Privacy Policy

Lazy Benkyou Studios LLC · Last updated October 31, 2026

This page covers lazybenkyou.com and the Miki Story Reader at read.lazybenkyou.com. We collect very little, and we never sell anything we collect.

Your email address, if you give it to us

When you sign up for the free vocab sheet, your email address goes to Kit, our email provider. We use it to send the sheet and occasional emails about new stories and videos. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes effect right away. Kit stores the address under its own privacy policy.

Visit counts

Both sites use Vercel Web Analytics to count visits: which pages are read, roughly which country, what kind of device, and the site that sent you. It sets no cookies and doesn't identify you, and we only ever see totals.

Settings saved in your browser

The Story Reader remembers your theme, the last story you opened, where you left off in each story, which lines you've heard all the way through, the stories you've finished, and a few reading preferences. It stores them in your own browser's storage. They never leave your device, and clearing your browser data removes them.

Things other companies load

Pages with videos embed YouTube's player, which works under Google's privacy policy. Both sites load their fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser asks Google's servers for the font files.

Children

Our material is for adult and teen beginners. We don't knowingly collect email addresses from children under 13. If you believe a child has signed up, email us and we'll delete the address.

Our YouTube publishing tool

We use the YouTube API Services to upload and manage videos on our own channel. The tool, "Lazy Benkyou Publisher," signs in only to the Lazy Benkyou account. It never asks for, sees or stores anyone else's Google or YouTube data. By watching our videos you're using YouTube, under the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.

Your choices

To see, correct or delete what we hold about you, which at most is your email address, write to lazybenkyou@gmail.com.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top.