Sesli hatırlatıcı — voice reminders
Effective 14 August 2026
Draft — not legal advice. Every sentence here was taken from what the code actually does; read it through before publishing, and change it when the app changes.
Buddy has no server. There is no account, no sign-up, and I cannot see your reminders. Everything you create stays on your phone and goes with it when you delete the app.
Data leaves your phone in three situations, each of them so a feature can work: turning what you said into text, turning a place name into a point on a map, and fetching the map picture itself. None of it comes to me — it goes to your phone’s operating system or to the map provider. Each one is described below.
No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party advertising or measurement libraries.
All of this is stored on your device only:
These live as ordinary files in the app’s own private storage, which other apps cannot reach. They are not backed up to any cloud of mine — they are only included in your phone’s own backup (iCloud Backup or Android Backup) if you have that switched on, along with the rest of your phone. That backup belongs to you and your phone’s maker, not to me.
Deleting: removing the app deletes all of it. You don’t need to send a request; there is no copy of it for me to delete.
When you speak, the audio is handed to your phone’s own speech recognition service — Apple’s on iPhone, Google’s on Android. Those services may send the audio off the device while processing it; whether it stays local or goes to a server is the operating system’s decision, not Buddy’s.
Buddy does not record, store or itself transmit that audio. The resulting text is not kept once your reminder has been created.
Apple and Google describe what they do in their own policies:
On iPhone you can change your Siri/Dictation preferences to keep recognition on the device; on Android some phones let you install an offline language pack.
When you say “remind me when I get to Üsküdar”, or type an address while adding a saved place, that place name is sent to your phone’s geocoding service (again Apple’s or Google’s) and coordinates come back. What is sent is the place name you typed — not the text of your reminder.
When you open the map to add a saved place, the map tiles are downloaded from OpenStreetMap. That request tells OpenStreetMap’s servers which area you are looking at, along with your IP address. If you never open the map, the request never happens.
OpenStreetMap’s policy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy
If you turn place reminders on, Buddy registers “wake me when this phone gets near this point” with the operating system. The operating system does the watching; Buddy does not read your location continuously and keeps no location history. That is why it works with the app closed — the system wakes Buddy when you arrive, and Buddy shows the notification.
Your location does not leave the device. Points 2 and 3 above are separate: what goes out there is an address you typed and the area you are looking at on a map, not where you are. (When you tap “use my location”, the coordinates of that moment are saved as a place on your phone and sent nowhere.)
Place reminders are off by default and can be switched off at any time in Settings, which removes any registered watches.
When you say “remind me to call Uğur”, Buddy looks that name up in your contacts and attaches the phone number to the reminder, so the notification can offer a one-tap call.
That lookup happens on your phone. Your contacts are not uploaded, copied, or added to any list. Buddy only writes the matched person’s name and number into that one reminder. If you decline the permission the reminder is still created — it just has no one-tap call button.
| Permission | What for | If you say no |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone | Hearing a spoken command | You can type commands instead |
| Speech recognition | Turning speech into text | Spoken commands don’t work |
| Notifications | Showing a reminder when it’s due | Reminders are set but never appear |
| Location (“Always”) | Reminding you when you arrive somewhere | Place reminders aren’t watched for |
| Contacts | Finding the person in a “call X” reminder | No one-tap call |
Each is asked for the first time you use the feature it belongs to; none are requested on launch. Before background location is requested, a screen explains what it means.
Buddy is not aimed at children and collects no age information. Since no personal data is collected at all, none is collected from children either.
Changes are published on this page and the effective date above is updated. If a change alters what the app does with data, it will be said in the app too.
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