Privacy Policy

Privacy first: Pocket Lingo is designed so that Studio AM never sees what you translate. There is no Studio AM account or cloud-translation service, and Studio AM does not use tracking, analytics, or advertising. Translation performed inside Pocket Lingo stays on your device. If you choose an optional model download, only the fixed model-file request goes to the download provider; your text, photos, and audio do not.

1. Information we collect

1.1 Personal information

Studio AM collects no personal information through Pocket Lingo. The app requires no Studio AM account, email, or identifier. An optional model download connects directly to Hugging Face. Hugging Face states that its service automatically records service use and connection information such as the requested model artifact, session date and location, IP address, device type and model, operating system, and browser or client information, and may retain it under its stated purposes. Studio AM does not receive that information. Pocket Lingo conservatively treats this as third-party collection of product interaction, approximate location, and device diagnostics, linked to the user, for app functionality, analytics, and the provider's other stated purposes, but not for tracking. See the Hugging Face Privacy Policy for its uses, retention, and deletion process.

1.2 Your text, speech, photos, and practice

Text, speech, camera frames, imported photos, saved translations, practice sentences, quiz answers, and dietary preferences are processed or stored on the device. Camera and imported-photo content is not uploaded for translation. Pocket Lingo does not send this content to Studio AM. Conversation audio, including audio captured by the optional hands-free mode, is processed transiently on the device and is not uploaded to Studio AM.

1.3 Analytics

Studio AM receives no analytics or usage data. Pocket Lingo keeps a few anonymous event counts locally on the device so its own settings and debug tools can show them; they are never transmitted automatically. The app contains no third-party tracking or advertising SDK.

2. On-device processing & offline use

Translation uses Apple Intelligence where available or an optional enhanced model downloaded from Hugging Face on supported devices; speech uses system voices. The download request identifies a fixed model file and never includes your translation text, photos, recordings, saved data, or practice activity. Once the required model is ready, translation can run in airplane mode. Network access may also be used to process an App Store purchase or restore. If you decline a result and explicitly choose the optional web-search handoff, the query opens in an external service under that service's privacy terms.

3. Permissions

Camera, photo-library, microphone, speech-recognition, notification, and Face ID permissions are requested only when you choose the related feature. You can deny them and continue using features that do not require that permission.

4. Purchases and archive access

Pocket Lingo offers monthly and yearly auto-renewable subscriptions through the App Store. The App Store shows the current local price and any introductory offer for which a customer is eligible. The retired lifetime product is not sold to new customers but remains restorable for verified previous owners. If subscription access ends, saved translations and phrases remain readable, searchable, exportable, and deletable. The Rescue Kit remains available without a subscription or translation model; new translation and learning routes remain locked.

5. Export and deletion

You can export saved translations and translation history as Markdown or JSON, including from archive mode, and delete existing archive rows. Copies you previously exported are outside the app and are not deleted automatically.

6. Requirements

Pocket Lingo requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later. Available translation languages and features depend on the compatible model active on the device. The phrasebook does not require a translation model; read-aloud uses a compatible system voice when one is installed.

7. Children's privacy

Pocket Lingo does not ask children or other users for personal information, and Studio AM does not receive translation content or model-download connection information. An optional model download uses Hugging Face and is subject to the provider disclosure in Section 1.1.

8. Changes to this policy

If the app's data practices ever change, this page will be updated and the effective date revised before the change ships.

9. Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]