Privacy

Wordo is a small service. It stores what it needs to look up your words and to remind you of them, and nothing else.

What Wordo stores

• Your account: the email address and password you sign up with. The password is held, hashed, by Amazon Cognito, the sign-in service Wordo uses; Wordo itself never sees it.
• Your profile: your mother tongue, the other languages you read, your timezone, your digest time and the channels you chose.
• Your words: each word you look up, with its language, when you looked it up and how far along its reminders it is; your digests and the easy/hard answers you gave.
• Your devices: on Android, the token that lets Wordo send a notification to your phone.
• Delivery: whether an email to you bounced or was reported as spam, so that no more are sent.
• Technical logs of requests and errors, kept for 14 days.

Where it is kept, and who processes it

Everything runs on Amazon Web Services in Paris (eu-west-3). Emails are sent through Amazon SES and notifications through Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging: they handle your email address or your device token, and the content of what is sent. Definitions come from Wiktionary and are stored on Wordo’s own servers, so no lookup is sent to anyone else. Pronunciation recordings are not copied: when you play one, your browser fetches it from Wikimedia Commons, which then sees your IP address, as any website you visit does. There are no advertising or analytics trackers in the web app, the Android app or the Chrome extension.

The Chrome extension and the Android app

The extension reads nothing from the pages you visit. The only thing it sends is the text you selected, in the address of the Wordo page it opens. The Android app keeps a copy of your words on your phone so that they are there offline; its text-selection action only receives the text you selected.

How long, and how to delete

Everything is kept while your account exists. Settings → Delete your account removes your account, words, digests and device tokens immediately (how to delete your account, also without signing in). The running totals on the home page (words looked up, reminders sent) are plain counts, not tied to anyone.

Email

You can stop email digests at any time with the link at the bottom of each one, or in Settings.

Contact

Write to contact@wordo.io.

Last updated Oct 20, 2026 · Back to Wordo