Privacy policy
Talk Soon · Last updated 14 October 2026
The short version: you're heard before you're seen. People get your first name, voice and color. Your photo and age stay hidden unless you and someone you've talked to both choose to reveal. We don't sell your data, show ads or track you across other apps. You can delete everything from the app at any time.
Who we are
Talk Soon is a small app run by Simon Ågren, a private individual in Sweden, who is the data controller under the GDPR. Questions or requests: use our contact form.
What we collect and why
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email and city, and your gender if you choose to give it, if you join the list on our website | Only to tell you when a season opens near you, and to see whether a season would have a good mix of people. Not used for anything else, and not connected to an account in the app. Ask us to take you off the list any time. |
| Sign-in details: your Apple ID sign-in (which may be a private relay email) or your email address | To create and secure your account. |
| First name, birthday, gender, city | To show your first name, check you're 18 or older, match you with people in the age range you chose (and whose range you're in), and place you in a season in your city. Your age is shown only after a mutual reveal. Your birthday itself is never shown. |
| Who you want to hear from, and an age range | Only to choose whose voices you hear and who hears yours. Never shown to anyone. Because this can say something about your sexual orientation, we only use it with your explicit consent, which you give by choosing it and can withdraw by deleting your account. |
| Your voice intro and your voice color | Shown to people in your season, so they can decide whether to talk with you. |
| Your photo | Kept hidden. Shown only to someone you've talked with, and only if you both choose to reveal, from reveal night on. |
| Voice memos you send | Delivered to the one person in that conversation. |
| A voice memo you send with "I want to talk", if you record one | Heard only by the person you sent it to, so they can decide whether to talk with you. If you both want to talk, it stays at the top of your conversation. |
| Your choices: pass / want to talk, reveal and meet answers | To make matches and show results when both of you have answered. Your answers are never shown on their own. |
| Reports and blocks | To keep people safe. Reports are reviewed by us. |
| A notification token for your phone, if you turn notifications on | To tell you about a new voice memo, someone who wants to talk with you, a match, and when the season moves on. Notifications show first names only, never what anyone said. Turn them off any time in your phone's settings. |
We don't use analytics or advertising tools, and we don't use your data to profile you. We don't use AI to rank or match people. If we ever add automated safety checks (for example, transcribing voice memos to catch abuse), we'll update this policy before we do.
Legal basis
- Providing the service you sign up for (account, profile, matching, memos, reveal).
- Explicit consent for who you want to hear from (see above), and for the season list on our website.
- Legitimate interest in keeping people safe: age checks, reports and blocks.
Who else handles your data
We use a few services to run the app. They process data only on our behalf:
- Supabase: database, sign-in and file storage, hosted in Sweden (EU).
- Apple: Sign in with Apple, push notifications, and TestFlight / the App Store for distributing the app.
- Expo: delivers app updates and passes notifications on to Apple, which involves basic technical data like your IP address, device type and notification token.
- Netlify: hosts these pages and receives what you send through the contact form and the season list.
We don't sell or share your data with anyone else, unless the law requires it.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while you have an account. When you delete your account (You → Delete account), we delete your profile, voice intro, photo, matches, choices, the voice memos you sent with "I want to talk" and the voice memos in your conversations right away. Those conversations then end for the other person too. Backups at our hosting provider may keep copies for a short time before they're overwritten.
If you joined the season list on our website, we keep your email until you ask us to remove it or we stop running seasons.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, object to how we use it, or withdraw consent. Most of this you can do in the app; for anything else, contact us. If you think we're handling your data wrongly, you can complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY).
18+ only
Talk Soon is only for people 18 and older. We check your age from your birthday and remove accounts we find belong to someone younger.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app before it applies.