Cinelang
Cinelang Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 19, 2026
Who we are and the short version
Cinelang is an iPhone app for learning English from short movie scenes. It is published by Aram Abramian ("Cinelang", "we", "us"). This policy explains what information the app and this website handle, why, and what you can do about it. Questions go to cinelangsupport@gmail.com.
The short version:
- No accounts. You never sign in to the app, and the app never asks for your name, email address, or phone number.
- Most of your data stays on your iPhone. Your language, saved words, review progress, and streak are stored in the app on your device.
- Two services receive app data under a random identifier: RevenueCat, which manages subscriptions, and PostHog, which shows us how the app is used.
- Videos play in YouTube's embedded player. Cinelang uses YouTube API Services, and the player connects to YouTube directly.
- The website asks for your email only if you join the waitlist or become a founding member. Loops keeps the list and sends our emails, and Lemon Squeezy handles the payment.
- No ads from us, no cross-app tracking, no selling your data.
What Cinelang collects and why
| Information | Where it goes | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your native language, interests, daily goal, and reminder time | Your device only | To translate into your language, choose clips, and remind you |
| Clips you've seen, saved words, review progress, streak, and journey | Your device only | To run the feed, Vocab review, and the journey |
| Activity events: clips watched and for how long, words tapped and saved, your onboarding answers (how you heard of Cinelang, your English level, why you're learning), subscription screens viewed and purchase outcomes, device model, iOS version, and app version | Your device and PostHog | To understand how the app is used and improve it |
| Approximate location (country and city), worked out from your IP address | PostHog | To see where the app is used |
| Purchases and subscription status, a random app user ID, locale, currency, and basic app and device details | RevenueCat and Apple | To sell subscriptions, check access, and restore purchases |
| Your email address and message, if you write to us | Our email provider (Gmail) | To answer you |
The random identifier. RevenueCat creates a random ID the first time you open Cinelang. We use the same ID in PostHog, so subscription events and app activity can be counted together. The ID isn't linked to your name, email address, Apple Account, or advertising identifier.
YouTube. Clips play in YouTube's embedded player through YouTube API Services. The player connects to YouTube directly, and Google may collect information such as your IP address, device details, and what you watch, and may store cookies or similar data in the app. YouTube may show ads in its player; Cinelang shows none of its own. The Google Privacy Policy covers what Google collects. Cinelang doesn't ask you to sign in to Google and doesn't receive your YouTube account or watch history.
Apple. Apple processes payments, so we never see your card or payment details. Explain more uses Apple Intelligence on your device; we don't receive the words you ask about or the explanation. Reminders are notifications scheduled on your iPhone, only if you allow them. The Home Screen widget reads your streak from the app's storage on your device.
Storage on your device. Cinelang keeps its data in the app's own storage, not in browser cookies. RevenueCat keeps a copy of your subscription status, PostHog keeps the random ID and events waiting to be sent, and YouTube's player may keep cookies or similar data in the app's web view.
What the app doesn't collect. Your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, microphone, precise location, or advertising identifier. Cinelang doesn't track you across other companies' apps or websites.
The Cinelang website
The website is separate from the app. Nothing you enter on it is connected to the app's random identifier.
| Information | Where it goes | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address, which list you joined (waitlist or founding member), and the site language you were viewing | Loops | To send the emails you signed up for |
| Your name, email address, country, payment details, and order | Lemon Squeezy | To sell you a founding membership, charge any sales tax or VAT, and send your receipt |
| Your IP address and browser details when a page loads | Cloudflare, Google Fonts, and Lemon Squeezy | To serve the site, its fonts, and its checkout |
| The language you pick on the site | Your browser only | So the site remembers it |
Emails. Waitlist members only get emails about the launch. Founding members also get emails about their membership, such as how to unlock Cinelang and invitations to the founders group. Every email has an unsubscribe link. See the Loops Privacy Policy.
Payments. Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record for founding memberships: it takes the payment and handles tax and receipts under its own Privacy Policy. We see your order and contact details in Lemon Squeezy, but never your full card number.
No tracking on the site. The website has no analytics and no advertising, and we don't set cookies on it. Lemon Squeezy's checkout may set its own cookies when it opens.
Legal bases (EEA, UK, and Switzerland). We use subscription data to provide the service you bought (contract). We use activity events and approximate location for our legitimate interest in understanding and improving Cinelang. Reminders are sent only with your permission, which you can withdraw in iOS Settings at any time. We send emails because you asked for them (consent), and you can withdraw that by unsubscribing. We use founding-member order details to provide what you bought (contract). We handle copyright complaints and legal requests to comply with the law, and for our legitimate interest in protecting our legal rights and those of others.
Copyright complaints and legal requests
If you send us a copyright complaint or another legal request, we collect what you include: your name, email address, and other contact details, a description of the copyrighted work, details of the content you're reporting, and any documents you attach. If you use the flag in the app, the email it opens also names the clip, its YouTube source, and its Cinelang ID. The Copyright Policy explains how to send a complaint.
We use this information to look into and answer the complaint, to communicate with the people involved, to keep a record of legal requests, to comply with the law, and to protect the legal rights of Cinelang and others.
We share it only when reasonably necessary to look into or resolve a complaint, or to meet a legal obligation. It may go to our legal advisers, our service providers (such as our email provider), the rights holders involved, or the appropriate authorities.
We keep it for as long as reasonably necessary for these purposes, and longer if the law requires.
Sharing, retention, and security
Who receives data. Only the service providers above, each for the purpose listed: RevenueCat for subscriptions, PostHog for analytics, Apple for payments and notifications, Google through YouTube's player and the website's fonts, Loops for email, Lemon Squeezy for founding-member payments, and Cloudflare for hosting the website. Copyright complaints and legal requests can also go to the people listed in that section. RevenueCat also sends PostHog your subscription events, such as a trial starting, a renewal, or a cancellation, under the same random ID. We may disclose information when the law requires it, or to a buyer if Cinelang is sold or merged, who must then follow this policy. We don't sell or rent your data, and we don't share it for advertising.
How long we keep it.
- On your device: until you delete it. Delete saved words in Vocab, and clear the activity log in Settings → Local analytics. Deleting the app deletes all of its data, though device backups may keep a copy. Once the on-device activity log passes 1 MB, only its latest 1,000 events are kept.
- PostHog: up to 12 months, then deleted.
- RevenueCat: while you have a subscription, and afterwards as long as needed for tax, accounting, and legal requirements.
- Loops: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete your email address.
- Lemon Squeezy orders: as long as needed for tax, accounting, and legal requirements.
- Emails to us: as long as needed to handle your request.
- Copyright complaints and legal requests: as long as reasonably necessary to handle them and keep a record, and longer if the law requires.
Deleting the app doesn't cancel a subscription; see the Terms of Use.
International transfers. RevenueCat, PostHog, Loops, and Lemon Squeezy store data in the United States. When data from the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland goes there, these providers rely on recognized safeguards, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
Security. Everything the app and the website send travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS), and data on your iPhone is protected by iOS. No system is perfectly secure, but we limit what we collect so there is little to expose.
Your choices and rights
- Delete what's on your device at any time, as described above.
- Turn reminders off in Cinelang's Settings or in iOS Settings.
- Unsubscribe from our emails with the link in any of them.
- Ask about data held by RevenueCat, PostHog, Loops, or Lemon Squeezy. Email cinelangsupport@gmail.com to get a copy, correct it, or delete it. Because the app has no accounts, we can't look up app data by name or email address: tell us roughly when you installed Cinelang or subscribed, and include your App Store order ID if you have one. For website data, tell us the email address you used. We reply within 30 days.
- EEA, UK, and Switzerland: you have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, and port your data, and to object to processing based on legitimate interests. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
- California and other US states: you have the right to know, correct, and delete personal information. We don't sell or share personal information for advertising, and we won't treat you differently for using your rights.
Children
Cinelang isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child under 13 has given us information, email us and we'll delete it.
Changes to this policy
We'll post changes on this page with a new effective date. If a change is significant, we'll also update the privacy policy inside the app.
Contact
Aram Abramian
cinelangsupport@gmail.com