CapSept Privacy Policy

Effective and last reviewed: 7 November 2026

CapSept is developed by Ariel Tyson. It helps you prepare for the TEF Canada and TCF Canada French tests. This policy describes what the app does with your information.

Your progress stays with you

CapSept stores your exam choice and date, your answers, your writing and speaking attempts, their scores and your study days in a database inside the app on your iPhone. If you are signed in to iCloud, the system syncs that database through your own private iCloud database so it is backed up and available on your other devices. The developer cannot read your private iCloud data.

The developer does not operate a server. CapSept has no account, advertising, analytics SDK, third-party tracking SDK or developer-operated crash reporting. It does not sell your data, share it for advertising or use it to train models.

Microphone and speech recognition

CapSept asks for the microphone the first time you answer a speaking card or task. Your recording is transcribed on your iPhone with Apple’s speech recognition; the first time, iOS may download the French speech model. Recordings are deleted after scoring unless you turn on Keep recordings in Settings. Kept recordings are stored with complete file protection and deleted after 30 days. Transcripts are stored with your task attempts.

Writing and speaking feedback

On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, CapSept scores your writing and speaking with Apple’s on-device language model. Your answer is processed on your iPhone and is not sent to the developer. On other iPhones you rate your own answer against a model answer.

Family Mode

Family Mode is optional. When you invite someone, iCloud shares a small record with the people you invite: your display name, your streak, your minutes this week and your predicted level in each skill. Your answers, writing, transcripts and recordings are never shared. You can leave the family at any time, which removes your record from it.

Notifications

If you turn on the daily reminder, CapSept schedules one local reminder a day, skipped when you have already studied, and two reminders before your exam. There is no push-notification server.

Apple Watch

If you have CapSept on Apple Watch, your iPhone sends it the words due for review in the next day and a half, with their English meanings, over Apple’s direct iPhone-to-Watch connection. The watch schedules its own local notifications, once an hour during the day, and sends your answers back to your iPhone the same way. Turn this off with Words on Apple Watch in Settings.

Your choices

In Settings you can export everything CapSept stores as a JSON file, and delete all your data, which removes it from your iPhone and, through sync, from your iCloud. Deleting the app removes the on-device copy.

Apple services

If you choose to share analytics with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple may provide anonymous crash reports to the developer. Apple’s services, including iCloud and Siri, are governed by Apple’s privacy policy.

Changes and contact

Changes to this policy are published in this repository with a dated commit. To report a concern, open an issue at https://github.com/arieltyson/CapSept-privacy/issues.