Privacy Policy

2.1 Information You Provide to Us

We collect the following information that you voluntarily provide to us:

• Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address (optional, for account recovery purposes) and username.
• User Content: Any content you contribute to the App, including translations, audio recordings, comments, and votes.
• Newsletter Subscription: If you opt in to our newsletter, we collect your email address.
• Communications: If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, and the contents of your message.

2.2 Information We Collect Automatically

When you use the App or visit the Website, we may collect certain information automatically.

App. When you use the App, this may include:

• Usage Information: Information about your interactions with the App, such as the features you use and the time spent on the App.
• Device Information: Information about your device, including device model and operating system, when you opt in to account-linked analytics after sign-in (see Analytics Data below).
• Analytics Data (PostHog): We use PostHog on the native App (not on web or in development) only after you sign in and opt in to analytics. Until then, PostHog does not run on your device — no usage data, no session replay, and no error telemetry is sent.
  • Before you opt in. Whether you are browsing before sign-in or signed in without turning analytics on, we do not collect analytics data or session replays.
  • After you opt in. If you turn on analytics in the App, we collect:
    • Usage patterns: features accessed, screens viewed, and navigation paths
    • Device metadata: device manufacturer, model, operating system version, app version, and OTA update identifier
    • Session replay on supported devices: recordings of screens and interactions while you are signed in. Text you type into forms is masked.
    • Technical events: app crashes, unhandled errors, and related diagnostic data
    • Account linkage: we associate usage with your account user ID through PostHog. We do not send your email address to PostHog.

Website. When you visit langquest.org, we use Umami, a cookieless analytics service, to understand how visitors use the site. Umami may collect:

• Pages viewed and referring URLs
• Browser type, operating system, and device type
• General geographic location (country) derived from your IP address

Umami does not use cookies on the Website and does not track you across other websites. We use this data to measure traffic and improve the site. We rely on our legitimate interest in understanding how visitors use the site. If you object to this processing, you may enable Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track in your browser, or contact us at admin@frontierrnd.com to opt out.

4.1 User Content

All content you contribute to LangQuest (translations, recordings, comments, votes) is made freely available worldwide under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. This means anyone can use this content for any purpose without attribution.

Audio recordings. When you record audio for a contribution, that recording may identify you by your voice. A reading may also include names or other personal details if you speak them. CC0 dedicates the language data itself to the public domain; it does not make a voice recording anonymous. If you delete your account, we may keep your recordings as part of the LangQuest language archive with your username and account link removed, as described in Section 6.3. You may contact us to request deletion of your own recordings.

4.1.1 Our Language Data Mission

The entire purpose of LangQuest is to preserve and make language data available to everyone. We do not sell language data, and we hope everyone who has any interest in language preservation will use it. We hope others will use this data to create new tools, resources, AI models (text, speech recognition and synthesis, etc.).

It is very important to our mission that the language data is as usable as possible. We make the database public, and do not require any attribution for using it.

We are inspired by projects like LibriVox and Project Gutenberg. We hope to create a similar community for language preservation and bridge building across all languages and cultures.

4.2 Service Providers

We share personal data with service providers who process it on our behalf. They may only use it to provide services to us and must protect it under contract.

• Supabase (database, authentication, file storage, and backend functions): hosts account data, contributions, and app content.
• PostHog (App analytics): processes usage data, device metadata, and session replay only if you opt in to analytics after sign-in, as described in Section 2.2.
• Umami (Website analytics): collects cookieless page-view and traffic data on langquest.org, as described in Section 2.2.
• Resend (email): sends transactional emails, invites, and newsletter messages to addresses you provide.
• Cloudflare (infrastructure): runs edge services that route email webhooks, proxy App analytics, and store exported audio files.
• Vercel (Website hosting): hosts langquest.org and standard web server logs.

These providers may process data in the United States or other countries. See Section 8 for transfer details.

4.3 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid legal requests, such as subpoenas, court orders, or government regulations.

6.1 Account Information

You can update your account information through the App settings. If you need assistance, please contact us at admin@frontierrnd.com.

6.2 Newsletter Unsubscribe

If you have subscribed to our newsletter, you can unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe link in the emails or by contacting us.

6.3 Account Deletion

You can request deletion of your account in the App (Profile → Account Deletion) or by contacting us at admin@frontierrnd.com.

When you request deletion, we schedule a permanent purge after a 30-day grace period. During that period you can sign back in and cancel the deletion. When the purge runs, we delete your account, profile, email address, and other personal information tied to your identity from our active systems.

Contributions you published. Text translations, comments, and votes that you contributed under CC0 stay available in the public language dataset, but we remove the link between those items and your account (your username and contributor ID are removed). Please do not include personal details in shared text if you do not want them to remain public.

Voice recordings. Audio recordings are different from text. A voice can identify a speaker even after we remove your account link, and many recordings are audio-only translations with no separate text. To preserve irreplaceable language data for research and archiving, we keep voice recordings you contributed after your account is deleted, with your username and account link removed. These recordings remain part of the LangQuest language archive. If you want your own recordings deleted instead, contact us at admin@frontierrnd.com when you request account deletion or at any time before or after the purge. We will honor that request within one month.

Backups. Deleted information may still exist in backup copies until those backups rotate out. We do not use backup copies for normal processing, and we do not restore deleted accounts on request.

6.4 Analytics opt-out

PostHog does not run until you sign in and turn analytics on. You can opt in from the analytics prompt or in Profile settings. If you opt in, you can opt out again anytime in Profile settings. Opting out stops account-linked analytics and session replay while you remain signed in. It does not delete data already collected; contact us to exercise your deletion rights.

11.2 European Economic Area and United Kingdom

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have additional rights under the EU GDPR and UK GDPR, including:

• Right of access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to erasure: You may request deletion of your personal data, subject to exceptions described in Section 6.3.
• Right to rectification: You may ask us to correct inaccurate personal data.
• Right to restrict processing: You may ask us to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
• Right to data portability: You may request your data in a structured, machine-readable format where applicable.
• Right to object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interest, including Umami website analytics (see Section 2.2). You may withdraw analytics consent anytime in Profile settings.
• Right to lodge a complaint: You may contact your local supervisory authority. We do not have an EU or UK representative appointed at this time; contact us at admin@frontierrnd.com.

To exercise these rights, contact us at admin@frontierrnd.com. We respond within one month.

11.3 California Residents

If you are a California resident, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including:

• Right to Know: You may request information about the personal information we've collected about you, including categories of information, purposes for collection, and categories of third parties with whom we've shared it.
• Right to Delete: You may request deletion of personal information we've collected from you, subject to certain exceptions — including voice recordings we retain in the language archive after account deletion, as described in Section 6.3, unless you ask us to delete your own recordings.
• Right to Opt-Out: You may opt-out of the "sale" of your personal information, though we do not sell personal information in the traditional sense.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at admin@frontierrnd.com.

11.4 International Users

If you are accessing our App from outside Canada and the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and Canada might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using our App, you consent to your information being transferred to and processed in the United States.