Privacy Policy

Last updated July 27, 2026

DerVort is the Yiddish AI platform. Today it lets you dictate Yiddish and English into any app and transcribe audio and video files, and we are building further Yiddish AI products on the same foundation. When you dictate or transcribe, we process your audio to give you back clean text, and we save that text and audio to your own history so you can read it, play it back, and reuse it. We do not sell your data, we do not use it to advertise to you, and we do not show it to other customers. You control whether your dictations are used to improve our Yiddish models, through a single switch in your account settings that you can turn off at any time. The sections below explain, in full, what we collect, why, who processes it, how long we keep it, and the rights you have over it.

1. Who we are

DerVort (דער וואָרט) is a Yiddish speech and language platform, built and operated by AutomateAnything.ai ("DerVort", "we", "us"). This policy covers everything you reach under the DerVort name: our websites, the web portal, the desktop and mobile apps, and the Yiddish AI products we offer through them, both those available today (dictation into any app, and audio and video file transcription) and the further products we add over time. As we release a new product, this policy governs it too, and we will update this page where a product introduces a genuinely new kind of data or use. For questions about your data, or to exercise any of the rights described below, write to [email protected].

2. What we collect

We collect only what the product needs to work, plus what you choose to give us.

Account details. Your email address, and the name and phone number you provide at signup. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email, and a Google account identifier from Google, and nothing more.
Your dictations. When you dictate, we process your audio to produce text. Both the audio recording and the resulting text are saved to your history so the product works the way you expect, playing a dictation back, copying it again, editing it, or re-running it. Where you edit a result, we may keep the correction as well.
File transcriptions. If you upload an audio or video file to transcribe, we process that file and store the resulting transcript with your account.
Your personal dictionary. The names, spellings, and terms you teach DerVort so it gets your words right.
Settings and preferences. Your default output mode, cleanup level, model choice, hotkeys, and writing styles.
Usage and diagnostic data. Records that a dictation or transcription happened, how long it ran, and which mode was used, so we can meter your plan and keep the service reliable. These records carry identifiers and counts, never the content of what you spoke or uploaded. When something fails, our error reports carry identifiers (a job id, an account id), never your transcript text or audio.
Billing. If you subscribe, our payment processor collects and handles your payment details. We do not store your full card number.

We do not build advertising profiles, we do not track you across other websites, and we do not store your IP address against your dictations or transcriptions.

3. How we use it

To turn your speech into text and deliver it to the app you are using.
To keep your history, dictionary, and settings so the product works across sessions and devices.
To transcribe files you upload.
To operate your account, apply your plan, and process payments.
To keep the service secure, diagnose failures, and prevent abuse.
To answer you when you contact support.
To improve our Yiddish models, only where you have not turned that off (see the next section).

4. Improving our models

DerVort exists to be excellent at real, colloquial Heimish Yiddish, and the way any speech system gets better is by learning from real speech. So we may use your dictations, the audio you spoke, the text you received, and any corrections you made, to improve DerVort's own Yiddish speech and language models.

This is your choice, and it is separate from saving your history. Saving your dictations to your own history is part of the product and always happens, that is what makes history, playback, and your dictionary work. Using them to train our models is a narrower thing, and it is governed by a single switch:

On by default. By creating an account and accepting our Terms, you allow us to use your dictations to improve our models. There is no separate prompt to click through.
Off whenever you want. Turn it off in your account settings (Settings → Privacy). From that moment, nothing new is used for training.
Only ever used by us. Dictations used this way improve DerVort's own models only. They are never sold, never shared with other companies for their own purposes, and never shown to other customers.

Turning the switch off stops future use. It does not reach back and unwind training that has already happened, models cannot un-learn a single example. If you want your stored dictations deleted as well, see Your rights and controls.

5. Who processes your data

Producing your text takes a small number of specialized services. Each receives only what it needs to do its job, and only to produce your result, never to build a profile of you or for their own purposes:

Speech recognition. Your audio is sent to the GPU service that runs our Yiddish speech model, which transcribes it and returns text.
Cleanup pass. The raw transcript, together with your personal dictionary terms, is sent to a large-language-model provider (currently Google) for the cleanup step that adds punctuation and fixes obvious errors. This is processing in the moment; the provider is not permitted to use your content to train its own models.
Hosting and storage. Our database, authentication, and file storage run on our cloud infrastructure providers, who host the data on our behalf.
Payments. Our payment processor handles subscriptions and card details.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it for anyone else's advertising. We disclose data only in these cases:

To the service providers above, so they can perform their function for us.
Within your team, if you are part of a team account, as described under Team and organization accounts below.
When the law requires it, such as a valid legal request, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users and the service.
In a business transfer, if DerVort is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, in which case we will tell you before your data becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

7. How long we keep it

Your dictations, transcripts, and dictionary are kept as part of your account for as long as your account is open, so your history and tools keep working. You can delete an individual dictation at any time, which removes both its text and its stored audio.
Your account details and settings are kept while your account is open.
Usage and billing records are kept as long as needed to run the service, meet our legal and tax obligations, and resolve disputes.
If you close your account, we delete your dictations, transcripts, audio, dictionary, and profile. Some records we are legally required to keep (for example, billing history) are retained for the period the law requires and then deleted.

8. Your rights and controls

Your data is yours. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the GDPR (Europe) and the CCPA/CPRA (California), and we extend the core of these controls to everyone:

Access. Ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Correction. Fix your name, email, or other account details in your account, or ask us to.
Deletion. Delete individual dictations yourself at any time, or ask us to delete your account and the data tied to it.
Opt out of model improvement. Turn off the training switch in Settings → Privacy at any time.
Object or restrict. Ask us to stop or limit certain processing.
Withdraw consent where our processing is based on your consent.
Complain to your local data protection authority if you believe we have handled your data wrongly.

To exercise any of these, write to [email protected], or use the in-account controls described on our Data Controls page. We may need to verify your identity before we act, and we will respond within the time your local law requires. We do not charge for reasonable requests, and we will never penalize you for making one.

9. How we protect it

Access to your data is enforced at the database itself, not merely in the app: every record is scoped to its owner, so one customer can never reach another customer's dictations, recordings, or settings. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest with our infrastructure providers. Access by our own staff is restricted, and any access to customer content is limited to what a support case requires and is logged. No system is perfectly secure, but we design DerVort so that the safe path is the default one.

10. Sensitive and health information

People dictate all kinds of things, and some of it can be sensitive, including health-related notes. We treat everything you dictate as confidential: it is stored only in your own account, it is never sold or used for advertising, and access is tightly controlled and logged. We are building DerVort to a standard suitable for sensitive information and are working toward the formal agreements (including Business Associate Agreements) that regulated organizations such as healthcare providers require. If your organization needs such an agreement in place before using DerVort with protected health information, contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you.

11. Team and organization accounts

If you use DerVort through a team account, an administrator manages seats and membership and can see aggregate usage counts and add or remove members. An administrator does not see the content of members' dictations, recordings, or personal settings. A team may keep a shared dictionary, which is visible to that team only. If your team account is provided by your employer or organization, their own policies may also apply to your use.

12. International transfers

DerVort is operated from, and its data is processed and stored in, the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate. If you are located elsewhere, your data will be transferred to and processed in these countries, where data-protection laws may differ from those in your own. Where required, we put appropriate safeguards in place for such transfers.

13. Children

DerVort is not directed to children. It is intended for people aged 16 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under this age; if you believe a child has given us their data, contact us and we will delete it.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the product evolves. When we make a material change, we will update the date above and, where the change meaningfully affects your rights, tell you before it takes effect. Continuing to use DerVort after a change means you accept the updated policy.

15. Contact us

Questions, requests, or concerns about your privacy: [email protected].