Privacy

Who we are

vibenglish is the website vibenglish.app and the iOS app “Trainers”. They are run by an individual entrepreneur registered in Georgia; there is no separate company. Questions: contact@vibenglish.app.

What we store

• Email and password. The password is stored only as a hash — even we cannot recover it.
• Name and photo, if you signed in with Google. We take nothing else from your Google account.
• Your words, translations and sets — what you added yourself.
• The study schedule and your place in a course — so the app knows what to show today.
• Texts you paste — in My texts. They stay in this account: nobody else can open them, and they go nowhere.
• An anonymous profile in the app if you practise without an account: a random identifier and your learning progress — no email, name or device data.

We do not collect a phone number, address or payment details, we do not read anything outside the app, and we do not store voice recordings or speech transcripts.

Who we pass it to

Only those without whom the service cannot run:

• Neon — the database. AWS region us-east-1, Virginia, United States.
• Vercel — hosts the app.
• Resend — confirmation and password-reset emails.
• Google — if you chose to sign in with Google.
• Apple — if you chose Sign in with Apple.
• The browser’s speech recognizer — when you say a word in Speech, the browser may send that audio to its own vendor. vibenglish never receives, stores, or transcribes it.

Nobody else. Data is not sold and not passed to advertising networks. Translations come from the app’s own dictionary, so your words are not sent to anyone to be translated. Nothing records your screen and nothing counts your visits.

Where the data lives

The database is Neon, region AWS us-east-1 (Virginia, USA). The website and the app’s server run on Vercel, also in the USA; static files are served from their nodes worldwide. Data is transferred to the USA under data processing agreements with Neon and Vercel that include standard contractual clauses.

Your rights

• See it. Everything we store is visible in the app itself.
• Export it. Write to contact@vibenglish.app and we will send your dictionary and progress as one file.
• Correct it. Any word, translation and set is edited by you.
• Delete it. Use “Delete account” in settings on the site or in the app — or write to contact@vibenglish.app. We remove the email, words, sets, progress, sessions and tokens, and revoke Sign in with Apple with Apple. That cannot be undone.

How long we keep it

Account data — for as long as the account exists. An anonymous profile in the app is deleted after 180 days without practice. You can delete your account in settings or by writing to contact@vibenglish.app.

Cookies

A session cookie keeps you signed in. A language cookie remembers English or Russian. There are no advertising cookies and no analytics cookies.

Groups and students

A group student enters only a name and picks three pictures instead of a password. We store that name, the pictures as a hash and learning progress — no email, phone or photo. Only the teacher who created the group sees the student’s name and results. A student can delete their own profile from the menu with their name; the teacher can delete a student or the whole group. Data is deleted immediately and for good. If a teacher deletes their account, all their groups and students are deleted too.

Children

Anyone can practise, at any age. Without an account the app keeps only a random identifier and progress — no email, name or device data. Younger pupils can practise in a teacher’s group: when creating a group, the teacher confirms they have consent from parents or the school. There is no advertising and no third-party analytics.

Changes

If the rules change in a material way, we will email you before the changes take effect. The date of the last update is always at the top of this page.