Lora — Privacy Policy

Last updated 29 August 2026

Lora is an app for learning English by listening to real podcasts and lectures while the transcript follows along. There are no accounts and no sign-in, so nothing you do here is tied to your name or your email. Lora does stream its audio, look words up for you, and show ads, and each of those involves sending something over the network. This page explains exactly what.

What Lora stores on your device

• Where you got to. The episode you were listening to and how far through it you were, so "Continue listening" can offer it back.
• Your upvotes, the translation language you picked, and whether you have seen the introduction.
• Clearing the app's storage, or uninstalling Lora, deletes all of this permanently.

An anonymous device identifier

Upvotes work without an account, so Lora needs some way to count one vote per device. On first launch it generates a random identifier — a UUID that is not derived from your phone, your advertising ID, or anything else about you — stores it on the device, and sends it with your votes so they can be counted and shown back to you.

• It is not linked to any other identifier and it identifies a single installation, not a person.
• Uninstalling Lora discards it. A fresh install generates a new one, and the old votes can no longer be traced to you — which also means they cannot be recovered or individually withdrawn.

Looking a word up

When you press and hold a word in a transcript, Lora asks two free public services for help, and this is the one place where text from the app leaves your device:

• The word alone goes to dictionaryapi.dev for an English definition.
• The word and the sentence it appears in go to MyMemory to be translated into the language you chose. MyMemory is a shared translation memory, and text sent to it may be retained by that service.

The text sent is the published transcript of the episode you are listening to — never anything you typed, and never anything about you. Neither request carries your device identifier. If you never long-press a word, neither request is ever made.

Streaming and the catalogue

• The list of collections, episodes and transcripts is fetched from Supabase, which hosts Lora's database.
• Episode audio and cover art are streamed from Cloudflare R2 and, for some collections, directly from the publisher's own servers — Oxford University Podcasts, VOA Learning English and the BBC among them.
• As with loading any web page, these servers see your IP address and the technical details your device sends with the request. We do not combine that with anything else, and for the publishers' own servers what happens is governed by their privacy policies, not ours.

Advertising

Lora shows ads through Google AdMob, which is what keeps it free. To serve and measure ads, Google may collect your device's advertising ID along with technical information such as device type, operating system version, and approximate location derived from your IP address. This is handled by Google, not by us — we never receive it, and it is not connected to your votes, your listening history, or the words you look up.

• In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Lora asks for your consent before ads are personalised, using Google's own consent form, shown the first time the app has ads to display.
• You can reset or delete your advertising ID at any time in your device's settings, under Google → Ads. The same screen lets you opt out of ad personalisation across every app on the device.
• See How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Other network activity

• Update checks. On launch, Lora asks Google Play whether a newer version exists.
• Fonts. The app's typeface is fetched from Google Fonts the first time it is needed, then cached on your device.
• Apart from these, the ads above, and the requests described earlier, Lora makes no network requests.

What we do not do

• No accounts, no sign-in, no profile.
• No analytics or crash-reporting SDK of any kind.
• No microphone, camera, contacts, or precise location access.
• We do not sell your data — for the most part we do not receive it in the first place.

Children

Lora is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them. Some of the material in the catalogue comes from educational broadcasters and is written in plain, beginner-level English, but the app is made for adults and older learners studying English, and it is not designed, marketed, or intended for children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy: azizsafaroff24@gmail.com