Privacy Policy

Learn French Offline: Ascend

Last updated: 4 October 2026

This app ("Learn French Offline: Ascend", the "App") is published by Imran Hussain, who publishes on Google Play under the developer name "Sara Ben" (the "Developer", "we", "us"). This policy explains, in plain language, what information the App handles, why, and the choices you have. We have tried to collect as little as possible: the App is built to work fully offline, with no account required.

1. Information on your device

Your learning happens on your phone. If you do not sign in, none of it is ever sent to us, apart from the anonymous step counts in section 4. This includes:

• Your study progress and spaced-repetition schedule (which words are due, how well you know them).
• Your card deck, streak, and daily activity.
• Your settings (theme, audio speed, and similar preferences).
• Audio clips the App has downloaded or generated so lessons play offline.
• If you use "Record me" (in the "Listen, pause, say" practice or the Speak task of "Practise the four skills"), your most recent recording, so you can play it back. Only the last one is kept, it is deleted when you leave that screen, and it is never uploaded.
• If you do the timed speaking in the Exam Hall (Lesson 46), your talk and your three answers, so you can play them back. They are deleted when you leave that screen and are never uploaded. The notes you type while preparing are not kept.
• What you type in the Write task of "Practise the four skills", and your last text from the timed writing in the Exam Hall (Lesson 45), so your writing is still there when you come back. It is never uploaded.
• Your Exam Hall results: how many you got right, your mistake list, and the last "Ready" or "Not yet" from the timed writing and speaking.

If you sign in, a copy of some of this progress is also backed up to our servers, as described in section 2. Your recordings, drafts and settings never are.

If you uninstall the App, this on-device information is removed with it.

2. Information we handle only if you sign in (optional)

Signing in is optional. It is needed only for the online leaderboard, the cloud backup of your progress, and sentence mining. If you choose to sign in with Google, we handle:

• Your Google account email and a user ID. Used to create and secure your account. Sign-in is handled by our authentication provider (Supabase).
• A display name and city. Your city is what you type (or pick from the App's suggestions) on the first screen or in Settings; the App may fill it in from your device's time-zone setting, never from your GPS location. Your display name starts as your city plus an animal (for example "Dhaka Fox"), or "Climber" plus an animal if you leave the city blank, and you can change it any time. Your display name and total days practised are shown to other learners on the public leaderboard, so do not use your real name or anything private in it.
• Your total days practised. Used to rank you on the leaderboard.
• A backup of your learning progress. So your climb can be restored on a new phone or after a reinstall, we keep: the review schedule of the words you have studied (when each is next due and how well you know it), the days you studied, your place on the climb (current stop, checkpoints passed, your free level-check result), your daily new-word pace, and a few markers such as whether you have seen the welcome screen or used your free sentence mine. This copy is private: only you, signed in, can read it. It contains no recordings, no drafts, and no word lists beyond the progress numbers.

3. Sentence mining

Sentence mining needs you to be signed in. Everyone gets one free mine, and Premium members can mine more. When you use the "Mine a sentence" feature, the French sentence you submit is sent to Google's services (Google Gemini for translation and Google Cloud Text-to-Speech for audio) so the App can build a flashcard from it. We do not store the text of your sentence on our servers; we keep only a daily count of how many sentences you have mined, to apply fair-use limits. The generated audio is cached on your phone so the card plays offline afterwards.

4. Anonymous usage counts

To learn which steps of the course people reach, the App sends a small number of anonymous step counts, each at most once per phone: the App was first opened, the level check was finished, the first day of study, Lesson 9 and Lesson 16 were reached, Checkpoint 1 was passed, the Premium page was shown (and from where), and which plan was tapped. Each count carries only the step's name, that short detail, and the date. It carries no name, email, account, user ID, device ID or advertising ID, and nothing you type or say.

The counts wait on your phone and are sent when you are online. They are stored by Supabase and are readable only by us, as totals. Because they are not linked to you, we cannot pick out or delete one person's counts. You can stop them at any time: open Settings and turn off Share anonymous usage counts. Turning it off also deletes any counts still waiting on your phone.

5. Purchases

Subscriptions and the lifetime unlock are processed by Google Play Billing. Payment details are handled by Google; we never see your card details. We use RevenueCat to manage your Premium status across your devices; RevenueCat processes your purchase history and an app-specific identifier for this purpose. See RevenueCat's privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.

6. Permissions the App uses

• Internet. Only for the optional leaderboard, the cloud backup, sentence mining, and purchases. Core learning works without it.
• Notifications. Used only for a single on-device reminder shortly before a free trial would start billing, so you are not surprised. You can turn this off in your phone settings.
• Microphone. Used only when you tap "Record me" (in the "Listen, pause, say" practice or the Speak task of "Practise the four skills"), or start the timed speaking in the Exam Hall (Lesson 46), to record you speaking French so you can listen back. The App asks the first time, never before. Recordings stay in the App's private storage on your phone, are deleted when you leave that screen (or the next time the App opens, if it was closed by force), and are never sent to us or anyone else. You can turn this off in your phone settings; everything else keeps working.

The App does not request your precise location, contacts, photos, or camera.

7. Third parties we rely on

• Supabase (authentication, the leaderboard, the cloud backup of your progress, and the anonymous usage counts)
• Google (Play Billing, and, for the mining feature only, Gemini and Cloud Text-to-Speech)
• RevenueCat (managing your Premium status)

We do not use advertising networks, and we do not use third-party analytics or tracking software. The anonymous usage counts in section 4 are our own and go only to our Supabase project.

8. Data security and retention

Information sent to our servers is transmitted over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), and we use reputable providers to store it. No method of sending or storing information is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. Account, leaderboard and backup information is kept while your account exists. When you delete your account it is removed from our live systems straight away, and from our providers' routine backups within 30 days.

9. Deleting your account and data

From inside the App: open Settings, and under Account tap Delete my account, then confirm. This permanently deletes your account, your leaderboard entry, your cloud backup and your sentence-mining count from our live systems straight away (routine backups follow within 30 days, see section 8). The learning on your phone stays until you clear it (Settings, Erase all progress) or uninstall the App.

Without the App (for example, if you have already uninstalled it): email us from the Google account you signed in with, and we will delete it for you. The steps are also on our account deletion page.

Deleting your account does not cancel a Premium subscription; cancel that in Google Play. You can also simply sign out at any time in Settings. Uninstalling the App removes all on-device data.

10. Children

The App is intended for adults aged 18 and over and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page.

12. Contact

Questions or data-deletion requests: support@learningonmyown.com