Privacy Policy

Vocaland is a vocabulary learning app that helps users add words, learn them through short sessions, review them with spaced repetition, track progress, create decks, share decks privately, and learn together with friends.

Some features require an account so your learning progress, decks, friends, achievements, and app experience can sync across devices.

We collect only the information needed to provide, improve, protect, and personalize Vocaland.

2.1 Account information

When you create or use a Vocaland account, we may collect:

• your email address
• your Sign in with Apple identifier, if you use Apple login
• your display name
• your selected avatar
• your account ID
• your login method
• account creation date
• account settings and preferences

If you sign in with email, Vocaland does not store your password. Email login is designed to work without storing a password in our systems.

If you sign in with Apple, Apple may provide us with your email address and name depending on your Apple settings.

2.2 Learning data

To make Vocaland work, we store learning-related data connected to your account, including:

• languages you learn from and to
• saved words
• translations
• decks and custom collections
• built-in decks you use
• learning sessions
• review history
• spaced repetition progress
• learned words
• reviewed words
• streaks
• daily goals
• achievements
• leagues or tiers
• learning statistics by day, week, month, and all time
• app settings related to your learning experience

This data allows Vocaland to show your progress, sync your vocabulary between devices, and bring words back for review at the right time.

2.3 Custom decks and shared content

When you create custom decks, we may store:

• deck names
• deck icons, colors, or labels
• words and translations inside the deck
• deck language settings
• deck progress
• sharing status
• private share links or invite-related information

Decks you create are not made public by default.

If you share a deck using a link or with friends, people who receive access may be able to view or import that deck depending on the sharing settings. You should only share decks with people you trust.

2.4 Friends and social features

If you use friends, friend requests, leaderboards, or similar social features, we may collect and store:

• friend requests sent and received
• your friends list
• display name
• avatar
• streak
• number of learned words
• league or tier
• achievements
• leaderboard activity
• weekly learning activity

Your friends may be able to see your display name, avatar, streak, learned words, league or tier, and achievements.

We do not show your private email address to other users unless you choose to share it yourself.

2.5 Photos, screenshots, and text recognition

Vocaland may let you add words from photos, screenshots, or images from your gallery.

Text recognition is performed locally on your device.

The original photo, screenshot, or image is not stored by Vocaland after processing. We do not upload the original image to our servers for text recognition.

After text is detected, you can choose which words you want to save. The words, translations, and deck data you choose to save may be stored in your Vocaland account and synced across your devices.

If you do not save detected words, they are not added to your account.

2.6 Translation suggestions

Vocaland may suggest translations for detected or manually added words.

When you save a word and its translation, that saved vocabulary data may be stored in your account so it can be used for learning sessions, reviews, statistics, and syncing.

We do not store the original photo or screenshot after processing.

2.7 Subscription and purchase information

Vocaland may offer paid features, subscriptions, or in-app purchases.

Payments are processed by Apple through the App Store. We do not collect or store your payment card details.

We may use RevenueCat to manage subscriptions, purchase status, entitlements, renewals, and access to paid features.

For this purpose, we may process:

• purchase status
• subscription status
• product ID
• entitlement status
• transaction identifiers
• renewal status
• app user ID
• limited device or account identifiers needed to manage purchases

Apple and RevenueCat may process purchase-related information according to their own privacy policies.

2.8 Notifications

Vocaland may send reminders and learning notifications.

Most learning reminders, streak reminders, and review reminders are local notifications generated on your device.

For features such as friend requests, we may use server-based push notifications. In that case, we may process:

• push notification token
• device notification settings
• friend request notification data
• account ID related to the notification

You can manage notification permissions in your device settings.

2.9 App usage, analytics, and diagnostics

We may collect information about how Vocaland is used to improve the app, understand feature performance, fix bugs, and make the experience better.

This may include:

• app version
• device model
• operating system version
• language settings
• country or region
• session activity
• feature usage
• screens viewed
• button interactions
• errors and crashes
• subscription events
• onboarding progress
• learning activity events

We may use Apple analytics, Mixpanel, RevenueCat analytics, and similar tools to understand app performance and usage.

Analytics data helps us answer questions like which features are used, where users get stuck, and how we can improve Vocaland.

2.10 Website data

When you visit the Vocaland website, we may collect limited website usage data, such as:

• pages visited
• browser type
• device type
• approximate location based on IP address
• referral source
• clicks
• session information
• website performance data

We may use Vercel Analytics, Google Analytics, TikTok Pixel, and similar tools to measure website traffic, improve the website, and understand marketing performance.

2.11 Support communications

If you contact us for support, we may collect:

• your email address
• your name, if provided
• the content of your message
• screenshots or attachments you choose to send
• information needed to resolve your request

We use this information only to respond to you, provide support, investigate issues, and improve Vocaland.

Vocaland does not intentionally collect:

• passwords
• payment card numbers
• original photos or screenshots after processing
• precise GPS location
• health data
• biometric data
• contacts from your phone address book
• microphone recordings
• private messages outside Vocaland

If this changes in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy.

We use your information to:

• create and manage your account
• let you sign in
• sync your progress across devices
• save your words, decks, translations, and learning history
• generate learning and review sessions
• calculate spaced repetition timing
• show statistics, streaks, achievements, and leagues
• enable friends, leaderboards, and private deck sharing
• manage subscriptions and paid access
• send local learning reminders
• send server-based notifications for friend requests or similar features
• provide customer support
• fix bugs and crashes
• understand how users interact with Vocaland
• improve the app, website, and learning experience
• prevent abuse, fraud, spam, and technical misuse
• comply with legal obligations

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region with similar privacy laws, we process your personal data under the following legal bases:

Performance of a contract

We process data needed to provide Vocaland, including account access, learning progress, saved words, decks, reviews, syncing, subscriptions, and app functionality.

Legitimate interests

We process some data to improve Vocaland, keep it secure, prevent abuse, understand app performance, debug issues, and develop better features.

Consent

We may rely on consent for optional activities such as push notifications, certain analytics or marketing cookies, and access to photos or your gallery.

You can withdraw consent where applicable through your device settings, app settings, or website cookie settings.

Legal obligations

We may process or retain certain information where required by law, tax rules, accounting rules, App Store rules, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or legal requests.

Vocaland stores account and learning data using Supabase and our own backend systems.

This allows us to sync your learning progress, decks, friends, achievements, subscriptions, and settings across devices.

Some data may also be stored locally on your device to make the app faster and available during normal use.

The original photos and screenshots used for text recognition are not stored by Vocaland after processing.

We may use third-party service providers to operate, improve, analyze, and protect Vocaland.

These may include:

Supabase

Used for database, authentication-related infrastructure, syncing, and backend storage.

Apple

Used for App Store distribution, Sign in with Apple, in-app purchases, subscriptions, app analytics, device permissions, and push notification systems.

RevenueCat

Used to manage subscriptions, purchase status, entitlements, and paid feature access.

Mixpanel

Used for product analytics, feature usage analysis, and app improvement.

Vercel

Used for website hosting, performance, and website analytics.

Google Analytics

Used to understand website traffic and user interactions on the website.

TikTok Pixel

May be used on the website for marketing performance, campaign measurement, and advertising analytics.

These providers may process data according to their own privacy policies and data processing terms.

We do not allow service providers to use your personal data for purposes unrelated to providing services to Vocaland, except where their own terms or applicable law allow independent processing.

The Vocaland website may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.

We may use them to:

• make the website work
• remember preferences
• understand website traffic
• measure marketing performance
• improve pages and campaigns
• detect technical issues

Some tools, such as Google Analytics or TikTok Pixel, may use cookies or similar technologies for analytics and marketing measurement.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies or marketing technologies.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through our cookie banner or consent settings.

Vocaland does not use cookies inside the iOS app in the same way websites do.

Vocaland may request access to certain device permissions only when needed.

Photos and camera

Used to let you take a photo, choose a screenshot, or select an image so Vocaland can detect text and help you add words.

Text recognition is performed locally on your device. Original photos or screenshots are not stored by Vocaland after processing.

Notifications

Used for learning reminders, review reminders, streak reminders, friend request alerts, and similar app notifications.

You can disable permissions at any time in your device settings.

If you use friends or leaderboard features, some learning activity may become visible to your friends.

Friends may see:

• your display name
• your avatar
• your streak
• learned word count
• league or tier
• achievements
• leaderboard position or weekly activity

We design these features to be limited and learning-focused.

Your private decks are not automatically public. Shared decks are only accessible when you choose to share them.

Vocaland may let you share custom decks through links or directly with friends.

Shared decks are not intended to be publicly listed or searchable by default.

However, if you send a link to someone, they may be able to access the deck through that link depending on the sharing settings. You are responsible for choosing what you share and with whom.

Do not include private, sensitive, confidential, or copyrighted content in decks you share unless you have the right to do so.

We keep your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

In general:

• account data is kept while your account is active
• learning data is kept while your account exists so your progress can sync
• saved words and decks are kept until you delete them or delete your account
• shared decks may remain available until deleted or disabled
• purchase and subscription records may be kept as needed for access, accounting, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, and legal compliance
• support messages may be kept as long as needed to respond and maintain support records
• analytics data may be stored in aggregated, pseudonymous, or provider-managed form according to the relevant provider’s retention settings
• backups may retain deleted data for a limited period before they are automatically overwritten or removed

Original photos and screenshots used for text recognition are not stored by Vocaland after processing.

You can request deletion of your Vocaland account and associated personal data.

If Vocaland offers account creation, we will provide a way to initiate account deletion from inside the app or through support.

When your account is deleted, we will delete or anonymize personal data associated with your account unless we need to keep certain information for legal, security, fraud prevention, accounting, dispute resolution, or App Store-related reasons.

Some data may remain in backups for a limited time before being deleted automatically.

To request deletion, contact:

support@vocaland.app

or use the account deletion option inside the app, if available.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal data.

These rights may include the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you
• correct inaccurate data
• delete your data
• export or receive a copy of your data
• object to certain processing
• restrict certain processing
• withdraw consent
• opt out of certain analytics or marketing technologies
• complain to a data protection authority

To exercise your rights, contact us at:

support@vocaland.app

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

We do not sell your personal information for money.

However, some analytics or advertising technologies, such as TikTok Pixel or Google Analytics, may be considered “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under certain privacy laws.

Where required, we will provide consent options or opt-out controls for non-essential cookies, marketing pixels, or similar technologies.

You can also limit tracking through:

• your browser settings
• device privacy settings
• iOS tracking permissions
• cookie consent settings, where available
• platform-level ad personalization settings

Vocaland and its service providers may process data in different countries.

For example, providers such as Supabase, Apple, RevenueCat, Mixpanel, Vercel, Google, and TikTok may process data in the United States, European Economic Area, or other locations where they operate.

When personal data is transferred internationally, we rely on appropriate safeguards where required by law, such as contractual protections, data processing agreements, standard contractual clauses, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information.

These measures may include:

• secure authentication
• encrypted connections
• access controls
• database security rules
• limited access to personal data
• monitoring for abuse or errors
• secure third-party infrastructure

However, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work to protect your data and improve security over time.

Vocaland is a general audience vocabulary learning app.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where parental consent is required by law.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information without appropriate consent, please contact us at:

support@vocaland.app

We will review the request and delete the information where required.

Parents or guardians may contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of a child’s information.

You are responsible for the words, decks, names, and content you create or share in Vocaland.

Please do not create, upload, save, or share content that is illegal, harmful, abusive, hateful, sexually explicit, harassing, spammy, or infringes someone else’s rights.

We may remove content, disable sharing, restrict features, or suspend accounts if we believe Vocaland is being misused or if we need to protect users, the app, or our legal rights.

The Vocaland website or app may contain links to third-party websites, services, or platforms.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties.

If you click a third-party link, you should review that third party’s privacy policy before providing personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make material changes, we may notify you through the app, website, email, or another appropriate method.

The “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy shows when it was last changed.

Your continued use of Vocaland after an update means the updated Privacy Policy applies.