Privacy

In short

• Lingo Saga keeps your email address, your account and the words you save. Nothing else about you is stored by Lingo Saga yet.
• To write, read aloud and explain stories, what you ask for is sent to the AI services listed below.
• When you practise speaking, your voice goes straight to Microsoft for scoring. Lingo Saga doesn't record it.
• There are no advertising or tracking cookies.
• You can delete your account at any time, on My account.

Who runs Lingo Saga

Lingo Saga is run by [to confirm: name of the person or business responsible], which decides how your information is used (the "controller"). Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, registration number [to confirm: ICO number].

Questions or requests: hello@lingosaga.com.

What Lingo Saga keeps, and why

• Your account: your email address, whether you sign in with Google or an emailed code, and when you joined and last signed in. This is so you can sign in, keep your saved words and, later, your stories. If you use Google, Google also sends your name and profile picture; Lingo Saga deletes them straight away.
• Words you save: when you press ☆ Save word, the word, its meaning and the sentence it came from (with its English), so you can find them again on My words. You can delete any of them, or all of them by deleting your account.
• Usage records (logs): each time you use a feature, a short record of what was used, with a random number for your account (never your email): for example the language, level and length you chose, how long it took, scores from speaking practice, and the estimated cost. They never include the topic you typed, the story, or what you said. They help keep the site working and affordable, and are kept for about an hour.
• Things you choose on this device: your voice choice and whether words are highlighted are kept in your browser, not by Lingo Saga.

The law allows this because it's needed to provide what you've asked for, and, for the logs, to keep the site working safely (legitimate interests).

Services that handle your information for Lingo Saga

• Supabase keeps your account and the words you save, in London (UK).
• Vercel runs the website and keeps the usage records for about an hour. Its servers for Lingo Saga are in the USA.
• Anthropic (the AI model Claude, USA) writes your stories, explains words, and writes the questions, summary and English translation. It receives your topic and choices, and the words and sentences you look up.
• ElevenLabs (USA; servers seen in the Netherlands) reads stories aloud. It receives the story's text, and keeps each recording in Lingo Saga's ElevenLabs account for [to confirm: how long].
• Microsoft Azure (France, EU) scores your pronunciation when you practise speaking. Your voice is sent straight from your browser to Microsoft while you practise, and Lingo Saga doesn't keep it.
• Resend sends the emails with your sign-in code, so it receives your email address.
• Google, only if you choose "Continue with Google".
• Cloudflare looks after the lingosaga.com address and passes on emails sent to hello@lingosaga.com.

Some of these services are in the USA. They protect information sent there under their own data protection terms [to confirm: check each service's transfer terms]. Each keeps what it receives only as long as its own terms allow [to confirm: check each service's retention].

Cookies

Lingo Saga uses only the cookies it needs to work: one to remember the testing password, and a few to keep you signed in. They can't be read by anything else on the page. There are no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies, so there's nothing to agree to.

How long things are kept

• Your account: until you delete it.
• Words you save: until you delete them, or your account.
• Usage records: about an hour.
• Read-aloud recordings at ElevenLabs: [to confirm: how long].

Your rights

You can ask to see the information Lingo Saga has about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted.

• Delete it yourself: on My account, press Delete my account. Your account and everything linked to it is deleted straight away.
• Anything else: email hello@lingosaga.com.
• Not happy with the answer? You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk, 0303 123 1113).

Children

Lingo Saga isn't meant for children under [to confirm: minimum age].

Changes

If this notice changes, the date at the top will change too, and important changes will be explained on the site.