Privacy

Last updated 23 October 2026

Ribbit Jam is a social app made of voices. This page says what we collect when you use it, why, who helps us, and what you can do about it.

Ribbit Jam is made and run by Leafer Development. Anything unclear? Write to hello@ribbitjam.com.

What we collect

• Your account. You sign in with Apple or Google. They give us an ID that tells us it's you next time and, if they share it, your email address. We never see your password.
• Your profile. The handle, the illustrated face and the pond color you pick. Everyone can see them.
• Your voice. The ribbits and replies you record, with their length, their loudness shape, their language and when you posted them. They are public: anyone using Ribbit Jam can hear them, and anyone with a link can hear them on the web.
• What you do. Who you follow, what you splash, who you hush (mute or block) and what you report.
• What you listen to. Once you've played half of someone's ribbit, we note that you heard it, and they can see you among its listeners. Only the person who posted a ribbit sees who heard it.
• Your phone. A push notification token, whether notifications are allowed, your time zone, the app's version, whether it's an iPhone or an Android phone, and an ID the app makes up for that installation.
• Your settings. The app's language and the languages you want to hear.
• Purchases. If you subscribe to Ribbit Jam+, Apple tells us which subscription it is and when it renews or ends. We never see your card or any payment details.
• Logs. Our server keeps logs of requests (IP address, time, what was asked for) for a limited time, to keep the service running and to stop abuse.

We don't collect your contacts, your location or your photos. The microphone is used only while you record. The camera is used only to scan a pond card, and its picture never leaves your phone.

What we do with it

• Run Ribbit Jam: play the pond, show threads and profiles, tell you about replies, follows and who heard you, and send those as notifications if you allow them.
• Choose what you hear. A ribbit's language is the one its author selects. Your listening languages filter the pond. Automatic transcription, language identification and topic analysis are disabled in this release. We do not send your recordings to OpenAI or TypeSafe.
• Keep it safe: review reports, take down ribbits and suspend accounts that break the terms.
• Know who has Ribbit Jam+.

We don't sell your data. There are no ads in Ribbit Jam, and we don't track you across other companies' apps and websites.

Who helps us

These companies process data for us, each only for its part:

• Hostinger runs our server and database, in Germany, and our email.
• Cloudflare stores the voice files and face pictures.
• Apple and Google handle sign-in and deliver notifications (through Firebase Cloud Messaging and Apple's push service). Apple handles purchases.

Some of them are outside your country, including in the United States. We may also share information when the law requires it.

How long we keep it

• Your account and what you posted stay until you delete them.
• Deleting a ribbit removes it and the replies under it.
• Deleting your account (Settings, then "Delete my account") removes your profile, your ribbits and the replies under them, your splashes, follows, ripples, listening history and sessions straight away. The voice files are deleted from storage soon after. Copies in caches can stay reachable for up to a day, and backups are kept for up to 30 days. Your handle is held for 30 days so nobody can pose as you.
• Reports, and what we decided about them, are kept. Once your account is gone they no longer say who you were.
• A Ribbit Jam+ subscription is billed by Apple. Deleting your account does not cancel it: cancel it in your App Store subscriptions.

Your choices

• Change your handle, face, color and languages in Settings.
• Delete any ribbit of yours, or your whole account, in the app.
• Hush anyone: a block hides you from each other.
• Turn notifications off in your phone's settings.
• Ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct or delete it: hello@ribbitjam.com. If you live where the law gives you more rights over your data (such as the EU or the UK), you have them here too, including the right to complain to your data protection authority.

Children

Ribbit Jam is not for children under 13, or under the age your country requires for apps like this. If we learn that a child has an account, we delete it.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change matters, we'll say so in the app.