WordiePrivacy Policy
Last updated: 27 October 2026
The short version. Wordie does not ask for your name, email address or phone number. It does not show ads, and it does not sell or share your data with advertisers or data brokers. What it stores is what it needs to remember your progress and keep the service running.
Who we are
Wordie is a language-learning app for iOS and Android. This policy covers both apps and the website at wordie.net. Where the two apps behave differently, it says so. Questions go to support@wordie.net.
What we collect
Account and device identifiers
When you first open Wordie, the app creates an anonymous account tied to a device identifier. On iOS this is a randomly generated identifier; on Android it is the ID Android gives each app on your device (it is different for every app and changes after a factory reset). There is no name, email or password involved. If you choose a display name or emoji avatar, for example to appear in a book club or a duel, that is stored too and is visible to the other people in that room.
Learning data
Your progress is stored so the app can pick up where you left off: which stories and books you have read, saved words and flashcards, lesson and exam results, wrong answers collected in the mistake notebook, and study streaks.
Written and spoken practice
Texts you write for exam tasks are sent to our servers to be evaluated and scored. For spoken tasks, the recording is transcribed on your device; the audio itself is not uploaded. The resulting transcript is sent for evaluation, and speaking-practice transcripts are deleted automatically by a nightly cleanup job.
Journal
Journal entries are saved only on your device. When you ask for corrections, the entry is sent to our servers, checked by an AI model and returned to you. We do not store the text, and it is kept out of our request logs. We only count how many corrections you asked for that day.
Pen pal letters
Pen pal replies arrive a day or two after you write, so your letters and the replies are stored on our servers until you delete the conversation in the app. Replies are written by an AI model playing a fictional character.
Questions while reading
If you select a passage in a book and ask about it, the passage and your question are sent to an AI model, and the conversation is saved with your learning data so you can come back to it.
Problem reports
If you send a report from "Report a problem" (currently iOS only), we receive what you wrote and, when you took a screenshot, an image of the Wordie screen at that moment. The app draws this image itself, so it never asks for access to your photos.
Notifications
On iOS, if you allow notifications, Apple gives the app a push token that we store so we can deliver duel invitations, book club activity, pen pal letters, exam results and daily reminders. The Android app does not use push notifications: its daily reminder is scheduled on the device, and other updates appear in the app's notification list. You can turn notifications off in your device's settings at any time.
Device backups
On Android, the system can include Wordie's app data, including the tokens that keep you signed in, in your Google account backup and restore it on a new phone, which moves your anonymous account with it. You can turn this off in Android's backup settings.
Technical logs
Our servers keep short-lived request logs (timestamp, endpoint, status code, IP address) to debug errors and to detect abuse. Authentication tokens are redacted from logs, and request bodies are only recorded when debug logging is temporarily switched on for troubleshooting.
What we do not collect
- No advertising identifiers and no third-party ad or analytics SDKs.
- No contacts, photos, precise location or health data.
- No profile photo uploads; avatars are picked from a fixed emoji set.
- No audio recordings leave your device.
Why we use it
| Purpose | Data used |
|---|---|
| Remember your progress across sessions and devices | Account identifier, learning data |
| Evaluate and score written and spoken exam tasks | Your text, transcripts |
| Correct journal entries, write pen pal replies, answer reading questions | The text you send for that feature |
| Fix problems you report | Your report and its screenshot |
| Deliver notifications you opted into | Push token (iOS) |
| Run multiplayer features (duels, book clubs) | Display name, avatar, room activity |
| Keep the service available and prevent abuse | Technical logs, rate-limiting counters |
Where it is processed
Wordie runs on Cloudflare's global network: Workers for the API, D1 for the database, KV and R2 for dictionary and book files. Cloudflare acts as our processor and may serve requests from data centres worldwide, including outside your country of residence. Every AI feature in the app (exam evaluation, speaking practice, journal corrections, pen pal replies, reading questions) uses models running on Cloudflare's infrastructure; the content you send is not used to train anyone's models. Push notifications on iOS are delivered through Apple's APNs service. Dictionary and book content is public-domain or openly licensed material we host ourselves.
How long we keep it
- Learning data: until you delete it or ask us to delete your account.
- Pen pal letters: until you delete the conversation in the app or ask us to delete your account.
- Problem reports: until you ask us to delete your account.
- Journal entries: never stored on our servers.
- Speaking-practice transcripts: removed automatically by a nightly cleanup.
- Technical logs: between 14 and 60 days depending on severity, then deleted.
Your choices
- Notifications: turn off in the app, or entirely in your device's system settings.
- Multiplayer: book clubs and duels are opt-in; your display name is only visible in rooms you join.
- Deleting your account in the app: Settings > Delete Account. This disconnects the account from your device, removes your push tokens and book club memberships, closes book clubs you own, and marks the account as deleted so it can no longer be used. Practice sets you made public stay available to their subscribers, no longer linked to you. To have your learning history erased from our database as well, email us with your account code; write it down before you delete the account.
- Access, correction or deletion: email
support@wordie.net and we will
handle it. Because accounts are anonymous, we need the account code
shown in the app's Settings screen (it looks like
WRD-XXXXX-XXXXX) to find the right data. - Deleting the app: removes everything stored locally, including downloaded dictionary packs and books. On Android, a Google backup may still hold a copy until you remove it (see Device backups).
Children
Wordie is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has used the app and you want the data removed, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or why, we will update the date at the top of this page and note the change in the app's release notes.