Privacy

Last updated 31 October 2026

Ting is a language-learning game made by one person. It keeps only what it needs to save your place in the story and to run its conversations. It has no ads and doesn't sell or share your information for advertising.

What Ting keeps

• An account ID. When you sign in with Apple or Google, or play as a guest, Ting keeps an ID for your account so your progress follows you. Signing in may share your name and email with the app, but Ting's server keeps only the ID.
• Your progress. The name you give your character, where you are in the story, and the words you've learned.
• Your conversations. What you type to the characters in the game, and their replies, so a conversation can carry on where it left off.

Who helps run it

• Microsoft Azure hosts Ting's server and its database, and makes the characters' voices. If you use a speaking exercise, your recording is sent to Azure to be turned into text. Ting doesn't keep the recording.
• OpenAI writes the characters' replies in free conversations, from what you type in that conversation.
• Apple's TestFlight, while Ting is in beta, may give the developer crash reports and any feedback you choose to send.

These services handle the information only to provide their part of Ting.

Deleting your data

You can delete your account in the app, from the Profile tab. That removes your progress, words and conversations from Ting's server.

Children

Ting isn't made for children under 13, and doesn't knowingly collect information from them.

Questions

Write to winston@tinglanguage.com. If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it.