Privacy

No accounts, no cookies, no adverts. Nothing here identifies you. Two services see a little data as you pass through, both of them hosted in the European Union, and neither is told who you are.

I count visits with Umami, a cookieless analytics service hosted in the European Union. It logs which pages get opened, along with a handful of things you can do here: starting or finishing the daily challenge, sharing a result, starting a quiz, clicking a country on the map, playing a pronunciation, turning the sound on or off, and following the coffee link. From the request itself it works out your country, your browser, and roughly what sort of device you're on.

It sets no cookie and doesn't store your IP address. Nothing follows you between sites, and nothing is sold to anyone. The figures are deleted after six months.

The legal basis is legitimate interest. Knowing which idioms people actually play, and which pages nobody opens, is how I decide what to work on next.

If a page throws an error, a report goes to Sentry, also hosted in the European Union. It carries the error itself, the page it happened on, and your browser details. I'm not watching the site at two in the morning, so this is usually how I find out something is broken.

Three things sit in your browser's local storage, and none of them leaves it:

• idiom-voyage-daily-fr, your progress on today's daily challenge
• idiom-voyage-sound, whether sound is switched on
• umami.disabled, there only if you've opted out of analytics

Clearing your browser data removes all three. None of them is a tracking cookie, and there are no third-party or advertising cookies on the site at all.

The coffee link goes to Ko-fi, who have their own privacy policy. Once you're there, you're on their site rather than this one.

Any ad or tracker blocker will stop the analytics script, and the site works exactly the same without it. To opt out without a blocker, run this in your browser's developer console while you're on the site:

localStorage.setItem('umami.disabled', 1)

That flag lives in one browser on one device, so you'd need to set it again anywhere else.

Under UK and EU data protection law you can ask what's held about you, have it corrected or deleted, and complain to a regulator. In practice there are no accounts, no mailing list, and nothing stored that points at a particular person, so there's usually nothing to hand over. Ask anyway if you'd like to.

Idiom Voyage is a personal project, which is to say it's me. For anything on this page, or anything else about the site, write to feedback@idiomvoyage.com.

This page may be updated as the site grows, and the current version always lives here. The terms of use cover what you can do with the collection itself.