Lingavio is a language-learning application developed and operated by an independent developer. This Privacy Policy applies to the Lingavio Android application and related services.
By using Lingavio, you acknowledge that your information may be processed as described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Account information
When you sign in using Google, Lingavio may receive information associated with your Google account, such as:
- Your display name;
- Your email address;
- Your profile picture;
- A unique account identifier.
Lingavio may also create an anonymous account identifier when you use features that do not require a registered account, such as certain online battle or matchmaking features.
Learning and profile data
Lingavio may process information related to your use of the application, including:
- Selected native language and learning language;
- Learning level and lesson progress;
- Completed exercises and exam results;
- Word repetition and spaced-repetition data;
- Achievements, experience points, streaks, and statistics;
- Battle results and matchmaking information;
- Profile name and profile image selected by you;
- Your league, your place and your points for the current league season, if you are signed in and take part in the league;
- The country of your phone, shown as a flag in the league tables, unless you turn the flag off;
- The avatar frame, card and title you choose in the in-app shop, if any;
- The frames, avatars, cards and titles you have earned by learning, and the best league and the best place in a season you have reached, which decide some of them;
- Your diamonds balance and the items you own in the in-app shop, whether earned by learning or bought before;
- Your progress in the Dungeon game: levels passed, stars, boosters and bonus words;
- Likes and gifts you send and receive in the league;
- What you write in the “About me” section of your profile, if anything (a city, a gender and a few words);
- The players you have blocked and the reports you send about other players;
- Application preferences and notification settings.
League
The league runs in seasons of one calendar month. When you are signed in and earn experience points in a season, Lingavio places you in that season's league tables: seventeen leagues of up to 30 learners each, and a qualifying group for everyone else. Other learners using Lingavio can see in these tables:
- Your profile name, with a surname shortened to its initial (for example, “Anna K.”);
- The avatar emoji you chose (a profile photo is never shown in the tables);
- Your country flag, unless you turn it off;
- The avatar frame, card and title you chose in the shop, if any;
- Your points for the season, your league and your place.
The country flag is taken from the country code of your phone's SIM card or mobile network, or, if neither is available, from your device's region setting. Lingavio does not use GPS or any precise location for it. You can turn the flag off at any time in Profile → Flag in the league, and change your name in your profile.
Likes and gifts: when you send another learner a like or a gift, they can see your profile name (shortened as above), your avatar emoji, your avatar frame, your country flag (unless you turn it off) and when you sent it. If you fill in “About me” in your profile (a city, a gender and a few words), other learners can see it on your player card in the league.
Reports and blocks: you can report or block another learner from their player card. If you report a learner, we store the report — the reason, the time, and that learner's name and “About me” at that moment — to review it, and delete it when it is no longer needed for that. If you block a learner, the list of learners you have blocked is stored with your account and deleted with it.
Dungeon finds: when you find diamonds in a level of the Dungeon game while you are signed in, other learners may see your profile name (shortened as above), your avatar emoji and how many diamonds you found in the line of recent finds, for up to three days. Only your last find is stored; it is replaced by the next one and deleted with your account.
Voice and microphone data
Lingavio may request access to your device microphone when you use pronunciation or voice-answer features.
Speech may be processed through Android speech-recognition services available on your device. Depending on your device and settings, audio or speech data may be transmitted to the provider of the speech-recognition service, such as Google.
Lingavio does not intentionally store raw microphone recordings on its own servers. Recognition results may be used temporarily to evaluate your pronunciation or answer.
Technical and diagnostic information
Lingavio may automatically collect technical information such as:
- Device model and operating-system version;
- Application version;
- Language and regional settings;
- Device identifiers generated by service providers;
- Advertising identifier (Android advertising ID), which may be collected by Firebase Analytics and is used by Google AdMob to request and show ads to users without Premium;
- Application interactions and usage events;
- Crash reports, error logs, and performance information;
- Approximate technical location derived from an IP address.
This information is generally used for analytics, security, troubleshooting, and improvement of the application.
2. How We Use Information
Information may be used to:
- Create and manage user accounts;
- Save and synchronize learning progress;
- Provide lessons, exercises, pronunciation tools, and battles;
- Personalize learning content and repetition schedules;
- Process and restore premium subscriptions;
- Show ads to users without Premium, measure their performance, limit how often they appear, and prevent ad fraud;
- Send lesson reminders and other requested notifications;
- Maintain application security and prevent abuse;
- Diagnose crashes and technical problems;
- Understand how features are used;
- Improve Lingavio's content, stability, and user experience;
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
3. Google Firebase Services
Lingavio uses Google Firebase services. Depending on the features you use, Firebase may process information on behalf of Lingavio.
Firebase Authentication
Firebase Authentication is used to support Google sign-in and anonymous authentication. It may process account identifiers, email addresses, display names, profile images, authentication tokens, and related technical data.
Firebase Realtime Database
Firebase Realtime Database may be used to store or synchronize account information, learning progress, user profiles, matchmaking data, battle status, league tables, and related application data.
Lingavio currently uses Firebase infrastructure located in the European region where configured, including the europe-west1 region.
Firebase Analytics
Firebase Analytics may collect application usage events and technical information to help understand how users interact with Lingavio and to improve the application.
Firebase Crashlytics
Firebase Crashlytics processes crash reports, device information, application state, and technical logs to help identify and fix errors.
4. Google Play Billing
Lingavio offers two subscriptions, Premium and "No ads", and sells packs of diamonds, an in-app currency, as one-time purchases. All of them are processed by Google Play.
Payments are processed by Google. Lingavio does not receive or store your full payment-card details. Lingavio may receive information necessary to verify and manage a purchase, such as:
- Purchased product or subscription identifier;
- Purchase token;
- Subscription status;
- Transaction status and renewal information.
For a pack of diamonds, the product identifier and the purchase token are used to add the diamonds to your account exactly once.
Diamonds can be spent in the app on lesson energy, combo shields and gifts in the league. Frames, avatars, cards and titles are no longer sold for diamonds: they are earned by learning. Items bought before remain yours.
Your purchases are also subject to Google Play's terms and privacy practices.
5. Advertising (Google AdMob)
Lingavio shows ads only to users without Premium. A Premium subscription removes ads. Ads may appear in these places:
- Video ads you choose to watch: to refill your lesson energy, to double the experience points of a finished lesson, to keep your combo after a mistake, to refill your energy in the Dungeon game, to open the Dungeon's chest in the shop (up to three a day), or to open the avatar chest in the shop (once). Watching them is always optional.
- A full-screen ad after lessons: from the second lesson on, a full-screen ad may be shown after each lesson. After some lessons, the Premium screen follows it.
- A full-screen ad after a won level of the Dungeon game.
"No ads" subscription: a separate subscription, cheaper than Premium, turns off the full-screen ads (after lessons, checkpoints, reviews and won Dungeon levels). The video ads you choose to watch for a reward stay available. Premium removes all ads.
Ads are provided by Google AdMob, a Google service. To show ads, measure them, limit how often they appear, and prevent fraud, Google and the advertising partners it works with may collect or receive information such as:
- The Android advertising ID;
- IP address, which may be used to estimate approximate location;
- Device and application information, such as device model, operating-system version, and app version;
- Interactions with ads, such as views and taps.
Where permitted, this information may be used to show ads based on your use of Lingavio and other apps and websites (personalized ads).
Google processes this information under its own privacy terms. To learn more, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services and the Google Privacy Policy.
Consent
Where the law requires it, including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Lingavio shows Google's consent form before any ad is requested; the form lists the advertising partners involved. Ads are requested only after you have answered that form.
You can review, change, or withdraw your choice in the app: Profile → "Ads and privacy". This option is shown where a consent choice is required and while you do not have Premium.
In U.S. states whose laws give you the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising, the same option lets you opt out.
If you do not consent to personalized ads, Google may show non-personalized or limited ads instead.
Advertising ID settings
You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalized ads, in your Android settings, usually under Settings → Privacy → Ads or Settings → Google → Ads, depending on your device.
Lingavio does not sell your personal information and does not pass your lesson content, account email address, or learning progress to advertisers.
6. Local Storage on Your Device
Lingavio stores certain information locally on your device using technologies such as Android DataStore and Room Database.
Locally stored data may include:
- Application settings;
- Learning progress and repetition data;
- Downloaded or cached lesson information;
- Notification preferences;
- Your ad-consent choice, stored by Google's consent tool;
- Temporary application data.
Local data may be removed when you clear the application's data or uninstall Lingavio, although synchronized data may remain in cloud services until it is deleted separately.
7. Permissions
Lingavio may request the following Android permissions:
- Internet access: required for authentication, synchronization, online battles, purchases, analytics, and other online services.
- Microphone access: used only when you activate pronunciation or voice-recognition features.
- Notification permission: used to provide lesson reminders and other notifications you enable.
- Receive boot completed: may be used to restore scheduled reminders after the device restarts.
- Advertising ID (com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID): lets the Google Mobile Ads SDK and Firebase Analytics read the Android advertising ID, used to show and measure ads for users without Premium and for analytics. Google's ads and analytics SDKs also declare Android's related ad-services permissions (advertising ID, attribution, and topics). You can reset or delete the advertising ID in your Android settings.
You can manage application permissions through your Android device settings. Some features may not work when a required permission is denied.
8. Sharing of Information
Lingavio does not sell your personal information. Information may be shared with service providers only when necessary to operate the application or, for users without Premium, to show ads, including:
- Google Firebase;
- Google Play services;
- Google AdMob (advertising);
- Android speech-recognition providers;
- Cloud hosting and technical infrastructure providers;
- Authorities when disclosure is legally required.
Other learners: in the league, other learners can see the information listed under “League” above.
Service providers may process data under their own privacy terms and applicable data-protection obligations.
9. Legal Bases for Processing
Where the General Data Protection Regulation applies, Lingavio may process personal data under one or more of the following legal bases:
- Performance of a contract: to provide the application and features requested by you.
- Consent: where you grant optional permissions or consent to specific processing. Personalized advertising in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland relies on consent collected through Google's consent form.
- Legitimate interests: to secure, maintain, analyze, and improve Lingavio, and to show non-personalized or limited ads to users without Premium.
- Legal obligation: where processing is required by law.
10. Data Retention
Lingavio retains information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the application, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.
Account and synchronized learning data may be retained while your account remains active. Technical logs and analytics information may be retained according to the retention settings of the relevant service provider.
Your line in a season's league table is kept for that season and the one after it, which is needed to work out where you start the new season. When you take part in a new season, your older lines are removed; all of them are removed when you delete your account.
Some information may remain temporarily in backups after deletion before being automatically removed through normal backup-rotation processes.
11. Account and Data Deletion
Lingavio provides an account-deletion option within the application. You may use this option to request deletion of your Lingavio account and associated cloud data, including your lines in the league tables.
You may also request account or personal-data deletion by contacting: hello.ivdigital@gmail.com
When submitting a request, use the email address associated with your Lingavio account where possible. Additional verification may be required to protect your account from unauthorized deletion.
Certain information may be retained when required for legal, security, fraud-prevention, accounting, or dispute-resolution purposes.
12. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data;
- Request correction of inaccurate data;
- Request deletion of your data;
- Request restriction of processing;
- Object to certain processing;
- Request data portability;
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, including consent to ads, in the app under Profile → "Ads and privacy" where this option is shown;
- Lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection authority.
To exercise these rights, contact: hello.ivdigital@gmail.com
13. International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by Lingavio may process information in countries other than the country where you live.
Where required, appropriate safeguards may be used for international transfers, such as adequacy decisions, contractual protections, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.
14. Data Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.
However, no electronic transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
15. Children's Privacy
Lingavio is not specifically directed to children under the minimum age required to consent to personal-data processing in their jurisdiction.
Lingavio does not knowingly collect personal information from a child who cannot legally provide consent without authorization from a parent or legal guardian.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information without appropriate authorization, contact us so the information can be reviewed and, where appropriate, deleted.
16. Third-Party Links and Services
Lingavio may interact with third-party platforms and services. This Privacy Policy does not govern websites, applications, or services operated independently by third parties.
You should review the privacy policies of those providers to understand how they process information.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when Lingavio's functionality, service providers, legal obligations, or data-processing practices change.
The date displayed at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last updated. Material changes may also be communicated within the application where appropriate.
18. Contact
For privacy questions, requests, or complaints, contact the Lingavio developer at:
Email: hello.ivdigital@gmail.com
Application: Lingavio
Package name: com.lingavio.app