Privacy Policy
Practice Fame points a camera and a microphone at you and sends what they capture to an AI so it can react. That deserves a plain explanation. This policy describes exactly what the app processes, where it goes, how long it is kept, and what you can do about it.
- While you are live, small camera frames and short audio clips go to our server and on to Google's Gemini model to generate the audience. We do not store them.
- We keep your Google account details (name, email, photo, ID), your minutes balance, your purchases and your usage totals.
- Recordings, your chosen display name, username and photo, and your room settings stay on your phone.
- No ads, no advertising ID, no selling of data. Crash reports and a few usage events (which screen, how long a live ran) go to Google's Firebase so we can fix problems.
- You can delete everything in the app or on this page.
1. Who we are
Creativ Digital ("we", "us") is the data controller for Practice Fame. You can reach us at office@creativdigital.ro.
2. What we process, and why
Your account
You sign in with Google. From that we receive and keep your Google user ID, name, email address and profile photo URL. We use them to identify your account, show your name and photo in the app, and tie your minutes to you rather than to a device. Legal basis: performing our contract with you.
Your live session — camera and microphone
While you are live, the app captures your microphone in short clips (about four seconds) and, when something in the picture changes, a small still frame from the camera (about 384 pixels wide — roughly one every few seconds, not a video stream). Each clip and frame is sent over an encrypted connection to our server, which passes it to Google's Gemini model on Google Cloud (Vertex AI) with an instruction to write audience comments. The generated comments come back to your phone.
- We don't store the audio or the frames. They are held in memory only for as long as the request takes, then discarded.
- Google processes them on our behalf under the Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum. Google does not use data sent to Vertex AI to train its models. Google may retain such data briefly for abuse detection under its own terms.
- Our server keeps technical logs for up to 30 days: timestamps, request sizes, model timing and token counts, the AI's text output, and the one-line summary the AI writes of what has happened in your session so far (for example "streamer showed a red mug"). These logs never contain audio or images. We use them to keep the service working and to investigate problems.
- Your pre-live room settings (what you're doing, how the crowd should behave) and the state of your controls (for example, that your microphone is muted) are sent with each request so the audience can react appropriately.
Legal basis: performing our contract with you — this processing is the service.
Content safety
The AI applies safety rules to what it is shown. If it refuses to process your input, your live ends and we record on your account that it happened, when, and the category of the refusal. We keep this count to act on repeated misuse. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe and lawful.
Minutes, purchases and usage
We keep your minutes balance, the seconds you have used each day, and a purchase ledger containing a hash of the Google Play purchase token, a hashed account identifier, the pack, minutes and credit date. Older purchases may also have an order identifier stored on the account. These records let us credit minutes exactly once and answer billing questions. The hashed account identifier is also sent to Google Play during checkout to bind the purchase to your account. Payment itself is handled by Google Play; we never see your card details. Legal basis: performing our contract with you, and our legitimate interest in preventing purchase fraud.
Crash reports and usage analytics
The app uses Google Firebase Crashlytics, Analytics and Performance Monitoring. They send Google: crash stack traces; device model, OS version and app version; a Firebase installation ID (a random identifier for this install, not tied to your Google account); app-start and network timing; and a small set of named events such as which platform layout you practiced, how long a live ran, whether a purchase completed and whether a report was filed. Events carry no names, emails, comment text, audio or images. The advertising ID is disabled and never collected. Analytics data is retained by Google for 14 months, crash data for 90 days. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and understanding how it is used.
Reports you send us
If you report a session from the live screen ("Report this session"), we receive the reason you chose, anything you typed, the last comments the AI audience produced, its one-line summary of the session, your room settings, the app version and your account ID. No audio or video is included — none was kept. We use reports to review and improve the audience's behaviour, and keep them until reviewed and for up to 12 months afterwards. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe, and Google Play's requirement that AI-generated content can be reported in-app.
On your phone only
The following never leave your device: recordings you make with the record button (saved to your Movies folder), the display name, username and photo you choose for the live screen, and your saved room settings. Uninstalling the app removes them, except for recordings, which stay in your gallery.
3. What we don't do
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
- No analytics beyond Google Firebase's crash reporting, performance monitoring and product events described above; no ad-tech or cross-app tracking.
- No selling, renting or sharing of your data for anyone else's purposes.
- No use of your camera or microphone when you are not live. Camera and microphone access stops when you end your live.
4. Who receives data
- Google Cloud and Firebase (Google LLC and its affiliates) host our server, database and authentication, run the Gemini model, and receive crash reports, performance data and usage events. Our server runs in the United States; the model runs on Google's global infrastructure.
- Google Play processes your purchases under Google's own privacy policy.
- Authorities, if we are legally required to.
Because Google processes data for us in the United States, your data is transferred outside the European Economic Area. Google Cloud's Data Processing Addendum incorporates the EU Standard Contractual Clauses to safeguard those transfers.
5. How long we keep it
- Camera frames and audio clips: not stored.
- Server logs: up to 30 days. Crash reports: 90 days. Usage analytics: 14 months.
- Account, balance, usage, legacy account purchase records and safety records: until you delete your account, then removed.
- Minimal hashed purchase ledger: retained after account deletion while the service accepts these Google Play purchases, to prevent the same purchase from being credited again. It contains no email, name, raw purchase token, camera or microphone data. Hashing is pseudonymisation, not anonymisation.
6. Your rights
Under the GDPR and similar laws you can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to its processing, or hand it over in a portable format. Email office@creativdigital.ro and we will respond within a month. You can also complain to your data protection authority; ours is the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP).
You can delete your account in the app — Settings → Delete account — or request deletion on this page. It removes your account data and forfeits any remaining minutes. The minimal hashed purchase ledger described above is retained to prevent duplicate credits.
7. Children
Practice Fame is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you put a child on camera during a live, you are responsible for having the right to do so; the AI is instructed not to describe children beyond a greeting. If you believe a child has used the app without permission, contact us and we will delete the account.
8. Other people on camera
If someone else appears in your camera or is heard on your microphone while you are live, their image and voice are processed in the same way as yours, for the same purpose, and are likewise not stored. It is your responsibility to make sure they are happy to be there.
9. Security
All traffic between the app, our server and Google is encrypted in transit. Our server holds no copy of your media. Access to our database is limited to the service itself and to us, for support.
10. Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app before the change takes effect. The date at the top tells you when it was last updated.