Duolingo Privacy Policy

This is Duolingo's privacy policy explaining what personal information the language-learning app collects about you and how it uses it. Duolingo collects a wide range of data including your voice recordings, learning activity, device identifiers, and purchase history, and shares some of this data with advertising partners for targeted ads. If you are a California resident, you can opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data by visiting Duolingo's privacy settings or submitting a request through their privacy portal.

Duolingo's privacy policy governs the collection, use, and sharing of personal data for users of its language learning platform, apps, and related services, operating under a consent and legitimate interests framework consistent with GDPR Art. 6 and CCPA §1798.100. The policy obligates Duolingo to provide data access, deletion, and portability rights, while imposing on users an implicit acceptance of broad data collection including voice recordings, usage patterns, purchase history, device identifiers, and inferred characteristics used for personalization and advertising. A notable provision permits Duolingo to share data with 'advertising partners' and to use data for targeted advertising, including via third-party trackers (Google, Facebook/Meta pixel observed in page source), which creates heightened risk under GDPR consent requirements and CCPA opt-out obligations for data sales/sharing. The policy references COPPA compliance for users under 13 and provides a separate children's privacy section, engaging DOE/FERPA considerations given Duolingo's educational context and school-facing products (Duolingo for Schools). California residents are granted CCPA rights including opt-out of data sale/sharing, and EU/EEA residents are afforded GDPR rights, but the policy's relatively broad legitimate interests claims and advertising data sharing warrant close scrutiny from DPAs and state AGs.