Afaan collects only the information reasonably needed to provide and secure the Services. We do not sell or rent personal information, use third-party behavioral advertising, or allow children to make information public.
1. Scope and who we are
This Privacy Policy describes how Afaan (“Afaan,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you use afanoromo.net, the Afaan adult iOS and Android applications, the separate Afaan Kids iOS application, accounts, subscriptions, family and educator tools, learning content, destination guides, and support services (collectively, the “Services”). Afaan is the controller of personal information handled for these Services.
This policy applies to learners, parents and guardians, educators, school administrators, website visitors, subscribers, and people who contact us. It does not apply to third-party websites or services governed by their own privacy policies.
2. Information we handle
First name, email, country, marketing-consent record, Founding Member number, referral and campaign attribution, and—only if you choose to provide them—phone, city/state, number and age ranges of children, and reason for joining. We do not ask for children’s names on the waitlist.
Name, email address, authentication identifiers, account role, sign-in status, and the two-letter country code detected when a website account is created.
Parent-managed learner name or nickname, age range, learning level, family membership, assignments, and progress.
Completed lessons, quiz results, streaks, saved phrases, preferences, and interactions needed to personalize learning.
Only after an adult opts in, a random installation identifier, app and screen activity, feature and content identifiers, audio completion, app version, language, timestamps, and aggregate reliability events. These analytics exclude names, email addresses, child or account identifiers, recordings, typed text, search terms, authentication tokens, and advertising identifiers.
Plan, product, customer, transaction, referral, subscription-status, renewal, cancellation, refund identifiers, detected pricing country and currency, and billing-address country supplied to the payment provider.
Verified account and contact information, mailing address, influence channels and audience details, unique code, code status, paid-conversion counts, pre-tax sale and audience-discount amounts, commission and refund adjustments, availability dates, payout status, and optional payout-reference notes. For program eligibility, an accepted influencer may securely submit a government-issued photo ID. We store the encrypted ID image, document side, file type and size, submission and review times, verification status, and limited administrator review notes. Tax onboarding records the legal payee name, individual or business classification, tax residence, citizenship or formation country, country where services are performed, U.S.-person certification, U.S.-services percentage, expected form type, form verification status, non-sensitive provider reference, expiration date, and limited review notes. Afaan does not collect SSNs, EINs, ITINs, foreign tax ID numbers, or signed W-9/W-8 forms in the portal; those belong only in an approved tax or payout process. Influencers do not receive subscriber names, email addresses, or trial-start activity.
App version, device or browser type, push token, installation identifier, timestamps, IP address, and security or diagnostic events. Website country pricing uses country-level network location, not GPS. The signup and pricing records retain the country code rather than a raw IP address. Founding Community analytics uses a keyed pseudonymous visitor value rather than publishing or returning a raw identifier.
Contact details and the contents of support, privacy, safety, accessibility, or correction requests.
Information from other services
If you choose Apple or Google sign-in, we receive the account identifier and profile information you authorize that provider to share, such as name and email address. Apple processes iOS subscription payments; Google Play processes Android subscription payments; Stripe processes website subscription payments. We receive transaction and subscription records, including a protected Google Play purchase-token reference used for server verification, but not full payment-card numbers.
Information stored only on your device
Some preferences, downloaded learning content, local progress, and pronunciation-practice audio are processed on your device. Pronunciation recordings are temporary, are not uploaded to Afaan, and are removed after the practice session. When an available platform feature lets you save an image, the app writes only the selected Afaan content and does not read unrelated media.
3. Children’s privacy
The Founding Families waitlist is for adults and family decision-makers. It never asks for a child’s name, contact information, or date of birth. An adult may optionally provide only the number of children and broad age ranges so we can plan age-appropriate family experiences.
Only an adult age 18 or older may create an Afaan account. A parent or legal guardian must create and manage a private dependent learner profile. Children must not create their own account, provide an email address, make purchases, or submit support messages through the Services. Adult eligibility is confirmed through an explicit account-holder attestation; we do not collect an adult birth date during account creation.
A dependent profile may contain a first name or nickname, date of birth, school grade, timezone, learning level, ability notes, goals, interests, assignments, assessments, attendance, and learning progress. Date of birth is used to enforce age-appropriate course access. Afaan does not ask a child for a street address, telephone number, precise location, payment information, public profile, photo, video, contacts, or persistent cross-service advertising identifier. Child information is not made public and is not used for targeted advertising.
The parent account email must be verified before a dependent profile can be created. The parent or legal guardian must attest to legal authority and give affirmative consent. Where applicable law requires an additional verifiable-parental-consent method, that method and the related notice must be approved and operational before the affected child feature is offered.
A verified parent or legal guardian may ask to review, correct, download, or delete a child’s information and may refuse further collection or use. Submit a request through the Contact page or email info@afanoromo.net. We may ask for reasonable information to verify authority before acting. If we learn that personal information was collected directly from a child without required authorization, we will delete it.
Organization-sponsored or school programs do not create an independent child account. A separate written agreement, role-scoped access, required notices, and a legally appropriate guardian or school-authorization workflow must be in place before an organization receives child information.
Afaan Kids: ages 4–11
This section applies specifically to the separate Afaan Kids iOS app and its connection to the Afaan adult app. The broader school-profile fields described above, such as an exact date of birth, attendance or ability notes, are not requested by Afaan Kids.
Local learning and parent approval
A grown-up must approve the free preview. Local learning stores preferences, a nickname where provided, progress and an encrypted access state on the device. Purchases, pairing, external links and parent settings are behind a parental gate. The gate prevents children from accessing these actions; it does not replace consent required for cloud child profiles.
Connecting a child’s device
An authenticated parent creates a private child profile in the adult app and affirmatively consents to storing the profile, learning progress and assignments. The profile uses a first name or nickname, a broad age range, support language and learning goals. A temporary pairing code links the child’s device to that profile without giving the child the parent’s password.
Once paired, our family service handles family and child identifiers, a random installation identifier, a device label if provided, assignments, completed lesson identifiers, learning progress, settings, access status and recent app activity timestamps needed to show the parent whether the app has connected recently. We do not collect screen contents or location. Network services also process IP addresses and limited operational logs for delivery and security.
Voice practice and analytics
Optional speaking practice needs separate grown-up approval before microphone and speech-recognition permission requests. Recognition is restricted to on-device processing; a device without supported on-device recognition cannot use that recognition feature. Practice audio is not uploaded to Afaan and is removed after the practice session. Afaan Kids contains no advertising, advertising identifiers, cross-app tracking or third-party analytics. Optional adult product analytics is always disabled in the Kids app, even if it was enabled in the adult app.
Purchases and offline access
Apple processes Kids subscriptions. A grown-up can purchase or restore an Apple subscription in the gated area without creating an Afaan account. We do not receive full payment-card details. An existing Family subscriber can instead pair from the adult app. Approved bundled learning can work offline; verified paid access is cached for a limited period and periodically requires an online check. Queued family progress synchronizes when the child’s device reconnects.
Providers, retention and removal
Amazon Web Services hosts our authenticated family APIs and private records as a service provider; Apple provides iOS distribution and purchases. These operational services are not advertising or analytics networks. Child information is private to the parent-managed family and authorized operational staff and is not sold or shared for advertising.
Local preferences and progress remain until a grown-up removes local learning data or removes the app; device-bound access credentials are cleared through the grown-up disconnect controls. Cloud profile, assignment and progress records are retained while the profile is active. The parent can review, export or delete the child profile in the adult app’s Family Control Center and withdraw consent. Deleting the cloud profile revokes its online access; an already issued offline access grant may remain valid until its bounded expiry. Limited security, transaction and legally required records and isolated backup copies follow the retention rules in this policy.
For access, correction, export, deletion or to refuse further child-data collection, contact info@afanoromo.net or use our deletion request page. We verify parental authority before disclosing or deleting private child information. Removing learning data or a profile does not cancel an Apple subscription; subscriptions are managed through the Apple Account.
4. How and why we use information
- Manage the Founding Community, send the pre-launch messages you requested, prevent duplicate registrations, provide a personal referral link, measure campaign and community-partner effectiveness, and connect your original attribution to an Afaan account if you later create one.
- Provide accounts, authentication, lessons, audio, saved content, learner profiles, family dashboards, educator tools, and destination guides.
- Synchronize progress and make subscription access available across supported devices.
- Process website, App Store, and Google Play subscriptions, validate referral eligibility on the website, prevent duplicate redemption, acknowledge verified Android purchases, and maintain billing records.
- Remember language, accessibility, notification, and learning preferences.
- Protect accounts, prevent fraud and abuse, investigate errors, and maintain service reliability.
- Respond to support, privacy, child-safety, accessibility, and account requests.
- Comply with law, enforce our terms, and establish or defend legal claims.
- Improve the Services using aggregated or de-identified information where practical.
We rely on the performance of our agreement with you, our legitimate interests in operating and securing the Services, consent where required, and compliance with legal obligations. Founding Community marketing email is based on the explicit checkbox consent shown at registration. A phone number is optional and is not consent to SMS marketing. Optional iOS product analytics remains off unless an adult opts in and is suppressed whenever a child profile is active. The Android app sends limited authenticated operational and learning events needed to synchronize progress, deliver parent-managed assignments, maintain subscription access, and protect reliability; those events exclude pronunciation recordings and advertising identifiers.
Adult iOS advertising and choices
In versions with advertising enabled, the free adult iOS app may display Google AdMob banners and full-screen ads after completed lessons only to learner profiles explicitly identified as adults. Full-screen ads are limited to 10 in any rolling 24-hour period on a device. If an ad is unavailable, learning continues without waiting. Subscribers, teen profiles, child sessions, and the separate Afaan Kids app do not receive these ads. The website and Android app do not use this iOS advertising integration.
We request non-personalized ads and disable Google's publisher first-party ID. Non-personalized ads still involve data processing. Google may process IP addresses, including approximate location, device or app identifiers, ad impressions and interactions, crash logs, and performance information to deliver and measure ads, prevent fraud, and maintain reliability. Afaan does not provide Google with learner names, account email addresses, lesson answers, or practice recordings for advertising. We do not request Apple tracking permission or precise location for ads.
Where required, Google's consent message appears before ads can load. You may decline consent, manage available purposes, or revisit your choices using the advertising Privacy control in the app's Settings. US state privacy controls are offered where applicable. Advertising consent is separate from optional Afaan product analytics. Google's processing and retention are described in its Privacy Policy and partner-sites notice.
6. Device permissions
- Microphone: requested when you start pronunciation practice. Audio is processed locally, is not uploaded, and is removed after the practice session.
- Photos or media: on iOS, Add Only access may be requested when you choose to save Afaan content. On older Android versions, media access may be requested only when needed to save selected content. The apps do not read unrelated media.
- Notifications: requested to deliver reminders and family-learning updates. You can disable notifications in iOS or Android Settings.
The current mobile apps do not request contacts, camera, Bluetooth, health, cross-app tracking, advertising identifier, or precise-location permission. Android maps display selected destinations without requesting device location.
7. Retention and security
We retain an active Founding Community record while delivering the requested pre-launch experience and, if you create an account, as needed to preserve your acquisition and referral history. Unsubscribing stops future Founding Community marketing messages and cancels pending deliveries. We retain a limited consent, suppression, attribution, and security record where needed to honor that choice, prevent re-enrollment, measure the campaign, resolve disputes, or meet legal obligations. Waitlist analytics, campaign-click, and email-delivery records are retained only under the documented retention schedule and are then deleted or aggregated.
We retain account, learner, progress, and subscription records while an account is active. When an account is deleted, active application records are removed or de-identified, except transaction, fraud-prevention, security, tax, or legal records that must be retained. Operational logs and queued synchronization records are retained for limited periods appropriate to security and reliability. Backup copies are isolated from ordinary use and expire through normal backup rotation.
Government ID images submitted for Influencer Program verification are kept in dedicated private object storage, encrypted with a key dedicated to this use, and made available only to authorized administrators through short-lived audited download links. Influencers must use the secure portal and must not email ID attachments. We retain verification documents while reasonably needed to operate the active influencer relationship or meet fraud-prevention, tax, dispute, or legal obligations, and then delete them under the applicable retention process. An authorized administrator can permanently delete a document from the relationship record, which disables earnings until verification is completed again.
We use HTTPS in transit, access controls, authenticated requests, application encryption for optional waitlist phone numbers, encryption for sensitive family records stored on the device, device-bound secure storage for authentication tokens, monitoring, and least-privilege access. Android cloud backup and device transfer are disabled for app data. Public waitlist APIs return only real aggregate counts and suppress small country totals; they never return contact details or children’s information. No security method is perfect; contact us promptly if you believe an account or the Services have been compromised.
8. Your rights and choices
Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing, withdraw consent, or receive a portable copy of personal information. You may also appeal a refusal or complain to your local data-protection authority. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.
- Stop Founding Community marketing at any time through the signed unsubscribe link in every message. Providing an optional phone number does not subscribe you to SMS.
- Turn optional iOS product analytics on or off under Me → Settings → App & privacy.
- Update account and learner details through the available account and family controls.
- Delete the adult account and associated application data in the Afaan adult mobile app under Me → Settings → Account → Delete account.
- Manage or cancel an Apple subscription in App Store account settings, a Google Play subscription in Google Play account settings, or a web subscription through the web billing portal.
- Control microphone, media, and notification permissions in iOS or Android Settings.
- Request access, correction, export, or deletion—including a Founding Community record—through our dedicated Account deletion page or Contact page.
We may verify your identity or authority before completing a request. Deleting an Afaan account does not automatically cancel a subscription managed by Apple, Google Play, or Stripe.
9. International data transfers
Afaan serves people internationally and primarily operates infrastructure in the United States. Information may therefore be processed outside your country. Where required, we use recognized legal safeguards for international transfers, such as adequacy decisions, contractual protections, or another lawful transfer mechanism.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when the Services, providers, or legal requirements change. We will post the updated policy here, revise the effective date, and provide additional notice or request consent when required. Material changes will not be applied retroactively where prohibited by law.
11. Contact us
For privacy rights, account deletion, child information, or safety questions, contact:
Afaan Privacyinfo@afanoromo.net
afanoromo.net/contact
Please use the subject “Privacy Request” and describe whether the request concerns your account, a child profile, an influencer record, or a school-managed profile. Do not email passwords, payment-card details, government IDs, or sensitive information about a child.