Privacy and your practice

You can read lessons and use practice activities without creating an English Ladder account.

Practice notes and browser preferences

News-lesson notes and grammar answers stay on the current page. English Ladder no longer saves or restores a general learning history, vocabulary list, or grammar selections. Any records left by the retired saving feature can be removed through your browser’s site-data settings.

Your selected level and explanation language may still be stored in this browser. Work courses have a separate optional switch for saving course drafts and progress, with a clear control on each course page. Those drafts stay on that browser and device and do not sync elsewhere.

Your writing is not submitted for automatic grading. Use fictional details for work practice. On a shared device, leave work-course saving off or clear it when you finish.

Optional AI practice

AI extension buttons copy published lesson material to your clipboard. They do not include your drafts, saved answers, or recordings, and English Ladder does not send the prompts to an AI service. If you paste a prompt into another service, that service handles it under its own terms. Review its privacy and pricing information and use fictional details. The prompts are optional; the regular lessons work without AI.

Audio and recording

The optional practice recorder requests microphone permission only when you press Record. Recordings are kept in the current page for playback and are not uploaded by English Ladder. Leaving the page releases the microphone. The older model-voice control uses the browser's speech service; its implementation can vary by browser and device. It is optional.

Visits and external services

The site includes Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate traffic information. The site does not attach practice answers, notes, or recordings to custom analytics events. Cloudflare explains its data practices here. The site is hosted on Cloudflare; hosting providers may process connection information such as IP addresses in serving the site. External links, including English Road and correction reports on GitHub, have their own privacy practices.

Daily lesson generation happens separately from your browser practice. It uses news sources and external generation services; your drafts are not included.

Updated 6 September 2026.