Privacy
As little as possible, and only for a reason.
Your images live on your phone. Sharing is your choice. No ads, no tracking, no cookies.
In short
- Your images stay on your phone until you choose to share.
- Sharing needs an account: just your email address and a name you choose.
- We sell nothing, show no ads, and use no trackers or cookies.
- Our servers are in the European Union.
- You can delete everything at any time.
Who is responsible
[Lexis Foundation, being set up], [address], is responsible for processing your data. Questions: privacy@lexis.earth.
Without an account
You can use Lexis without an account. Then this happens:
| What | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your images, your list, your settings | Only on your phone | So the app works. We can't see them. |
| Words you look up | Sent to our server, not stored | To fetch translations. |
| Your word in What do you see? | Our server, with a random key per phone | So you can see your own words again. Not linked to you as a person. |
| A report | Our server | To deal with abuse. |
| Technical data (IP address, time) | Server log, briefly | To detect outages and attacks. [retention: 14 days] |
With an account (only for sharing)
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email address | To sign in with a code. We don't send newsletters unless you ask. |
| Your name in Lexis | Others see it with your images. It can be a nickname. |
| The images you share, with word and language | To show them to others. |
| Who you follow and thank | To show this in the app. |
The sign-in code is valid for ten minutes and then erased. We store no password, because there isn't one.
Photos often carry hidden data, such as where and when they were taken and which phone took them. We remove it. The app saves every image again without that data, and our server checks once more when you share.
Why, and on what basis
- To run the app and share your images: because you ask us to (performance of a contract).
- To prevent abuse and keep the server safe: legitimate interest.
We never use your data for ads, profiles or sale. AI may help spot abuse, but never makes a decision about you on its own.
How long we keep things
- Shared images: until you switch sharing off or remove the image. Then they disappear from the server.
- Your account: until you delete it, in the app under Menu → Account. Your shared images go with it.
- Reports: as long as needed to handle them, then [at most one year].
- Server log: [14 days].
Who else has access
Only parties we need to run Lexis, under a data processing agreement and within the EU:
| Party | For | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Online | Servers | Germany / Finland |
| [email service, to be chosen] | Sending sign-in codes | EU |
On a language page, your phone loads small maps from OpenStreetMap, which sees your IP address, as any website would. [We're considering routing the maps through our own server.]
Age
Anyone can use Lexis. To share, you must be [16] or older, or have permission from a parent or guardian.
Your rights
You can always ask what data we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, object, or take it with you. You download your images yourself, with Download all your images in the app. For anything else, email privacy@lexis.earth and we'll reply within a month.
If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
This website
lexis.earth uses no cookies, no analytics, and no third-party fonts or scripts. Our server keeps a short technical log, as described above.
Changes
If we change something important, you'll see it in the app before it takes effect. This version: [date].