Operator and contact
YapTrek is the current operator of this app. Questions, privacy requests, or account-related concerns can be sent to yaptrekapp@gmail.com.
Information we collect
- Account information such as an anonymous guest identifier or Google account details if you choose to link your account.
- Profile and learning-preference information such as display name, languages, grammar focus, vocabulary focus, and streak-related progress.
- Activity and tracking data such as daily goals, daily challenge completion, AI request metadata, saved phrases, flashcards, quiz state, and activity-share posts you choose to create.
- Billing linkage data such as Stripe customer or subscription identifiers and subscription status when you use premium billing.
- Technical and security data such as App Check and reCAPTCHA signals, browser cache data, and basic error or request information needed to keep the service working.
How we use information
- To create and maintain your account, profile, streaks, and saved language-learning activity history.
- To provide daily tracking, challenge progress, and AI-powered learning tools.
- To process subscriptions, manage premium access, and handle billing support workflows.
- To prevent abuse, secure the app, diagnose failures, and enforce access or quota rules.
- To support ad serving for eligible free experiences and comply with legal or platform requirements.
Third-party services
- Firebase and Google Cloud are used for authentication, Firestore storage, and backend Cloud Functions.
- Google reCAPTCHA and Firebase App Check help protect the app against spam, bots, and abuse.
- Google Analytics for Firebase may be used to understand overall app usage, page views, and feature engagement.
- Google Gemini is used through trusted backend functions to generate AI responses for supported YapTrek activities.
- Google AdSense may be used to show ads on eligible free screens that contain useful publisher-controlled app content.
- Stripe is used for checkout, subscription billing, and customer billing management.
Ads and cookies
YapTrek may use Google AdSense to show ads to free users. Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve, measure, and personalize ads where allowed. You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services on the Google partner sites page.
YapTrek may also use Google Analytics for Firebase to measure aggregated app traffic and feature usage. This can involve cookies or similar identifiers used by Google to recognize a browser or app instance and report usage trends.
If required for your region, consent choices may be presented before personalized ads are shown, and the same consent tooling may also affect analytics-related storage or measurement where required by law.
Where Google's Privacy & messaging tools are supported for your region, you may also be able to revisit those ad and analytics choices later from this page.
Supplemental privacy rights for EEA, UK, and Switzerland
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have rights under local privacy law that include the right of access, the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing, the right to data portability, the right to object to certain processing, and the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
YapTrek currently handles privacy requests through yaptrekapp@gmail.com. Because some YapTrek features depend on active account state and trusted backend systems, we may ask you to verify your identity before acting on an access, correction, portability, objection, or deletion request.
Supplemental privacy rights for California residents
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under California privacy law that include the right to know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, or retain, the right to request deletion, the right to request correction of inaccurate information, and the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable privacy rights.
YapTrek does not sell your personal information for money. If California law treats certain advertising-related disclosures as "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising, any applicable opt-out handling will depend on the ad configuration and consent tools then in use. We will not claim California opt-out compliance for such sharing until that review is complete.
Data retention
- Active account, profile, daily-goal, challenge, saved AI output, and post data is generally retained while your account remains active.
- If we receive and verify an account-deletion request, we target deletion of primary app account data within 30 days unless longer retention is required for security, fraud prevention, billing, accounting, or legal obligations.
- Billing and subscription records, including related support artifacts reasonably needed for accounting or dispute handling, are retained for 7 years.
- Security, abuse-prevention, and access-control records are retained for 90 days unless a longer period is required for incident investigation or legal compliance.
- Browser local storage and similar cached data remains on your device until you clear it, the app invalidates it, or it is overwritten by newer app state.
Billing
Premium subscriptions are processed through Stripe. YapTrek does not store full payment card numbers in the app. We may store limited billing-related information such as Stripe customer or subscription identifiers, billing interval, entitlement status, and subscription lifecycle details needed to manage premium access.
AI features
If you use AI-powered features, YapTrek may process the prompts, text, video links, selected options, and generated outputs needed to return the requested result. AI requests are sent through trusted backend functions rather than directly from the browser to the model provider.
Browser storage and local caching
YapTrek uses browser storage such as local storage and in-memory caching to improve performance, remember recent app state, and help you resume certain activity flows. Cached data can include items like profile data, dailies, challenges, and generated activity state.
Do Not Track and global privacy signals
YapTrek does not currently respond to legacy browser Do Not Track signals as a universal opt-out mechanism.
Some privacy frameworks, including California rules, may treat opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control differently from legacy Do Not Track settings. YapTrek will not represent that it honors Global Privacy Control for advertising-related sale or sharing scenarios unless that behavior has been separately reviewed and implemented.
Data security and breach notifications
YapTrek uses reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect account, billing-linkage, and activity data. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
If we confirm a breach that affects your personal information, we will investigate the scope, contain the issue, and notify affected users when required by law.
Request verification and handling
YapTrek currently handles privacy requests through email rather than a self-serve portal. To help protect account data, we may ask for information needed to verify that the requester controls the relevant account before providing access, correction, portability, or deletion support.
You can still use YapTrek as an anonymous guest, link a Google account later, sign out of a registered account, manage premium billing through Stripe when available, and clear browser storage from your own browser settings. For privacy-related questions or requests, contact yaptrekapp@gmail.com.
Children's privacy
YapTrek is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact yaptrekapp@gmail.com and we will review the request.
Policy updates
We may update this Privacy Policy as YapTrek evolves. When we make material changes, we will post the updated version on this page and change the “Last updated” date above.