Privacy Policy

We collect the following information:

• Account data: email address and username when you create an account
• Learning data: training progress, practice sessions, game scores, achievements, and learned letters
• Chat messages: morse code signals and translated text sent during user-to-user and AI chat sessions
• Contact messages: subject and message content submitted via the contact form
• Usage data: match history, leaderboard rankings, and skill ratings
• Functional cookie: a single cookie named sidebar_state that stores your sidebar open/closed preference (see Section 7)

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the Beep.Buzz service
• Track your learning progress and achievements
• Enable matchmaking for user-to-user morse code chat
• Display leaderboards and skill ratings
• Send technical notices and support messages
• Review reports of policy violations and maintain platform safety
• Respond to contact form enquiries and data rights requests

For users in the European Economic Area, we process your personal data on the following legal bases under GDPR Article 6:

• Contract performance (Art. 6(1)(b)): processing your account data, learning data, and chat messages is necessary to deliver the service you signed up for
• Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)): displaying leaderboards, computing skill ratings, and maintaining platform safety

We use the following third-party processors to operate the service. Each processor is bound by data processing agreements and applies appropriate security measures.

• Supabase (database and authentication) — United States. Privacy policy
• OpenRouter (AI inference gateway for the AI Chat feature) — United States. Privacy policy
• Google (Gemini 2.0 Flash AI model, accessed via OpenRouter) — United States. Privacy policy

We do not sell your personal information to any third party.

Beep.Buzz uses a single functional cookie:

• sidebar_state — stores whether the sidebar is open or closed. Expires after 7 days. This cookie is strictly necessary for the interface to remember your preference and is not used for tracking or advertising.

We do not use any advertising, analytics, or tracking cookies. For full details see our Cookie Policy.

If you are located in the European Economic Area or another jurisdiction with applicable privacy laws, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access: request a copy of the data we hold about you
• Rectification: request correction of inaccurate data
• Erasure: request deletion of your personal data
• Portability: request your data in a structured, machine-readable format
• Restriction: request that we limit how we process your data
• Objection: object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Lodge a complaint: you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority

To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request via our contact form. We will respond within 30 days.