Varco

Privacy policy

Last updated November 6, 2026

Varco is built to keep as little about you as possible. It works offline, everything you add stays on your device, and nothing is sold or used for advertising.

This policy explains what the Varco app and this website collect, why, and the choices you have. "We" means CiaoBeppe LLC, the maker of Varco. Questions: varco-support@ciaobeppe.com.

Without an account

Varco Lite and Varco Complete both work without an account. Your verbs, vocabulary, corrections, notes, settings and practice statistics are saved only on your device. We don't receive any of it. The only thing Varco can send without an account is the usage counts described below, and only if you turn them on.

Pronunciation uses your device's built-in text-to-speech; we don't receive what is spoken.

With an account (Varco Complete)

If you create an account to back up and sync, we store:

  • Your email address and password. The password is protected with one-way encryption; nobody, including us, can read it.
  • A copy of your Varco data: your custom verbs and words with their definitions, notes and categories; your corrections and other changes to any verb or word; what you hide or delete, so it stays hidden or deleted on every device; and the time of each change.
  • Practice statistics: your totals, across devices, for each tense and word (with a device identifier), and a day-by-day history kept for 13 months.
  • Settings: your choice about helping improve Varco, and when you last reset your statistics.
  • Subscription status: whether your Varco Complete subscription is active and when it ends. We never see your payment details.

We use this to run your account, back up and sync your data, and send account-related emails (sign-in codes, password resets, account deletion codes). We access it only when needed to run the service, fix a problem, keep it secure, or answer a request from you.

Improving Varco (off unless you turn it on)

If you turn on Improving Varco in Menu → Account, we study your corrections to verb forms, the verbs and words you add, and your practice statistics, together with other learners' and only in aggregate, to:

  • find verbs that Varco may conjugate incorrectly;
  • notice new or contemporary uses, colloquialisms and everyday Italian worth adding;
  • find the common trouble spots for learners.

We never use your notes, your email or anything saved only on your device. You can switch it off at any time; from then on, your data is left out.

Usage counts (off unless you turn them on)

After your first quiz, Varco asks once whether you'd like to share a few simple counts that help us improve the app ("Help improve Varco?"). You can change your answer anytime in Menu → Aiuto → Improving Varco. If they're on, the app sends:

  • that the app was opened (at most once a day);
  • that a quiz was finished, and what kind of quiz;
  • that the subscription card was shown, and from where; whether it was closed without buying; and whether Subscribe was tapped, with the App Store's result.

Each count carries the date, the app version and build, your plan, the platform, and a random ID that Varco creates when you turn usage counts on and deletes when you turn them off. The counts are not linked to you: not to your account, your name or email, or your device. They contain nothing about what you study. They are stored in our cloud database and are never sold or shared. You can turn them off at any time.

Who handles data for us

We use a small number of service providers, each only for the job listed and bound to protect the data:

  • A cloud database and sign-in service: stores account data and usage counts, and handles sign-in (United States).
  • An email delivery service: sends account emails, such as sign-in codes (United States).
  • Apple: handles App Store purchases and subscriptions. Apple's privacy policy applies to your payment.
  • A subscription-status service: tells the app whether your subscription is active. It receives a purchase record from Apple and a random identifier, never your name or email.
  • Our email provider: receives and stores messages sent to varco-support@ciaobeppe.com.

We don't sell, rent or share your personal information, and Varco has no ads or trackers, and no third-party analytics: usage counts, if you turn them on, are kept by us.

Where it is stored, and for how long

Account data and usage counts are stored in the United States. It is kept until you delete your account, except the day-by-day practice history, which is deleted after 13 months. When you delete your account, it and everything it owns are removed from our database at once; copies in our hosting provider's backups are overwritten within a short period. Usage counts are kept in detail for 90 days, then only as daily and weekly totals. Support emails are kept as long as needed to help you.

Your choices and rights

  • Delete your account in Menu → Account → Delete account, or ask us by email.
  • Correct your data in the app at any time.
  • Get a copy of your account data, or ask any question about it, by email.
  • Switch off Improving Varco (Menu → Account) or usage counts (Menu → Aiuto → Improving Varco) at any time.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you also have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your data, and to data portability. We rely on our contract with you to run your account; on your consent for Improving Varco and usage counts; and on our legitimate interest in keeping Varco secure and working. You may file a complaint with your data protection authority. If you are in California, note that we do not sell or share personal information.

Children

Varco is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their personal information. Children under 13 (or under 16 in the EEA and UK) should create an account only with a parent's permission. If you believe a child has given us personal information, write to us and we will delete it.

This website

ciaobeppe.com uses no cookies, analytics or trackers. Like any website, its hosting service records visitors' IP addresses in its logs, for security. Its fonts are served from this site, not from a third party.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you have already given us, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.