Last updated July 26, 2026.
Atilingo Inc. ("Atilingo," "we," "us") is a non-profit public benefit corporation registered in California, building a publishing platform for Indigenous African languages. This policy explains what information we collect through atilingo.com, why, and what you can do about it.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we store the email address you provide and the date you subscribed. We use this only to send you updates about Atilingo. We don't sell, rent, or share this list with anyone.
If you join the waitlist for the platform beta, we store your email address, the one option you picked describing what you are here for, the language or variety you named if you named one, and the date. We use it to email you when the beta opens and to work out which varieties people actually want. It is a separate list from the newsletter, and joining one does not add you to the other. We don't sell, rent, or share it.
Pages like Contribute, Team, and Donate link directly to our email address. If you email us, we receive whatever you choose to send (your address, name, and message content) in our ordinary inbox. We use it to respond to you and, where relevant, to coordinate a recording or contribution.
Audio recordings, transcripts, and contributor information (name, location, date) are collected only with the informed consent of the person recorded, and are credited rather than anonymized, in line with our editorial practice described throughout the site. We do not collect recordings passively or without direct contact with the contributor.
We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and see which pages people find useful. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device, and does not build a profile of you or follow you across other sites. It records the page visited, the referring site, and coarse details like country and device type.
If you switch between light and dark mode, we store that choice in your browser's local storage so it persists on your next visit. This never leaves your device and isn't a tracking mechanism.
We don't run third-party advertising trackers, ad-network cookies, or behavioral ad targeting on this site. We don't sell personal information.
Newsletter subscriber records and beta waitlist entries are kept until you ask us to remove them. Emails you send us are kept as long as reasonably needed to respond and maintain a record of our correspondence. Contributor recordings and credited data are kept as part of the permanent archive, consistent with the consent under which they were recorded.
You can ask us to remove your email from the newsletter list or the beta waitlist, or ask what information we hold about you, at any time by emailing hello@atilingo.com. If you're a contributor and want a recording or credit updated or removed, the same address reaches us.
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top of this page.
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