Privacy Policy
Lexora is a vocabulary flashcard app published by Baispace ("we", "us"). This policy explains what happens to your data when you use the app.
Data stored on your device
Everything you create in Lexora — the words you add, their translations, collections, study progress and difficulty markers, your chosen language pairs and app settings — is saved locally on your iPhone. We have no server that holds this content and no way to read it.
This data is included in your iPhone backups if you have iCloud Backup or encrypted local backups enabled. Those backups are governed by Apple's privacy policy, not ours. Deleting the app removes the data from your device.
Data sent off your device
Three features send information to servers. Each request carries only what is needed to answer it, and no user identifier, account or device ID is attached.
| Feature | What is sent | Who receives it |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic translation | The word or short phrase you are translating, plus the source and target language codes | Our translation proxy (Cloudflare Workers), which forwards it to the Google Cloud Translation API |
| Pronunciation & examples | The English word you looked up | dictionaryapi.dev, a free third-party dictionary API |
| Voice input | Audio recorded while you hold the microphone button | Apple's speech recognition service (see below) |
Our translation proxy exists only to keep an API key off your phone. It does not log, store or retain the text passing through it. Google processes the text to return a translation under the Google Cloud Privacy Notice; Google states that Cloud Translation content is not used to train its models and is not retained after processing.
Microphone and speech recognition
Lexora uses the microphone only while you are actively using voice input to add a word. Recording stops as soon as you release the button, and the audio is never written to disk or sent to us.
Transcription is performed by Apple's Speech framework. Depending on your device, language and network conditions, Apple may process the audio on-device or send it to Apple's servers for recognition. This handling is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy. iOS will ask for your permission before the microphone or speech recognition is used for the first time, and you can revoke either permission at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security.
If you contact us
You can email us at bailakspace@gmail.com. Writing to us is entirely optional, and the app never sends us a message on your behalf.
If you do write, we receive your email address and whatever you put in the message. We use them for one purpose: to read what you sent and reply to it. We do not add you to a mailing list and we do not use your address for anything else. This mailbox is hosted by Google under the Google Privacy Policy. We keep correspondence only as long as it is useful for supporting you; ask us to delete your messages and we will.
What we do not do
- We do not require or offer an account, and we never ask for your name or phone number. An email address reaches us only if you write to us first.
- We do not use analytics, crash reporting or advertising SDKs of any kind.
- We do not track you across apps or websites, and we do not use the Advertising Identifier.
- We do not sell or rent personal data, and we share it with no one beyond the service providers named in this policy.
- We do not knowingly collect information from children. The app requires no personal information from anyone.
Legal bases and your rights
Lexora stores your content on your own device and we operate no user database, so there is nothing about your vocabulary or study habits for us to access, export or erase. You control that data directly: edit or delete words inside the app, or delete the app to remove everything at once.
The one exception is correspondence. If you have written to us, you may ask us to send you a copy of your messages, correct them, or delete them, and you may complain to your local data protection authority.
Where the GDPR applies: the brief processing needed to translate a word or look it up in a dictionary rests on our legitimate interest in delivering the feature you requested (Article 6(1)(f)); handling a support message you sent us rests on the same basis, namely responding to your enquiry. Where the CCPA applies, we do not "sell" or "share" personal information as those terms are defined.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top. Material changes affecting how data leaves your device will also be described in the App Store release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about privacy in Lexora, and requests to exercise the rights described above: bailakspace@gmail.com