Privacy Policy

What we collect

The extension collects anonymous usage data to understand how the product is used and to improve it. Specifically:

• A pseudonymous device identifier and a legacy hash of browser characteristics (including user-agent, screen size and timezone). These are persistent identifiers, not a guarantee of anonymity.
• Usage events: extension icon clicks, platform switches, searches, translation/OCR outcomes, model preparation, downloads, settings changes, errors, durations and language preferences. New tool events exclude image bytes, recognized/translated text and product URLs. First/last campaign metadata (UTM source, medium, campaign, content and term) and referring hostname are stored for acquisition measurement; full referring URLs are not added to these explicit events. On the Welcome page, this campaign metadata is shared with the installed extension in the same browser to associate subsequent usage with its known source.
• Network services receive your IP address when requests are made. Our analytics provider may derive coarse location such as country. The extension does not request GPS or precise geolocation.
• The images you search with. When you run an image search, the image is uploaded to our own server, stored on Alibaba Cloud OSS, and logged together with your anonymous device identifier and IP address. We use this to understand what people search for and improve the product — the search itself runs entirely in your browser and does not depend on this upload. Your IP address is deleted from this log after 90 days; the image and device identifier are kept for product analysis.

What we do not collect

• Your name, email, passwords or account credentials for analytics. Existing marketplace session/CSRF cookies are read only to authenticate user-requested marketplace search uploads.
• A general browsing-history database. Current/source tab URLs are accessed to route actions and apply per-site settings.
• Any other personally identifiable information beyond what's described above.

How we use it

Usage data and search images are used solely to understand which features are used, what people search for, detect errors, and improve the extension. We do not sell, trade, or share this data with third parties for advertising or any purpose unrelated to operating the extension.

Third-party services

Usage events are sent to Amplitude (amplitude.com), an analytics platform. Amplitude processes data in accordance with its own privacy policy. Searched images are stored on Alibaba Cloud OSS, a cloud storage service operated by Alibaba Cloud, in accordance with its own terms of service.

Data retention

Anonymous usage-event analytics is retained for up to 12 months and then deleted. Search images and the associated anonymous device identifier are retained for product analysis; the IP address tied to a search is deleted after 90 days. Settings, identifiers, temporary search/translation jobs and download tracking are stored locally in the extension. The website translator also stores preferences and a bounded usage-event retry queue.

Your choices

You can uninstall the extension at any time from chrome://extensions. Uninstalling removes all locally stored data.

Local translation and media tools

Page translation uses Chrome’s on-device Translator model. OCR, image crops, image-format conversion and translation overlays are processed in your browser. Chrome may download a language pack; the website serves the page and packaged OCR model files. Images transferred from the extension to our image-translator webpage are delivered through a validated browser-side channel, not an OCR upload to our backend. If you explicitly choose Google Translate or Yandex Translate, the selected image is sent to that provider for its OCR/translation. Local translation images are not sent to our legacy search-image log endpoint; that endpoint is used by marketplace image searches as described above. Downloads save only the media you choose. The new tool analytics records metadata about actions and outcomes, not image/text content.

Limited Use

Our use of information received through Chrome APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. We do not sell user data, use it for unrelated purposes or use it to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes.

Contact

Questions? Email [email protected]