Privacy policy

In short

Poco a poco is an app for practicing Mexican Spanish through conversations. We keep what you do in the app so it can track your progress and pick what comes next. We don’t show ads and we don’t sell your data. We count visits to the site with Vercel’s analytics, which uses no cookies, and note which site or link brought you here when you sign up.

What we collect

• Your Google account details: your name, email address and profile picture, when you sign in with Google.
• What you tell us: the name you’d like to be called, whether scenes should address you as a man or a woman, and your Spanish level.
• What you do in the app: the scenes you play, including what you write or say in them, the corrections and hints you get, and your pronunciation scores; the lessons you read; your achievements and secret lessons; the podcast episodes made for you and how much of them you hear; and your questions to the tutor.
• Teams: the teams you make or join.
• Feedback: messages you send us with the feedback form, with the screenshot of the page it attaches.
• How you found us: the site or link that brought you here, such as a search engine or one of our posts, saved with your account when you sign up.
• Usage counts: how many times a day (or week) you use features with a limit.
• Your subscription: your plan, its status and dates, and the ID Stripe gives you as a customer. Your card details go to Stripe; we never see or store them.

When you speak a reply, the recording is sent to be turned into text and scored for pronunciation. We keep the text and the scores, not the recording.

How we use it

• To run the app: your conversations, corrections, lessons, podcasts and progress.
• To run your subscription: your plan, payments, receipts and access.
• To fit the app to you, such as your level and how scenes address you.
• To improve the app. We read feedback, and we look at how scenes, lessons and the tutor are used, to fix what isn’t working.
• To contact you about the app, such as beta updates. You can ask us to stop at any time.

In a team, other members see your name, picture and how much you’ve practiced. They don’t see your conversations.

Services we use

To work, the app sends some of your data to these companies, each of which handles it under its own privacy terms:

• Supabase stores the app’s data and handles sign-in.
• Vercel hosts the app and counts visits to the site: the pages viewed, the site that linked to them, and your country, browser and type of device. It uses no cookies and doesn’t identify you.
• Google lets you sign in with your Google account.
• Stripe handles payments and subscriptions. It receives your email address and payment details, and sends receipts and billing emails.
• OpenAI powers the conversation partner, corrections, hints, translations, the tutor and podcasts, and turns your spoken replies into text. It receives what you write and say in the app.
• Microsoft Azure scores your pronunciation, from your spoken replies, and reads some text aloud.
• ElevenLabs reads text aloud, such as lesson pages and the corrected versions of your lines.

Cookies and storage

We use two cookies: one keeps you signed in, and one remembers which site or link brought you here, for up to 30 days or until you sign up. Your browser also stores a few preferences, such as auto-send and playback speed. There are no advertising cookies, and nothing tracks you on other sites.

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your data while you have an account. To see what we hold about you, correct it, or delete your account and everything in it, email us at hello@learnpocoapoco.com. We’ll do it within 30 days.

Children

Poco a poco isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top, and tell you in the app or by email if the change is significant.

Contact

Questions about your privacy: hello@learnpocoapoco.com.