YourFlashCards (yourflashcards.app) is a personal project by Anton Kulikov for learning vocabulary. Its source code is public on GitHub, so you can check everything this page says.
What is collected
- Your Google account basics: your name, email address, profile photo and an account id, received when you sign in with Google. They are used to sign you in and to show your photo in the app.
- Your words: your collections, the words and translations in them, and which collections are switched on for study.
- Your progress: which words you know and when you last saw each one.
- Usage statistics, through Google Analytics: pages viewed, switching between flashcards and quiz, whether quiz answers were right or wrong and flashcards marked known or not, changing the interface language, installing the app, and how long a session lasts. Google also records your browser and device type and an approximate location derived from your IP address. Your name, email, account id and words are never sent to Google Analytics.
- On your device only: your interface language, which collections you last had open, and an offline copy of the app's files so it starts quickly.
How it is used
To run the app: sign you in, keep your words and progress, and sync them across your devices. The usage statistics show which features are used, so the app can be improved. There are no ads, nothing is sold, and your data is not used to profile you.
Who processes it
The app runs on Google's Firebase. Sign-in is handled by Firebase Authentication; your words and progress are stored in Cloud Firestore in the European Union; the app is served by Firebase Hosting; usage statistics go to Google Analytics. Fonts and parts of the app are loaded from Google's servers, which see your IP address like any website you visit. See Google's privacy policy and Firebase's privacy information.
Cookies
Google Analytics sets two cookies, _ga and _ga_E0J0MDFKE6, to
tell visits apart. Signing in keeps you signed in using your browser's storage. You can
block analytics with your browser's privacy settings or Google's
opt-out add-on; the app works the
same without it.
How long it is kept
Your account, words and progress are kept until you delete them. Deleting a word or a collection in the app removes it from the database straight away. Google Analytics keeps usage statistics for the period set in the analytics property (two months by default).
Your choices
- Export any collection as a CSV file from My Cards.
- Delete words or whole collections at any time.
- Ask for a copy of all your data, or for your account and all its data to be deleted, by writing to help@yourflashcards.app from the email address you sign in with.
If you are in the EU or the UK, you also have the rights the GDPR gives you, including access, correction, deletion and objection, and you can complain to your data protection authority.
Children
YourFlashCards is not directed at children under 13.
Contact
Questions about your data or this page: help@yourflashcards.app.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. The full history of the page is public in the GitHub repository.