Privacy

When you join, Go Baonic stores your email address, which form you used, the time you signed up and the time you confirmed. If you answer the optional questions, we store which platforms you'd use and your Mandarin level.

We use this to tell you about early access and the launch, and to decide what to build next. We don't sell it. Our legal basis in the EU and UK is your consent, which you give by pressing the link in the confirmation email.

We ask everyone to confirm by email before we send anything else. If you never confirm, your address is deleted within 30 days of the confirmation email.

Every email includes a link that permanently deletes your address and answers. You can withdraw consent that way at any time.

The site and the waitlist database are hosted by Cloudflare, and confirmation emails are sent through Resend. They process data on our behalf, and may do so outside your country.

To limit abuse, we keep a short-lived counter of signup attempts. It's tied to a keyed hash of your IP address rather than the address itself, and is deleted within about a day. Our hosting provider may keep standard access logs.

If analytics are enabled, we use Plausible to count page visits and a few actions: signups, button clicks and use of the demos. It sets no cookies and doesn't build profiles of individuals. The demos on this page work on fixed sample text and report only that they were used.

The app is coming to Mac first, and to Android, iPhone and Windows later. It isn't released yet, so these are design goals rather than a description of working software: on-device processing, no account, and core features that work offline.

To schedule reviews, the app keeps a record of the words you look up: when you looked, the sentence each word was in, and the name and window title of the app you were reading. This stays in a database on your device and isn't sent anywhere. Text read from the screen is recognised on the device, and the images are never saved.

If you import a word list or link an Anki deck, those words and the deck's review history are kept in the same database. The Anki link talks to the Anki app on your device through its AnkiConnect add-on, not over the internet. Words you choose to send to Anki go into your Anki collection with their sentence and the app and window they came from, and Anki's own sync, if you use it, applies to them from there. If anything changes, we'll say so before you buy.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete your data, and to complain to your data protection authority. Write to dev@gobaonic.com.