Privacy Policy — Kalamo

Last updated: 2026-09-25

Kalamo ("the app") is a language-learning app. This policy explains what the app does with your information. It is written to be short and true.

The short version

Kalamo has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Everything you do stays on your phone, with three exceptions:

1. Messages you write or say to the AI tutor are sent to an AI provider so it can reply.
2. When you use the microphone, your phone's own speech service (Apple on iPhone, Google on Android, or your browser on the web) turns your voice into text. Kalamo never records or keeps the audio, and never sends it to us or to the AI provider.
3. Kalamo Pro. A random installation number is sent to our server so it can tell whether Pro is active — during the free month, through a subscription, or through a code (see Kalamo Pro).

What stays on your device

The app saves the following only on your phone, using the device's own storage:

• Your learning progress (lessons completed, XP, day streak)
• Your vocabulary review schedule
• Your settings (interface language, course, daily goal, theme, reminder on/off)
• Your tutor conversations — the app keeps no copy anywhere else
• The random installation number described under The AI tutor

Apart from the installation number, which is sent as described below, this information is never uploaded, never shared, and never seen by us. Uninstalling the app removes all of it.

The AI tutor

When you send a message on the Tutor screen, the app sends it to our server, which passes it to our AI provider — DeepSeek, a company based in China — and returns the reply.

What is sent:

• The text of the message you typed
• Up to your last 3 exchanges with the tutor, so it can follow the conversation
• Three short settings: your interface language, the language you are learning, and your level (for example ar, en, A2)
• A random installation number, described below

The installation number. The first time you open Kalamo, the app makes up a random string (something like k3f9a1c8b2d7e0f4). It is sent to our server for two reasons: so it can count tutor messages and stop at the daily limit (5 a day on the free plan, 50 with Pro), and so it can tell whether Kalamo Pro is active. It is not your name, not your email, not your phone's ID, and it is not connected to anything about you — the app never learns who you are. It is not used for advertising, analytics, or tracking you across apps or websites. Reinstalling the app replaces it with a new one.

What is not sent:

• No name, email, phone number, or account — the app has none of these
• No advertising ID and no identifier belonging to your phone or from your operating system
• No audio. When you talk to the tutor, only the text your phone recognised is sent — the sound of your voice never is (see Microphone below)
• No lesson history, no progress data, and nothing from any other screen

How it is handled — please read this part. We do not store your messages on our server; they are passed through and the reply is returned. But once a message reaches DeepSeek, DeepSeek's own rules apply, and they are not the same as ours:

• Your messages are processed and stored in the People's Republic of China.
• DeepSeek's terms allow it to use what is sent through its API to develop and improve its services and the technology behind them, which can include training its AI models. DeepSeek's developer terms do not promise otherwise, and we will not tell you they do.
• DeepSeek does not publish a fixed deletion date for this data.

DeepSeek's own documents: privacy policy and platform terms.

We chose this provider for an ordinary reason: it is the one we are able to pay for from where we are. We would rather say that plainly than imply a protection we cannot deliver.

What this means for you. If you are not comfortable with the above, do not use the Tutor screen. Nothing else in Kalamo sends anything anywhere — every lesson, story, review and speaking exercise runs entirely on your phone. The tutor is one screen out of five, and skipping it costs you nothing else.

If you are in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we suggest you do not use the Tutor screen. Sending your text to a company in China involves data-protection questions we are not in a position to answer properly for you as a one-person project.

Please don't type personal details. This matters more here than it would elsewhere. The tutor is for language practice — write about the weather, your day, what you ate. Do not tell it your full name, address, workplace, ID numbers, passwords, or payment details, and do not write anything you would mind a stranger reading.

The tutor is limited to 5 messages a day on the free plan and 50 with Kalamo Pro. You can use the whole app — every lesson, story, review, and speaking exercise — without ever opening the Tutor screen.

Kalamo Pro

Every new installation gets Kalamo Pro free for its first 30 days; after that, Pro is paid. To know which applies, our server keeps a small record for each installation number. It holds no name, email, phone number or payment card — only what is listed here:

• Always: the installation number and the date our server first saw it, which starts the free month.
• If you subscribe on iPhone: the payment is made to Apple, not to us. The app passes us Apple's signed receipt, and we keep its transaction number, which plan it is, when it expires, and whether it was refunded. Apple does not tell us your name or your Apple ID.
• If you use a Pro code: the code, which installation it is active on, and when it started and ends. Entering the code on a new phone moves it there.
• If you buy a code on our website: the payment is handled by Wayl, an Iraqi payment company, under its own privacy terms. We keep only the payment reference and the code it produced — never your card details.

These records are kept so that Pro keeps working for as long as you have paid for it. To have yours deleted, write to us with your code or the date you bought it.

Microphone

The speaking exercises and the tutor's talk mode can listen to you, so they can tell which words were understood or reply to what you said.

• Kalamo does not turn speech into text itself. It asks your device's built-in speech service to do it: Apple's speech recognition on iPhone, Google's on most Android phones, and your browser's on the web. That service may process the audio on its own servers, under its own privacy policy. We chose this over sending audio anywhere ourselves.
• Kalamo never records, stores, or uploads your audio. It receives only the resulting text.
• In the tutor, that text is then sent to DeepSeek like a typed message, as described above.
• The app asks for microphone permission before it listens, and you can refuse — the rest of the app still works, and you can always type instead.

The tutor's voice

When Samir reads a reply aloud, the voice is produced by your phone's own text-to-speech, the same engine your phone uses for accessibility. You can mute it with the 🔊 button on the Tutor screen.

Notifications

If you turn on the daily reminder, the reminder is scheduled by your phone's operating system. No notification data leaves your device and we do not send push messages.

Children

Kalamo contains no ads, no purchases, and no chat with other people. The AI tutor is a language-practice conversation with a machine, not a person, and its replies are constrained to language teaching. Because the app collects no personal information and requires no account, there is no profile of a child to build. Parents who would rather their child not use the AI feature can simply not open the Tutor screen — nothing else in the app depends on it.

Your choices

• Don't use the tutor. Nothing is then sent to DeepSeek or to us.
• Don't use the microphone. Speaking exercises let you listen, repeat aloud, and move on, and the tutor accepts typing.
• Reset progress (Settings) erases your learning progress and review schedule.
• Uninstall removes everything saved on your phone. We hold no account; the only thing left on our server is the Pro record described under Kalamo Pro, which names no one. Write to us if you want it deleted.

Changes

If a future version sends anything further off your device, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the change will be described here.

Contact

Questions about this policy: tuktukrecord@gmail.com