Privacy Policy
Legacy records your spoken answers and turns them into a book for your family. This page says what it keeps, who handles it, who can see it, and how to make it all go away.
Last updated 5 November 2026
The short version
- Legacy needs an account: a name, an email address and a password.
- It keeps your voice recordings, the transcripts made from them, and the questions, notes and chapters written from those transcripts.
- Only you, and family members you explicitly invite, can see any of it.
- Two companies process it on our behalf: Google (Firebase) to store it, and OpenAI to transcribe and write. Neither uses it for anything else.
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing sold to anyone.
- Settings → Account → Delete account removes everything, permanently, at once.
What we collect
Account details. Your name, email address and password. The password is held only as a hash by Firebase Authentication; we never see it.
Profile details you choose to give. Your birth year, and the optional answers during setup about where you grew up and who was in your household. They exist so the questions can be about your life rather than a stranger's.
Voice recordings. The audio of each answer you record. Recordings are stored so your family can hear your voice beside the written chapter.
What is made from the recordings. A transcript of each answer; the names, places, dates and events picked out of it; a short note the app keeps about what it has heard so far; the questions it decides to ask next; and the chapters it writes. All of it is derived from your own words.
Family invitations. The email address of any family member you invite to read your book.
Legacy does not collect your location, contacts, photos, health data or advertising identifiers. It contains no analytics or advertising code, and does not track you across other apps or websites.
How it is used
For one purpose: to produce your recordings, transcripts, daily questions and book, and to show them to you and to the family members you invite. Nothing is used for advertising, profiling, or anything unrelated to your book. Nothing is sold, rented or shared with anyone for their own purposes.
Who processes it
Google Firebase provides the sign-in, the database and the file storage that hold your account, recordings and book, and runs the server code that processes each answer. Data is stored in Google Cloud data centres in the United States.
OpenAI receives the audio of each answer to produce a transcript, and receives transcripts to write questions, notes and chapters. Requests go through our server, not from your phone, and under OpenAI's API terms this data is not used to train their models.
Both act for us on these specific jobs only. Handling a request means they see the technical details of it, such as the time it was made.
Who can see it
You, and any family member you invite from Settings. An invited family member can read your book, listen to your recordings and correct details such as a misspelt name. They cannot change your account, record on your behalf, or invite anyone else. You can remove a family member at any time, and their access ends immediately.
Retention and deletion
Everything is kept for as long as your account exists, so the book can keep growing. You can delete any single story from the app, which removes its recording, transcript and everything derived from it.
Settings → Account → Delete account permanently deletes your account together with every recording, transcript, extracted detail, note and chapter, and removes access for anyone you invited. Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone. Deleting the app from your phone does not delete the account.
Children
Legacy is for adults telling their own life story. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date at the top.
Getting in touch
Questions, complaints and deletion requests go to peter.barnett03@gmail.com, or through support.