Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 2026
Welcome to Speak First.
This Privacy Policy explains how Speak First (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you visit or interact with our website at https://www.speakfirst.net/ and with our related online content and services.
We respect your privacy and are committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Who We Are
Speak First is an online educational project focused on helping people learn languages more naturally through practical strategies, educational articles, videos, resources, and other learning content.
For privacy-related questions or requests, you can contact us at:
Email: privacy@speakfirst.net
2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with Speak First, we may collect limited information such as:
Information you provide directly
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- Contact us through a contact form or email.
- Subscribe to an email newsletter or other communications.
- Submit feedback, questions, or comments.
- Participate in surveys, forms, or other activities we may introduce in the future.
This information may include your name, email address, and the contents of your message or submission.
You are not required to provide personal information simply to browse the publicly available content on our website.
Information collected automatically
When you visit our website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our hosting provider, WordPress, security tools, analytics services, or other technologies used on the website.
This may include information such as:
- IP address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device type.
- Operating system.
- Approximate location derived from technical information.
- Pages visited.
- Referring website.
- Date and time of visits.
- Basic information about how you interact with the website.
The information collected depends on the services and technologies active on the website at the time of your visit.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Speak First may use cookies and similar technologies to help the website function properly, remember certain preferences, understand website usage, improve performance, and provide a better user experience.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by websites you visit.
Some cookies may be necessary for the website to operate. Other cookies may be used for analytics, preferences, embedded content, or other functionality.
Where required by applicable law, we will request appropriate consent before placing non-essential cookies or similar technologies on your device.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
4. How We Use Information
We may use information collected through Speak First for purposes such as:
- Operating and maintaining the website.
- Responding to questions and messages.
- Providing newsletters or other communications that you have requested.
- Improving our articles, videos, resources, and educational content.
- Understanding how visitors use the website.
- Detecting and preventing spam, fraud, abuse, and security problems.
- Maintaining website security and reliability.
- Improving the user experience.
- Complying with applicable legal obligations.
We do not use personal information for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes described in this Privacy Policy without providing appropriate notice where required.
5. Email Communications
If you voluntarily subscribe to a Speak First newsletter or other email communication, we may use your email address to send the communications you requested.
You can unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the relevant email or by contacting us directly.
We do not sell or rent email addresses to third parties.
6. Comments and User-Submitted Content
If comments or other user-submitted content are enabled on the website, information submitted with that content may be processed and displayed as necessary to operate the relevant feature.
Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information in public comments or other publicly visible areas of the website.
We may remove comments or submissions that contain spam, malicious content, unlawful material, personal information belonging to others, or content that otherwise violates our website rules.
7. Third-Party Services
Speak First may use third-party services to help operate, secure, analyze, or improve the website and to provide certain features.
These services may include, depending on the tools active on the website:
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers.
- Email and newsletter providers.
- Analytics services.
- Security and anti-spam services.
- Social media platforms.
- Embedded video or other external content providers.
- Website performance and technical services.
These third parties may process certain information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Where appropriate, we will identify relevant third-party services and provide links to their privacy information.
8. Social Media and External Links
The Speak First website may contain links to our social media profiles, external websites, educational resources, books, products, or other third-party websites.
Clicking an external link may take you to a website that is not operated by Speak First.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit.
Our website may also contain social media features or links that allow you to interact with third-party platforms. Those platforms may collect information according to their own policies.
9. Embedded Content
Some pages may contain embedded content such as YouTube videos, social media posts, images, or other external content.
Embedded content from third-party websites may behave in the same way as if you had visited the third-party website directly.
These third parties may collect information, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their content according to their own privacy policies.
10. Data Sharing
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.
We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate Speak First, such as hosting, website security, email delivery, analytics, or other technical providers.
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law or legal processes.
- Protect the rights, safety, or property of Speak First, our users, or others.
- Detect or prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, or other harmful activity.
- Operate and maintain the website and its services.
We aim to limit such disclosures to information that is reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.
11. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing services, maintaining records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, preventing abuse, and complying with legal obligations.
The appropriate retention period may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
12. Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.
However, no website, online service, or method of electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
For this reason, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by the website.
13. Children’s Privacy
Speak First is intended to provide general educational information about language learning.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children for purposes that are prohibited by applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate authorization, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action where necessary.
14. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to you, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of personal information in certain circumstances.
- Request restriction of certain processing.
- Object to certain processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request a copy of certain personal information in a portable format.
- Lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority.
To exercise an applicable privacy right, contact us using the details provided below.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
15. European Economic Area and United Kingdom
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with applicable data protection laws, your personal information may be processed in accordance with the applicable privacy framework.
Where required, we will rely on an appropriate legal basis for processing personal information, such as:
- Your consent.
- Performance of a contract or steps taken at your request.
- Compliance with a legal obligation.
- Our legitimate interests, where permitted by law and where those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
You may have additional rights under applicable data protection legislation.
For users in the European Union, the relevant supervisory authority in your country may provide additional information about your privacy rights.
16. International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by Speak First may process information in countries outside your country of residence.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers of personal information, we will seek to use appropriate safeguards and contractual or other legally recognized mechanisms.
17. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services we use, applicable laws, or our privacy practices.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise an applicable privacy right, or have a privacy-related concern, please contact us at:
Speak First
Email: contact@speakfirst.net
Website: https://www.speakfirst.net/
We will make reasonable efforts to respond to legitimate privacy requests within the time frame required by applicable law.
19. Important Notice
Speak First provides educational information and resources about language learning.
The information published on this website is intended for general educational and informational purposes and should not be considered a guarantee of language-learning results.
Individual results may vary depending on factors including the learner’s goals, starting level, language, available time, learning environment, consistency, and other circumstances.