Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies are local storage, session storage and pixels (tiny images or scripts that report a visit). We use "cookies" below for all of them.

2. The categories we use

Essential (always on). Needed for iSpeak to work and cannot be switched off:

• your sign-in session and security tokens;
• the cookie-consent choice itself;
• protection against cross-site request forgery and abuse;
• the Stripe checkout session when you pay.

Preferences (always on, stored on your device only). Your interface language, time zone, the sidebar state, which tab you last opened, drafts you have not sent, and the encryption keys for your private messages. These live in your browser's local storage, are never sent to advertising services, and are deleted when you clear your browser data or unlink the device.

Analytics (only with your consent). Help us understand how iSpeak is used: which pages open, how long they take to load, where errors happen. Data is aggregated; we do not use it to profile you.

Marketing (only with your consent). iSpeak itself sets no marketing cookies. A School Owner may add a Facebook pixel or a Google tag to their own School page to measure their advertising. These load only after you accept marketing cookies, only on that School's pages, and the School Owner is responsible for them. Their providers' policies apply: Meta and Google.

Embedded content. Lessons may embed YouTube or Vimeo videos and other media. These providers may set their own cookies when the video loads. We use privacy-enhanced embed modes where the provider offers them.

3. Your choice

• The first time you visit, the banner asks you. "Accept all" switches on analytics and marketing; "Essential only" keeps them off. Nothing non-essential runs before you choose.
• You can change your choice at any time: open the footer link Cookies, or Settings › Privacy › Cookies. Switching a category off stops those cookies from then on and deletes the ones we control.
• You can also block or delete cookies in your browser. Blocking essential cookies will sign you out and break checkout.
• Your choice is stored for 12 months, then we ask again.

4. The list

| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime | |---|---|---|---|---| | session / auth tokens | iSpeak (Base44) | Essential | keeps you signed in | session, up to 30 days with "stay signed in" | | cookie_consent | iSpeak | Essential | remembers your banner choice | 12 months | | csrf | iSpeak | Essential | protects forms and requests | session | | __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Stripe | Essential | fraud prevention during checkout | 1 year / 30 minutes | | ispeak.* (local storage) | iSpeak | Preferences | language, sidebar, drafts, message keys | until cleared | | analytics identifiers | iSpeak analytics | Analytics | usage and performance measurement | up to 13 months | | _fbp and similar | Meta, on Schools that add a pixel | Marketing | the School's advertising measurement | up to 90 days | | _ga and similar | Google, on Schools that add a tag | Marketing | the School's advertising measurement | up to 13 months | | YouTube / Vimeo cookies | the video provider | Embedded content | video playback and the provider's own measurement | provider's policy |

The exact names may change as providers update their services; the categories and purposes above stay the same, and the current list is always on this page.

5. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as "Essential only" and do not load analytics or marketing cookies.

6. Changes

We update this policy when the cookies we use change. The effective date at the top tells you when. Material changes are announced in the app.

7. Languages

This policy is written in English and provided in Russian and Turkmen for convenience. If the versions differ, the English text is the legally binding one.

8. Contact

iSpeak · Bitarap Turkmenistan avenue 183, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan · support@ispeaktm.com