Privacy policy
Begu Farsi is an app for learning to speak Persian, and this policy covers the app and this website. Begu Farsi is made by Spinworth Limited, company number 17449293, Watford, UK. Spinworth Limited is responsible for your data under UK data protection law. Questions and requests: support@begu.life.
The short version
The app keeps your progress on your phone and sends nothing to us. Your voice recordings are never uploaded. This website does not use cookies or analytics.
What the app keeps
Your lesson progress, answers, review schedule, settings and a record of how you have used the app are kept on your phone. They are identified only by a random learner id made on your phone. Begu Farsi has no accounts and does not ask for your name or email.
What leaves your phone
The app does not send your data to us or to anyone else. It has no advertising and no third-party analytics. There are two exceptions, both under your control:
- If you choose “Share my test report” in Settings, your phone’s share sheet opens with a summary of your use: counts, dates, your random learner id and the ids of lessons you finished. It contains no answers and no recordings. Nothing is sent unless you send it yourself, and it goes only to whoever you send it to.
- If your phone backs up its apps, for example to your Google account, your progress may be included in that backup, under your Google account’s own settings.
The microphone
Begu Farsi asks for the microphone so that you can practise speaking. It records only while you practise. You can play a recording back during that exercise; it is deleted when you move on. Recordings are never uploaded. Speaking is not scored.
Keeping and deleting your data
Your data stays on your phone until you remove it. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage, deletes everything it holds. If saved progress cannot be opened and you choose to start again, the app first keeps a copy on your phone; uninstalling removes that too. Because we never receive your app data, we cannot see, export or delete it for you.
Buying the app
When you buy Begu Farsi, Google Play or Apple’s App Store takes the payment under its own privacy policy. We never see your card details. The store gives us sales records, such as the order number, date, country and price, which we keep for our accounts and tax because the law requires it.
This website
begu.life does not use cookies, analytics or tracking, and its fonts and app pictures are served from begu.life itself. Pictures in blog posts are loaded from the servers of BabyLoveGrowth, the service that helps us write and publish the blog, so those servers see your IP address when you view one. The site is hosted by Netlify, whose servers keep standard logs of requests, including IP addresses, to keep the site running and secure, under Netlify’s own privacy policy.
If you email us
If you write to support@begu.life, we use your email address and message only to reply to you, and we delete them once your question is settled, unless we need to keep them for a legal reason. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering you.
Your rights
You can ask us what personal data we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, by writing to support@begu.life. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Children
Begu Farsi is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.