Privacy Policy

YorubaBridgeAI is an experimental Yoruba ↔ English translation project currently intended for a limited, invitation-only beta.

Effective date: November 8, 2026 Contact: messirimiracle10@gmail.com.

1. Information we process

When you use the translation service, we process text submitted for translation and the resulting translated text. If voice translation is available and you choose to use it, we process the audio you submit and the resulting transcript. Voice transcription is performed by a speech-recognition model executed within our own application infrastructure, not by an external transcription API; the audio is not sent to a separate transcription provider. When using WhatsApp, technical message identifiers and messaging metadata needed to receive and respond to messages may also be processed.

2. How we use information

We use submitted information to provide translations, return replies, prevent duplicate message processing, protect the service from misuse, troubleshoot technical failures, and maintain reliability. We do not use beta messages for advertising.

3. Storage and retention

The current demonstration configuration has optional PostgreSQL translation-history storage disabled. If that feature is enabled in the future, the application is configured to remove translation-history records older than 30 days during startup and approximately daily while running. This is not a guarantee of deletion at an exact time or across all third-party systems.

Where Redis caching is enabled, translated text may be temporarily cached for up to approximately one hour. WhatsApp message identifiers used for duplicate detection may be retained in Redis for up to approximately seven days. If Redis is unavailable, the application may use temporary in-process state instead. Temporary voice-upload files are removed after processing in normal operation; a startup cleanup mechanism also removes older leftovers after abnormal shutdowns.

Operational logs may contain technical metadata. The application includes protections intended to avoid recording sensitive webhook verification tokens, but existing or third-party logs may be subject to separate retention practices.

4. Third-party services

If you contact the project through WhatsApp, messages pass through Meta's WhatsApp services and are subject to Meta's own policies. During development, network-tunneling or hosting providers may also transmit or process requests. These providers may have independent retention and security practices. The application uses an AI translation model to generate translations; this policy does not claim that Meta or other providers immediately delete their copies.

5. Sharing

We do not sell submitted translation content. Information is transmitted to service providers only as needed to operate the messaging, hosting, and translation workflow, or when required by law.

6. Security

We use technical safeguards including webhook signature verification, limited logging of sensitive values, and controls intended to limit unnecessary storage. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.

7. Your choices and requests

You can stop sending messages to the service at any time. To ask a question, report a privacy concern, or request deletion of information under our control, email messirimiracle10@gmail.com. Please describe the request without including passwords or other sensitive documents. We will review what information we can identify and delete. We may be unable to identify a specific person's records where identifying information was not stored, and we cannot directly delete information retained independently by third parties.

8. Children and sensitive information

The beta is intended for invited participants who are permitted to use the relevant messaging service. Please do not submit highly sensitive personal, financial, medical, or confidential information for translation.

9. Changes

We may update this policy as the beta changes. The effective date will be updated when a revised policy is published.