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Clonic — Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Last updated: October 22, 2026

This page contains both the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use for Clonic (“Clonic”, the “App”). Clonic turns a topic you are curious about into an AI-made audio episode — such as a podcast, a radio show, a radio play or a documentary — built from sources found on the web. Clonic is operated by APPTOIC (“we”, “us”, “our”). By downloading, accessing, or using Clonic, you agree to both documents below. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.

For any questions, contact us at hello@apptoic.com.

Part 1 — Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains what we collect, why, how we use it, who we share it with, how long we keep it, and the rights you have. We aim to comply with the GDPR (EU), KVKK (Türkiye), and Apple’s App Store requirements.

1. Information We Collect

a) Account information

  • You sign in with Apple or Google before you create your first episode. We receive a unique account identifier and your email address (with Sign in with Apple this may be a private relay address). With Google we also receive the name and profile picture URL of your Google account.
  • Before you sign in, the App uses a temporary guest account on your device so that your setup choices are kept.

b) Topics and episodes

  • The topics you enter, the format, length and language you choose, and the episodes created for you (title, summary, transcript, the list of sources, audio and cover image).
  • Titles and descriptions you edit, the lists you create, and the episodes you save.

c) Voice data (“Your Own Voice”)

  • If you use the cloned-voice feature: the recordings you make or upload, a short consent recording when it is required, the voice model created from them, and records of the consents you gave. See Section 6.

d) Preferences and personalization

  • Your app and narration languages, the languages you want to listen in, your interests (including any you type yourself), when you usually listen, your default length and format, playback and notification settings.

e) Listening activity

  • The episodes you play, where you stopped, and your listening history, so you can continue where you left off.
  • When you listen to a public episode for at least 30 seconds, we record once per account that you listened, so that its owner can see how many people listened.

f) Profile and community

  • Your public profile: display name, handle, short bio and avatar colour, the people you follow, the accounts you block, the episodes you like, the episodes and lists you publish, and the reports you send.

g) Images you upload

  • An image you choose as the cover of your own episode or list. We remove its location and other metadata before storing it.

h) Purchase and subscription data

  • Subscriptions and in-app purchases are processed by Apple and managed via RevenueCat. We receive your subscription status, plan and transaction identifiers, and the episode rights you have used. We never receive or store your payment card details.

i) Apple Search Ads attribution

  • When you first open the App on iOS, the App asks Apple whether the install came from an Apple Search Ads campaign. If it did, we store the campaign, ad group, keyword and ad identifiers and the country of the campaign with your account. This uses Apple’s AdServices framework, does not use the advertising identifier (IDFA), and requires no tracking permission.

j) Notifications

  • A device token (via Firebase Cloud Messaging and Apple Push Notification service), your device platform and language, so we can tell you when an episode is ready or when someone you follow publishes.

k) Diagnostics

  • Crash reports (device model, OS and app version, the state of the app at the time of the crash) via Firebase Crashlytics. They are not linked to your account.

We do not collect your location, contacts, browsing history, or health or financial information.

2. How We Use Your Information

  • To create your episodes: researching your topic, writing the script, voicing it and preparing the audio and cover.
  • To personalize the App: showing episodes in the languages you chose and ordering suggestions by your interests.
  • To run your account, your library, your lists and the community features you use.
  • To manage your subscription, your episode rights and extra packs.
  • To send the notifications you allow.
  • To understand which of our own Apple Search Ads campaigns bring listeners (we do not share this with anyone).
  • To keep the App safe: preventing abuse, moderating published content and images, handling reports, and debugging.
  • To comply with legal obligations.

3. Legal Bases (GDPR / KVKK)

We process your data based on:

  • performance of a contract (providing the App and your subscription);
  • your consent (voice cloning, the creation of a Google voice model, and notifications); you can withdraw it at any time in the App;
  • our legitimate interests (security, abuse prevention, moderation, measuring our own advertising, and reusing public-web research for the same topic);
  • legal obligations.

4. AI Processing & Third-Party Service Providers

To provide the App, we send only the data each step needs to these processors:

  • Google Cloud / Vertex AI (Gemini) — understanding your topic, researching it with Grounding with Google Search (Google runs web searches derived from your topic), writing the script, generating the voices (text-to-speech), checking the verification code in your voice recording, checking cover images, and — only with your separate consent — creating a synthetic model of your voice.
  • fal.ai — runs models we use: Chatterbox (by Resemble AI), which speaks text in your cloned voice from your stored voice sample; MiniMax voice models for voices created in earlier versions; an image model for cover art; and a model router (operated through OpenRouter) that may send the script-writing request to a language-model provider such as Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. We configure that router to use only providers that do not store or train on the request.
  • Google Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Storage, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging, App Check, Crashlytics) — accounts, storage, backend, notifications, app integrity and crash reports.
  • RevenueCat and Apple — subscriptions and payments. We also send RevenueCat your personalization answers (listening moment and languages) and where in the App a purchase screen was shown, to understand what makes the subscription useful.
  • Apple — Sign in with Apple, push notifications, App Attest, and Apple Search Ads attribution.
  • Google — Sign in with Google.

When an episode is made with sources (Deep research, or a book or document you name), our servers search the web and open the public web pages that the search returns to find and check them; those websites receive our server’s request, not your data.

Our servers also search free public catalogues to find and check sources: the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia and Wikidata APIs), the Internet Archive (Open Library), OurResearch (OpenAlex) and Crossref, and they fetch the text of public-domain books from Project Gutenberg (Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation) through its mirror server. These services receive only a book title, an author name, a short English search phrase or, for Project Gutenberg, a book number — never the topic you typed, your account or any request identifier.

These providers process data only to perform services for us, under their own terms and data-protection commitments. Some keep request inputs and outputs for a limited period under those terms (for example for abuse monitoring). fal.ai does not keep a history of our requests, but the audio and image files it generates may remain in its storage for a short period (at least 7 days) before they are deleted. We do not sell your personal data.

5. Your Content Is Not Used to Train AI Models

We do not use your topics, voice recordings, voice models, images or episodes to train AI models, and we do not sell or share them for that purpose. Your content is shared with other users when you publish it, and an episode made with the free episode is shared automatically (see Section 7).

6. Your Own Voice — Voice Cloning

Voice data can identify a person, so we treat it as sensitive and handle it as follows:

  • Your consent first. Before you record, the App shows which services process your voice and asks for your consent. We keep a record of the text you agreed to and when. You can withdraw consent at any time in Settings › My voices.
  • Recording. You read a short text aloud that includes a one-time verification code. We check the code to make sure the recording was made live. Where a Google voice model is created, you also read Google’s required consent sentence aloud.
  • Uploading. You may upload an existing recording only if it is your own voice or you have the explicit permission of the person speaking. Episodes made with an uploaded voice, or with a voice carried over from an earlier version of the App, stay private to you and cannot be published.
  • Voices from earlier versions. Voices you created in earlier versions of Clonic remain usable in Clonic 5 on the plans that include cloned voices, as shown in the App.
  • What we keep. Your original recording is deleted as soon as it has been processed. We keep a short (10–20 second) cleaned-up sample to speak in your voice, and — if you consented — a voice model stored with Google Cloud. Your voice is used only for episodes you create; no one else can create episodes with it.
  • Published episodes. If you publish an episode narrated in your cloned voice, anyone who can see the episode can hear that synthetic voice.
  • Deleting. When you delete a voice, withdraw consent or delete your account, we delete your recordings, the sample and every voice model made from them, including the Google voice model. Voices created in earlier versions with MiniMax cannot be deleted through our provider; once you delete such a voice in the App we no longer use it, and MiniMax deletes it automatically after a period of non-use.

7. Public Content and Community

  • Your profile (display name, handle, bio, avatar colour, follower and following counts) is visible to other users and can be found by search.
  • Episodes you make with a subscription or with purchased episodes are private until you publish them. An episode made with the free episode is published automatically when it is ready, as the App tells you before you create it; you can unpublish it at any time. When an episode is published, other users can see its title, summary, transcript, sources and cover, listen to it and add it to their lists. The topic you typed is never shown to others.
  • The App shows ready-made episode ideas. When you are the first to have one of them made, the episode becomes part of the shared Clonic catalogue that everyone can listen to, and your public handle is shown on it as its first listener.
  • Lists can be private or public.
  • Signed-in users can like public episodes. The number of likes is visible to everyone, but only the episode’s owner can see who liked it: when you like an episode, its owner sees your public profile among the people who liked it.
  • For their own public episodes, owners can see how many people listened to, saved and liked each one. Listener and save numbers are totals only; owners never see who listened or who saved.
  • When you unpublish or delete an episode, other users lose access to it within minutes; their lists show it as removed.
  • Blocking an account hides each of you from the other; the other side is not told.
  • Reports and published images are reviewed, partly with automated checks, to keep the community safe.

8. Data Retention & Deletion

  • Account and content: kept while your account is active, until you delete them.
  • Episodes, lists, history: you can delete episodes and lists and clear your listening history in the App at any time.
  • Guest accounts: a guest account that is not used for 180 days and has no active subscription is deleted automatically.
  • Voice recordings: the original recording is deleted after processing; an unfinished upload is deleted within about two days. The voice sample and voice models are kept until you delete them, withdraw consent or delete your account (Google may also delete an unused voice model after a year).
  • Uploaded cover images: the original is deleted after processing; the cover stays until you remove it.
  • Research: facts and sources found for a topic may be reused for up to 60 days for anyone who asks for the same topic in the same language. This research contains public web content only — not your identity and not the text of your topic.
  • Notification tokens: deleted when you sign out, when the token changes, or when your account is deleted.
  • Diagnostics and server logs: kept for a limited period and not linked to your account.

Deleting your account. You can delete your account in the App: Settings › Delete Account. This permanently deletes your episodes, lists, profile, follows, blocks, likes, saved items, listening history, preferences, voices and voice models, uploaded images, notification tokens, your Apple Search Ads attribution, the data from earlier versions of Clonic linked to your account, and your RevenueCat customer record. If you signed in with Apple, deleting your account also revokes the App’s Sign in with Apple connection to your Apple ID. We keep only a record that a deletion took place (dates and counts, without your identity). Deleting your account does not cancel an App Store subscription — cancel it in your Apple ID settings.

9. Data Storage & International Transfers

Your data is stored on Google Cloud / Firebase infrastructure in the United States. AI processing on Google Cloud may take place in any Google region (“global” processing), and our other providers (fal.ai, RevenueCat, Apple) may process data in the United States or other countries. Where required, transfers are protected by appropriate safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses).

10. Your Rights

Depending on your location (GDPR/KVKK), you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to the processing of your data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. Many of these you can do directly in the App (edit your profile, delete episodes, clear history, withdraw voice consent, delete your account). For anything else, contact hello@apptoic.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

11. Children

Clonic is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your country), and the cloned-voice feature is only for adults. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we will delete it.

12. Security

We use industry-standard measures — encryption in transit, access controls, short-lived links for audio, app integrity checks and secure authentication — to protect your data. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we work to protect your information.

13. Earlier Versions of Clonic

Versions 4.x of Clonic offered text-to-speech, song covers, music, talking avatars and video dubbing. These features have been discontinued and requests from those versions are no longer processed. Clonic 5 does not use these features.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date and, where appropriate, notifying you in the App.

Part 2 — Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Clonic. By using the App, you agree to these Terms.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country) and able to form a binding contract to use Clonic. You must be an adult to use the cloned-voice feature.

2. License

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use Clonic for your personal, lawful use, subject to these Terms. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, resell, or exploit the App except as permitted by law.

3. Acceptable Use

You agree not to use Clonic to:

  • Clone, imitate, or recreate any person’s voice without their explicit consent, or upload a recording of someone else’s voice without their explicit permission.
  • Impersonate any person, including public figures, or present an episode as the words of a real person.
  • Create deepfakes or content intended to mislead, defraud, or deceive anyone, or remove or hide the AI labels of an episode when you share it.
  • Generate or publish content that is illegal, defamatory, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit involving minors, or that infringes others’ rights.
  • Upload images or other material you do not have the rights to use.
  • Attempt to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorized access to the App or its systems.

We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules.

4. Your Content & Ownership

  • You retain ownership of the content you upload and, to the extent permitted, the content you generate.
  • You grant us a limited license to process, store, and transmit your content solely to operate the App and deliver the features you request. When you publish an episode or list, you also grant us a non-exclusive license to show and stream it to other users of the App until you unpublish or delete it.
  • You are solely responsible for the content you upload, generate and publish, and for ensuring you have all necessary rights and consents.

5. Subscriptions, Episode Rights & Payments

  • Free use. You can listen to the App’s free content and create a limited number of episodes for free, as shown in the App.
  • Subscriptions. Clonic offers monthly subscription plans sold through the Apple App Store. Each plan includes a number of episode rights per subscription period, shown in the App before you buy. One right creates one episode unless the App states otherwise. Rights renew on your renewal date; rights you do not use in a period do not carry over. Some features, such as cloned voices, are included only in the plans indicated in the App.
  • Extra episode packs. You can buy one-time packs of extra episode rights. Pack rights do not expire and are used after your monthly rights. They can be used while you have an active subscription; if your subscription ends, unused pack rights are kept and become usable again when you subscribe again.
  • Failed episodes. If an episode cannot be completed (for example, not enough reliable sources were found), the right is returned automatically. Deleting a finished episode does not return its right.
  • No cash value. Episode rights have no monetary value outside the App, cannot be transferred or exchanged, and are not refundable by us.
  • Earlier versions. Credits from earlier versions of Clonic are not usable in Clonic 5, except where we convert them into episode rights and show this in the App.
  • Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the period.
  • Managing your subscription. Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple ID account settings. Deleting your Clonic account does not cancel your subscription.
  • Refunds. Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple in accordance with Apple’s policies; we do not process refunds directly.
  • Changes. Prices are shown in the App Store. Prices, plans and the rights they include may change; changes apply to future purchases and renewals as permitted by the App Store.

6. AI-Generated Episodes and Sources

  • Episodes are made by AI. The voices are synthetic, and the hosts, experts and characters are fictional unless an episode says otherwise. Formats marked as dramatized contain imagined dialogue and scenes.
  • By default, an episode is written by AI from its own knowledge, without searching sources, and its Sources section says so. When you turn on Deep research or name a book or document, facts are taken from the sources listed with the episode, which our system finds on the web or in public catalogues. AI can make mistakes: it may get facts wrong, misread, mistranslate, simplify, or combine sources incorrectly, and sources themselves can be wrong or out of date. Please check important information before relying on it, and use “Report” to tell us about an error.
  • Episodes are for information and entertainment. They are not medical, legal, financial or other professional advice.
  • Listed sources are third-party websites. We do not control or endorse them and are not responsible for their content.
  • We make no guarantee regarding the accuracy, completeness, quality, or fitness of any episode for a particular purpose.

7. Intellectual Property

Clonic, its software, design, branding, and content (excluding your User Content) are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by law. These Terms do not grant you any rights to our trademarks or branding.

8. Third-Party Services

The App relies on third-party services (Apple, Google — including Firebase, Google Cloud and Google Search —, RevenueCat, fal.ai and the models it runs). Your use of those services may be subject to their own terms. We are not responsible for third-party services or for the websites listed as sources.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties

The App is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure.

10. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, revenue, or profits, arising from your use of the App. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

11. Termination

You may stop using Clonic at any time and delete your account in the App. We may suspend or terminate your access if you violate these Terms or for legal or security reasons. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

12. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Türkiye, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be subject to the competent courts of İstanbul, unless mandatory consumer-protection law provides otherwise.

13. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. Continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

14. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy or these Terms:
APPTOIC
Email: hello@apptoic.com