Alpine Digest is operated by Alpine Digest, Shruti Sharma, Avenue Theodore Flourney 11, 1206, Geneva , Switzerland, Switzerland. You can reach us at hello@alpinedigest.ch.
We process the data above to deliver the service you have asked for (account access, Pro subscription, newsletter, push notifications, listing review) and to bill for the paid tier. Legal basis: performance of contract (Pro subscribers — including the device-security checks that protect your paid subscription), consent (newsletter and push), and our legitimate interest in operating the Service (anonymous analytics, account security, and prevention of fraud and subscription abuse). We do not sell or share your data with advertisers or third parties for marketing.
Automated processing. We use limited automated logic to (a) count your free word-lookups against the daily free allowance and, once you pass it, show an upgrade prompt; and (b) flag likely sharing of a Pro subscription from the device signals described in section 2. These decisions do not produce legal or similarly significant effects, and never remove access you have already paid for. You can email us at any time to query or contest an automated outcome and ask for a human review.
International transfers. Some of the providers above process data in the United States or in other countries outside Switzerland and the EEA. Where a recipient is certified under the Swiss–U.S. Data Privacy Framework we rely on that certification; otherwise the transfer is covered by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, with the Swiss addendum recognised by the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), as incorporated in each provider’s data-processing agreement. You can ask us at the address above for more information about these safeguards.
Under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) and, where applicable, the EU GDPR, you have the right to:
Email hello@alpinedigest.ch to exercise any of these rights.
Newsletter signups are kept until you unsubscribe. Push subscriptions are kept until you unsubscribe at the OS or browser level. Anonymous analytics are aggregated and retained per Vercel’s policy.
Subscription billing records: when you pay for Pro, Swiss bookkeeping law (Art. 958f OR) requires us to retain billing records for ten years. After cancellation, we keep only the data necessary to demonstrate that payments and refunds were processed correctly. Stripe retains the underlying card-network records per their own policy.
Vocabulary & reading data: kept while your account is active. If you delete your account (email us at the address above), we delete this data within 30 days unless it is subject to the legal retention window above.
We use only strictly necessary storage: a sign-in session cookie, your locale and theme preferences, an anonymous device ID kept in your browser’s local storage to link pre-signup activity (saved words and the free-allowance counter), and the irreversible device-security hash described in section 2. We set no advertising, profiling, or cross-site tracking cookies. When you first visit we show a brief notice describing this essential storage and the device-security processing, which you acknowledge to continue; because none of it is advertising or tracking, we do not operate a separate tracking-consent banner. You can clear this storage at any time from your browser settings.
The Service is intended for adults and is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you believe a child has given us personal data, email us at the address above and we will delete it.
Material changes will be communicated by email to subscribers and via a notice on this page.