Duolingo added three sentences to its privacy policy on May 5, 2026, disclosing that the website uses cookies to enhance user experience and analyze performance, shares user information with social media, advertising, and analytics partners, and provides cookie control options including 'Do Not Sell My Personal Information', 'Reject All', and 'Accept Cookies' buttons. Previously, the policy did not explicitly describe these cookie uses or provide these specific control mechanisms. The updated language makes cookie usage and data sharing partnerships more transparent and establishes user-facing controls for cookie preferences.
The updated policy now explicitly states that Duolingo uses cookies to enhance user experience and analyze website performance, and shares user information about site usage with social media, advertising, and analytics partners. The policy also introduces user-facing controls allowing users to review, reject, or accept cookies and to opt out of personal information sales. These additions make data handling practices more transparent but do not materially change what data is collected, only how the collection is disclosed and what control mechanisms are available.
The updated policy establishes explicit disclosures about cookie usage and advertising partner data sharing, along with user-facing controls to reject cookies or opt out of data sales. This change improves transparency about how personal information is handled and provides mechanisms for users to exercise control, which aligns with privacy regulations that require cookie consent and consumer opt-out rights.
→ Review the updated cookie and data-sharing disclosures in the privacy policy.
→ Use the Reject All, Do Not Sell, or Accept Cookies buttons to control how cookies are deployed and whether personal information is shared with advertising partners.
→ Users who do not interact with cookie controls will have cookies enabled as set by default settings, allowing analytics and advertising partner tracking.
→ Without opting out via the Do Not Sell button, personal information about site usage will be shared with advertising and social media partners as stated in the policy.
Policy now explicitly states cookies are used to enhance user experience and analyze website performance.
Policy discloses that user information about site usage is shared with social media, advertising, and analytics partners.
Users are given control options to reject all cookies and opt out of personal information sales through policy-provided buttons.
This change record describes what was added, removed, or modified in the document. Analysis reflects what the updated agreement states or permits. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Applicability may vary by jurisdiction. Methodology
Duolingo added explicit cookie disclosures and data-sharing statements to its privacy policy, along with user-facing cookie control options. This change likely responds to evolving expectations under GDPR, CCPA, and similar privacy regimes that expect transparent cookie disclosures and opt-out mechanisms. The additions appear to be transparency and control enhancements rather than authority expansions. No new data collection authority appears to be asserted. Compliance teams should confirm that the stated control mechanisms function as described and that cookie consent flows align with applicable privacy regulations in target jurisdictions.
GDPR (cookie transparency and consent requirements), CCPA (sale opt-out and consumer rights disclosure), ePrivacy Directive (EU cookie disclosures), COPPA (if minors are users), state privacy laws (California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Montana, Delaware, Iowa privacy statutes requiring opt-out mechanisms)
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