PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated December 23, 2025
This Privacy Notice for Bahar ("we," "us," or "our"), describes
how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share
("process") your personal information when you use our services
("Services"), including when you:
- Visit our website at getbahar.comor any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
- Use Bahar. Bahar is an Arabic language learning application that helps users build and study a personal Arabic dictionary. Features include flashcards with spaced repetition, custom study decks, and support for Arabic morphology and linguistic details.
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any marketing or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy
Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices.
We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal
information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies
and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have
any questions or concerns, please contact us at support@bahar.dev.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but
you can find out more details about any of these topics by
clicking the link following each key point or by using our
table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
What personal information do we process?When you
visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal
information depending on how you interact with us and the Services,
the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn
more about
personal information you disclose to us.
Do we process any sensitive personal information?
We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we collect any information from third parties?We do not collect any information from third parties.
How do we process your information?We process your
information to provide, improve, and administer our Services,
communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to
comply with law. We may also process your information for other
purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we
have a valid legal reason to do so. Learn more about
how we process your information.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal
information?We may share information in specific situations and with specific
third parties. Learn more about
when and with whom we share your personal information.
How do we keep your information safe?We have
adequate organizational and technical processes and procedures in
place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic
transmission over the internet or information storage technology can
be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee
that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties
will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect,
access, steal, or modify your information. Learn more about
how we keep your information safe.
What are your rights?Depending on where you are
located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have
certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more about
your privacy rights.
How do you exercise your rights?The easiest way to
exercise your rights is by submitting a
data subject access request, or by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in
accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Want to learn more about what we do with any information we
collect?
Review the Privacy Notice in full.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short:
We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us
when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining
information about us or our products and Services, when you
participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you
contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You.The personal
information that we collect depends on the context of your
interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the
products and features you use. The personal information we collect
may include the following:
- email addresses
- names
- usernames
Sensitive Information.We do not process sensitive
information.
Social Media Login Data.We may provide you with
the option to register with us using your existing social media
account details, like your Facebook, X, or other social media
account. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect
certain profile information about you from the social media
provider, as described in the section called "HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?" below.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true,
complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to
such personal information.
Google API
Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short:
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer
our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud
prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your
information for other purposes only with your prior explicit
consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons,
depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts.We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
- To protect our Services.We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
- To identify usage trends.We may process information about how you use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.
- To save or protect an individual's vital interest.We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual's vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short:We only process your personal
information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid
legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law,
like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with
services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to
protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business
interests.
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to
you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require
us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process
your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following
legal bases to process your personal information:
- Consent.We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about withdrawing your consent.
- Legitimate Interests.We may process your
information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve
our legitimate business interests and those interests do not
outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For
example, we may process your personal information for some of the
purposes described in order to:
- Analyze how our Services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users
- Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities
- Legal Obligations.We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Vital Interests.We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific
permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information
for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can
be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can
withdraw your consentat any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under
applicable law to process your information without your consent,
including, for example:
- If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
- For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
- For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
- If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
- For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
- If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
- If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
- If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
- If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
- If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
- If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations
- We may disclose de-identified information for approved research or statistics projects, subject to ethics oversight and confidentiality commitments
In Short:
We may share information in specific situations described in this
section and/or with the following third parties.
We may need to share your personal information in the following
situations:
- Business Transfers.We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
In Short:
We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and
store your information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web
beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our
Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the
security of our Services and your account, prevent crashes, fix
bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.
We also permit third parties and service providers to use online
tracking technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising,
including to help manage and display advertisements, to tailor
advertisements to your interests, or to send abandoned shopping cart
reminders (depending on your communication preferences). The third
parties and service providers use their technology to provide
advertising about products and services tailored to your interests
which may appear either on our Services or on other websites.
To the extent these online tracking technologies are deemed to be a
"sale"/"sharing" (which includes targeted advertising, as defined
under the applicable laws) under applicable US state laws, you can
opt out of these online tracking technologies by submitting a
request as described below under section "DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?"
Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you
can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice.
In Short:
If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social
media account, we may have access to certain information about
you.
Our Services offer you the ability to register and log in using
your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or
X logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain
profile information about you from your social media provider. The
profile information we receive may vary depending on the social
media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email
address, friends list, and profile picture, as well as other
information you choose to make public on such a social media
platform.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that
are described in this Privacy Notice or that are otherwise made
clear to you on the relevant Services. Please note that we do not
control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal
information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend
that you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect,
use, and share your personal information, and how you can set your
privacy preferences on their sites and apps.
7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short:
We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the
purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required
by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is
necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a
longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as
tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this
notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer
than the period of time in which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your
personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such
information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your
personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we
will securely store your personal information and isolate it from
any further processing until deletion is possible.
8. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short:
We aim to protect your personal information through a system of
organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and
organizational security measures designed to protect the security of
any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards
and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission
over the Internet or information storage technology can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that
hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will
not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access,
steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to
protect your personal information, transmission of personal
information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should
only access the Services within a secure environment.
9. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short:
We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under
18 years of age or the equivalent age as specified by law in your
jurisdiction.
We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to
children under 18 years of age or the equivalent age as specified by
law in your jurisdiction, nor do we knowingly sell such personal
information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at
least 18 or the equivalent age as specified by law in your
jurisdiction or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor
and consent to such minor dependent's use of the Services. If we
learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age
or the equivalent age as specified by law in your jurisdiction has
been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable
measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you
become aware of any data we may have collected from children under
age 18 or the equivalent age as specified by law in your
jurisdiction, please contact us at
support@bahar.dev.
10. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short:
Depending on your state of residence in the US or in some regions,
such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK),
Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater
access to and control over your personal information. You may
review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending
on your country, province, or state of residence.
In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you
have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may
include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your
personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure;
(iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv)
if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to
automated decision-making. If a decision that produces legal or
similarly significant effects is made solely by automated means, we
will inform you, explain the main factors, and offer a simple way to
request human review. In certain circumstances, you may also have
the right to object to the processing of your personal information.
You can make such a request by contacting us by using the contact
details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with
applicable data protection laws.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are
unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the
right to complain to your
Member State data protection authorityor UK data protection authority.
If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the
Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
Withdrawing your consent:If we are relying on your consent to process your personal
information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending
on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent
at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting
us by using the contact details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?" below.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of
the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law
allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information
conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than
consent.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or change the information
in your account or terminate your account, you can:
- Contact us using the contact information provided.
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or
delete your account and information from our active databases.
However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent
fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations,
enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal
requirements.
Cookies and similar technologies:Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you
prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies
and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject
cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our
Services.
If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you
may email us at
support@bahar.dev.
11. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile
applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you
can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data
about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At
this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and
implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not
currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If
a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the
future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version
of this Privacy Notice.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web
browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or
legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not
respond to them at this time.
12. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short:
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode
Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the
right to request access to and receive details about the personal
information we maintain about you and how we have processed it,
correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal
information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent
to our processing of your personal information. These rights may
be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. More
information is provided below.
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to
third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding
twelve (12) months. We will not sell or share personal information
in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other
consumers.
Your Rights
You have rights under certain US state data protection laws.
However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may
decline your request as permitted by law. These rights include:
- Right to knowwhether or not we are processing your personal data
- Right to accessyour personal data
- Right to correctinaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to requestthe deletion of your personal data
- Right to obtain a copyof the personal data you previously shared with us
- Right to non-discriminationfor exercising your rights
- Right to opt outof the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California's privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects ("profiling")
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by submitting a
data subject access request, by emailing us at
support@bahar.dev, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this
document.
Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an
authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a
request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that
they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in
accordance with applicable laws.
Request Verification
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity
to determine you are the same person about whom we have the
information in our system. We will only use personal information
provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to
make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from
the information already maintained by us, we may request that you
provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your
identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
If you submit the request through an authorized agent, we may need
to collect additional information to verify your identity before
processing your request and the agent will need to provide a written
and signed permission from you to submit such request on your
behalf.
Appeals
Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take
action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by
emailing us at
support@bahar.dev. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in
response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the
reasons for the decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit
a complaint to your state attorney general.
California "Shine The Light" Law
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The
Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to
request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge,
information about categories of personal information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the
names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared
personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If
you are a California resident and would like to make such a request,
please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact
details provided in the section "HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?"
13. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short:Yes, we will update this notice as
necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated
version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date at the top of
this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy
Notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of
such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage
you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of how
we are protecting your information.
14. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email
us at
support@bahar.devor contact us by post at:
Bahar
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
15. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence
in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal
information we collect from you, details about how we have processed
it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You
may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing
of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some
circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or
delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a
data subject access request.
6. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?