Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 12, 2026

Stage Ready is an app for practicing pageant interviews with an AI interviewer and receiving feedback on your answers. Stage Ready is operated by Evan Vaughan ("we", "us"). This policy explains what information the Stage Ready iOS app and website collect, how it is used, who it is shared with, and the choices you have.

Information we collect

Account information

  • Your email address and sign-in method when you create an account with Sign in with Apple, Google, or email and password. If you use Sign in with Apple and choose to hide your email, we receive only Apple's relay address.
  • Profile details you choose to provide: first name, pageant division, pageant system, platform, and title or hometown. These personalize your interviewer's greeting and questions.
  • Your confirmation that you are at least 13 years old and your consent to AI processing, with the date you gave it.

Practice session information

  • Your voice. During a live interview, audio from your microphone is streamed to our video-avatar provider so the AI interviewer can hear and respond to you. Sessions are not recorded as audio or video files.
  • Camera. Interviews are voice-only on your side. The app does not send your camera feed to the interviewer.
  • Transcripts. A text transcript of each interview is created so your answers can be scored. In practice mode, speech is transcribed on your device using Apple's speech recognition.
  • Feedback and scores. Rubric scores, written feedback, and progress trends generated from your transcripts.
  • Session details. Start and end times, duration, the questions you were asked, and minutes used.

Purchase information

Subscriptions are processed by Apple. We do not receive your payment card details. We receive transaction records from Apple (product, purchase and expiry dates, renewal and refund status) so we can credit practice minutes to your account.

Technical information

Basic technical data needed to run the service, such as error logs when a session fails to start. The app does not include advertising or third-party analytics tracking, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

How we use your information

  • To create and secure your account.
  • To run live interview sessions and personalize the questions and greeting.
  • To score your answers against our rubric and show your feedback and progress over time.
  • To track your available practice minutes, verify purchases, and handle refunds.
  • To diagnose problems and keep the service working.

We do not sell your personal information or use it for advertising.

Service providers

We share information only with providers that help us run Stage Ready, and only what each needs to do its job:

  • Google Firebase for sign-in and secure data storage.
  • Tavus (with its real-time video partner Daily) to run the AI video interviewer, which receives your live audio during a session.
  • OpenAI to generate the interviewer's responses during a session and to score transcripts. Data sent through OpenAI's API is not used to train its models.
  • Vercel to host our servers and website.
  • Apple for Sign in with Apple, in-app purchases, and on-device speech recognition.

We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the rights and safety of our users or others.

Data retention

  • Interview transcripts are automatically deleted 90 days after the session.
  • Your profile, feedback, and progress are kept while your account is open.
  • When you delete your account, we delete your profile, transcripts, feedback, and sign-in account. We keep an anonymized record of past sessions (dates, duration, and minutes used, with no link to you) for billing and accounting.

Your choices and rights

  • Edit your profile at any time in the app.
  • Delete your account in the app under Settings > Delete my account. Deletion is immediate and cannot be undone.
  • Access or correct your data, or ask a question, by emailing evm.vaughan@gmail.com. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the CCPA or GDPR; we honor these requests regardless of location.
  • Microphone and speech recognition permissions can be turned off in iOS Settings, though live interviews need the microphone.

Children

Stage Ready is intended for people 13 and older. Users under 18 should use the app with a parent or guardian's permission. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit and stored with access restricted to your own account. Interview transcripts are not readable by the app directly; only your scored feedback is. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. When we make material changes, we will update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app.

Contact

Evan Vaughan, Colorado, United States
evm.vaughan@gmail.com