NurseLingo Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 29, 2026

The short version

The NurseLingo app works without an account, and your study progress stays on your device. No ads and no tracking. Our email list is optional and is never linked to your study progress. Professor Lingo answers on our server without keeping anything, and AI explanations only turn on if you allow them.

A NurseLingo account is optional. If you sign in, in the app or at nurselingo.app/pro, the same account and the same NurseLingo Pro work on the web, iPhone and Android: we keep your email, your saved items (My Stuff), and a record of a Pro plan you bought from us, Apple or Google, so it unlocks everywhere. See Your NurseLingo account. NurseLingo Pro on the web also saves your study progress; see NurseLingo Pro.

In the app, your study data stays on your device

• Your progress, the topics you have mastered, your Professor Lingo conversations, your custom cards and decks, and your settings are stored only on your device.
• Deleting the app deletes them. We never have a copy.
• If you sign in, the items you save or star in My Stuff (mind maps, podcasts, decks, guides, question sets, single flashcards and questions) are stored in your account so they appear on the web too. Your study progress still stays on your device.

How Professor Lingo works

• When you ask Professor Lingo something, the app sends your message together with the study progress saved on your device to our server. The server works out the answer, sends it back with your updated progress, and keeps nothing. No name, email, account or device ID is sent.
• Most answers come from NurseLingo's own mind maps, cheat sheets, podcasts and practice questions, with no AI involved.

AI explanations (optional)

• AI explanations are off until you allow them, either in the chat or in Settings, Professor Lingo, AI explanations. You can turn them off the same way, or by telling Professor Lingo "turn off AI explanations".
• When they are on and you ask for a tailored or simpler explanation (or a message is unclear), your question, your last few messages in that chat, and a short summary of your study progress are sent to Google Gemini to write the reply. Your name and email are never sent.
• Google does not use this to train its models. Google keeps it for up to 55 days only to detect misuse of its service, then deletes it.
• Please leave patient names and other personal details out of anything you type. AI explanations are for studying, can be wrong, and are not medical advice.

Custom podcast episodes (optional)

• If you create your own episode, you enter an email address so we can keep your episodes and episode credits. We do not send marketing email.
• The topic or notes you provide are used to write the episode with Anthropic Claude and voice it with ElevenLabs or Google text-to-speech. The finished episodes are stored so you can play them again.
• Episode credit purchases are processed by Apple. We receive the App Store's signed purchase record, never your name or payment details.

Downloads

The app downloads podcast audio, mind maps, cheat sheets and content updates from our server. These downloads carry no personal information.

Daily 5 and the Nursing Arcade (free games on our website)

Daily 5 (nurselingo.app/daily) and the Nursing Arcade games (nurselingo.app/arcade) need no account. Your answers, scores and streaks are stored only in your browser. Our server counts anonymous totals: for Daily 5, how many people started and finished each day's puzzle, how many got each question right, and how many tapped Share or the App Store link; for the arcade, how many games were started, finished and shared each day. There are no identifiers and nothing that links a total to you.

"How did you hear about NurseLingo?" (optional)

When you first open the app, we ask how you heard about NurseLingo (for example TikTok, YouTube or a friend). You can skip it. The app sends only your answer to our server, which adds it to an anonymous daily total; if you later buy NurseLingo Pro, the app sends that same answer once more so we can count which places bring paying students. There are no identifiers and nothing that links a total to you. On the NurseLingo Pro website, the same optional question is saved with your account so we can see which places bring students who sign up.

Email list (optional, in the app or on our website)

• You can join our email list in the NurseLingo app (with Sign in with Apple or by typing your email) or on nurselingo.app. It is always optional: you can use the app without it.
• If you use Sign in with Apple, we ask Apple only for your email address, never your name. You can choose Apple's Hide My Email; then we only see a private relay address that forwards to you.
• We store your email address, where you signed up (the app or a page on our website), the signup date, which of our emails we have sent you, and, if you picked it in the app, your stage in school (for example "Semester 2" or "NCLEX prep").
• We use it only to send our welcome email, short study emails and NurseLingo Weekly, our newsletter about NCLEX and nursing school study, plus occasional news about NurseLingo. We never sell it or share it for anyone else's marketing.
• Emails are delivered by Resend, our email provider, and the list is stored in our database (Upstash). The app also sends anonymous counts of how often the sign-up screen is shown and skipped, with no identifiers.
• Every email has an unsubscribe link; one tap stops all of them. If you signed up in the app, Settings, Study tips email, "Unsubscribe and delete my email" removes your address from our list. You can also email us from that address and ask us to delete it.
• Your email is not linked to your study progress: that stays on your device, as described above.

Your NurseLingo account (optional)

• Signing in. You can sign in with Sign in with Apple, Continue with Google (Android and web), or a 6-digit code we email you. You never need an account to use the app. With Sign in with Apple we ask Apple only for your email address, and you can choose Hide My Email. With Google we receive your email address and, if Google provides them, your name and profile picture.
• What we store. Your email address, an account ID, how you signed in, and what you save to My Stuff.
• Purchases from Apple or Google. If you bought NurseLingo Pro in the App Store or Google Play and sign in, the app sends us that purchase's record, signed by Apple or Google. Apple and Google also send us renewal, cancellation and refund updates for it. We store the purchase ID, which plan it is, whether it is active and when it renews or ends, so your Pro works on the web and in both apps. We never receive your name, card or billing details from Apple or Google. A purchase can be linked to one NurseLingo account.
• Pro bought on the web unlocks the apps when you sign in with the same account.
• Email me the link. If you tap it, we email you a one-time sign-in link to open NurseLingo Pro on a computer.
• Deleting it. Delete your account any time in the app (Settings > NurseLingo account > Delete account) or at nurselingo.app/pro/account/delete. Your account, saved items and web progress are erased, a web subscription is cancelled, and (when you delete in the iPhone app) your Sign in with Apple connection is revoked. App Store and Google Play subscriptions are billed by Apple or Google: cancel those in your phone's settings.

NurseLingo Pro (nurselingo.app/pro, account required)

• Your account. You sign in with Google, Apple or a 6-digit code we email you (no password). We store your email address and, if you enter them, your name, exam date, stage in school, time zone, daily study goal, reminder time and display preferences (map view and art style).
• Your study progress. To show your progress, streak and what to study next, we store your answers to practice questions (score, time taken and how sure you were), your flashcard review schedule, and which topics, maps, guides and podcasts you open and for how long.
• Paid access. If you buy Pro, you pay on Stripe's checkout page. Stripe collects and processes your card details and billing address; we never see or store your full card number. Stripe tells us your email, the plan you bought and whether your payment succeeded. We store your plan, whether it is active, when it renews, and the Stripe customer and subscription IDs that link your account to your payments. Stripe handles your payment information under its own privacy policy (stripe.com/privacy). If you bought Pro in the App Store or Google Play instead, see Your NurseLingo account.
• Reminder emails. Pro can email you a daily study reminder. You can turn reminders off or change the time in Settings, and every reminder has a one-click unsubscribe link.
• Who handles it. Your account and progress are stored with Supabase (our database and sign-in provider), the site runs on Vercel, sign-in links and reminders are sent by Resend, and payments are processed by Stripe. We use one sign-in cookie to keep you signed in, and your browser remembers a few display choices. No advertising or tracking cookies.
• Same account in the apps. If you sign in to the NurseLingo app with the same account, your saved items and your Pro plan follow you. Your study progress in the app stays on your phone. We never sell your data or use it for anyone else's marketing.
• Deleting it. Delete your account in Settings or at nurselingo.app/pro/account/delete, and everything stored with it is erased. Payment records that Stripe, Apple or Google must keep by law (such as receipts) stay with them.

Our website

• nurselingo.app uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and button taps. It sets no cookies and does not identify you.
• App Store and Google Play links on the site carry a campaign label (for example "web-sheet") so Apple and Google can show us, in aggregate, which pages lead to downloads. No personal information is attached.

What we never do

• No advertising, no ad networks, no tracking across apps or websites, and no data brokers. We do not sell your data.
• No analytics, attribution or crash-reporting SDKs in the app. Our server counts how often features are used, with no link to who used them.

Every SDK in the app

This is the complete list of code in NurseLingo that we did not write:

• Apple frameworks (iOS): SwiftUI, Combine, WidgetKit, UserNotifications, StoreKit, AVFoundation, PDFKit, Security (for the keychain), AuthenticationServices (Sign in with Apple) and CryptoKit.
• AndroidX / Jetpack (Android): Compose, Glance, DataStore, WorkManager, Credential Manager. Google's own UI, storage and sign-in libraries.
• Google Identity (Android): used only for Continue with Google, when you tap it.
• Google Play Billing (Android) and StoreKit (iOS): used to sell and restore Premium and episode credits. The purchase is processed by Google or Apple.

The AI services above are called by our server, not by code inside the app.

Android

Studying on Android works fully offline. The app connects to our server only if you sign in: to sign you in, to link a Google Play purchase to your account, and to check whether your account has Pro.

Deleting your data

In the app, your study data lives only on your device, so deleting the app removes it. To delete a NurseLingo account, use Settings > NurseLingo account > Delete account in the app, Settings on nurselingo.app/pro, or nurselingo.app/pro/account/delete. To remove your email from our list, use Settings, Study tips email in the app, or email us from that address. To delete podcast episodes saved under your email, email us from that address.

Children's privacy

NurseLingo is made for nursing students and is rated 13+. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions? Email piercepaulemail@gmail.com.

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