Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Disrupt Logic Inc (“Disrupt Logic,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects your information when you use the Lingo mobile app and the website at lingoapp.info(together, the “Service”).

Lingo is a community-built dictionary of slang. Users submit terms and phrases, vote on submissions, optionally tag a city, and may claim authorship of viral phrases. Please read this policy carefully — by using Lingo, you agree to the practices described here.

1. Information we collect

a. Account information

When you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive a stable user identifier and (in some cases) an email address from the provider. You also choose a username, which is public.

b. Profile information you provide

You may optionally provide a city/region, social handles (Instagram, TikTok, X), and other profile details. Anything you add to your profile is public to other Lingo users.

c. User-contributed content

Lingo's core feature is user-contributed content. When you submit a term or phrase, your submission — including the term text, definition, optional example, optional origin, optional city tag, and your username — is public to other Lingo users. Votes, reports, and claim purchases are tied to your account but displayed in aggregate.

d. Location (only if you choose to share it)

Lingo is location-aware but does not require precise device location. You can tag a city on a submission either by typing one in or by accepting your home-city default. We do not collect background or precise GPS location.

e. Purchases (the Claim feature)

If you purchase a Claim ($1.99 in-app), the transaction is processed by Apple via the App Store. We do not receive your payment card details. We retain Apple's transaction identifier for your claim so that we can verify, restore, or revoke the claim if needed.

f. Device and usage data

We automatically collect information about how you use the Service, including device type, operating system, language, crashes, feature usage, and approximate location derived from IP address.

g. Children

Lingo is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your country). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under that age. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact drew@disruptlogic.com and we will delete it.

2. How we use your information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the Service;
• Display your submissions, votes, and profile to other users;
• Calculate trending lists, validity status, and city- or region-level rankings;
• Verify, restore, and (if necessary) revoke Claim purchases via Apple's receipt system;
• Detect, prevent, and respond to abuse, harassment, fraud, violations of our content guidelines, or illegal activity;
• Send you transactional communications about your account, and — with your consent — product updates;
• Comply with legal obligations.

3. User-contributed content: what's public

By submitting a term, phrase, definition, example, origin, city tag, or claim, you are publishing public content. Other users can see, vote on, share, and report it. Removed or deleted content may persist in backups for a limited period.

We do notsell user submissions. We may share aggregated, de-identified data — for example, “the most popular phrase in San Diego this week” — for analytics or editorial purposes.

Submissions are subject to our content guidelines and an automated word-boundary content filter. We reserve the right to remove submissions that violate our guidelines. Users can also report submissions for review.

4. Voting, blocking, and reporting

Your individual votes are not displayed publicly. Your votes do count toward a term's aggregate score and validity status.

You can block other users from your Profile menu or from a term page. Blocked users will not appear in your feed, search, or map. They are not notified of the block. We use the block list to filter all public reads on your behalf.

Reports are stored privately and reviewed by Disrupt Logic staff.

5. How we share information

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only in these cases:

• Service providers: vendors that help us operate the Service (cloud hosting, database, authentication, analytics, crash reporting, customer support) under contracts that limit their use of your data to providing the service.
• Legal and safety: if required by law, subpoena, or legal process, or if we believe in good faith that disclosure is needed to protect rights, safety, or property.
• Business transfers: as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, with notice to you where required.
• With your consent: for any other purpose you expressly agree to.

6. Data retention & deletion

We retain your account, submissions, and related data for as long as your account is active. You can delete your account from Profile → Settings → Delete account. Deleting your account will remove your profile and unlink your authored content, but previously published terms may remain visible if other users have interacted with them; their attribution will be removed.

You can also request deletion of specific submissions, or of your account's entire data set, by emailing drew@disruptlogic.com. We will fulfill verified deletion requests within 30 days, except for information we are required to retain for legal or security reasons.

7. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information in transit and at rest, including encryption, access controls, row-level security on our database, and monitoring. No system is 100% secure; if we become aware of a security breach that affects your personal information, we will notify you in accordance with applicable law.

8. Your rights

Depending on where you live (including the EEA, UK, California, and other jurisdictions with comparable laws), you may have rights to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you;
• Correct inaccurate information;
• Delete your personal information;
• Object to or restrict certain processing;
• Receive a portable copy of your data;
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
• Lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

To exercise these rights, email drew@disruptlogic.com. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.

9. International transfers

Lingo is operated from the United States. If you are located outside the US, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the US or in other countries where our service providers operate. We rely on appropriate safeguards (such as Standard Contractual Clauses) where required.

10. Third-party services

Lingo integrates with third-party services (Apple Sign in with Apple, Google Sign-In, Apple App Store, Supabase). This policy does not cover those third parties' practices; please review their privacy policies separately.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If changes are material, we will provide notice in the app or by email before they take effect. Continued use of Lingo after the changes take effect means you accept the updated policy.

12. Contact us

Questions, concerns, or requests about this Privacy Policy or about your data can be sent to:

Disrupt Logic Inc
drew@disruptlogic.com

A note on user-contributed slang

Slang is, by nature, in motion — and not always safe. We apply a content filter, accept community reports, and remove content that violates our guidelines or applicable law. But content on Lingo is generated by users, may be inaccurate, may be offensive to some readers, and is not endorsed by Disrupt Logic. If you see something that needs review, please report it from the term menu inside the app, or email drew@disruptlogic.com.