The short version
InterviewSoul turns speech into text on your own computer. Audio never leaves it. To write an answer, the app sends text to our server, which passes it to OpenAI. We store your email address, how much session time you have used, and how large each answer was. We do not store what was said or your screenshots. Documents you add in the app stay on your computer; a résumé or job description you attach to an interview on your website calendar is stored on our server until you remove that entry. We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.
Who we are
InterviewSoul is run by Saurav Ghimire, New Jersey, USA, who is responsible for your data. You can reach us at [email protected].
What stays on your computer
- Audio from your microphone and from your computer. It is turned into text locally and is not recorded to a file or sent anywhere.
- The transcript of a conversation, which is kept only while the app is open.
- The text of the documents you add in the app, and your settings.
- Your sign-in, stored encrypted by your operating system.
What is sent when you ask for an answer
- The recent text of the conversation, and any question you type.
- The text of your résumé, CV, other document and job details, if you added them.
- A screenshot of your screen, only when you use the Screen button.
- Your answer preferences, such as length and tone.
This goes to our server and from there to OpenAI, which writes the answer. Our server passes it through and does not keep it. OpenAI receives it through its API for businesses, under which it does not use the data to train its models by default and may keep it for a limited time to detect abuse; see OpenAI's privacy and data-retention pages for details.
What we store
- Your email address, to sign you in. If you sign in with Google or Apple, also the name they give us. If you choose Apple's "Hide My Email", we get a private relay address from Apple instead of your real one.
- An anonymous identifier for your computer: a scrambled code made from your computer's system ID, which cannot be turned back into it. The free 30 minutes are counted per computer as well as per account, so this is stored with each session.
- When each session started and ended, to count your plan's time.
- For each answer: the time, which model wrote it, and its size. Not its content.
- The interviews and meetings you add to your calendar on the website: name, kind and time, and, if you add them, the position, the job description and the résumé file. They are kept until you remove the entry, and the app downloads them only when you choose to use them.
- If you pay: your plan, its dates, and an identifier that links you to your record at Stripe.
- Technical logs kept by our hosting providers, such as IP addresses and the times of requests, used for security and to fix problems. They are kept for a short time and not used for anything else.
Why we use it
- To provide the service you signed up for: your account, answers, session time, calendar and payments.
- To keep it working and fair: preventing abuse of the free time, fixing faults and protecting the service.
- To meet legal obligations, such as keeping payment records.
- To email you about your account, sign-in and payments. We do not send marketing emails unless you ask for them.
Companies that process data for us
- Supabase hosts our server and database, and stores the résumé files attached to calendar entries.
- OpenAI writes the answers.
- Stripe takes payments. We never see or store your card number.
- Resend delivers the sign-in emails.
- Google, if you choose to sign in with Google. It tells us your email address and name.
- Apple, if you choose to sign in with Apple. It tells us your email address (or a relay address) and name.
- Cloudflare hosts this website and protects the sign-up form with Turnstile, which checks your browser to tell people from automated programs.
- GitHub hosts the app's installers and speech-recognition files that you download.
We share data with these companies only so they can do this work for us. We may also disclose data if the law requires it, or to a business that takes over InterviewSoul, which would have to keep this policy's promises.
Cookies and browser storage
The website keeps your sign-in in your browser's storage so you stay signed in. It uses no advertising or analytics cookies and no tracking scripts. Cloudflare and Stripe may set cookies they need for security and payments.
Where your data is
Our server and database are in the United States. If you use InterviewSoul from elsewhere, your data is transferred there and to the companies above, which use their own safeguards for international transfers.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Our database and file storage can be reached only by our server, not directly from the internet, and résumé files are private and handed out only through links that expire after two minutes. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your data, we will tell you as the law requires.
Other people in your conversations
The app transcribes what the other side of a call says, on your computer. You are responsible for having any consent that the law where you and they are requires before you use it on a call.
How long we keep things
A calendar entry, with any position, job description and résumé attached to it, is kept until you remove it. Account and usage records are kept while your account exists. Ask us to delete your account at [email protected] and we will remove your data within 30 days, except payment records we must keep by law. We may also keep a record that your email address and computer identifier have used the free time, only so the free 30 minutes cannot be claimed again.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see, correct, export or delete the data we hold about you, to object to or limit how we use it, and to complain to a data protection authority. Residents of California and other US states with privacy laws: we do not sell or share personal information for advertising, and we will not treat you differently for using your rights. Write to [email protected]; we will answer within 30 days.
Children
InterviewSoul is for adults. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18; if you believe a child has an account, tell us and we will delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so by email or in the app before it takes effect. The date at the top shows the latest version.