Privacy Policy
Last updated: 16 July 2026
Sound Russian Academy is operated by Victoria Borovskikh. This policy describes exactly what the site stores, where it is stored, and who else can see it. If anything here is unclear, write to hello@soundrussian.uz or message us on Telegram.
Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is Victoria Borovskikh, trading as Sound Russian Academy, reachable at hello@soundrussian.uz.
What we collect
- Account data — your email address and name. Your password is never stored in readable form; only a one-way hash of it is kept.
- Learning data — which lessons you opened and completed, your exercise answers, quiz results, the words you saved to your vocabulary, and your writing assignments.
- Messages you send — text and voice messages to your teacher, and comments you leave under lessons.
- Waitlist and contact requests — the name and email you type into those forms.
- Server logs — your IP address and browser user-agent, recorded by the web server for security and troubleshooting.
We do not ask for, and the site does not store, your payment card details — see “Payments” below.
Why we use it
- To give you access to the courses you enrolled in, and to save your progress.
- To let your teacher read, grade and reply to your work.
- To send you account email: sign-up confirmation, password resets, purchase receipts.
- To keep the service secure and to fix faults.
Where your data lives
The site runs on our own server in the European Union, and the database is self-hosted on that same server. Your learning data is not sold, rented or shared with advertisers. We do not run advertising or behavioural-tracking scripts.
Who else processes it
- PayPal— processes payments. Your card details go to PayPal directly and never reach our server; we only receive confirmation that an order was paid. See PayPal’s own privacy statement.
- Resend — delivers our account email. It receives your email address and the content of the message being sent to you.
- Google Fonts— serves the site’s typefaces. Your browser requests them from Google, which means Google sees your IP address.
- A machine-translation provider — if you use the vocabulary translation feature, the single word or phrase you tapped is sent for translation. Your identity is not sent with it.
Cookies
We use cookies for one purpose only: keeping you signed in. They store your session so you do not have to re-enter your password on every page. There are no advertising, analytics or third-party tracking cookies on this site. Clearing them signs you out.
How long we keep it
Account and learning data are kept for as long as your account exists, because your courses are sold with lifetime access. Server logs are rotated and discarded within weeks. If you ask us to delete your account, we remove your personal data except for what we must keep as a record of a purchase.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account and everything in it. Write to hello@soundrussian.uz from the address your account uses and we will action it. If you are in the EU or UK you also have the right to complain to your national data-protection authority.
Children
The courses are sold to adults. We do not knowingly create accounts for children under 16 without a parent or guardian.
Changes
If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top of this page and, where the change affects you, tell you by email.