Effective 7 November 2026
iLearnChinese collects no personal information. The app has no accounts, makes no network requests, and contains no analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking code of any kind. Everything it records about your practice stays on your device.
The app saves your practice progress locally so your badges and cats survive closing the app. It is written to the operating system's standard preference storage on your device and is never transmitted anywhere.
That record holds only:
Which of the four tones you have played, and how many tone questions you have answered correctly
Your longest correct streak in each drill
Which words you have heard, and which situation categories you have opened
Which survival card lines you have listened to, and how many say-it-back repetitions you have completed
The calendar dates on which you practiced, used to count practice days
Which badges and cats you have earned
It contains no name, email address, device identifier, location, or any other information that could identify you.
You can erase all of it at any time. Open the Cats and badges tab and tap Reset, which clears the record immediately. Deleting the app also removes it, along with everything else the app has stored.
There is no personal data collection of any kind. Specifically, iLearnChinese does not:
Ask you to create an account, sign in, or provide a name or email address
Make any network requests. The app contains no networking code, so no data can leave your device through it, and the app works fully offline
Include any analytics, crash reporting, advertising, or attribution software, and no third-party software development kits
Use the microphone. The say-it-back drill plays a word, leaves a silent gap for you to speak, then plays the word again. Nothing is listened to or recorded
Use the camera, your location, your contacts, your photo library, or your health data
Read or write any advertising identifier
Send you push notifications
Because nothing is collected, there is nothing to sell, share, or disclose to anyone, and no data retention period to describe. In App Store terms, the app's privacy label is Data Not Collected.
Two features hand work to your device's operating system. Neither sends anything to the developer.
Spoken words. Hearing a Chinese word uses the speech synthesis built into your device, with the Mandarin voice installed there. The app passes the written word to the system and the system speaks it. Your device's handling of speech synthesis, including any voice files it downloads, is governed by Apple's privacy policy rather than this one.
Tone drills. The four tone sounds are not recordings. The app generates the waveform mathematically as it plays, so these drills involve no files and no voice data at all.
Sharing the survival card. If you tap Save as image, the app renders the card and hands it to the standard iOS share sheet. You choose what happens next. If you send it to another app or service, that destination handles the image under its own privacy policy. The app itself does not upload it, keep a copy, or record that you shared it.
You download the app through the App Store, and Apple collects information about that transaction independently of the app. That typically includes your download and purchase records, and, if you have turned on sharing with developers, aggregated crash and usage reports.
The developer may see summary statistics in App Store Connect, such as download counts by country and crash reports. These come from Apple in aggregate form and are not gathered by anything inside the app. Apple's handling of them is covered by Apple's own privacy policy.
The app is safe for children to use. Because it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either, and there is nothing for a parent to request access to or deletion of beyond the Reset button described above.
There are no advertisements, no in-app purchases, no links out to other websites, no chat or messaging, and no user-generated content. The only way anything leaves the app is the share sheet, which a person has to open deliberately.
If a future version of the app changes what it stores or starts using a network connection, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the date at the top will change. Because the app keeps no contact details, there is no way to notify you directly, so the current version always lives at this page.
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please use the Home page to leave a comment.