Privacy Policy — Lingua Viva

Last updated: July 2026

This policy explains what data Lingua Viva collects, why, and how it's used. Lingua Viva is built to work without requiring an account, and we've kept data collection to the minimum needed to make the app function.

What We Collect

Device Identifier

On first launch, the app generates a random identifier stored only on your device. This ID is sent with translation requests solely to prevent abuse (rate limiting) and is not linked to your name, email, or any other personal information — because we don't collect any.

Text and Images You Submit for Translation

When you use Scan Mode or Paste Mode, the Latin text you photograph or type is sent to our backend, which uses Anthropic's Claude API to generate the translation, context, and related information. Anthropic processes this text as a data processor on our behalf. We do not send photos of you, your surroundings beyond the scanned text, or any other personal content — only the recognized text itself.

Text recognition (OCR) for Scan Mode happens on your device using Apple's Vision framework before anything is sent to our servers — we only receive the recognized text, not the photo itself.

Saved History

Translations you choose to save are stored locally on your device using Apple's on-device storage (SwiftData). This history is never uploaded to our servers or shared with us — it lives entirely on your phone, and deleting the app deletes this history permanently.

What We Don't Collect

No account creation, no email address, no sign-in
No location data
No contacts, photos library access, or camera roll access (Scan Mode uses the live camera feed only, momentarily, to recognize text)
No advertising identifiers, no third-party ad tracking, no analytics SDKs that build a profile of you

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party service to operate the app:

Anthropic (Claude API) — processes submitted Latin text to generate translations, context, and grammatical analysis. See Anthropic's Privacy Policy for how they handle data sent to their API.

Data Retention

Translation requests may be temporarily cached on our backend (keyed to the normalized text itself, not to you or your device) to speed up common lookups and reduce cost. This cache contains no identifying information — it's simply "this Latin phrase → this translation," shared across all users of the app.

Children's Privacy

Lingua Viva does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Since the app requires no account and stores no personal data, there is no profile to collect in the first place.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above and, for material changes, note it in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy or how your data is handled? Email pvangool@mimotech.com.