Privacy

Privacy Policy

How account, Reading, Collection, Practice, and extension data is handled.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Who We Are

In The Wild is a Mandarin learning product operated from the United States. Contact us at support@mandarinthewild.com for privacy questions, access requests, deletion requests, or Chrome extension data questions.

What We Collect

We collect the information needed to run the learning loop:

  • Account data, such as your email address, authentication identifiers, and sign-in state.
  • Saved vocabulary, selected or saved Mandarin text, definitions, pinyin, source sentence snippets, source URLs, page titles, Collection membership, and related source context you choose to mine.
  • Reading progress, known-word percentages, Practice answers, review history, preferences, and settings.
  • Chrome extension state, including site on/off controls, extension session state, and Supabase Auth access or refresh tokens stored in Chrome extension storage when you sign in inside the extension.
  • Privacy-safe validation analytics, such as event names, route paths, booleans, counts, content slugs, and stable IDs. Analytics must not store selected text, full sentences, private source URLs, source titles, email addresses, tokens, secrets, or passwords.
  • Support messages and privacy requests you send to us.

How We Use It

We use this data to provide lookup, save useful dictionary entries, remember where words appeared, sync Collection and Practice, personalize Reading pages, troubleshoot accounts, protect the service, and improve dictionary, parser, content, and product quality.

Improve In The Wild

Settings includes a default-on Improve In The Wild preference. When it is on, saved Mandarin sentences may be evaluated to improve examples, parsing, and learning content after automated validation and review. Accepted global examples are anonymized: account identity, private URLs, browser titles, and raw private source metadata are removed. You can turn new capture off in Settings. Analytics still must not store selected text, full sentences, private source URLs, source titles, email addresses, tokens, secrets, or passwords.

Chrome Extension Limited Use

The extension uses page text only for user-facing Mandarin lookup, translation, vocabulary capture, account sync, and site controls. The extension does not send full page content or browsing history. Our use and transfer of data received from Chrome APIs is limited to providing the extension's single purpose, security, legal compliance, or another use allowed by the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy.

Sharing And Service Providers

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We use service providers to host, authenticate, store, secure, analyze, and operate the product. They may process data only as needed to provide those services or meet legal and security requirements.

Your Choices And Rights

You can sign out, turn the extension off for a site, disable the extension, or stop mining source context at any time. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, delete, or restrict processing of your personal data. California users may also have rights to opt out of sale or sharing, limit certain sensitive personal information uses, and avoid discrimination for exercising privacy rights. We do not currently sell or share personal information; if that changes, we will add a Do Not Sell or Share mechanism before doing so.

International And Processor Terms

If GDPR, UK GDPR, or similar privacy laws apply, In The Wild determines the purposes and means for account learning data and uses processors under appropriate contracts where required. If data is transferred across borders, we will use appropriate transfer safeguards where required.

Security And Retention

We use HTTPS, account authentication, browser extension storage controls, and application access controls to protect data. We keep account and learning data while your account is active or as needed to operate the product, comply with law, resolve disputes, enforce terms, and maintain backups. Deletion requests can be sent to support@mandarinthewild.com. Signed-in users can also request deletion from Settings.

Public Reading Pages And Children

Public Library pages are available without an account. Personal state such as known percentage, saved words, and progress is loaded only after sign-in. In The Wild is not directed to children under 13.

Changes

We may update this policy as the product, extension, analytics, service providers, business entity, or legal requirements change. Material changes should be reflected here and in the Chrome Web Store disclosure before release.