Privacy policy

easy1000words (“we”) is an independent language-learning app. Write to hello@easy1000words.com about anything on this page, including to see, correct or delete your data.

You don’t need an account. Your progress (words, streak, XP, settings) stays on your phone or computer.

Only if you set up friends do we keep a small profile on our server: the name you choose, your colour or photo, and your learning stats, which your friends and groups see. You can delete it any time in Settings.

We never sell your data, and we never ask for your email (the payment provider does, if you buy Premium).

Your learning progress, settings, streak, XP, reminders and, if you buy Premium, your license key are saved in your browser’s or the app’s storage. They don’t leave your device unless you make a backup file yourself or use the features below. Clearing the app’s data or uninstalling it removes them.

When you give yourself a name, your device makes a random id and a secret key. Our server keeps: the id, a one-way hash of the key (never the key itself), your name, colour, optional photo, your invite code, who your friends are, the groups you’re in, trip ideas and votes you add, challenges you send and your scores, and per day the number of words learnt, XP and minutes spent, plus your total words known, your streak, the hours of the day you usually learn, when you joined and when you were last active.

Who sees it: your friends and the members of your groups see your name, colour, photo, streak and words learnt; friends and friends of your friends can open your profile with your last 14 days, your learning hours and your friends list. Anyone with your invite link sees your name, photo, streak and words known; anyone with a group’s code sees its name, its trip and the names of its first members. People can only add you as a friend with your invite link or code, or if you already share a friend.

Why: to show leaderboards, trips and challenges between you and the people you choose. Legal basis (where it applies, such as under the EU’s GDPR): carrying out the service you asked for, and your consent when you set up the profile.

How long: until you delete it. In the app: Settings → Your data → Delete my friends profile. This removes everything listed above from our server at once. A group you were the last member of is deleted with everything in it.

When you send a report or feedback, we receive what you write, the word and language it’s about, the accent and voice in use, the app version and your browser or phone type. Reports carry no id or name, so we can’t link them to you; they’re kept to fix problems and improve the course.

Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy, the seller of record, which processes your payment details, email and billing address under its own privacy policy. We receive the order details (your email, what you bought and when) to give support and handle refunds. The license key you receive unlocks Premium: the app checks it with Lemon Squeezy, and our server keeps a one-way hash of it, with Lemon Squeezy’s answer, to confirm Premium for “How to use” pages. If you joined with an ambassador’s code, the code goes with your purchase so they get their share.

The free plan (up to 50 new words a day) needs no payment and no details at all.

If analytics is on, the app and site send PostHog (our analytics provider) which pages and screens you open, the buttons you tap, how you arrived (such as a link’s campaign tags), your rough location from your IP address, your device and browser, and recordings of how the screen is used with everything typed hidden. It’s tied to a random id, not to your name. We use it to see what works and fix what doesn’t. Turn it off any time: Settings → Share anonymous usage stats.

Free plan screens can show ads. While we show our own Premium cards, no ad company is involved. If we show Google ads, Google and its partners may use cookies or device identifiers to show and measure ads, as described in Google’s policy; where the law requires it, we’ll ask for your consent first. Premium has no ads.

Cloudflare hosts the site, the app and the friends server, and sees IP addresses to deliver pages and stop abuse. To limit abuse we count calls per IP address over the last hour or day, keeping only a salted hash of the address, never the address itself.

The recordings were made in advance; when there’s no recording, your phone’s own voice reads the word on your device. “How to use” pages are written from our word lists by an AI model (Anthropic’s Claude) once per word; nothing about you is sent to it.

These providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States, under their own safeguards.

You can see, correct and delete your data. Most of it you control in the app: change your name and photo in Friends, and delete your friends profile in Settings. For anything else, or to object to or ask about how we use your data, write to hello@easy1000words.com. You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live.

easy1000words isn’t meant for children under 13, and children under 16 (or the age set by your country’s law) need a parent’s permission to use friends, groups and challenges. A parent who thinks their child set up a profile can delete it in Settings or ask us to.

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and its date. Last updated: 8 November 2026.