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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.
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0Privacy - Duolingo Site language: English Login Get started Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy was last revised on January 5, 2026.0Privacy - Duolingo Site language: English Login Get started Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy was last revised on April 20, 2026.
33Duolingo offers a Video Call feature where you can have an AI-powered spoken conversation with a Duolingo character to practice the language you are learning.33Duolingo may offer a Video Call feature where you can have an AI-powered spoken conversation with a Duolingo character to practice the language you are learning.
38Please do not submit any personal, sensitive, or confidential information when using Video Call or other AI features. d.38Please do not submit any personal, sensitive, or confidential information when using Video Call or other AI features.
39Duolingo may also offer a video Math Tutor feature where you can have an AI-powered spoken conversation with a Duolingo character to work on a math problem.
40Notwithstanding anything else in this section, when you use the Math Tutor feature, your audio may be shared only with Apple for purposes of speech recognition and conversion into a text transcript and is then immediately deleted.
41Duolingo may retain, use, and share with AI vendors the text transcript as described above. d.
58We will retain your IP address for no more than thirty (30) days, unless exceptional circumstances require longer retention. g.61We will retain your IP address for no more than thirty (30) days, unless exceptional circumstances require longer retention.
59FullStory When you use Duolingo in our app or on our website, some of your activity will be logged by a service called FullStory.62If you purchase a Duolingo subscription and submit a payment method to Duolingo, Duolingo may retain your IP address for longer solely for purposes of payment processing and fraud prevention. g.
60FullStory captures and analyzes your activity and provides us with data and a video session replay of your activity to help us make the Duolingo experience better.63FullStory & Session Replay When you use Duolingo in our app or on our website, some of your activity will be logged by services called FullStory and Session Replay.
61FullStory does not record usernames, names, profile images, email addresses, profile locations or bios, or passwords.64You can disable both FullStory and Session Replay activity recording by using the Tracking toggle within the app Settings.
62However, FullStory records usage patterns (e.g., clicks, mouse movements, scrolling, and typing), tech specs (e.g., browser, device type, operating system, viewfinder size, script errors, and IP address), navigation (e.g., pages visited, referrers, URL parameters, and session duration), and learning activity (e.g., session progress and answers).65FullStory and Session Replay are disabled for Child Users.
63You can disable FullStory activity recording by using the Tracking toggle within the app Settings.66FullStory and Session Replay capture and analyze your activity and provide us with data and a video session replay of your activity to help us make the Duolingo experience better.
64FullStory is disabled for Child Users. h.67They record usage patterns (e.g., clicks, mouse movements, scrolling, and typing), tech specs (e.g., browser, device type, operating system, viewfinder size, script errors, and IP address), navigation (e.g., pages visited, referrers, URL parameters, and session duration), and learning activity (e.g., session progress and answers).
68Session Replay does not record email addresses, phone numbers, user-uploaded profile images, or passwords.
69FullStory does not record usernames, names, profile images, email addresses, profile locations or bios, or passwords. h.
95To provide personalized advertising, we work with a variety of third-party advertising networks, marketing analytics service providers, and website analysis firms, such as Google, Meta, Oath, and Unity.100To provide personalized advertising, we may work with a variety of marketing analytics service providers, website analysis firms, and third-party advertising networks, such as Unity, Meta, LiftOff, Pangle, Moloco, and Google.
213Last revised on January 5, 2026.218Last revised on April 20, 2026.
219This website uses cookies to enhance user experience and to analyze performance and traffic on our website.
220We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners.
221Do Not Sell My Personal Information Reject All Accept Cookies
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