Effective date: November 13, 2026
This policy explains what information Translate Omatic (the "Service") handles, why, who receives it, and your choices. The Service is operated by Daniel Roy ("we", "us"), who is the "controller" or "business" responsible for it where those legal terms apply. This policy is a notice, not a contract. Use of the Service is governed by the Terms of Use.
| What | Where it goes | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Text you type, paste, speak or photograph and then translate (up to 5,000 characters, sent in pieces of about 450), and the two languages chosen. This includes a sample phrase when it is translated into a language other than Japanese. | Unless your browser translates it on your device (next row), sent by your browser directly to MyMemory (Translated srl, Italy) as part of a web address, together with the technical request data below. It does not pass through our server. A copy of the text and the result is saved in your browser. | To provide the translation you ask for, and to show past translations again without sending them a second time |
| Translation on your device | If your browser has a built-in translator (for example Chrome or Edge on a computer), your text is translated on your device by the browser and is not sent to MyMemory. The browser may download its translation model from its maker the first time. | Free, private, offline translation where available |
| Your voice, when you tap Speak and allow the microphone | Handled by your browser's or device's speech-recognition service (for example Apple's or Google's), which may send the audio to that company's servers. We never receive or store the audio; the page only receives the recognised text. | To turn speech into text |
| Translated text, when you tap the speaker button | Read aloud by your browser's or device's built-in voice, which on some devices is provided online by the browser or device maker | To speak the translation |
| History (up to 300 past translations: original text, result, languages, time); settings (last tab, languages, currencies, last amount, recent picks, keyboard choice, the country the Service guessed you're visiting); saved exchange rates; the version of the Terms you accepted and when; your advertising choice from section 5 | Your browser's local storage for this site only (items named tt_history_v1, tt_prefs_v1, tt_rates_v1, tt_optout_v1, and om_r as described under usage statistics). Not sent to us. The browser also keeps an offline copy of the app's pages and files (and, after first use, the fonts and camera text reader) so it works without internet. | To remember your choices, work offline, and remember that you accepted the Terms |
| Your device's language and time-zone settings | Read in your browser only. Not sent to us. | To pre-select your language, home currency and the country you're probably visiting |
| Clipboard | The Copy buttons place a result on your clipboard. The on-screen keyboard's Paste button reads your clipboard only when you tap it, and puts the text in the box on your screen. Nothing is sent anywhere by this. | Copy and paste |
| Exchange-rate request | Your browser downloads a general list of rates from ExchangeRate-API (open.er-api.com). The amounts and currencies you enter are not sent; the conversion is done on your device. The provider receives the technical request data below. | To show currency conversions |
| Photos you choose for camera translation | Read on your device only; the photo is never uploaded. The text found in it is sent to the translation service like typed text. The first time, your browser downloads the open-source text-reading software (Tesseract.js) and its language data from jsDelivr, which receives only standard request data. | To translate text in photos |
| Visit counts | When a page of the Service loads, our server adds one to a few totals: the page, the website you came from (if any), whether you use a phone, tablet or computer, and your browser's language setting. We do not store your IP address, set cookies, or keep anything that identifies you or links visits together. | To understand how many people use the Service and which pages help them |
| Usage statistics | When a page loads, a small script sends our own statistics service (run by us, hosted on Railway) the page address, the website or link you came from, your screen width, browser language, time zone (used only to estimate your country), the hour on your device's clock, and whether you opened the Service from your home screen. Our server works out your device type, browser and operating system from the browser's standard identification. It then counts which features are used, such as a translation (with the two languages chosen), a currency conversion (with the two currencies), a copy, a photo translation or opening Help, and how long the page was open. The text you translate, the amounts you enter and your history are never sent. To tell unique visitors apart within one day, your IP address and browser identification are combined with a secret value that changes every day and turned into a one-way code; the IP address itself is not stored, the code can't be turned back into it, and visits can't be linked from one day to the next. No cookies are used. Outside Europe, the script also saves one item, om_r, in this site's local storage to record that this browser has visited before; it holds no identifier. Statistics are kept for up to 400 days. | To understand how many people use the Service, how they find it, which features help them, and which pages earn the advertising that keeps it free |
| Font request | If your device lacks a font for some writing system (for example Japanese or Thai), your browser downloads it from Bunny Fonts (fonts.bunny.net, operated by BunnyWay d.o.o., Slovenia, EU). Only standard request data is involved, and Bunny states that it does not log or store it. | To display text correctly |
| Technical request data: IP address (which can show your approximate location), browser and device type, the address of the page or file requested, the site you came from, date and time | Our hosting provider (Railway) when your browser loads the Service, and each third party your browser contacts (MyMemory, ExchangeRate-API, Bunny Fonts, jsDelivr, Google where ads are on) | To deliver the Service, keep it secure, prevent abuse and fix problems |
| Advertising data, where ads are switched on: cookies and similar identifiers, IP address, device and browser information, the page viewed, ad views and clicks | Collected directly by Google and its advertising partners through Google's code on the main page | To show, personalise (where allowed), measure and limit ads, and to prevent ad fraud |
What we ourselves receive. Our servers keep no logs. The information about visitors available to us is the usage statistics described above, whatever our hosting provider records (technical request data), and the totals Google reports to us about ads. Our statistics dashboard also reads those advertising totals from Google (earnings by day, site, page and country), which contain nothing about individual visitors. We can't see what you translate, your history or your settings, and we can't link any of this to a name.
Please don't enter private or sensitive information (passwords, payment card or bank numbers, government ID numbers, health details, or personal information about other people) into the translation box. Anything you translate is sent to the translation provider, which under its own terms may keep submitted text and use it to run and improve its services. We can't retrieve or delete it for you. You don't have to provide any information to us, but the translation feature can't work without sending your text to the provider.
Each of these handles information under its own privacy policy, and (other than our hosting provider) decides for itself how it uses what it receives. We don't control them. We may also disclose information available to us if the law requires it, to protect anyone's rights or safety, or to a new operator if the Service is transferred (for example to a company we set up or a buyer), who must then follow this policy or tell you about changes.
Our own pages set no cookies. They use your browser's local storage, as listed in section 2, for things you'd expect the Service to remember.
Where advertising is switched on, third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, opt out of some other vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices (or youronlinechoices.eu in Europe), and block or delete cookies in your browser settings.
In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, you are asked for your consent through Google's privacy message before cookies are used for advertising or ads are personalised, and you can change or withdraw your choice at any time by reopening that message from the main page. In US states with privacy laws, you can opt out as described in section 5.
We don't sell personal information for money. But when ads are on, letting Google use cookies for personalised advertising can count as a "sale", "sharing" or "targeted advertising" under some US state laws. You can opt out in any of these ways:
This switch needs JavaScript and browser storage to work.
"Do Not Track" browser signals are a different, older standard with no agreed meaning; the Service does not respond to them. It does respond to Global Privacy Control as described above.
Deleting your data. Clear this site's data in your browser settings. That removes your history and settings completely, because we don't keep a copy.
European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland. You have the right to ask for access to, correction or deletion of your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time (which doesn't affect earlier processing). You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live, for example the ICO in the UK. Our legal bases are: providing the Service you ask for, or otherwise our legitimate interest in providing it (sending text for translation, fetching rates); storage that is strictly necessary for features you use (local storage); your consent (advertising cookies and personalised ads); our legitimate interests in running, improving, securing and funding a free service (hosting logs, cookie-free usage statistics, and non-personalised ads and fraud prevention where the law allows); and legal obligations. The Service makes no automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you.
United States (California and other states with privacy laws). Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information is collected, used and disclosed; to access, correct and delete it; to get a copy; to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and of targeted advertising (section 5); to limit the use of sensitive personal information; to appeal a decision we make about your request; and not to be treated worse for using these rights. For these laws:
Other countries. You may have similar rights under your local law, and we'll respect them where they apply.
How to use your rights. Email moldyandgreen@gmail.com. We aim to reply within 30 days (45 days where US state law sets that period). Because there are no accounts and your history lives only in your browser, we usually hold nothing that identifies you: most access and deletion requests are met by looking at or clearing this site's data in your own browser, and we may be unable to find any information about you unless you give us more details to locate it. For information held by the third parties in section 3, you may need to contact them directly. We may need to verify a request before acting on it.
The Service is a general travel tool. It isn't directed to children, and children under 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland) must not use it. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has used the Service in a way that gave us or our providers personal information, contact us and we'll take appropriate steps.
Information in your browser stays there until you clear it; history is limited to the 300 most recent translations. The only visitor records we keep are the usage statistics in section 2: daily visitor codes that change every day and can't be linked to you or across days, kept for up to 400 days. Hosting logs are kept by our hosting provider for a limited period under its own retention settings. The translation, exchange-rate and advertising providers keep what they receive according to their own policies, which may be for a long time. The Service is delivered over encrypted connections (HTTPS), but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. Anyone who can use your unlocked device and browser can see your saved history.
We are based in the United States, and our providers process information in the United States, Italy and other countries, which may have different data protection laws from the country where you live. When your browser contacts those providers, your information goes directly to them there. Where the law requires safeguards for transfers that we are responsible for, we rely on mechanisms such as the provider's participation in a recognised data-privacy framework or standard contractual clauses in its terms.
We may update this policy as the Service or the law changes. The effective date at the top shows when it last changed. If a change is important, we'll flag it on the Service before or when it takes effect.
Daniel Roy · moldyandgreen@gmail.com