Privacy

AliveBook is in a friends-and-family soft release. This page explains what we store, who processes it, and how you can remove certain data.

What we store

Clerk handles your email and account sign-in. Your library, listening progress, bookmarks, highlights, and optional feedback notes are stored in Vercel KV tied to your account. If you enroll your voice for hands-free wake, numerical speaker embeddings for that language are stored in your browser (localStorage) and synced to our server tied to your account.

Microphone and voice input

The microphone is used only while Listen with Qiva is open, and AliveBook asks before turning it on the first time. Listening for “Hey Qiva” / “Ya Qiva” runs on your device; that audio is not sent anywhere. After the wake phrase, the question you speak is recorded and sent to OpenAI (Whisper) to turn it into text; the text goes to OpenAI to write the answer, and the answer may be spoken with OpenAI text-to-speech. AliveBook does not store these recordings. Under OpenAI’s API data policy, API data is not used to train their models and may be kept for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring. If you turn on Live voice conversation, your voice streams to OpenAI’s realtime service while that conversation is open. Browser speech recognition (Web Speech API) is also used where supported—for enrollment read-aloud alignment, as a fallback wake and transcript path, and for spoken questions or answer interruption—and may be processed by your browser or its provider; we do not control that processing. Leaving Listen with Qiva turns the microphone off, and you can always choose Listen without Hey Qiva.

Third-party services

Questions you ask are sent to OpenAI to generate answers. On-demand answer speech may use OpenAI text-to-speech. Narration audio is mostly pre-generated and served as static files. Clerk authenticates you; Vercel hosts the app and may collect basic analytics.

Deletion

To retrain your voice for a language, use Retrain voice in immersive mode. That clears the enrollment for that language on this device and removes the matching server-side profile before you record again. To delete your account and other associated data, contact the AliveBook team using the email you signed up with.