Privacy policy

Tirgum website, listener page, projector screen and the Tirgum Pulpit Android app. Last updated 13 November 2026.

What Tirgum does

Tirgum translates a sermon live. A device at the pulpit (the Tirgum Pulpit app or the pulpit web page) records the speaker and sends short pieces of audio to our server. The server turns the speech into text and translates it, and listeners read or hear the translation on their own phones.

What we collect

• Speaker audio. Only while a church has pressed Start on its pulpit device. Audio is sent in short pieces, processed, and not stored on our server.
• Transcripts and translations. The text of what was said and its translations are stored with the church's code so the church can see its sermons, and to measure and improve quality.
• Church details. The church name you enter, its code, a scrambled (hashed) form of the pulpit PIN, the speaker-language setting and the church's glossary.
• Listeners. Listeners do not sign in. We do not collect names, contact details or location. The server only counts how many devices are connected and which language each chose, while they are connected.

Who processes the audio

To turn speech into text and translate it, audio pieces and text are sent through OpenRouter to Google (Gemini, speech recognition) and Anthropic (Claude, translation). They process it to return the result to us. We do not sell data, and we do not use it for advertising.

Payments

Plans, hour packs and sponsorships are paid on the Tirgum website through Stripe. Card details go straight to Stripe; we never see or store them. We keep the payer's email, what was bought, the amount and the date, and (for sponsors) the name the sponsor asked us to show to the church. We count how many minutes of audio each church translates each month, to apply its plan. The Tirgum Pulpit app sells nothing.

The Tirgum Pulpit app

• Uses the microphone only between Start and Stop. A notification is shown the whole time it records.
• Stores the church code and PIN on the phone so you do not have to type them again. "Change" on the main screen removes them.
• Has no ads, no analytics and no tracking.

Keeping and deleting data

Transcripts are kept while the church uses Tirgum. A church can ask us to delete its church and all its transcripts at any time by email, giving the church code.

Security

All traffic uses encrypted connections (HTTPS / secure WebSocket). The pulpit is protected by the church's PIN.

Children

Tirgum is meant to be set up by churches. It does not knowingly collect personal data from children; listeners never give personal data.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests: support@dasesa.co. Tirgum is run by Dasesa.