Privacy Policy for Bridgi
What Bridgi does
Bridgi is a translation keyboard for Android. (An iPhone version is in development.) You type in English in WhatsApp or any other app; Bridgi translates it to Hebrew and inserts it, right where you are typing. That is the complete function in v1.
What Bridgi does with your text
Bridgi translates in the cloud. When you type a message and tap Translate, the text of that one message is sent over a secure (HTTPS) connection to Bridgi's own server. Our server forwards it to Google's Gemini service to produce the Hebrew result. Nothing else leaves your phone: not your other messages, not your contacts, not any other app's content. Only the specific message you submit for translation is sent, and only for that one request.
Bridgi keeps nothing you don't ask us to. The moment your message is translated, it's gone on our side, with one exception: if you tap Flag on a translation to report it as wrong, we keep that specific flagged message and its translation so a human can review it and fix the issue. That is the only case where we hold a copy of your text, and only because you chose to send it that way.
Google briefly holds that one message in memory, only to check for abuse of its service, then discards it too. Google does not use your messages to train Gemini or any other model.
Because your message travels off your phone to be translated, Bridgi is not an offline app. That is the accurate tradeoff behind producing Hebrew that reads naturally and is built to get gender right, and we have built the part we control (our own server) to retain nothing, aside from the flagged-message exception above.
Usage stats
Once a week, Bridgi may send an anonymous summary of how you use the app: how many times you opened it, tapped Translate, or used features like Double-check, Flag, and Quick Phrases. This is counts and dates only, never your messages, never your contacts, and never a device ID or anything that identifies you.
Usage stats are on by default. You can turn them off any time in Settings > Privacy, under Usage stats. Bridgi works exactly the same either way.
Permissions
Bridgi is a keyboard app, so it requests network access. On Android, this is granted automatically when you install the app, there is no separate prompt to accept or decline, unlike some other app permissions. Translation needs an internet connection to reach Bridgi's server: without one, translation will not work, though Bridgi still installs and works as a regular keyboard for typing.
Bridgi steps back on password fields: on any field the system marks as a password, the keyboard does not offer translation and does not read what you type there.
Data we collect, and data we do not
What we collect:
- The text of the message you actively submit for translation, sent per request to produce the Hebrew result, and not retained afterward on our side, except for a message you explicitly Flag, which we keep so a human can review and fix that translation (see above)
- Once a week, an anonymous count of which features you used (see Usage stats, above), no message content and no identifier attached
What we do not collect, under any circumstance:
- Any app content besides the specific message you submit for translation
- Name, email address, or contact information (Bridgi has no accounts, no login, no registration)
- Location
- Device identifiers or advertising IDs
- Crash logs reported to any third party
Bridgi does not include any advertising SDK. We do not sell your message content to anyone, and Google does not use it for advertising, analytics, or model training.
Who we share data with
Bridgi is the Data Controller for your message content. Google, through its Gemini service, acts as our Data Processor: it processes your message content solely to perform the translation you requested, under Google's own data-processing terms for API customers. This is a paid processing relationship, not an advertising or data-resale arrangement, and Google does not receive your name, contact details, or any other identifying information from us.
Your privacy rights
Bridgi holds no ongoing personal data about you: no accounts, no stored message history, nothing tied to your identity. Because nothing is kept on file, there is nothing to access, correct, export, or delete, with the one exception of a message you have explicitly Flagged, which we hold for review; contact us below if you want a flagged message removed.
European Union and EEA residents: Bridgi acts as Data Controller for the message you submit for translation, and Google acts as our Data Processor for that same message under GDPR. We hold no other data about you and keep no message history, aside from the Flag exception above. If you have privacy questions or requests, contact us below.
California residents: The CCPA gives you rights over businesses that collect your personal information. Bridgi processes the message you submit for translation to produce that translation, and does not retain it afterward or use it for any other purpose, aside from the Flag exception above.
Israeli residents: Under the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, you have the right to access and correct personal information held about you. Because Bridgi does not retain your message content after translation (aside from the Flag exception above), there is no held information to access or correct beyond that.
This website
Separately from the app, this website (bridgi.app) uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and waitlist signups in aggregate. It sets no cookies and does not track you across other sites, and it never receives your email address or anything you type. This paragraph covers the website only; it is not part of the keyboard app described above.
Changes to this policy
If Bridgi changes how it handles data, this policy will be updated before the change ships. The effective date at the top will reflect when it was last changed.