Speechify – Text to Speech

"We engage with various third-party service providers to enhance user experience and improve our services. For analytics and measurement, we use services like Google Analytics and Google Optimize 360 to analyze website traffic and user behavior, Hotjar and Visual Website Optimizer for site usability and performance, Amplitude for mobile analytics, and Segment to integrate and manage data across multiple analytics platforms. In terms of advertising and tracking, we utilize Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) and Google Global Site Tag to manage ad campaigns and track interactions, along with Google Conversion Tracking, Bing Universal Event Tracking, and TikTok Conversion Tracking Pixel to measure the effectiveness of our advertising."

Speechify embeds a large number of third-party tracking pixels and SDKs (Meta, Google, TikTok, Bing, Hotjar, Amplitude, Segment) that collect data directly from users' devices, enabling extensive cross-platform tracking by these advertisers.

"In terms of advertising and tracking, we utilize Meta Pixel (formerly Facebook Pixel) and Google Global Site Tag to manage ad campaigns and track interactions, along with Google Conversion Tracking, Bing Universal Event Tracking, and TikTok Conversion Tracking Pixel to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. We also employ Intercom for managing customer support and communications."

Multiple advertising pixels (Meta, Google, Bing, TikTok) track user activity on Speechify and link it to profiles on those ad networks, enabling cross-site and cross-service tracking of users.

"We will occasionally update this Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on the Policy. Your continued use of the Site, Software, and/or Services constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Policy. Your only remedy, if you do not accept the terms of this Policy, is to discontinue use of and access to the Site, Software, and/or Services."

Speechify can change the privacy policy at any time and treats continued use as consent to the new terms, with the user's only remedy being to stop using the service entirely.

"You can remove your Personal Data from Speechify at any time by deleting your account as described above. However, we may keep some of your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for our legitimate business interests, including fraud detection and prevention and to comply with our legal obligations including tax, legal reporting, and auditing obligations."

Even after account deletion, Speechify retains personal data indefinitely under broad justifications like 'legitimate business interests' and legal positioning, with no defined deletion timeline.

"Names of user contacts in Speechify Keyboard (on-device storage only). To make appropriate spelling suggestions, the Speechify Keyboard may request or obtain access to your contacts' names on your device. For instance, Speechify will not try to autocorrect names that are in your contacts. These names will be stored solely on your device within the Speechify Keyboard app and are never sent to Speechify servers."

Speechify's keyboard feature requests access to device contacts. While they state data stays on-device, accessing the full contacts list for autocorrect functionality is broader than strictly necessary.

"Location information. This is the geographic area where you use your computer and mobile devices (as indicated by an Internet Protocol (IP) address or similar identifier) when interacting with our Site, Software, and/or Services."

Speechify collects location information via IP addresses and similar identifiers whenever users interact with the service.

"You can remove your Personal Data from Speechify at any time by logging into your account, accessing the Settings page, and then deleting your account. Please note that, for security reasons, subscribers of our paid services will first be instructed to cancel their subscriptions before they can delete their Speechify account."

Paid subscribers face an extra hurdle to account deletion — they must first cancel their subscription before being allowed to delete their account, adding friction to the process.