Privacy policy
Last updated: 18 August 2026
In one sentence: Parlotte collects no personal data, sends nothing over the internet, and deletes the audio recording as soon as you confirm the detected voices.
Who is responsible
Parlotte is published by elastik (Emmanuel Lemal), Belgium. Contact: man@elastik.eu.
What data is processed, and where
Parlotte records the audio of a conversation and analyses it to produce speaking time statistics. This processing takes place entirely on your iPhone. No recording, no clip, no statistic is transmitted to the publisher or to any third party.
Concretely, what stays on your device is:
- The full audio recording, for the duration of the analysis and your confirmation. It is excluded from iCloud backups, and deleted automatically as soon as you confirm the detected voices.
- Short audio clips (a few seconds per voice), kept so that you can recognise each person. They are deleted along with the conversation.
- The analysis data: the moments when each voice spoke, the first names and genders you enter, and a digital print of the timbre of each voice. This information contains none of the words spoken.
Deleting a conversation in the app permanently erases all of these elements.
What Parlotte does not do
- No transcription. The app ships with no speech recognition system. It analyses the timbre of voices, not the meaning of sentences. The content of your conversations is neither understood, nor recorded as text, nor accessible to anyone at all.
- No account. No sign-up, no username, no password.
- No tracking. No analytics, no advertising tracker, no cookie, no advertising identifier.
- No advertising, no in-app purchase.
- No resale of data. There is nothing to resell: the publisher has access to none of your data.
The only network exchange
On the first analysis, the app downloads its artificial intelligence models (around 100 MB) from a public repository. This request transmits no personal data: it is a download, not an upload. Once the models are installed, the app works offline.
Permissions requested
- Microphone: essential in order to record the conversation to be analysed.
- Background audio: lets the recording continue when the screen locks.
The consent of the people recorded
Before each recording, the app displays a mandatory screen asking you to confirm that everyone present agrees to be recorded. This confirmation is not pre-ticked.
As a Parlotte user, you are the one recording the people around you: it is up to you to obtain their agreement and to comply with the applicable law. The publisher cannot do it in your place, having access to no recording.
Your rights
The European data protection regulation (GDPR) gives you a right of access, rectification and deletion of your personal data. Here, those rights are exercised directly in the app: your data exists only on your device, and you can consult or delete it at any time. The publisher holds no copy of it and therefore can neither provide it, nor modify it, nor restore it.
Uninstalling the app erases all of the data it has created.
Children
Parlotte is not aimed specifically at children and collects no data concerning them.
Changes
Any change to this policy will be published on this page, with a new update date.
Contact
For any question: man@elastik.eu
If you write to us, your address is used only to reply to you. It goes into no database and is shared with nobody.