Legal
Privacy Policy
1. Who we are
Usefishu (the Chrome extension, the desktop app and usefishu.com) is operated by Prehoy Industries (“we”, “us”). Contact: [email protected].
2. What Usefishu does with your data
Usefishu translates meetings live. To do that, the audio you choose to translate is streamed to our servers, turned into text, translated and, if you turn it on, spoken by an interpreter voice. Nothing else leaves your device.
3. Data we process
- Your microphone audio, while “When I speak” is on: streamed to our servers to make subtitles on your Usefishu camera and, if chosen, an interpreter voice for the meeting.
- Meeting audio from other participants, only while “Listen to others” is on: streamed to our servers to make subtitles and, if chosen, an interpreter voice that only you hear.
- Text made from that audio (transcripts and translations): sent back to your device to display. The desktop app keeps a transcript of each meeting on your computer; meeting summaries are written by our servers when you ask for one and returned to you.
- An anonymous account: a random account ID and a device token, created when you first use the app. We do not ask for your name or email to use the free plan.
- Usage: how many minutes of translation you used and when, to count the hours in your plan.
- Billing: if you buy a plan, Stripe collects your email, payment details and billing address. We receive your email and the plan you bought, never your full card number.
- Settings: your languages and preferences, stored in your browser (Chrome sync storage) or the desktop app.
- Technical logs: short-lived server logs needed to run and secure the service.
Your camera video is never sent to us: the extension and the desktop app draw subtitles onto your camera picture on your own device. The Chrome extension only runs on Google Meet (meet.google.com).
4. What we don't do
- We don't store your meeting audio. It is processed as it streams and discarded.
- We don't keep transcripts or translations on our servers after they are delivered to you.
- We don't use your audio or text to train models.
- We don't sell your data, use it for advertising or share it with data brokers.
- We don't use analytics or tracking cookies in the extension, the desktop app or on usefishu.com.
5. Service providers
We use these processors to run Usefishu. Each receives only what it needs for its part:
- Hetzner (Germany): our servers and database.
- Cloudflare: network delivery and protection for usefishu.com and our API.
- Soniox: speech recognition (receives the audio stream).
- OpenRouter and Google (Gemini): translation and meeting summaries (receive text).
- Inworld: the natural interpreter voice (receives the translated text to be spoken).
- Stripe: payments, invoices and tax.
Some of these providers process data outside the European Economic Area. Where they do, transfers rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision.
6. Legal bases
We process audio, text, account and usage data to provide the service you asked for (performance of a contract), billing data to meet tax and accounting duties (legal obligation), and logs to keep the service secure (legitimate interest).
7. Retention and deletion
Audio and text are not kept after processing. Usage records are kept while your account exists so your hours can be counted. Billing records are kept as long as tax law requires. Removing the extension or the app deletes its settings and its device token; to delete your account and usage records, email [email protected].
8. Other people in your meetings
When you translate what others say, their voices are processed as described above. Please let the people you meet with know you use live translation, as you would for any meeting tool.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct, export or erase your personal data, and to object to or restrict its processing. Contact [email protected]. You can also complain to your data protection authority.
10. Chrome Web Store: Limited Use
The use of information received from Google APIs and the Chrome extension will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data is used only to provide the translation features you turn on.
11. Changes
We will update this page when what we collect or how we use it changes, and change the date at the top.