal information, so there is no sale or sharing to opt out of.
Virginia (VCDPA)
Virginia residents have the right to confirm whether we process their personal data, to access and correct it, to delete it, to obtain a portable copy, and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, or profiling. eyeHear does not engage in targeted advertising, does not sell personal data, and does not profile consumers.
Your Privacy Rights (Canada)
Under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) — and Quebec's Law 25 for Quebec residents — you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, to request corrections, and to withdraw your consent to our use of it. To make a request, contact us through our support page.
Children's Privacy
eyeHear is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us through our support page and we will delete it.
International Availability
eyeHear, LLC is located in Chesterfield, Virginia, USA. eyeHear is offered only in the United States and Canada. We do not target, market to, or knowingly process the personal data of individuals in other regions, including the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or South Africa. This privacy policy does not constitute compliance with the GDPR, UK GDPR, Swiss FADP, POPIA, or other regional data protection laws applicable in those jurisdictions.
Terms of Use
Your use of eyeHear is also governed by our Terms of Use.
Data Access
Support
If at any point we require access to your data for troubleshooting a support case, we will ask for your consent before proceeding.
When Required By Law
eyeHear, LLC is located in Chesterfield, Virginia, USA and some data infrastructure is located in the United States.
- eyeHear's policy is to not respond to government request for user data or preservation of user data unless eyeHear is compelled by legal process. eyeHear will provide information when law enforcement has the appropriate warrant, subpoena, or court order requiring eyeHear to share data.
- eyeHear will only respond to requests from government authorities other than the US government if compelled by the US government under authorization of a mutual legal assistance treaty or agreement.