Effective Date: March 1, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to InstantTranscriber.com ("we," "us," or "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit or use our website and related services ("Services"). By using our Services, you agree to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Information: We collect personal information you provide to us when you create an account or otherwise interact with the Services, such as your email address (or Google account details if you sign in via Google) and payment information (processed by Stripe). We do not store full credit card details on our servers.
Audio Files and Transcriptions: When you upload audio files (MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, AIFF), we store those files temporarily for transcription and may store the resulting transcripts.
Usage Data: We automatically collect certain data regarding your use of our Services, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, access times, and pages viewed.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information to provide, maintain, and improve our Services; transcribe your uploaded audio and generate corresponding text; process your billing through Stripe; facilitate user authentication via Firebase; personalize user experience; and communicate with you about updates, security alerts, and account information.
4. How We Share Your Information
Third-Party Service Providers: We send the audio data you upload, or related data necessary for transcription, to Replicate to perform the transcription using their AI models. We use Firebase for authentication, and Stripe for payment processing. We do not store your full credit card information.
Legal Compliance and Protection: We may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, or to respond to a subpoena or lawful request for information.
Business Transactions: We may share or transfer your information in connection with a merger or sale of all or a portion of our business.
5. Data Retention
We retain your personal information, audio files, and transcriptions only as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or to comply with legal obligations.
6. Security
We implement commercially reasonable measures to protect your personal information. However, no security measures are 100% foolproof, and we cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.
7. Children's Privacy
Our Services are not directed to individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can remove such data.
8. International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to—and maintained on—servers located outside of your state, province, or country. If you are located outside of Switzerland, please note that we may transfer your data to Switzerland and process it there.
9. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on applicable laws, you may have rights such as requesting access or deletion of your personal information, or withdrawing consent. To exercise these rights, please contact us at contact@instanttranscriber.com.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" above. Your continued use of the Services after any modifications indicates your acceptance of the revised policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
contact@instanttranscriber.com