Privacy Policy

You can read every lesson, worksheet and past paper on this site without giving your name, your email address or your telephone number, and without creating an account.

This site does carry advertising, supplied by Google AdSense, and advertising involves cookies and information about your device. What that means is set out under Advertising below, including how to turn personalised advertising off.

It does use Google Analytics to count visits, which sets cookies in your browser, as explained under Visitor statistics below.

To find out which lessons and resources are used, and which need improving, this site uses Google Analytics, a statistics service provided by Google.

What it collects: the pages you view and how long you stay, the website or search that brought you here, the general type of device, browser and screen, your approximate location (such as country and city), and a random identifier so that return visits can be counted. Google receives your IP address in order to work out the approximate location; Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses.

Cookies: Google Analytics stores cookies whose names begin with _ga in your browser. They do not contain your name or contact details. Unless you clear them, they last for up to two years.

What RCF English sees: reports of totals, such as how many people viewed a page or which countries visitors came from. RCF English cannot identify you from these reports, does not combine them with any other information about you, and does not use them for advertising.

Google's own use of this information is explained on its page How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

If you prefer not to be counted: block or delete cookies in your browser settings, use a content blocker, or install Google's Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Every page works exactly the same without it.

Tuition classes and courses run by other people can be advertised on this site as paid listings. Every one of them is clearly marked Sponsored, and paid listings are kept in their own section, never mixed into the free lessons or resources.

These listings are plain text and pictures written into the site. They are not served by an advertising network. Nothing about you is sent to an advertiser, no advertising cookie is set, and what you see does not change according to who you are or what you have looked at before.

RCF English does not endorse an advertiser by accepting a listing. Anything you arrange with one is between you and them.

Advertisements on this site are supplied by Google AdSense. They appear only in the spaces marked Advertisement, between sections of a page. They never appear inside a lesson, inside a worksheet, beside a download button, or on the pages made for young children.

What Google does. Google and its partners use cookies and similar technology to serve advertisements and, where you have allowed it, to make them relevant to you based on your previous visits to this and other websites. RCF English does not receive your browsing history and cannot identify you from anything an advertiser does.

• Turning personalised advertising off: visit Google's Ads Settings or, in Europe and the United Kingdom, use the consent choice you are shown on this site. You will still see advertisements, but they will not be based on your interests.
• Third-party cookies: your browser can refuse them. Every part of this site keeps working without advertising cookies.
• More detail: how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

The Primary Game Zone and the other pages written for young children carry no advertising at all. That is a deliberate choice, not an accident of what happened to fill: the advertising spaces are placed page by page, and none are placed there.

The Speaking Practice, IELTS Mock Speaking Test and Conversation Partner pages, and the role-play buttons on spoken English conversations, use your browser's own speech recognition to turn what you say into text. Your voice goes to your browser's maker, not to RCF English.

When you press Start speaking, your browser asks for permission to use the microphone. While you speak, Chrome and Microsoft Edge send the sound of your voice to Google, and Safari sends it to Apple, which send back the words. Their own privacy policies apply to that. RCF English never receives your voice, a recording or the words.

The page explains this and asks you to confirm before you use it for the first time. It keeps a short summary of your recent attempts (the date, the question, the number of words and the speaking speed) in your own browser so you can see your progress, and you can clear it on the page at any time. This site keeps no recording of your voice anywhere.

Nothing is heard unless you press Start speaking, and recognition stops when you press Stop, when the time limit is reached or when you leave the page.

To remember your choices without an account, the site saves a small amount of information in your browser's own storage (known as local storage). It stays on the device you are using. It is not sent to RCF English or to anyone else, and it is not shared with your other devices. It can include:

• the grade you chose on My RCF English, the pages you saved, and the pages you viewed recently
• your stars and best scores in the interactive activities, and your chosen support level
• drafts in Writing Practice, words typed into the flashcard maker, and your study timetable
• an examination date you entered for the countdown
• your reading options (text size, high contrast, spacing) and your preferred listening accent and sound settings

Offline copies

So that pages you have already opened can be read without a connection, your browser also keeps copies of those pages and of the site's style and script files. These are ordinary website files, not information about you, and they are replaced automatically when the site is updated.

Removing it

You can remove everything the site has saved with the Clear everything saved on this device button on My RCF English, or by clearing this website's data in your browser settings. Using a private or incognito window means nothing is kept after you close it.

Because there is no server behind this website, the contact forms cannot send anything. What they do instead is write your message for you and hand it to WhatsApp or to your own email program, where you press send.

That means the message travels through WhatsApp or through your email provider, and their own privacy terms apply to it, not ours. Please do not include information in such a message that you would not want to share.

Any message you do send is used only to answer you.

Much of this material is intended for school students. Since nothing is collected from anybody while they use the site, nothing is collected from children either. No account can be created, and no personal detail is requested anywhere on the site. Progress and choices a child makes are kept only on the device they are using. Purchases and class registrations are arranged by an adult through WhatsApp and a bank transfer, away from this website.