A quieter corner of the web.
How Lingo handles traffic logs, optional reading statistics, and your saved readings.
Read without an account.
Lingo does not require registration or use advertising trackers. We keep first-party traffic logs and offer optional reading statistics.
Traffic logs.
Our server records the time, client IP address, browser user agent, request method, recognized page path, response status, and content type. Unknown paths are grouped together. Search text, query strings, referrers, cookies, authorization headers, and message contents are not included in these records. Traffic logs help us understand usage and diagnose problems.
Protected logs are retained for 60 days, then automatically expired. The private analytics dashboard stores hashed visitor estimates and approximate locations derived from IP addresses. Server document counts and browser reading estimates are kept separate. Analytics records and their backups use the same 60-day retention period.
Optional reading statistics.
If you allow statistics, a first-party browser identifier and a session identifier let us estimate page visits and time while a tab is visible. Timing pauses in hidden tabs; it is an estimate, not evidence of attention. No browser timing is sent before you opt in. We honour browser Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals. Browser identifiers expire after 60 days of inactivity; sessions renew after 30 minutes of inactivity.
You can change your preference here. Declining removes this browser’s analytics identifiers and stops future timing collection; existing records expire under the retention policy. Your preference is remembered for up to 180 days.
Saved readings and practice tools.
Saving an article stores its identifier in your browser. Speech text, rehearsal timers, and practice-plan inputs run in your browser and are not sent to the server. Search terms are sent to this site in the page URL to return matching readings, but are excluded from traffic logs. External sources have their own privacy practices.