What Rage Bait hears, and where it goes.

The audio stays on your iPhone. Rage Bait uses the microphone only during a session: from when you tap Start listening until you pause or tap End. A session keeps listening if you lock the phone or switch to another app, and stops by itself if a call takes the microphone.

Speech is turned into text on the phone as it is heard. No recording is made or kept, and the sound is never sent to us or to anyone else.

To check what was said, the app sends Polygraph, our fact-checking service:

• the text of what was said;
• when each sentence started and how long it lasted;
• a number for the voice that said it (voice 1, voice 2), not a name;
• the session's title, which the phone writes from the conversation, and any new title you give it.

We keep the text, the claims found in it and their verdicts with your account, so the app can show them to you. Other users cannot see them, and we do not publish them.

Checks are automated. Software finds the claims in the text, searches for sources and writes each verdict. No person listens to or reads your conversation to do this.

To make the checks, the text is processed by AI services and search services run by other companies. They receive the words of the conversation and nothing else about you: no audio, no name and no voiceprint. They handle the text on our behalf, under the protections described in Polygraph's privacy policy.

An automated check can be wrong, so every verdict shows the sources it used. How Polygraph checks a claim is set out in its methodology.

These are stored on your iPhone and are not sent to us:

• the names you give to voices;
• the voiceprints the phone uses to recognise a named voice next time;
• the tally of who said what, and the standings across conversations;
• your bingo squares.

A tally leaves the phone only when you share it. What is shared is a picture of the tally: the names, their counts and the date.

There is no sign-in. The first time you start listening, the app proves to us, through Apple's App Attest service, that it is a genuine copy of Rage Bait on a real iPhone. We then create an account for that phone and give the app a key, which it keeps in the phone's keychain. We store the device name iOS reports with the account.

The app does not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts or location.

Minute packs are bought with Apple's in-app purchase. Apple takes the payment; we never see your card. The app sends us Apple's signed receipt for the purchase (which pack, when, and its transaction number) so we can add the minutes. We keep a record of the minutes you were given, bought and used.

The app has no advertising, no third-party analytics and no crash-reporting service, and it does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

We keep your account, your sessions and their claims until you delete the account.

To delete everything: open the Account tab, scroll to the bottom, tap Delete account, then Delete. That deletes your account, your minutes, and your sessions with their text, claims and verdicts from our servers, and removes the sessions and the voices the phone knows from the phone. It cannot be undone.

Deleting a single session in the app removes it from the phone. Our copy of it stays until the account is deleted; to have one session removed from our servers without deleting the account, write to privacy@pluribuslabs.ai.

We keep records of purchases and usage where the law requires financial records, no longer connected to an account. If you can't use the app, write to privacy@pluribuslabs.ai and we will delete the account for you.

Rage Bait transcribes whoever the phone can hear. Many places require the consent of everyone in a conversation before it is transcribed, and the app asks you to confirm you have it before it listens for the first time. Only use it where everyone has said yes.

Before the app is out, this website has a waiting list. If you leave your email address there, we keep it and use it only to tell you when Rage Bait is available. It is not connected to the app or to anything the app sends. To be taken off the list, write to privacy@pluribuslabs.ai.

Rage Bait is for adults. You must be 18 or older to use it, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

If this policy changes, we will change this page and its date.

Rage Bait is made by Pluribus AI, Inc. Questions about your data go to privacy@pluribuslabs.ai. For how Polygraph handles data across its website and services, including the rights you have where you live, see Polygraph's privacy policy.