Privacy policy

This policy explains how EnglishLearning4U ("we", "us" or "our") handles information when you visit www.englishlearning4u.com and use its English learning activities. It is a privacy notice, not consent. Where an optional feature needs your permission, we ask separately and you can refuse or withdraw it.

No accounts. Study progress stays on your device. Publishing a game score is a separate, optional choice. We do not use your microphone or record your voice. The site is for adults and learners aged 16 or over.

1. What stays on your device

The starting-point check scores answers in your browser. Individual answers stay in the tab and disappear on reload. If you choose Save, only a dated summary of section counts is kept under ep_v1_learner_starting_point. It is never submitted as a public score. Use Forget saved suggestion on the check, Reset learner progress below, or clear this site’s data in browser settings to remove it.

Study streaks, XP, study ranks, earned practice badges, daily goals, Daily 5 completion dates and up to 180 days of activity XP stay on this device. Daily quiz answers are not submitted or stored; completing a quiz records only its UTC completion date alongside local study XP. Best scores stay private unless you explicitly publish a completed game result using the separate public-score form below. Optional saved word senses, review ratings and next-review dates, daily puzzles, quest checkpoints, study plans and path steps also stay in this browser. Review backups are downloaded or read on your device; they are not uploaded to us. Your best scores, score-saving choice and chosen audio speed are saved in your browser's local storage under names that start with ep_v1_, and your light or dark theme choice under theme. These local practice records are not sent to us. Public-score submission, when you choose it, is described separately below. Score saving is optional; practice still works when storage is unavailable. Clearing this site's data in your browser removes it.

Your saved scores

Turn off saving to play without keeping new best scores or showing old ones. Reset deletes saved game scores from this browser. It keeps your audio speed and theme. Close other practice tabs first so an unfinished game cannot save a score again.

Reset my progress

Remove study streaks, XP, ranks, earned badges, Daily 5 completions, daily goals, saved game scores, saved-word review, daily puzzles, quest checkpoints, study plans and path progress from this browser. Your theme, audio speed, score-saving choice and cookie choices stay as they are. Published scores and their removal key are kept; use the public-score removal control to delete those. Close other practice tabs first so they cannot save unfinished activity progress again.

2. Optional public game scores

After a supported scored game, you can choose to publish that result. Nothing is submitted automatically. The public row shows a generated nickname, score and UTC date. We do not accept custom names, answers, saved-word lists, streaks or XP. Scores are reported by the player's browser; they are not verified assessments.

Only when you choose to publish, this browser creates a random score-removal key under ep_v1_public_score_owner. The server keeps it privately to update or remove your entries, alongside the public fields. It is never included in public board responses. These score records contain no IP address or email; ordinary hosting and operational logs remain separate.

Each game/setting keeps its top 100 for the current three-month season and all time. Seasons change on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 at 00:00 UTC. Finished seasonal boards and backups are removed after 90 days; all-time entries stay until displaced or removed. Remove your public scores from this browser at any time. Resetting learner progress keeps the removal key and does not delete public scores. Remove scores before clearing site data; losing the key prevents this browser from proving ownership.

3. What the server records

Like any website, the hosting service handles your IP address, browser type and the page you asked for in order to deliver the page and keep it secure. We also collect operational telemetry (page requests, errors and response times) to keep the site working. It does not include anything you type, and the site sets no cookies for it.

Microsoft Azure provides hosting and, when configured on the hosted service, Application Insights operational diagnostics. We use these records to deliver pages, diagnose failures, protect against abuse and manage capacity. Optional activity counters are separate from operational logs. We do not use them to create a personal learning profile.

Automated-access protections use temporary network request counters for pages, audio and APIs. Their in-memory keys are hashed with a key that changes when the app restarts; inactive entries expire after about an hour. These counters do not store answers, search terms or a list of pages you visited. Aggregate protection counts record reasons such as rate limiting, without network identifiers or learner text.

4. Optional activity counters

Optional anonymous activity counters

Optional activity counters are currently off. Enabling them would require a separate opt-in choice; there is no default consent. Ordinary operational logging described above is separate.

5. Advertising and cookie choices

This site does not currently show advertising. Advertising stays off until this site's Google consent integration is configured and validated.

When advertising is enabled, Google and its partners may process device information and use cookies or similar technologies to deliver, measure and, where permitted by your choices, personalize ads. See how Google uses information from partner sites and Google's privacy policy. Advertising choices do not change your ability to read and practise here.

Change your cookie choices

The Cookie settings link in the footer reopens Google's consent message where it is available and applies to you. Otherwise it brings you here. You can also clear this site's cookies and site data in your browser settings; this removes saved scores, speed and theme as well. An ad blocker, disabled JavaScript or an ad-free page may prevent the message from opening. You can still read and practise.

6. Audio and video delivery

Video loads only after you press play. Short-lived playback access is tied to the video and your network. Temporary request and download counters protect the site's bandwidth; they are not learning progress or viewing-history records. If playback is unavailable, captions and the full lesson text remain available. We do not send video progress, pauses or seeking as study events.

Audio examples are prerecorded synthetic speech served as media files. Playing them does not send your voice to Microsoft or ask for microphone access. About our audio explains the accent and voices.

7. Contact, service providers and sharing

If you email us, we receive your email address and anything you include, and use it to answer your request. Do not send passwords, sensitive documents or private learner text. Hosting, diagnostics and email providers process information needed to run these services; their processing may take place outside your country. Their own privacy notices also apply. Links to other websites take you to services we do not control.

We do not sell your saved learning records. We may disclose information when legally required, to respond to lawful requests, or as necessary to protect the service and the rights and safety of others. Advertising providers' processing, when ads are enabled, is described above.

8. Retention and security

Local progress remains in your browser until you remove it or your browser clears it. The public-score retention periods and removal controls are set out in section 2. Temporary video protections are not permanent viewing histories. Operational logs follow the hosting and diagnostic services' configured retention; contact us for information about records relevant to your request. Correspondence is kept as needed to resolve the request and meet applicable obligations.

We use access controls, secure connections and request limits to protect the service. No online service or device storage is completely secure. We cannot restore progress that has been cleared from your browser.

9. Age requirement

The site is a general-audience self-study resource for adults and learners aged 16 or over. It is not directed to children under 16, and they must not use it independently. We do not collect dates of birth and cannot verify age. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us so we can investigate and remove information we can identify as theirs, subject to legal requirements. See the Terms' age requirement.

10. Your choices, rights and contact

Use the controls above to turn score saving off, reset local progress, remove public scores, or change applicable cookie and activity-counter choices. Public scores must be removed separately before you erase the browser's removal key. Local resets do not erase operational logs or correspondence.

Depending on the law that applies to you, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion or a copy of personal information, restrict or object to processing, and withdraw consent where processing relies on it. You may also complain to your local privacy regulator. We may need proportionate information to verify a request; we cannot identify local-only learning records on our server.

For privacy questions or requests about EnglishLearning4U, email thepurelanguagecom@gmail.com. Tell us which feature and information your request concerns; do not send your score-removal key.

We will update this page when our practices change and revise the date above. Material changes that require consent will have a separate choice. Learning-content conditions and disclaimers are in our Terms of use.