What SPEAC knows about you.
And what it doesn't.
BETA NOTICE · Version 3 · Last updated 24 October 2026.
Written in plain language from the code as it runs today, so every line here can be checked against what SPEAC actually does. It has not yet been reviewed by legal counsel; it will be before SPEAC opens beyond the beta. It covers this website (speacsocial.com) and the closed beta feed (app.speacsocial.com).
The short version
SPEAC doesn't ask who you are. There is no account, no login and no profile. The beta stores only what you choose to type. Nothing about you is sold, and there is no advertising in the beta.
What SPEAC collects, and why
- When you request early access: your email address and, if you fill it in, what you'd check first. Used only to send your invitation. Stored by Netlify Forms, which also emails a copy to Nathalie.
- When you enter the beta: a shared password opens the door. SPEAC does not know who came in.
- When you post, comment or repost: the text, the display name you type (or “Anonymous” if you skip it), an optional handle, any link you attach, and the finding SPEAC adds. Stored in SPEAC's database, hosted by Netlify.
- When your post is checked: the text of the post and any source link you submit are sent to Anthropic, whose model reads the sources and runs the web searches. If Anthropic is unavailable, Google's Gemini is used instead. No name, no IP address and no identifier travels with the claim. The finding is kept under a random ID so the engine can be improved.
- When you attach a link: SPEAC's server fetches that page to build a preview card. The site you linked sees a request from SPEAC, not from you.
- Daily check limits: checks cost money, so SPEAC caps them per person per day. To count them it keeps a salted, one-day digest of your IP address. The address itself is never stored, and the digest cannot be turned back into it.
- Share cards: anyone in the beta can share a check publicly. A share card carries the claim, the finding, the note and the sources. It never carries your name or a link back to your post.
- Public showcase pages (This Week on SPEAC, Ottawa Votes): Nathalie's own posts. A tester's post appears there only with that tester's permission.
- Your browser: your language choice is saved on your own device. SPEAC's own code sets no cookies on the beta feed.
- Operational logs: timing, cost, and the search queries the engine ran, which are derived from post text. SPEAC's code writes no names or addresses to its logs. Netlify keeps its own platform logs, including IP addresses, under Netlify's terms.
- This public website uses Google Analytics to count visits, and Google sets its own cookies for that. The beta feed itself runs no analytics.
What SPEAC does not collect
No accounts, passwords or profiles. No analytics or advertising trackers on the beta feed. No device fingerprinting. No payment data. Nothing from your device, files, email or accounts: the engine reads only the public web. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers.
Who else sees your data
- Netlify (United States) Everything SPEAC stores: posts, comments, findings, the daily-limit digests and early-access emails. Netlify's own platform logs include IP addresses. Hosting, storage, forms
- Anthropic (United States) Post text and submitted source links, with no identity attached. Under Anthropic's standard API terms, what SPEAC sends is not used to train its models. The checking engine and its web searches
- Google (United States) The same, only when Anthropic is unavailable. Fallback engine (Gemini)
- Google Analytics Visits to this public website. Counting visitors
- Websites you link, or that the engine cites A page request from SPEAC's server, not from you. Preview cards, evidence retrieval
All of this is stored in the United States.
An honest note on identifiability
“We don't collect personal information” would not be a true statement, so SPEAC doesn't make it. In most cases a first name and an everyday post point to no one in particular. But you could be identified if you type your full name, or if a post describes something only you would know or do. The email you left to request access is seen only by Nathalie and never appears on SPEAC. If you would rather not be identifiable, skip the name field, post as Anonymous, and keep identifying details out of your posts.
How long things stay
- Posts, comments and findings stay on SPEAC while the beta runs, or until you ask for them to go.
- Early-access emails stay until your invitation is sent, or until you ask.
- Daily-limit digests are tied to a single day and cannot be reversed.
- Findings (the claim and its check, with no name attached) are kept to improve the engine.
Your choices
- Removal. Email ntrepanier@speacsocial.com and any post, comment or email of yours will be gone within a day.
- Ask what is held. Same address. Nathalie can look up what is stored under your display name or email and tell you.
- Leave the beta at any time. Nothing is required of you.
- Questions or complaints. Nathalie Trépanier, founder, is the person responsible for privacy at SPEAC: ntrepanier@speacsocial.com.
What's ahead
SPEAC plans to add accounts and profiles after the beta, so that a person's record of accuracy can belong to them. When that happens, this notice will be rewritten and published before the change goes live. What you share under this notice will not be put to a new use without telling you first.
Changes
This notice is dated and will change as the beta changes. Anything material will be announced in the feed.