Privacy policy

Homelet: mobile app (Android, iOS) and Homelet Studio (web). Last updated: November 5, 2026.

This is a translation; the French version is authoritative.

In short

• We only collect what Homelet needs to work: your account, your plays and your settings.
• The microphone has two uses. In “Italian run”, it only detects when you speak: the sound is analysed on your phone, neither recorded nor sent. In “Rehearsal”, your voice is sent to our rehearsal server to be transcribed live: it is never recorded.
• No advertising, no selling of data, no ad tracking.
• You can delete your account and your data from the app, at any time.

Who we are

Homelet is published by Xavier Degenne. For any question about your data: homelet.app@gmail.com.

The data we process

• Account: sign-in goes through Firebase Authentication (Google), with your Google or Apple account or an email address and password. We receive your account identifier, your email address and, if provided, your name. Your Google or Apple password is never passed to us.
• Profile: the nickname you choose, shown to the members of your companies, including in the notifications sent to a play's owner and co-authors when you join or leave its company; and, if you wish, a contact email address, never shown to others. You can remove it or refuse to be contacted at any time in “Settings”.
• Avatar: if you choose one, a profile photo, taken from your photo library, with the camera or copied from your Google account (we then keep the address of that Google photo, to offer to use it again if it changes). Only the image you cropped is sent; we reduce it to a small square image, stored with Google Firebase. Without a photo, your avatar is made of your nickname's initials, drawn by the app. You can change photo or go back to initials at any time in “Your profile”; the old photo is then deleted.
• Plays: the texts you import or edit in Homelet Studio, version messages, and the synthetic voices generated for each character.
• Companies: the plays you share or join with a code, and the members of each company.
• Rehearsal settings: chosen parts, playback mode, position in the play, display preferences. They stay on your phone and are not sent to our servers.
• Notifications: if you accept them, your phone's notification identifier (provided by Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, and by Apple on iPhone), the app language and the notification types you turned off. They are only used to tell you about news from your plays and companies, for example when a play is updated. You turn them off in “Settings” › “Notifications” or in the phone settings; they are deleted when you sign out of that phone and with your account.
• Technical information: the app version and device type (Android or iOS), with the date it was last opened, to know which versions are still in use. No audience measurement or ad tracking.
• Duo rehearsal (with a virtual scene partner, a computer program that plays the other parts): during a session, your voice (see “The microphone”), the text transcribed from it, the score and corrections for each line, your phone's language and the app's language. To run the session, we also record the play, scene and parts rehearsed, the start and end time, and usage statistics (session length, amount of voice transcribed, number of lines).
• Older versions: if you recorded your voice with Homelet 1.x, those recordings stay linked to your plays until you delete them or your account. The current version no longer records your voice.

The microphone

The app asks for microphone access for two ways of playing:

• “Italian run”: it detects when you say your line, then the silence that follows, to move on to the next line. Only the sound level is analysed, live, on your phone. No sound is recorded, kept or sent.
• “Duo rehearsal”, with the virtual scene partner: during the session, and only when it is your turn to speak, your voice is sent, encrypted, to our rehearsal server, then passed to Mistral AI to be transcribed into text, live. The text is compared with your line to move on, prompt you and score your accuracy. Your voice is never recorded: neither by Homelet nor on the server. The app reminds you of this in the rehearsal settings.
  Everything is sent from our server, on Homelet's behalf: Mistral AI receives the sound of your voice, the text of the line, the language of the play and your phone's language (to allow for an accent), but not your name, your email address, your account identifier or your phone's address. Mistral AI therefore cannot link your voice to your account.

You can refuse microphone access: the other ways of playing work without it.

The camera and the photo library

The app opens them only when you choose a photo for your avatar, and only the photo you choose. It sends only the cropped image: the original photo stays on your phone. You can refuse this access: your avatar will then be made of your initials.

Why we use it

• To sign you in and protect access to your plays.
• To show your plays, generate their voices and share them with your company.
• To run Duo rehearsal (moving on, prompting, scoring your lines), fix its problems and keep track of its cost.
• To send you the notifications you accepted (news from your plays and companies).
• To write to you, only if you gave a contact address and did not refuse, about Homelet (new version, testing programme).
• To fix problems and decide when an older version can stop being supported.

This processing is based on providing the service you use and, for the contact address, on your consent.

Who has access

• The members of your companies see your nickname, your avatar and the plays you share with them. Your photo is shown only to them: our server gives it only to people who share a play with you. A play that is not shared is visible only to you. Plays in the public catalogue (public domain) are visible to all signed-in users.
• Our technical providers, who process data on our behalf only:
  • Google Firebase and Google Cloud (sign-in, database, file storage, voice generation with Google Cloud Text-to-Speech, notifications with Firebase Cloud Messaging);
  • Apple, which delivers notifications to iPhones (Apple Push Notification service);
  • Scaleway, which hosts our rehearsal server in Paris (the live session and the virtual scene partner);
  • Mistral AI (France), for rehearsal: your voice is transcribed there live, and the transcribed text is compared with the play's text to judge and score your lines. Mistral AI receives no information that identifies you, does not use this data to train its models and keeps it for 30 days at most, to fight abuse;
  • Anthropic (Claude), and OpenAI on request, when you use AI text import, scene descriptions or the version message in Homelet Studio: the text of the play, or what changed, is sent to be processed;
  • OpenAI, when you ask for an AI-illustrated cover in Homelet Studio: the play's title, description and language, the chosen style and the text you wrote are sent to produce the image. That text is first checked by OpenAI's moderation service, and for each try we keep your account, the date, the style and that text;
  • Wikimedia Commons and Pixabay, when you search for a cover image in Homelet Studio: only the search words are sent, from our server;
  • Vercel, which hosts Homelet Studio.

These services may store data outside the European Union, notably in the United States, with the safeguards provided by the GDPR (standard contractual clauses, EU–US Data Privacy Framework). We neither sell nor rent your data.

Retention

Your data is kept as long as your account exists. A play that is only hidden in your library stays in your account until you delete it. When the account is deleted, all your data is erased.

Rehearsal: your voice is not kept. The transcribed text, scores and corrections stay for 30 days at most in the rehearsal server's technical logs, used to fix problems, then are erased. Session information and usage statistics are kept as long as your account exists.

Deleting your account

In the app: “Settings” › “Delete my account”. Your account, your profile (nickname, avatar), the plays you created (including those shared with a company) and all your files are then deleted, and you are removed from other people's companies. You can also request it by email at homelet.app@gmail.com, from your account's address.

Your rights

You can access your data, correct it, delete it, restrict its use, object to its processing and ask for a copy, by writing to homelet.app@gmail.com. You can also lodge a complaint with the CNIL (www.cnil.fr) or your local data protection authority.

Children

Homelet is for actors of all ages, but is not intended for children under 15 without a parent's consent.

Security

Exchanges are encrypted (HTTPS; for rehearsal, the voice travels over an encrypted connection to the server). Access to data is limited to signed-in users, under rules that restrict everyone to their own plays and those of their companies.

Changes

We may update this policy. The date of the last update is shown at the top of this page. If there is a significant change, we will let you know in the app.