Privacy policy
What data Talaya uses, what for, where it goes and how long it stays. Plainly.
In short
- Talaya has no servers of its own that your conversations or your data pass through. The app talks directly to the services it needs to answer you.
- Your voice goes to Google (Gemini) so you can talk. Images from the glasses' camera, only when you ask.
- What it remembers, what it records and what it reads from your iPhone stays on your iPhone, unless you use it in a question.
- In the app: no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no Talaya account. This site only measures visits with Google Analytics if you accept.
Data controller
Pending
[Company name] · [Tax ID] · [Registered address] · [Privacy contact email]
This section will be completed with the data controller's details before the app is released. Until then, this policy describes how the app works, but doesn't yet identify who is responsible for it.
What data the app uses, and where it goes
Talaya runs on your iPhone (and on your Apple Watch, if you use one). To answer you, it sometimes needs outside services. This is everything that leaves, and when.
| What | What for | Where it goes |
|---|---|---|
| Your voice | Talking with you live | To Google (Gemini), for as long as the conversation lasts. |
| Images from the glasses' camera | Telling you what's in front of you, when you ask | To Google (Gemini), only at that moment. Images travel from the glasses to the iPhone through Meta's official developer toolkit. |
| Text it reads through the camera | Reading you a sign, a letter or a menu | Recognised on the iPhone, offline. The recognised text is then used in the conversation. |
| What it says out loud | So you can hear it | The voice comes from Gemini or, depending on what you choose, from a cloud voice service (Microsoft or Google) or from the iPhone's own voice. In the first two cases, the text of the answer goes through that service. |
| The wake word (optional) | So you can call it by name | Apple's speech recogniser listens for it, on the iPhone itself when your language allows. |
| Your location | Guiding you, road alerts, finding what's nearby, the weather | Used on the iPhone. To answer you, coordinates (without your name) are sent to the map and data services that reply: Apple Maps, TomTom, OpenStreetMap, Open-Meteo and, for alerts from other drivers, a traffic data provider. |
| Health, calendar, reminders and contacts | Answering what you ask about them | Read on the iPhone. They only leave it, as part of your question to Gemini, when you ask. |
| Photos | Saving the photos you ask for to your camera roll | The app can only add photos to your library. It doesn't read it. |
| What it remembers about you | Remembering your people, your places and your things | On the iPhone. If you set up your own agent, it syncs with that agent and nobody else. |
| Meeting recordings | Transcribing them and, if you ask, summarising them | Audio and text are kept on the iPhone. Apple's speech recogniser does the transcription, on the iPhone itself when the language allows. If you ask for a summary, the text goes to Gemini. |
| Continuous memory (optional, off by default) | Letting you go back to what you just saw | If you turn it on, video from the glasses is kept on the iPhone in a rolling window of minutes: the oldest is deleted automatically. It only leaves if you ask it to describe, save or send it. |
| Telegram, Gmail and Spotify | Reading you messages, replying, playing music | Directly between your iPhone and each service, with your account. It checks messages when you ask and, if you leave that alert on, to tell you what's come in. |
| Your TV | Working as the remote | Directly between the iPhone and the TV, inside your home network. |
| Offline model (optional) | Staying with you with no signal | Downloaded once from Hugging Face; after that it runs inside the iPhone. What you say to it doesn't leave the phone. |
| Add-ons | Doing what they promise | They can only call the domains they declare, with the permissions you accepted when installing them. They never see your contacts, calendar, photos, camera, microphone, health or messages. |
Each of these services handles what it receives under its own terms and privacy policy.
The beta list
If you sign up for the private beta on this site, we keep:
- Your email address.
- The glasses and iPhone you tell us about, and what you write in “What's the first thing you'd ask it?”, if you fill it in.
- The page language and the country you sign up from, worked out from the connection. Your IP address is not stored.
What for. To invite you to the beta and let you know when Talaya launches on the App Store, with the founder price if you reserved it. Nothing else: no newsletters, no ads, and it's never handed to anyone for anything else.
Who else sees it. When your turn comes, your email is used to invite you on TestFlight (Apple) and on the glasses' test channel (Meta), and they are the ones who send you the invite. The list is stored on Cloudflare, which hosts this site.
How long. For as long as the beta runs and until we tell you about the launch. Then it's deleted.
How to leave. In the beta section, type your email and tap the link to take yourself off. It's deleted right away.
Legal basis. Your consent, which you give by ticking the box and can withdraw at any time by taking yourself off the list.
To stop abuse, the form counts for one hour how many times it's used from each connection, using a fingerprint from which the address can't be recovered.
Google Gemini: free, or with your key
To talk, Talaya uses Google's Gemini API. Out of the box it uses an app key on the free tier. On that tier, Google may use the content it receives to improve its products, under its terms.
If you add your own paid Gemini key in Settings, Google doesn't use that content to improve its products. It's the option we recommend if this matters to you.
iPhone permissions
Each permission is requested when it's needed, with its explanation, and you can revoke it at any time in the iPhone's Settings:
- Microphone and speech recognition: to hear you, and for the wake word.
- Bluetooth: to talk to the glasses.
- Location: to guide you and to answer where you are, even with the iPhone locked.
- Motion: to know whether you're walking, driving or standing still.
- Health: on the iPhone, to tell you how you're doing or how you slept, read only. On the watch, a workout session keeps the map alive while it guides you on foot or by bike.
- Calendar and reminders: for your agenda.
- Contacts: to know who you mean.
- Photos: only to add the ones you ask for.
- iPhone camera: to scan the QR code of an add-on or of your base.
- Local network: to work as your TV remote.
- Apple Music: to play your music.
What we don't do
- We don't show ads and we don't sell data.
- There's no tracking or analytics in the app. The analytics built into Meta's developer toolkit are switched off. This site only measures visits if you accept (see This website).
- There are no Talaya accounts: the app doesn't ask for your email, phone number or a password. The beta list on this site is separate and optional.
- We don't keep your conversations on servers of ours, because there aren't any.
How long it's kept
What lives on your iPhone stays until you delete it in the app or delete the app. Continuous memory, if you turn it on, deletes the oldest part by itself. The beta list works as explained in its section. What outside services receive is kept for as long as their terms say.
Your rights
Since your things live on your iPhone, you're in control: you can see, change or delete them from the app. For what other services handle (Google, Microsoft, Apple, TomTom and the rest), you can contact them directly.
You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction and portability. To exercise them with the data controller, use the contact in Data controller. And you can always complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) or to the authority where you live.
This website
This site has no ads. Its only form is the one for the beta list. It's hosted on Cloudflare, which, like any web server, processes technical connection data (such as your IP address) to serve and protect it.
Visit measurement (Google Analytics)
To know how many people visit, where they come from and which pages they read, we use Google Analytics, by Google. It only loads if you accept it in the notice you see the first time; if you decline or don't answer, nothing from Google loads.
- What it measures: the pages you view, which site you came from, your type of device and browser, your approximate country and city, and whether you sign up for the beta (without your email). Google doesn't store your IP address.
- Cookies: two from Google Analytics,
_gaand_ga_5SMNQNB7J6, to tell one visit from another. They last thirteen months at most. - No ads: Google's advertising signals and ad personalization are switched off.
- Who processes it: Google, as a processor, under its terms. It may process data outside the European Union, under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
- Legal basis: your consent. You can change your mind at any time in Cookie settings, also in the footer of every page. If you withdraw it, those cookies are deleted.
Your choice is stored in your own browser (in its local storage), not in a cookie, and never leaves it.
Changes
If anything changes in how the app works, this page and the date at the top will change with it.