Privacy

This site has no accounts, no cookies, no analytics, and no third-party requests of any kind. Nothing here is tracking you. This page explains what little does happen, and what your rights are.

Last updated 15 July 2026

1. Who is responsible

Linguanet bv, represented by Carl Gibson, is the controller for the personal data described on this page — the company that decides why and how it's processed, and the one you contact about it. Full company details are on the legal notice.

2. The short version

• No cookies. This site sets none, of any kind, first-party or otherwise.
• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising. There are no pixels, no tag managers, no scripts from anyone else.
• No third-party requests. Fonts and images are served from this domain. Your browser doesn't contact Google, or anyone else, to display this page.
• No accounts. There's nothing to sign up for and no database of users.

Because nothing non-essential is stored on your device and no one is profiling you, this site doesn't ask for cookie consent. There is nothing to consent to.

3. Server logs

This site is hosted by Vercel Inc., 340 S Lemon Ave #4133, Walnut, CA 91789, USA. Like any web host, Vercel automatically records technical information when a page is requested:

• your IP address
• the page requested and the time of the request
• your browser type and version, and your operating system
• the referring URL, if there is one

An IP address counts as personal data under the GDPR. This is processed on the basis of legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)) — a website cannot be delivered to you without it, and it's needed to keep the site secure and working. This data isn't combined with anything else, isn't used to identify you, and isn't used to build any profile.

Vercel acts as a processor. Because Vercel is US-based, this involves a transfer outside the EU, made under the safeguards in Vercel's data processing agreement and standard contractual clauses. Vercel's privacy policy: vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy

4. The player

The player at player.realworldlanguages.com has no accounts and no sign-up. Everything you do in it stays on your device:

• Your lessons are stored in your browser's own storage, on your device. They are never uploaded anywhere.
• Your position in a lesson, your settings, and your access pass are stored the same way.
• No listening history, no progress data, no usage statistics are sent to us. We couldn't tell you how much you've studied, because we don't know.

This storage is strictly necessary to provide the thing you asked for — a player that holds your lessons — so it doesn't require consent. Clearing your browser data for that site erases all of it, and there's no copy on our side to restore from, so don't clear it casually.

This site remembers one thing only: whether you chose light or dark mode. It's kept in your browser's local storage, never sent anywhere, and exists solely because you clicked the button.

5. Paid lessons

When you open a paid lesson, the player sends your access pass to a server operated for us on Amazon Web Services (EU, Ireland) to check it, and receives a short-lived link to the audio in return. That request carries the pass and the name of the lesson you asked for. It does not carry your name, your email, or any identifier for you personally — the pass says what may be opened, not who is opening it.

6. The community

The community is hosted on Skool, a separate company with its own accounts, its own cookies, and its own privacy policy. Once you follow a link there, you're on their platform and their terms apply — not this page. Any payment happens there too; no payment is ever handled on this site.

If you'd rather not have an account anywhere, you can use the free lessons and the player without ever joining.

7. How long anything is kept

Server logs are retained by Vercel for a limited operational period and then discarded. Data stored on your own device stays there until you delete it — it's yours, and we have no access to it or copy of it. If you email us, we keep the email as long as needed to deal with your question, and no longer.

8. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to request access to your personal data, and to have it corrected or deleted; to restrict or object to its processing; to data portability; and to withdraw any consent at any time, without affecting processing that already happened.

In practice there is very little for us to give you: this site holds no database of users, and everything the player stores is already in your own hands. Requests about server logs should be sent to the address in section 1.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Belgium that is the Data Protection Authority (Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit / Autorité de protection des données), Drukpersstraat 35 / Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels — dataprotectionauthority.be

9. Changes

If this site ever starts doing something that touches your data — analytics, a mailing list, anything at all — this page will be updated before it happens, and the date at the top will change.

Contact

Questions about any of this: ask in the community, or email carl.gibson@linguanet.be.