🔒 Privacy ความเป็นส่วนตัว

ThaiBridge is run by Joshua Kay. This page explains, in plain English, what information the app keeps, why, who else handles it, and what you can ask for. The short version: I keep only what the app needs to work, I never sell it, and there are no adverts or tracking.

Last updated 14 October 2026.

• Your account — username, email address, sign-up date, and your password stored only as a secure hash (the password itself is never kept). Needed so you can log in.
• Your learning progress — level, XP, the sections you've unlocked and whether you've finished the alphabet. Needed so you pick up where you left off.
• Your plan — which plan you're on, whether it's active, when the paid period ends, and the reference numbers Stripe gives your subscription. Needed so you get what you paid for.
• Payments — a record of each payment: what it was for, the amount, the date and Stripe's reference. Needed for receipts, refunds and business records.
• AI usage — for each AI message: the time, which mode, which model, how much text it used and whether it worked. Needed to keep the AI affordable and the daily limits fair.

ThaiBridge never stores what you write to the AI, or what it writes back. The conversation lives in your own browser. When you send a message, it is passed to Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude AI, to write the reply. Under its commercial terms, Anthropic does not use these messages to train its models. This matters most for Dhamma questions: what you ask about your own practice is not filed away anywhere.

ThaiBridge never receives or stores your voice. The microphone only opens when you tap 🎤, records for 3 seconds, then turns off. Your pitch line (how high your voice goes, and how it moves) is worked out by your own browser, on your device.

To check which word you said, the page uses your browser's built-in speech recognition. In Chrome and Edge that recording goes to Google's speech service, and in Safari to Apple's, under their own privacy terms. Firefox has no speech recognition, so there nothing leaves your device and you just get the pitch line.

• A login cookie keeps you signed in, and a session cookie remembers your progress and today's AI allowance. They are needed for the app to work.
• Settings saved on your device — Learning Support options, meditation music and your AI chat are kept in your browser's own storage and are never sent to me.
• No advertising or tracking cookies. No analytics company watches what you do.

• Stripe — takes payments. Your card details go to Stripe only; ThaiBridge never sees or stores them.
• Anthropic — writes the AI's replies, as above.
• Google or Apple — only if you use 🎤 Pronunciation Analysis: your browser's own speech service hears the 3-second recording to check the word, as above.
• Render — hosts the app, in Frankfurt (EU).
• Neon — hosts the database where your account is kept.
• Google Fonts — your browser downloads the page's fonts from Google, which sees your IP address when it does.

Each only receives what it needs to do that job. Your information is never sold or shared for marketing.

Your account and progress are kept until you ask me to delete them. Payment records are kept for as long as the law requires for business and tax records, even after an account is deleted.

You can ask to see the information held about you, to correct it, or to have your account deleted. Email joshua@smoald.com from the address on your account and I'll sort it out. If you're unhappy with how your information has been handled, you can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

See also: what's free, what's paid, cancelling and refunds.