Privacy Policy

ParleAfrica is a community platform for Africans learning French, operated by Paul King. If you have any questions about this policy, contact us at parleafrica@gmail.com.

We collect the following information when you use ParleAfrica:

• Account data — name, email address, username, and optional birthday (day and month only, no year)
• Profile data — bio, profile photo, and language preference
• Content data — posts, comments, messages, and vocabulary lists you create
• Activity data — lessons completed, points earned, likes, saves, and friend connections
• Payment data — subscription plan and payment reference (processed by Paystack; we do not store card details)
• Device data — push notification tokens for delivering notifications to your device
• Usage data — anonymised analytics via PostHog and Vercel Analytics to understand how the Platform is used

We use your data to:

• Provide and improve the ParleAfrica platform
• Send you notifications (push and email) about activity on your account
• Send weekly recap emails and motivational messages
• Process and verify Premium subscription payments
• Display your birthday (day and month) to the community on your birthday
• Moderate content and enforce Community Guidelines
• Understand usage patterns to improve the product

We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

We share data only with the following trusted services necessary to operate the Platform:

• Supabase — database and authentication
• Paystack — payment processing
• Resend — transactional email delivery
• Groq — AI language tools in the Language Studio
• Vercel — hosting and analytics
• PostHog — anonymised product analytics

Each of these providers has their own privacy policy and data processing agreements.

If you add your birthday, only the day and month are stored — never the year. Your birthday is displayed to other community members on the Birthdays tab on your birthday only. You can remove or update your birthday at any time from your Profile settings.

We retain your data for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, your personal data is removed from our systems within 30 days, except where retention is required by law or for fraud prevention.

You have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your account and data
• Opt out of marketing emails by contacting us

To exercise any of these rights, email parleafrica@gmail.com.

ParleAfrica uses browser local storage to save your language preference and session data. We do not use third-party advertising cookies. Analytics tools may use anonymised cookies to track usage patterns.

We take reasonable technical measures to protect your data, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), row-level security on our database, and secure authentication via Supabase. No system is 100% secure — if you believe your account has been compromised, contact us immediately.

ParleAfrica is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, please contact us and we will remove it promptly.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of significant changes via email or an in-app notice. Continued use of the Platform after changes are posted constitutes acceptance.

Questions about this Privacy Policy? Email us at parleafrica@gmail.com or visit our Contact page.