Updated 24 March 2025
1 – Who we are & our goals
Our website addresses are: https://frenchirl.com and https://bitesizefrench.com. FrenchIRL (“French In Real Life”, “Frenchirl”, “The French in Real Life Project”, “Bitesize”, “Bitesize French”, “The site”, “We”) operates under Need vs Want LLC. Our goal is to help you easily immerse in spoken French through short, challenging audio snippets. The following outlines our data usage policies and your rights.
2 – Personal Data & Privacy Protection
FrenchIRL complies fully with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the U.S. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not sell or share personal data with third parties for marketing or advertising purposes.
2.1 Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to prevent spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2.2 Media
If you upload media (audio, text, images) to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
2.3 Forms (contact us forms and lesson forms)
Contact us forms will collect data about your name and email address. This will let us get in touch with you to share the latest lessons, articles from the blog, updates about the project, and any other notes of interest for learners of French. You can opt out at any time or request that we share what information we have about you.
When logged into the site, data from each “quiz” or lesson on site is stored associated with your account. These are unique to each user and remain private.
2.4 Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
2.5 Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
2.6 Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.
We use Google Analytics to understand site traffic. Data is anonymized and never sold or monetized. Opt-out via Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on. Google’s policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
2.7 Mailchimp
We use Mailchimp and its associated cookies to register emails into our contact list and for our email newsletter.
2.8 – Children’s Privacy (COPPA)
We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13 without explicit parental or school consent. If unintentionally collected, data is immediately deleted upon notification.
2.9 – Educational Data (FERPA Compliance)
FrenchIRL respects student privacy according to FERPA. Schools retain ownership and control of all student data, which we use solely for educational purposes. Schools may request data deletion or export at any time.
2.10 – Your Rights to your data (GDPR)
You have rights to access, update, export, or erase your data at any time. Contact: hello@bitesizefrench.com.
2.10.1 – Who we share your data with
We do not sell or market your data. Data may be shared minimally to provide essential services (e.g., password resets include your IP address).
2.10.2 – How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
2.10.3 – What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
2.10.4 – Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
2.10.5 – Data Security
We store data securely, employing technical and physical safeguards. Data is stored within secure servers in GDPR-compliant locations.
3 – Content
We do not own the rights to audio content featured on this site, using snippets strictly under educational fair use guidelines. If you own content and wish it removed, contact hello@bitesizefrench.com.
4 – This agreement
Please note we reserve the right to update and amend these terms and conditions at any time without notice. Changes will be posted on our website.
5 – Contact us
If you have any questions please contact us: hello@bitesizefrench.com
