Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 13, 2026
Bilingual Language Services, Inc., doing business as Bilingual America (“Bilingual America,” “we,” “us”), cares about your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect when you use BilingualAmerica.com and our courses, AI tutors, and coaching programs, how we use and protect it, and the choices you have.
The short version: we collect only what we need to provide your service(s) and run your account. We never sell your information. You can export your data or delete your account at any time.
1. Information We Collect
Information you give us
- Account information: your name, email address, password, and profile photo.
- Form submissions: information you send when you request a free lesson, the free book, or the learning assessment, or when you contact us.
- Messages: what you send to our support team, coaches, or tutors.
Information created as you learn
- Progress data: lessons completed, quiz and exam results, certifications, and coaching notes.
- AI tutoring and session data: the text, audio, and video you submit to our AI tutors, pronunciation grading, and live sessions.
Information collected automatically
- Usage and device data: pages visited, features used, and basic technical information such as IP address, browser, and device type, which we use to run and secure the site.
Payment information
Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
2. How We Use Your Information
- To provide your course, AI tutors, live tutoring, coaching, and certification.
- To track your progress and give you feedback.
- To process payments and manage your subscription.
- To send essential account, billing, and course emails.
- To respond to your questions and requests.
- To keep our site and your account secure.
- To improve our programs and the quality of our teaching.
- Marketing: with your consent, we may send occasional emails about new courses or promotions. You can unsubscribe at any time.
3. AI Tutoring and Recordings
When you use our AI tutors, pronunciation grading, or live sessions, we may record and store your inputs so we can track your progress, give you feedback, and maintain quality. These inputs are processed by our AI technology providers, Microsoft Azure, OpenAI, and Anthropic, only to deliver these features to you. If you prefer not to be recorded, you can choose not to use these features.
4. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We share it only with the people and service providers who help us run your program, and only as needed for that work:
- Stripe: processes all payments. Stripe is a certified PCI Level 1 Service Provider, the highest level of certification in the payments industry.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): hosts our website and data.
- Microsoft Azure, OpenAI, and Anthropic: power our AI tutors and speech tools.
- Cloudflare: protects our website from attacks and malicious traffic.
- Email providers: send account, billing, and course emails on our behalf.
- Your tutors and Success Coach: see your profile, progress, and session information so they can help you.
- Your employer, for corporate programs: if your company enrolled you, its program administrators can see your profile and progress.
Our service providers must protect your information and may use it only to provide services to us. We will disclose information only if required by law, such as a valid court order. Before doing so, our policy is to have legal counsel review the order.
5. Cookies and Embedded Content
We use only essential cookies: to keep you signed in, run your shopping cart, and secure the site. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
Some pages include content from other websites, such as videos. Our YouTube videos use privacy-enhanced mode, so YouTube does not set tracking cookies unless you play a video. Content from other sites follows those sites’ own privacy policies.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, though some features, such as signing in, may not work without them.
6. Your Choices and Rights
- Export or delete: download your data or delete your account at any time from your account settings.
- Access and correction: update your account information at any time, or ask us to see or correct what we hold about you.
- Marketing emails: unsubscribe using the link in any marketing email.
- Subscriptions: cancel anytime with one click in your account. You won’t be charged again, and your access continues through the month you’ve already paid for.
- Community: choose who you interact with, restrict others from contacting you, or block another member.
You can also make any of these requests by email or through the contact form on our website. We will respond within 30 days. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under local law, and we will honor them.
7. How Long We Keep Your Information
We keep your account and progress information while your account is active. If you cancel your subscription, we keep it so you can pick up where you left off if you return.
If you delete your account or ask us to delete your information, we delete it and do not keep it. The only exception is payment and transaction records, which we must keep as long as required for tax and accounting purposes.
8. Security
We protect your information with industry-standard practices, including HTTPS encryption on every page. Our site runs on WordPress, and we regularly update all plugins and themes to apply the latest security protections. Our servers are hosted on Amazon EC2 and benefit from Amazon’s cloud security measures. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we work hard to protect your information.
9. Where Your Information Is Processed
Our servers and service providers are located in the United States. If you use our programs from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States.
10. Community Guidelines
Our community is a positive learning environment. When commenting or interacting with other students, please be respectful and relevant. We may moderate or remove content that breaks these guidelines. Please don’t share personal information in the community that you don’t want others to see.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our programs are designed for adults. You must be 18 or older to create an account. Students under 18 may take part only if a parent or legal guardian registers them and stays involved in their learning. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated policy on this page and change the effective date above. If we make a significant change, we will also notify active students by email.
13. Contact Us
For questions, requests, or concerns about your privacy, email us at support@bilingualamerica.com or use the contact form on our website. See also our Terms of Service.
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