Alors
What's collected, why, who else sees it, and how to make it go away.
Alors is run by an independent developer, not a company. This page describes what the site at alorsapp.com and the Alors Android app actually do today — not what a product might do later. It is written to be read, not to be survived.
The two share one account and one server, so nearly everything below applies to both. Where the app differs it differs by collecting less, and The Android app sets out exactly how.
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address, and which exam you picked | Only if you fill in the waitlist form | To send you one email when something significant changes here |
| Anonymous page statistics — page viewed, referrer, country, browser, load speed | Every visit | To know whether anyone is finding the site. No cookies, nothing stored on your device, no personal data |
| Google Analytics data — pages, session, approximate location, device, and how you interact with the page: how far you scroll, links you follow away from the site, and the fact that the waitlist form was started or submitted. Never the contents of anything you type, including your email address | Only if you press Accept | To see which parts of the site people actually use |
| The writing you submit for correction, plus which task and target NCLC band you chose | Only if you sign in and submit writing | So a person can grade it by hand — read "Who reads your writing" below before you send anything |
| The correction that comes back — a band, a score for each thing marked, the passages quoted as evidence, and the specific fixes suggested | Once your submission has been graded | So you can read it on your result page. It is stored next to your writing and goes when that goes |
The score converter — the calculator on the home page — runs entirely in your browser. Scores you type into it are never sent anywhere and are never stored. Writing you submit for correction is different, and the next section says exactly how.
The app signs in, submits writing and shows corrections against the same server and the same account as the site. Everything on this page about your writing, who reads it, and how to delete it applies to it unchanged.
Three things are different, and all three mean less data, not more:
Google Play, like any app store, records its own installation and crash statistics for anything distributed through it. That is Google's collection and not ours — we neither ask for it nor receive anything that identifies you from it. Google's privacy policy covers it.
One thing on the Play listing needs explaining, because it looks worse than it is. The app's permissions include biometric and fingerprint. We never ask for either and nothing in the app reads a fingerprint. They arrive because Google's own sign-in component supports passkeys, which can use a fingerprint, and its permissions are merged into any app that includes it. Alors uses only the ordinary "Sign in with Google" flow, so that path is never taken. The only permission the app asks for on its own behalf is internet access.
Submit writing for correction and it is sent to our server and stored there. Then a person — the developer who runs this site, working alone — opens it and reads the whole thing. There is no automatic pipeline it could go through instead: grading here is done by hand, one submission at a time.
There is a second way in, and it stores your writing somewhere else first. We sometimes ask for practice essays through a Google Form, so writing can be sent without an account. Anything submitted that way is held by Google — in a form and a spreadsheet belonging to this project — before it reaches our server at all. If you fill in that form's optional email field, Google receives that too. The form says so on its own first screen. Everything else in this section then applies unchanged: a person reads it, and marking it means putting it through the assistant described below.
Part of grading it by hand is putting it through an AI assistant. To mark one piece of writing, that person copies your text — all of it, unedited — into a chat with an AI assistant and reads back what it says. Your text goes into a fresh chat once for each of the four things being marked, twice over so two independent readings can be compared: eight times in all, or twelve if those two readings disagree and a third is needed.
Today that assistant is Claude, made by Anthropic. So your writing does leave our server, to them. Nothing that names you goes with it — what is pasted is the exam, the task, the one criterion being marked, your word count, and your text. Not your address, not your name, not your account.
The assistant decides nothing on its own. It comes back with a score and suggested fixes, a person reads those and decides what to keep, and the band you finally see is worked out on our own server from what was kept.
An earlier version of this page said writing you submit was "not processed by a model". That was true when it was written, in the days before anything could be graded at all. It is not true now, and this section is what replaced it.
If you decline, or simply ignore the banner, no analytics cookies are set and Google Analytics never loads. Declining changes nothing about how the site works.
Accepting stores one thing on your device — a note that you accepted, so you aren't asked again — plus Google Analytics' own cookies. You can change your mind any time using the Cookie choices link at the bottom of the home page.
Signing in with Google sets one more cookie, separate from the analytics choice above and used only to keep you signed in — never for tracking. Signing in also stores your email address and a Google account identifier on our own server; both go when your account does, and "How long it's kept" below says how to make that happen.
Ad tracking is switched off permanently, not by default. Google's ad storage, ad personalisation, and ad user data are set to denied and are never enabled, even if you accept analytics. This site runs no advertising and has no reason to collect anything for it.
Your email address goes to at most two of them, and only ever to send you something you asked for. Resend receives the address on your account to deliver the one notification that a correction is ready. And Google receives an address only if you type one into the optional field on the practice-essay form — leave it blank and it never has one. It goes to none of the others. Neither address is sold, rented, or added to a mailing list. The waitlist address has been given to nobody — it sits on our own server, and the one email it exists for has not been sent. That email is now for a significant change here, most likely the band being checked against teacher-marked writing; it used to be described as a launch announcement, which stopped fitting once marking opened.
You are emailed once when your correction is ready. That message is sent through Resend, a mail provider, which receives your email address in order to deliver it. It carries a link to your result and nothing else — your writing is not in it, and neither is your band. It is the only email the corrections service sends; you can also just open your result page and never read it.
This paragraph said the opposite until 23 August 2026, and it was wrong for a day. It stated that no mail provider was configured and promised this page would name one before that changed. Email was switched on on 22 August 2026 and the page was not updated with it, so for that period notification emails were being delivered through Resend while this page said none could be. Correcting it here rather than quietly editing the sentence, because a privacy page that revises itself silently is worth less than one that does not.
Whether you're covered by PIPEDA in Canada, the GDPR in Europe, the UK GDPR, or nothing in particular, the answer here is the same: ask and it happens.
Email 69ingmonkeysdev@gmail.com with "privacy" in the subject.
This site is aimed at adults preparing for an immigration language exam. It is not directed at children under 13, and no information is knowingly collected from them.
If what's collected changes, this page changes with it and the date below moves. If a change is significant and you're on the waitlist, you'll be told before it takes effect.
Not immigration advice. Alors teaches French and converts exam scores. It does not provide immigration advice or assess anyone's eligibility.
Not affiliated with CCIP Paris Île-de-France (TEF Canada) or France Éducation International (TCF).
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