Who we are
Bonjourville is a French practice app for people preparing for TEF Canada and TCF Canada. It is a product of Workaholic Developers, in partnership with Edu Web Consulting. For anything about your data, write to info@bonjourville.com.
What we store
- Your account. Your email address and your password, if you add them. The password is stored in scrambled form, so we cannot read it. You can also use Bonjourville as a guest with no email.
- Your settings. Your first name, the tutor you chose, your language, your exam, your target level and date, your starting level, and your job or a few words about yourself if you tell us. If you set study reminders, we also keep your reminder times and your time zone.
- Your learning. Lessons and games you finish, your scores for each skill, your review cards, experience points and your streak.
- Your conversations. The text of your conversations with the tutor and the corrections you receive. Your mistakes notebook is built from these. The tutor also keeps a few short notes from earlier conversations, so it can remember you next time.
- Usage counts. How many live minutes, how much voice and how much speech recognition your account uses. We need this to apply plan limits and to know our costs.
- Your internet address (IP). We keep the address an account was created from, to limit how many guest accounts one connection can create in a day.
- Reminders. If you turn on reminders in a browser, we keep the browser's notification address so we can send them.
- Classes. If you join a class with a teacher's code, we keep which class you are in.
- Password reset links. If you ask for a link to choose a new password, we keep a scrambled code for that link for one hour. We cannot read the link from it.
- Payments. When you pay, we keep a record of the payment: the payment company, what you bought, the amount and currency, whether it went through, and the payment company's reference number. If you pay with Cashfree, we also keep the phone number you give, because Cashfree requires one. We never see or store your card number.
Your voice
Bonjourville listens when you speak, so it needs your microphone. We do not keep recordings of your voice on our server.
- In a live conversation, your device sends the sound straight to the speech recognition service, which turns it into text.
- When you say a word or sentence to be checked, the recording passes through our server to the recognition or scoring service and is not saved by us.
- The text of what you said is kept, as described above.
Email
We send you email only when you ask for it. Today that is one case: the link to choose a new password. It is sent from info@bonjourville.com through our own mail server. We do not send marketing email.
Companies that help us run Bonjourville
We send these companies only what they need to do their part. Each one handles it under its own terms and privacy policy.
- Anthropic (Claude). Receives the text of your conversations and writing, together with your first name, exam target, and your job and notes about you if given, so the tutor can answer and correct you.
- ElevenLabs. Receives the tutor's text to turn it into speech, and your voice to turn it into text.
- Microsoft Azure Speech. Receives short recordings, and the sentence you were asked to say, to score your pronunciation. This runs in Microsoft's East US region.
- PayPal and Cashfree. Handle your payment when you buy a plan or minutes: PayPal outside India, Cashfree in India. They receive what you are buying and the amount, and Cashfree receives your email and phone number. You give your card or bank details to them, not to us. Paid plans are not open yet.
The pictures in the app were made in advance with an image service. No learner data is sent to it.
What a teacher can see
If you join a class, the teacher who owns it can see your first name, level, target, points, streak, the last day you practised, how many lessons and missions you finished, your minutes spoken and your estimated readiness. The teacher cannot see your email, your conversations or your voice.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your data.
- We do not show advertising.
- The website and app do not use advertising or tracking tools from other companies.
On your device
The app keeps a sign-in key in your browser or on your phone so you stay signed in. Signing out removes it.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while your account exists. You can delete your account at any time in the app: open Settings and choose "Delete my account". This removes your account, settings, progress, conversations, review cards and reminders straight away. Usage counts stay, but only as numbers that no longer point to an account. Payment records are kept as business records.
Your choices
- You can change your name, tutor, language and targets in Settings.
- You can turn reminders off in the app.
- You can leave a class at any time.
- You can ask us for a copy of your data, or ask us to correct or delete it, by writing to info@bonjourville.com.
Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle your data, we will update this page and change the date at the top.
See also our terms of use and refund policy.