Privacy Policy
Last Updated: August 2026
Welcome to iDataGear Inc ("we," "our," or "us"). We operate the website idatagear.com and provide language learning applications, business intelligence solutions, and related services. This Privacy Policy applies to our website and to all of our web and mobile applications (collectively, our "services"). We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our services.
In short: our learning apps have no account and no sign-up. What you study stays on your device. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not track you across other companies' apps and websites. Some apps show advertising and offer optional purchases or subscriptions; those are described in Section 3.
App-specific policies. Several of our apps publish their own, more detailed privacy policy. Where one exists, it is the authoritative policy for that app:
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information You Provide
Our mobile learning applications do not require an account and have no sign-up, sign-in, or profile. We do not ask for your name, email address, or phone number inside those apps.
We collect information you voluntarily provide when you contact us directly — for example by emailing us or using a contact form on our website, or by subscribing to updates. That information may include:
- Your name, if you give it
- Your email address
- Any message, feedback, or support details you choose to send us
We use this only to reply to you and to handle your request. Certain web applications on idatagear.com (such as Great Cantonese Dictionary, TicTacToeToe and Si Ding) may store preferences in your browser; these stay in your browser and are not sent to us as personal information.
1.2 Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website or use our services, we may automatically collect certain information, including:
- Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our website and services, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, screens viewed in an app, and navigation patterns
- Device Information: Your device's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, device type, model, operating system version, mobile network, and other diagnostic data
- Advertising Identifiers: In our mobile applications that display advertising, our advertising partner may use your device's advertising identifier — the Google Advertising ID on Android. On iOS, see the App Tracking Transparency note in Section 3.2: our current iOS apps do not present the tracking prompt, so iOS does not make the IDFA available to them
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: On our website we use cookies and similar technologies to track activity and store certain information (Section 4)
1.3 Location Data
Our learning apps do not request GPS or precise location permission. Where advertising is shown, our advertising partner may derive an approximate (coarse) location from your IP address in order to serve regionally appropriate ads and to apply regional privacy rules. Some of our other mobile applications may request location permission for a feature that needs it; we only collect location data if you explicitly grant permission, and you can disable location services at any time in your device settings.
1.4 Purchase and Subscription Information
If you make an in-app purchase or start a subscription in one of our mobile applications, the transaction is processed by the app store — Google Play or the Apple App Store — and not by us. We never receive, collect, or store your payment card number, banking details, or billing address.
The app store gives us limited transaction information, such as an order or transaction identifier and confirmation that the purchase or subscription is active, so that we can unlock what you paid for. Your entitlement status, and the date you first installed the app, are stored locally on your device and checked against your app store account. Section 3.3 describes purchases and subscriptions in full.
1.5 Microphone and Speech Recognition
Some of our language learning apps — including Learn Chinese — offer pronunciation practice and voice input. These features use your device's microphone and its built-in speech recognition, and only while you actively start them.
- The app asks for microphone and speech recognition permission before the first use, and you can refuse or revoke it at any time in your device settings. The rest of the app keeps working without it.
- Speech is processed by the operating system's own speech recognition service (Apple or Google, depending on your device) to convert it to text. Depending on your device settings, that processing may happen on the device or on the operating system vendor's servers, under their privacy policy.
- We do not record, store, upload, or retain your voice. We do not send audio to our own servers — our learning apps have no server to send it to.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our services and website
- To deliver what you purchase and to honor your entitlements — for example unlocking premium content, or removing advertisements, for as long as your purchase or subscription entitles you to it
- To respond to your inquiries, comments, and requests
- To improve our website, applications, and services
- To understand which features are used, in aggregate, so we can prioritize what to build
- To display advertising in the apps and on the website that offer it (Sections 3.1 and 3.2)
- To detect, prevent, diagnose, and fix crashes and technical issues
- To send you updates or newsletters, where you have asked us to
- To comply with legal obligations
3. Third-Party Services, Advertising, and Purchases
3.1 Google AdSense (Website)
We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense is a service provided by Google LLC that uses cookies and web beacons to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the Internet.
How Google AdSense Works:
- Google uses cookies to serve ads based on your browsing behavior
- Google may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide relevant advertisements
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet
Your Choices:
- You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings
- You can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page
- You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings
3.2 Google AdMob (Mobile Applications)
Our mobile applications may display advertisements served by Google AdMob, an advertising service provided by Google LLC. AdMob may show banner and interstitial (full-screen) advertisements within our apps.
Information AdMob May Collect:
- Your device's advertising identifier — the Google Advertising ID on Android (see the App Tracking Transparency note below for iOS)
- IP address and the coarse location derived from it
- Device information such as model, operating system version, and mobile network
- Ad interaction data, such as ad views and clicks, used to serve, measure, and improve ads
This information is collected and processed by Google and its advertising partners in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy. You can learn more at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
App Tracking Transparency (iOS). We do not track you across apps and websites owned by other companies, and we do not share your data with data brokers. Because of that, our current iOS apps — including Learn Chinese — do not display Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, and iOS therefore does not make the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) available to them. Ads in those apps are served without it. If one of our apps ever needs to track in the sense Apple defines, it will present the App Tracking Transparency prompt first, and will only do so if you allow it.
Consent in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Where required, our ad-supported apps present a consent form from Google's User Messaging Platform before any ad is requested. Your choice there governs whether ads are personalized. You can reopen that form and change your choice at any time from the app's privacy or settings screen.
Your Choices:
- Android: You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of ads personalization, in your device settings under Settings → Privacy → Ads
- iOS: You can review and change app tracking permissions at any time under Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking. As noted above, our current iOS apps do not request tracking permission
- Everywhere: Apps that offer a subscription or an ad-removal purchase remove advertising entirely once it is active (see Section 3.3)
3.3 In-App Purchases and Auto-Renewable Subscriptions
Some of our mobile applications offer optional paid features. These take two forms.
One-time purchases. Some apps offer a one-time, non-consumable purchase, such as an option to remove advertisements permanently. It is bought once and does not renew.
Auto-renewable subscriptions. Some apps — including Learn Chinese — offer an auto-renewing subscription that unlocks premium content and removes advertising. The following applies to those subscriptions:
- Plans and price. Subscriptions are offered in more than one billing period, currently a 1-month plan and a 6-month plan. The exact price is shown in your local currency, inclusive of applicable tax, on the subscription screen inside the app before you confirm anything.
- Free trial. Where a free trial or introductory offer is available to you, its length and terms are shown on that same screen before purchase. Eligibility is determined by the app store, not by us. If you cancel before the free period ends, you are not charged.
- Automatic renewal. Payment is charged to your Apple App Store or Google Play account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically for the same period, at the same price, unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- Managing and cancelling. You are always in control, and you can cancel at any time. On iOS, go to Settings → your name → Subscriptions. On Android, open the Google Play Store → Menu → Subscriptions. Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for. Uninstalling the app does not cancel a subscription.
- Refunds. Refunds are handled by the app store under its own policies, not by us. On iOS use Apple's "Report a Problem" page; on Android use the Google Play refund process.
What this means for your data, for both kinds of purchase:
- Payment processing: All payments are processed entirely by the app store through which you downloaded the app — Google Play (Google LLC) or the Apple App Store (Apple Inc.). We never receive, collect, or store your payment card number, banking details, or billing address.
- What we receive: The app store provides us with limited transaction information, such as an order or transaction identifier, the product purchased, and confirmation that it is active, so that we can deliver what you paid for. This is not linked to your name or to an account with us, because our learning apps have no accounts.
- Entitlements: Your entitlement status is stored locally on your device and verified against your app store account, so it can be restored if you reinstall the app or move to another device signed in to the same account. Learn Chinese also records the date you first installed it, on your device only, to run a short introductory access period; that date never leaves your device and is cleared if you uninstall the app or clear its data.
For details on how the app stores handle your payment information, please review the Google Privacy Policy and the Apple Privacy Policy. Subscriptions bought on the App Store are also governed by Apple's standard End User License Agreement.
3.4 Analytics and Crash Reporting in Our Apps
Our mobile applications use Google Firebase services provided by Google LLC:
- Firebase Analytics — records which screens are opened and aggregate usage patterns, so we can see which parts of an app are actually used. We do not set a user ID or any user property that would identify you, and we do not upload the content of what you study.
- Firebase Crashlytics — records crashes and errors, together with the device model, operating system version and the technical stack trace, so we can diagnose and fix them.
This data is processed by Google under Google's Privacy Policy. It tells us how the app behaves, not who you are, and we do not use it to build a profile of you or to track you across other companies' services.
3.5 Other Third-Party Services
We may also use other third-party services that collect information:
- Google Analytics: To analyze website traffic and usage patterns (if enabled)
- Font Services: We use Google Fonts, which may collect certain usage data
- Content Delivery Networks: To deliver content efficiently
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
On our website we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity and store certain information. Cookies are small data files stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our services.
Types of Cookies We Use:
- Essential Cookies: Required for the website to function properly
- Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors use our website
- Advertising Cookies: Used by Google AdSense to serve relevant advertisements
Our mobile applications do not use browser cookies. The equivalent identifiers in an app context are described in Sections 1.2 and 3.2.
5. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with data brokers. We may share information in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: With third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf (for example hosting, analytics, crash reporting, advertising, and payment processing by the app stores)
- Legal Requirements: When required by law or to protect our rights and safety
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale, or acquisition
- With Your Consent: When you explicitly consent to sharing
6. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Correspondence you send us is kept only as long as needed to handle your request. Data held on your own device — your learning progress, settings, and entitlement status — remains until you delete it or uninstall the app. Data held by Google for advertising, analytics and crash reporting is retained under Google's own retention policies.
8. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- Access: Request access to your personal information
- Correction: Request correction of inaccurate information
- Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information
- Opt-Out: Opt out of marketing communications
- Data Portability: Request a copy of your data in a portable format
- Withdraw consent: Where you gave consent for personalized advertising, you can change it at any time from the privacy or settings screen in the app, or in your device's advertising settings (Section 3.2)
Because our learning apps have no account, the data they hold is on your own device: you can erase all of it at any time by clearing the app's data or uninstalling the app, without needing to contact us. To exercise any of the rights above, please contact us at idatagear@gmail.com.
9. Children's Privacy
Our services are not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately, and we will take steps to delete such information.
10. International Data Transfers
Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information to these locations.
11. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites, including App Store and Google Play Store links for our mobile applications. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
- Email: idatagear@gmail.com
- Website: https://www.idatagear.com
- Company: iDataGear Inc