Last updated: 17 July 2026
Lingoforge is an offline Spanish-learning app published by 99 Cent Apps LLC, trading as TapForge Studios (Crown Point, Indiana, USA). This policy explains what the app does and does not do with your information.
1. Information we collect
We — 99 Cent Apps LLC — collect nothing directly. Lingoforge has no sign-up, no user profiles, no analytics SDK, and no server of ours for your data to reach. We never see your name, email, contacts, photos, microphone, or learning progress.
One third party does collect data: Google AdMob, which serves the ads in the free version. To deliver and measure ads it collects your device's advertising ID, approximate (coarse) location, and basic device information. That data goes to Google, not to us — we never receive it, store it, or sell it. Section 6 covers this in full, including how to turn it off.
| Data type | Who collects it | Why | How to stop it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advertising ID, coarse location, device info | Google AdMob (free version only) | Serving and measuring ads | Buy Lingoforge Pro, or reset/delete the ad ID in Android settings |
| Purchase confirmation | Google Play | Unlocking what you paid for | N/A — required to sell you anything |
| Learning progress, settings | Nobody — stays on your device | Running the app | Profile → Reset progress, or uninstall |
2. Information stored on your device
The app saves the following locally, using Android's DataStore. It never leaves your phone and is not readable by us or anyone else:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| XP, level, gems, streak, daily goal | To track your progress and streak |
| Completed lessons and star ratings | To show what you've finished |
| Spaced-repetition schedule (which words are due when) | To power Smart Review |
| Achievements, games played, challenge streak | To award achievements |
| Sound, speech and theme preferences | To remember your settings |
| Whether you own Lingoforge Pro | To unlock what you paid for |
You can erase all of it at any time: Profile → Reset progress. Your Pro entitlement is stored separately and deliberately survives a reset, so resetting your progress never costs you something you paid for.
3. Permissions
Lingoforge requests no runtime permissions. No location, no camera, no microphone, no contacts, no storage.
4. Text-to-speech
Spoken Spanish is produced by the text-to-speech engine already installed on your device (usually Google's). The app passes it Spanish words and sentences from its own built-in content. No recording ever happens, and the microphone is never used. Your device's TTS engine is governed by its own provider's privacy policy.
5. Purchases
Lingoforge Pro is sold through Google Play Billing. Google processes the payment; we never see or store your card details, billing address, or any payment information. The app only receives a yes/no signal that an entitlement is active. See Google's Privacy Policy.
6. Advertising
The free version of Lingoforge shows ads, served by Google AdMob. To show ads, AdMob may collect your device's Advertising ID, coarse location, and basic device information. That data is handled by Google, not by us — we never receive it, and we do not sell data to anyone.
- Learn how Google uses this data: Google's partner sites policy.
- You can reset or delete your Advertising ID in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads.
- In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, the app asks for your consent (via Google's User Messaging Platform) before showing a personalised ad, and you can decline. Only non-personalised ads are shown until you consent.
- Lingoforge Pro removes all ads, which removes this collection entirely.
Ads are never shown inside a lesson, game, or story — only between sessions, and never more than once every three sessions.
7. Children
Lingoforge is suitable for all ages and contains no objectionable content, but it is not directed at children under 13 and is not part of Google Play's Families programme. We do not knowingly collect information from children, and we never ask any user for personal details.
The free version does serve Google AdMob ads, which involve the advertising ID described in section 6. Parents who would rather their child use the app with no ads and no advertising identifier at all can either buy Lingoforge Pro, which removes ads entirely, or reset and disable ad personalisation in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads. All learning data stays on the device and can be erased at any time as described in section 9.
8. Your rights (GDPR / UK GDPR / CCPA)
You have rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, and objection to your personal data, plus the right to opt out of its sale or sharing.
We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing on our side to access, export, or correct — and nothing for us to sell. We have never sold personal information and never will.
The advertising data described in section 6 is collected and controlled by Google, not us. You can exercise your rights over it directly with Google, and you can stop the collection at any time by resetting or deleting your advertising ID in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads, by declining consent where the EEA/UK consent form is shown, or by buying Lingoforge Pro, which removes ads entirely.
Data on your device is entirely under your control — see section 9.
9. Deleting your data
Lingoforge does not offer accounts, so there is no account to delete and no server-side copy of anything. You can delete everything the app holds, at any time, without asking us:
- In the app: Profile → Reset progress erases all learning data — XP, streak, lessons, review schedule, achievements and settings.
- Uninstall: removing the app deletes all of its local data with it.
- Advertising ID: reset or delete it in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads. This is the only identifier associated with you, and it is controlled by your device, not by us.
If you would still like to make a deletion request, or want written confirmation that we hold nothing about you, email contact@tapforgeapps.com and we will respond within 30 days.
Note: your Lingoforge Pro entitlement is stored separately and deliberately survives "Reset progress", so clearing your data never costs you something you paid for. Purchase records themselves are held by Google Play, not by us.
10. Data security
We operate no server and hold no database of user data, so there is no store of ours to breach. Local data is protected by Android's standard app sandbox. Ad requests made by the Google Mobile Ads SDK are encrypted in transit by Google.
11. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new "Last updated" date. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes on Google Play.
12. Contact
Questions about this policy or the app:
Email: contact@tapforgeapps.com
Web: tapforgeapps.com
Publisher: 99 Cent Apps LLC (TapForge Studios), Crown Point, Indiana, USA