Privacy policy

This privacy policy applies to:

• the website pronunciationapp.com (the “website”), and
• the Android app English Pronunciation Practice (package crazydoca.pronunciation), published on Google Play by Ruwan Abeysinghe (the “app”).

Both are operated by Ruwan Abeysinghe (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information is collected, why, and the choices you have. In short: we do not require an account, we do not record or store your voice, and we do not sell personal information. The only data collected automatically is what our advertising partner, Google, needs to show ads.

Android app: English Pronunciation Practice

No account and no personal information

The app does not ask you to sign up, and we do not collect your name, email address, contacts, photos or precise location.

Microphone and speech recognition

The app asks for microphone permission only so that Practice mode can check your pronunciation. The microphone is used only while you tap the microphone button and speak. Your speech is converted to text by the speech recognition service on your device, which on most Android phones is provided by Google. Depending on your device and settings, Google may process the audio on the device or on its servers, under the Google Privacy Policy.

The app uses the recognised text only to calculate your pronunciation score on your phone. We never receive, record or store your voice or what you said. You can deny or remove the microphone permission at any time in Android settings; the rest of the app keeps working.

Text-to-speech

Pronunciations are spoken by the text-to-speech engine installed on your device, which can work offline. The words and sentences you type are not sent to us.

Information stored on your phone

To remember your progress, the app saves your settings (accent, speed, pitch, theme), favourites, history, practice scores, levels and daily streak in the app’s private storage on your phone. This information never leaves your device and is not sent to us. It is deleted when you clear the app’s data or uninstall the app.

Sharing pronunciations

If you choose to share a pronunciation as audio, the app creates the audio file on your phone and hands it to the app you pick in the Android share menu. We do not receive a copy.

Advertising (Google AdMob) and device identifiers

The app is free and shows ads provided by Google AdMob. To show and measure ads and to prevent fraud, the AdMob software in the app collects information such as your device’s advertising ID, IP address (which can indicate an approximate location), device and app information, and how you interact with ads. This information is sent to Google and used under the Google advertising policies and the Google Privacy Policy. Data is encrypted in transit.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the app asks for your consent before personalised ads are shown, and you can change your choice later.

Your choices: you can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads (on some phones Settings → Google → Ads). You will still see ads, but they will be less relevant to you.

Website: pronunciationapp.com

The pronunciation tool

On the website, text-to-speech and speech recognition are provided by your web browser through the Web Speech API. The text you type and the audio you speak are not sent to or stored on our servers. Depending on your browser, the browser vendor (for example Google, Microsoft or Apple) may process speech on its own servers under its own privacy policy.

When you click a word to see its phonetics, only that single word is sent to the free Free Dictionary API to retrieve its pronunciation and definition.

Information stored in your browser

The website uses your browser’s local storage to remember preferences such as your chosen accent, speed, theme and the last text you typed. This data stays in your browser and you can clear it at any time in your browser settings.

Contact form and cookies

If you contact us, we receive your name, email address and message and use them only to reply to you. The contact form uses a single session cookie to protect against spam and forged submissions.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

The website shows ads from Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this and other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or aboutads.info. Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Visitors from the EEA, UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalised ads are shown.

Other services

Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. Links to social networks take you to third-party sites with their own privacy policies.

Sharing and selling of information

We do not sell personal information and we do not share it with anyone, except the advertising and speech services described above, which receive data directly from your device to provide their service. We may disclose information if required by law.

Children

The app and the website are designed for teenagers and adult English learners and are not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights and data deletion

We do not hold any personal data from the app, so there is nothing for us to delete. You can remove everything the app has stored by clearing its data or uninstalling it, and you can reset your advertising ID as described above. If you have emailed us or used the contact form, you can ask us to delete your messages.

Security

Data sent by the app and the website travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Information kept on your phone is stored in the app’s private storage, which other apps cannot read.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when the app or website changes. The date at the top shows the latest version, and significant changes will be noted in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Developer: Ruwan Abeysinghe
App support: ruwanwickrama@gmail.com
Website: info@pronunciationapp.com