Privacy

Updated October 19, 2026

Tinyglot is built so that your learning stays yours. There is no Tinyglot account, no analytics and no advertising. This page lists everything the app keeps and everything it sends.

What stays on your Mac

Your saved words, reviews, bookmarks, notes, lesson history, Glee conversations, focus sessions and settings are stored on your Mac, inside Tinyglot’s own sandboxed folder. Folders of videos you add are read where they are; Tinyglot never copies, moves or changes them. Backups you export are files you choose where to keep.

What Tinyglot sends, and to whom

• YouTube. YouTube lessons play through YouTube’s own player, which loads the video and its captions from YouTube. Google’s privacy policy applies to what YouTube receives.
• OpenAI, only if you connect ChatGPT. When you ask for an explanation or talk with Glee, the words you asked about and the lesson context around them are sent to OpenAI under your own ChatGPT account. Nothing is sent until you ask.
• Polar, for your license. Activating a license key sends the key and your Mac’s name to Polar, our payment provider, so you can see and manage your activations. The key is checked again about once a week.

Credentials

Your ChatGPT sign-in and your license are kept in your Mac’s Keychain. They are never included in backups, never written to logs and never sent anywhere except to the service they belong to.

Buying Tinyglot

Purchases are handled by Polar, which acts as the seller and processes your payment. Polar’s privacy policy covers the details you give at checkout. We receive your email address and order, to send your license key and to help you if something goes wrong.

This website

This site uses no cookies and no analytics. It is served by Cloudflare, which processes basic request data, such as IP addresses, to deliver pages and protect against abuse.

Questions

Write to us any time, and we’ll answer as soon as we can.