bre — Privacy Policy
Last updated: 29 September 2026
The short version
bre turns a topic you type or speak into a podcast with AI hosts.
- Your episodes are written on our servers, by an AI model. Your topic — and what you say when you talk an idea through with bre — is sent to us and on to Anthropic, who write the script.
- To hear it out loud, the lines the hosts speak are turned into audio by bre's own voice models, on computers we rent for the purpose.
- The file you attach never leaves your phone; the words in it do. bre opens a text or Markdown file on your device, takes the text out, and sends that text and the file's name with your topic. The file itself, and every other file on your phone, stays where it is.
- Your episodes, notes, highlights and the episodes you save stay on your device. Signing in does not copy them anywhere. If you turn on bre's memory, our server keeps a short record of what you listened to, asked and highlighted — never your notes or the episodes themselves (§2.6).
- bre's memory is off unless you turn it on. You can see everything it holds, delete any of it, or turn it off, at any time.
- We carry no advertising, no analytics and no third-party trackers. We do not sell or share your personal information, and we never have.
- We do not use your content to train AI models, ours or anyone else's.
- Everything bre says is synthetic, and it is labelled as such — in the audio files themselves, and by bre saying so out loud when you start a Talk (§3).
- Kids mode collects nothing from a child. A parent or guardian runs it; the child only listens (§9).
The rest of this page is the detail.
1. Who we are
bre is operated by BRE LLC, 701 Market St Ste 110 PMB 1342, Saint Louis, MO 63101, USA.
For anything about this policy or your data, write to support@askbre.app.
If you are in the UK or the EEA, BRE LLC is the controller of the personal data described here.
Representatives in the EU and the UK
BRE LLC is a company in the United States with no office in the European Union or the United Kingdom. Where the law requires it, we appoint a representative there for you to contact about your data.
- Representative in the European Union (Article 27 of the GDPR): [EU representative under GDPR Art. 27 — name, address, email: TO BE APPOINTED BEFORE EU LAUNCH]
- Representative in the United Kingdom (Article 27 of the UK GDPR): [UK representative under UK GDPR Art. 27 — name, address, email: TO BE APPOINTED BEFORE UK LAUNCH]
You can also write to us directly at support@askbre.app and at [registered address — PO Box or registered agent, to be inserted].
2. What bre collects, and why
We have tried to keep this list short by not collecting things. Everything we do collect is below.
2.1 Things that stay on your device
These never reach our servers at all:
| What | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| The files you attach, as files | bre reads them here; the file itself is never uploaded |
| Episodes, scripts and transcripts | So you can play them again |
| Notes, highlights and bookmarks | Your own marks on an episode |
| Which episodes you saved, and playback positions | To keep your shorter list and resume where you stopped |
| Settings and preferences | So the app behaves how you set it |
They are stored in the app's own storage on your phone. Deleting the app deletes them. We cannot read them and we cannot recover them for you.
The one exception is bre's memory, and only if you turn it on: then the words of a line you highlight or bookmark, the questions you ask the hosts, and how far you got through an episode are also kept on our server so later episodes can build on them (§2.6). Your notes never are.
2.2 Things sent to bre's servers
| What | Why | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Your topic | To write the episode | Not stored. Held in the server's working memory while the episode is written and for up to 30 minutes after, so the app can pick the episode back up if the connection drops — unless memory is on (§2.6) |
| What you say when you talk an idea through with bre, as text | So bre can answer you and plan the episode with you | Not stored: each turn is answered and dropped — unless memory is on, when bre keeps anything you ask it to remember and one line about the episode you planned (§2.6) |
| The name you asked the hosts to call you, and the interests you picked (if you gave them) | So the hosts can use your name now and then, and pick examples you'll care about. Not sent for Kids episodes | Not stored: used for that episode or conversation only |
| The text of a file you attach, and its name | To write the episode from your own material | Not stored, as for your topic. Memory never keeps a word of it |
| What bre remembers about you — stored on our server, only if you turn memory on | So each episode builds on the last; read by Anthropic's model when bre writes for you (§2.6) | Each item 12 months after it was last updated, or until you delete it, turn memory off and choose to delete it, or delete your account |
| What you agreed to, and when: the version of these terms, this policy, the AI notice and the memory setting you accepted or withdrew | So we can show what you agreed to, and ask again when the words change | While your account exists |
| The lines your hosts speak | To turn them into audio | See §5 |
| Your account identifier | To know whose plan is being used | While your account exists |
| Your plan and its renewal date | To give you the plan you bought. Apple or Google takes the payment; bre never sees a card number. Our billing service, RevenueCat, tells our server which plan is active (§4) | While your account exists |
| What you write to support@askbre.app | To answer you. The text is read by an AI model only to sort the message by topic and urgency (§4) | While your account exists. If you delete your account, the message is kept for our records with your account identifier and contact address removed |
| Your email address, if you sign in with email (your password is kept only as a one-way hash) | To sign you in, confirm your address and reset a password | While your account exists |
| If you sign in with Apple, a token Apple gives us | So that when you delete your account we can tell Apple to end bre's access, as Apple requires | Deleted with your account |
| Your email address and account identifier, sent to our website (askbre.app) when your account is new | To recognise you if you signed up there for early access | Until you delete your account, when we ask the website to forget the link |
| How much audio and writing your plan has used | To enforce your plan's allowance and stop runaway charges | While your account exists; kept without anything that identifies you after you delete it |
| The rendered audio | So replaying an episode does not cost you a second time | See §5 |
| What you write to support, and the email you give us to reply to | To answer you. An AI model (Anthropic's) reads each message to sort it and may draft or send a reply; a person handles anything about money, your account or safety | Kept to handle your request. Deleting your account removes your account identifier and your email from them; the message itself stays, with nothing that identifies you |
| A report you file about an episode, and anything you type with it | So a person can review what bre said | Kept. Deleting your account removes your account identifier from it |
The file itself is never uploaded. bre opens it on your phone, takes the text out, and sends that text and the file's name — so the hosts can refer to "your notes" — and nothing else. The file and its metadata stay on the device. Be aware of what this does and does not mean: it keeps the document private, not the words in it — the text bre extracts is sent to us and on to the model that writes your episode, exactly like a topic you typed. bre can only read plain text and Markdown files today, and refuses anything it cannot read rather than attaching it.
2.3 Microphone and speech
bre asks for the microphone only when you tap to dictate a topic or to talk an idea through, or while an episode plays on screen with hands-free switched on, which you turn on yourself. It is not listening at any other time, and it never records in the background.
Hands-free listens for "hey bre" while the episode plays. bre only offers it on a phone that can recognise speech on the device, and uses that on-device recognition for the wake word and for the question you ask after it, so that audio does not leave the phone. It stops when you leave the player or lock the phone.
What happens to your voice is important and we want to be exact about it. bre asks the operating system — Apple's on iOS, Google's on Android — to turn your speech into text. Where your device has an on-device speech model for your language, that happens on the phone and the audio never leaves it. Where it does not, Apple or Google transcribes the audio on their servers, under their privacy policies, not ours. bre receives only the resulting text. We do not store the audio, and we do not receive a copy of it. bre's memory never holds audio.
- Apple's policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
- Google's policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
2.4 Crash reports
bre uses Sentry to find out when the app crashes. This was the one thing this policy got wrong: until 17 September 2026 the section below said "No crash-reporting SDK" while the app shipped one, which was not true and is the kind of thing both stores check.
When bre crashes or errors, Sentry receives the error and where in the code it happened, the app version, the device model and operating system version, and a random identifier for the installation — not for you — so that one person hitting the same crash forty times is not counted as forty people. It also records whether a session ended normally or in a crash, which is how we know whether a release is healthy.
With an error, Sentry also receives a short trail of the app's recent activity: each request's method, the shape of its address with the ids taken out, and the status it got back; the screens you moved between, again without ids; and app events such as going to the background. None of it includes your topics, your questions, episode titles or ids, or anything that signs you in.
What it does not receive: your name, your email, your IP address, your topics, your questions, what bre remembers about you, or anything an episode said. We have turned off the setting that would have sent the first three (sendDefaultPii), and performance tracing is off entirely.
bre's server reports its own errors to Sentry too: the error, where in the code it happened, and which kind of request it was — never the request itself, your account identifier, or anything you sent.
Crash reports are not used for advertising, not sold, and not used to build a profile. If you would rather the app sent none at all, there is a switch in Settings, and it stops every kind of report, including crashes in the app's native code. If you turn reports back on, they resume the next time you open the app. One small exception: on the first launch after an update, a single "session started" record can be sent before the app has read your setting.
2.5 Things we do not collect
No advertising identifiers. No analytics or behavioural telemetry. No location from your device. No contacts. No photos, camera or microphone access beyond §2.3. No cross-app or cross-site tracking of any kind. We do not do behavioural advertising, and bre's memory (§2.6) is not a profile for advertising or anything else: it is a short, visible list you control.
2.6 bre's memory (optional)
Memory policy version 2026-09-26.
bre can remember you between episodes, so a second episode on a subject starts where the first left off instead of from zero. It is off unless you turn it on. The app asks you, in plain words, before it is ever switched on, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings.
What bre remembers, when memory is on:
- the topics you make episodes about, and each episode's title, what it covered, how far you listened, and whether you skipped it or told the app you liked it;
- the depth, length, format and number of hosts you usually choose;
- the questions you ask the hosts during an episode, and the lines you highlight or bookmark;
- things you explicitly ask bre to remember when you talk an idea through ("remember I'm a nurse");
- one short line for each conversation with bre that ends in an episode plan — what you planned, not what was said.
What bre never remembers: audio of your voice; your notes; anything from a Kids episode or a Kids conversation; the contents of files you attach; passwords, card or account numbers, government identity numbers, email addresses or phone numbers; and sensitive details — about you or anyone else — even if you ask bre to remember them: health, religion or beliefs, sexuality or sex life, racial or ethnic origin, politics, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data, money details, or exactly where you live. bre is built not to keep those: it checks everything before it is written, and if you ask it to remember one of those it tells you it doesn't keep that kind of detail, and keeps nothing. No automatic check is perfect, in every language and every way of saying something, so bre may occasionally miss one. You can see and delete every item in Settings, one at a time or all at once. A topic is not a detail about you: an episode about diabetes or a religion is remembered like any other.
Why: so the hosts skip what you already know, pitch at the depth you have shown, refer back to what you asked last time, and never make you the same episode twice.
How it is used: when bre writes an episode for you or answers you when you talk an idea through, a short note drawn from your memory — at most about 1,500 characters — is sent to Anthropic with your request, marked as information about you rather than as instructions. It is sent nowhere else, used for nothing else, never sold, never used for advertising, and never used to train AI models, ours or Anthropic's. An episode bre writes for you may mention something it remembers, and those lines are voiced like any other (§3). Research that bre does on the web for an episode never includes anything from your memory. People at bre do not read what bre remembers about you: our own tools show how many people use memory and how many items exist, never what they say.
Keeping it small: each item is deleted 12 months after it was last updated, and bre keeps at most 60 episodes, 60 questions, 60 highlighted lines, 30 things you asked it to remember and 20 conversation lines — the oldest go first.
Your controls, all in the app:
- see everything bre remembers, in plain words, under Settings;
- delete any single item, or everything, at once;
- turn memory off: use stops immediately, and you choose whether bre keeps what it has (unused, and still visible and deletable) or deletes it;
- ask for a copy of it, with the rest of your account data (§6);
- deleting your account deletes all of it immediately.
If you are in the UK or the EEA, the lawful basis for memory is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time without affecting what happened before. bre's memory is built not to keep special categories of personal data, and it may occasionally miss one; you can see and delete every item in Settings.
3. Artificial intelligence, stated plainly
bre's hosts are AI, not people. Episodes are generated, so what the hosts say can be wrong, out of date, or confidently incorrect. Check anything that matters. bre is not a source of medical, legal, financial or safety advice, and an episode is not a substitute for a professional.
Three kinds of AI are involved, and they are not the same:
- Writing the episode happens on our servers. Your topic, the text from any attached file, the name and interests you gave bre (if any), what you say when you talk an idea through, and — only if you turned memory on — a short note of what bre remembers about you (§2.6) are sent to Anthropic, whose model writes the script and the hosts' lines. A message you send to support is also read by Anthropic's model, to sort it and sometimes to draft or send a reply. The same goes for Talk: what you say to bre is turned into text by your phone's speech recognition (§2.3) and sent on to Anthropic, whose model writes bre's reply.
- Speaking the episode happens on our servers too. The written lines are turned into audio by bre's own voice models, which run on computers we rent from Modal (see §4). No outside speech company receives them.
- Researching the episode, for the episodes where bre does it: Anthropic's web search looks things up using searches bre builds from your topic. The part of bre that plans the searches is never given your memory, and a search is refused if it would contain an email address, a phone number, a street address, or more than eight words in a row copied from a file you attached.
Your content is not used to train models. Not ours, not our providers'. If that ever changes, we will say so here before it takes effect and not after.
Every episode is labelled as AI. All speech in bre is synthetic. The audio files bre makes carry a machine-readable "AI-generated by bre" mark in their metadata (WAV INFO and MP3 ID3 tags), and a matching header when an episode is downloaded, so other software can tell what the file is. Talk opens every session by saying that bre is an AI. bre's hosts are fictional characters; they do not imitate a named real person, and bre will decline a request to make them do so. The label is there to be kept: do not strip it to pass the audio off as a recording of a real person (the Terms of Service, §6, say the same).
4. Who else processes your data
We use a small number of service providers. They act on our instructions and may not use your data for their own purposes.
| Provider | What they receive, and why | Where | Their terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic PBC | To write episodes and answer you: your topic, text extracted from files you attach, the name and interests you gave bre, what you say when you talk an idea through, and what bre remembers about you if memory is on. To sort support: the messages you send to support. To research an episode, where bre does: the searches built from your topic, which Anthropic runs through its web search | United States | https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy |
| Modal Labs, Inc. | The lines your hosts speak, turned into audio by bre's own voice models on Modal's computers. A line can include your name or something bre remembers, if the episode uses it | United States | https://modal.com/legal/privacy-policy |
| Railway Corporation | Hosts bre's server and its database: your account identifier, plan, usage counts, the questions you asked and lines you marked, and — only if you turned memory on — what bre remembers about you (§2.6). Also the server's logs, which carry account identifiers and counts, never your topics or your memory (kept 30 days) | United States | https://railway.com/legal/privacy |
| Apple | If you choose Sign in with Apple: signing you in, and a stable identifier and your email or a private relay address for us; when you delete your account, our request to end bre's access. Speech audio, only where your device has no on-device model (§2.3). Payment for subscriptions bought on the App Store | Per Apple's policy | https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/ |
| If you choose Sign in with Google: signing you in, and a stable identifier and your email for us. Speech audio on Android, only where your device has no on-device model (§2.3). Payment for subscriptions bought on Google Play | Per Google's policy | https://policies.google.com/privacy | |
| RevenueCat, Inc. | Your bre account identifier and your App Store or Google Play subscription records, to confirm which plan you have paid for | United States | https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy |
| Resend | Your email address and the email itself: sign-in and password-reset codes from the app (email accounts only), and confirmation and support-reply emails from our website | United States | https://resend.com/legal/privacy-policy |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | Runs our website (askbre.app) and our domain's DNS, and receives your email address and account identifier when your account is linked to the website (§2.2). It also stores the finished episode audio in Cloudflare R2 object storage, played back through signed, expiring links: audio files only, with no name, email or topic attached | Cloudflare's network; the storage location is chosen automatically, not fixed to one country | https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ |
| Zoho Corporation | Hosts our support mailbox: the emails you send to support@askbre.app and our replies | United States | https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html |
| Functional Software, Inc. (Sentry) | Crash reports from the app and error reports from bre's server (§2.4) | United States | https://sentry.io/privacy/ |
Subscriptions are paid through the App Store or Google Play. Apple and Google take the payment; bre never receives or stores your card details.
News episodes draw their headlines from public news feeds that the app reads directly from the publishers bre lists (for example the BBC, NPR and the Guardian). As with any website, a publisher sees your device's internet address when its feed is read, and nothing else from bre.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising — as those terms are used in the California Consumer Privacy Act. We never have.
5. How long we keep things
| Data | Retained |
|---|---|
| Your topic, the text of attached files, what you say when you talk an idea through, and your name and interests | Not stored: held in the server's working memory while the episode or answer is written, and for up to 30 minutes after an episode |
| What bre remembers about you (only if memory is on) | Each item 12 months after it was last updated, or until you delete it (§2.6) |
| What you agreed to, and when | While your account exists |
| Usage counts and quota records | While your account exists; after you delete it, kept without anything that identifies you, because they are also the record of what bre spent |
| Rendered audio in our cache | Kept in a cache shared by everyone, so replaying costs nothing; the least recently played audio is deleted first when the cache is full. It is stored by its content, not under your account, so deleting your account does not delete it |
| Support messages and reports | Kept; your account identifier and reply-to email are removed when you delete your account |
| Your account record, sign-in email and Apple token | Until you delete your account |
| Server logs | 30 days |
When you delete your account, we delete at once your account record, your sign-in details, what you agreed to and everything bre remembers about you, and we ask our website to forget you. What stays is kept without anything that identifies you — usage records, support messages and reports — plus audio in the shared cache, which was never filed under you, and server logs, which age out within 30 days. If we must keep a record to meet a legal or tax obligation, we keep only that record, and only for as long as the law requires.
6. Your choices and your rights
You can delete your account from inside the app, under Settings. It removes your data as described in §5.
You can see, delete and switch off bre's memory from inside the app at any time (§2.6).
Depending on where you live you may also have the right to ask us to:
- tell you what personal data we hold about you, and give you a copy;
- correct it if it is wrong;
- delete it;
- restrict or object to how we use it;
- receive it in a portable form;
- withdraw a consent you gave us, without affecting what we did before you withdrew it.
bre's server can produce a copy of your account — your plan, what you agreed to and when, and everything bre remembers about you — in a portable (JSON) form. Write to support@askbre.app for it, or for anything else above, and we will answer within one month. We will not charge you, and we will not treat you differently for asking.
If you are in the UK or the EEA, our lawful bases are: performance of a contract (running your account and your plan), consent (the microphone, which you grant and can revoke in your device settings at any time; sending your topics to our AI provider, which the app asks for before it sends anything; and bre's memory, §2.6), and legitimate interests (keeping the service running and preventing abuse of quotas). You have the right to complain to your data protection authority — in the UK, the ICO at https://ico.org.uk.
If you are in California, you have the rights to know, delete, correct and opt out of sale or sharing. We do not sell or share, so there is nothing to opt out of, but the other rights apply and the address above is how to use them.
7. Where your data is processed
bre's servers, and the computers our voice models run on, are in the United States. The finished audio files are kept in Cloudflare R2, which chooses where in its network to store them, so they may sit in other countries too. If you are in the UK or the EEA this means your data may be transferred outside it; where that happens we rely on the UK/EU Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent approved mechanism.
8. Security
Your connection to bre is encrypted in transit (TLS); the app refuses to talk to a server over an unencrypted connection. Requests are authenticated, and audio links are individually signed and expire. We keep no provider keys in the app itself — every paid call is made by our server. There is no public storage bucket: audio is served only through a signed, expiring link. Each account can only ever read or delete its own memory.
No system is perfectly secure, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. If you find a vulnerability, please tell us at support@askbre.app and we will work with you.
9. Children
bre is not intended for children under 13 to use on their own, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has given us data, write to support@askbre.app and we will delete it.
Kids mode. Kids mode makes gentler, shorter episodes for a child to listen to. It is operated by a parent or guardian, on their own account: an adult signs in, chooses Kids, and starts the episode. The child only listens. In Kids mode:
- nothing is recorded — no microphone, no Talk, no hands-free listening;
- no questions or words are collected from the child, because there is no way for the child to ask one;
- no memory is kept of what was listened to — Kids episodes are not added to the notes bre keeps about what you are curious about.
What a parent types to make a Kids episode is handled like any other topic (§2.2). bre is not in Apple's Kids Category and is not a service directed to children under 13.
10. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy in a way that materially affects you, we will tell you in the app before the change takes effect, and update the date at the top. Continuing to use bre after that means the new version applies. If we change what bre's memory keeps, how it is used or who receives it, we will ask you again, and memory stays off until you answer.
11. Contact
BRE LLC 701 Market St Ste 110 PMB 1342, Saint Louis, MO 63101, USA Privacy: support@askbre.app Support: support@askbre.app