Words on the Road — Privacy Policy
Store name by language: EN Words on the Road · PT Palavras em Viagem · ES Palabras en Ruta · FR Mots en Voyage · IT Parole in Viaggio · DE Wörter unterwegs. Same app, same policy.
Last updated: 4 October 2026 · Publisher: Kodalab (Joel Gomes) · Android applicationcom.kodalab.palavras
What stays on your device
Your progress (which phrases you learned, when each one is due for review, your answers' results, your streak, the session in progress), your settings and the time of the last ad are stored on the device only. There are no accounts, and no servers of ours receive learning data apart from the optional world ranking described below. Uninstalling the app, or "Delete my data" in Settings, deletes them.
Speech
Phrases are read aloud by your device's own text-to-speech engine. The app sends it only the Portuguese phrase to read. The app never records or listens to your voice and does not use the microphone.
What leaves your device
- Once a day the app downloads the public list of other Kodalab apps (kodalab.pt). The request carries no identifier.
- Share texts and challenge codes are only sent where you choose to share them, through Android's share sheet, and you see the exact text first. A code contains the scene and your score, nothing else.
- Only if you ask for it: after each finished session (the score is today's running total of correct answers), the app offers the world ranking. If you choose a name (up to 16 characters) instead of "Not now", it sends that name, the score, the date, a timestamp and a random identifier created on your device to kodalab.pt. Viewing the ranking sends only that random identifier and the date. Our server keeps IP addresses only as a salted, truncated hash, to limit abuse. No account, no e-mail, no contacts, no location.
- Ads and the consent form are loaded from Google (see below).
Advertising
The app is free and shows ads through Google AdMob: a banner that never covers the controls, a full-screen ad at most between sessions (never during a dialogue, never in your first session, and spaced out), and rewarded ads only when you tap the button for optional extra practice — never automatically, never needed to learn or review. In the EEA and UK you are asked for consent through Google's form first, and you can change it in Settings ("Ad privacy options"). AdMob may use the Android advertising id to serve and measure ads; you can reset or delete it in Android settings. See how Google uses data in ads.
Notifications
A daily reminder is only scheduled if you say yes (offered after your first completed session, never at first launch). It is a local notification created on the device; you can turn it off in Settings.
Reviews
After a very good review session the app may ask Google Play to show its rating dialog. Google Play decides whether it appears; the app never sees your rating.
Purchases
There are no purchases in this app.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal data from them.
Your rights
Everything the app stores is on your device: "Delete my data" in Settings or uninstalling removes it. The only data about you on our server is your ranking entry, if you joined the world ranking; to delete it, e-mail joel.gomes@kodalab.pt with the name shown on the ranking. For data processed by Google for ads, use "Ad privacy options" in Settings, your Android ad settings, or Google's tools linked above.