1. Who We Are
Magnolia Apps
Email: support@thepodcastapp.dev
2. Data We Collect
Account and app data
- Email address and display profile details, if provided.
- Podcast subscriptions, listening history, playback positions, queue, and favorites.
- Premium status and subscription state.
- Diagnostic information used to identify and fix software defects.
Device and security data
- Device tokens for delivering push notifications.
- Firebase App Check attestations and anti-abuse signals.
Purchase data
- Store transaction receipts, product IDs, timestamps, and expiration state.
- Verification metadata produced by our backend validation workflow.
AI feature data
- Episode metadata including title, description, podcast name, chapters, and duration.
- Transcript text available from feeds or generated in app workflows.
- Your AI chat prompts and AI responses.
- Audio URL references for AI transcription generation.
Shared transcript cache note
When a transcript is generated with our primary Gemini 3 Flash transcription path, it may be stored in a shared cache keyed to episode or audio identity, not your account identity, so other users can reuse it and reduce duplicate processing.
3. How We Use Data
- Provide core playback, synchronization, account, and subscription functionality.
- Deliver AI summaries, key moments, transcript generation, and episode chat.
- Improve recommendation quality and product reliability.
- Detect abuse and unauthorized use.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms.
4. Service Providers
- Google Firebase for authentication, Firestore, Cloud Functions, and backend infrastructure.
- Google AI (Gemini API) for summaries, transcript generation, and chat responses.
- Apple App Store / StoreKit and Google Play Billing for subscriptions and receipt validation.
- Google Sign-In and Sign in with Apple for optional account sign-in.
- Podcast discovery providers such as Podcast Index and Apple Podcasts fallback APIs.
Processor privacy links: Firebase, Google, Apple, Podcast Index.
5. Recommendations
Recommendation features use your in-app activity (the podcasts you subscribe to and the episodes you play) to surface relevant content inside the app. You can adjust recommendation behavior in app settings.
6. Data Retention
- Account and sync data: retained until account deletion.
- Recommendation data: up to 90 days unless a shorter operational window applies.
- AI transcript, summary, and chat artifacts: generally up to 180 days.
- Shared transcript cache entries: generally up to 180 days.
- Purchase verification records: retained per store and compliance requirements, typically up to 1 year.
7. Data Storage and Transfers
- Local app data is stored on-device.
- Cloud data is stored in Firebase and Google Cloud infrastructure.
- Data may be processed outside your country, including outside the EU/EEA where permitted with appropriate safeguards.
8. Your Rights and Choices
- Access, correction, export, and deletion requests.
- Delete account in-app or via /delete-account.
- Manage notification preferences in app settings.
- Contact us at support@thepodcastapp.dev for privacy requests.
9. Security
- Transport encryption using HTTPS/TLS.
- Authentication and access controls for cloud data.
- App integrity and anti-abuse safeguards.
- Reasonable administrative and technical protections.
No internet transmission or storage system is 100% secure.
10. Children
The app is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13.
11. Changes to this Policy
We may update this policy. Material updates will be reflected by a new last-updated date and may be announced in-app.
12. Contact
Questions or privacy requests: support@thepodcastapp.dev