What we collect
No account, no telemetry, no analytics. Euspell has nowhere to send your data, because there is nothing on our side to send it to — the one thing we ever receive is a message you write to us.
Euspell is a spelling reform delivered as software: a browser extension, a reader, and a set of office add-ins. All of them do the same thing — rewrite English text using a lexicon that ships inside the product. That design decision is what makes this page short. There is no lookup service to call, so the text you read and write never needs to leave the device it is on.
We collect nothing that you have not deliberately typed and sent. No Euspell tool reports anything back to us: we have no accounts, no logins, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no analytics of any kind. We could not identify a user of Euspell if we wanted to, and we do not want to. The one channel that runs the other way is the feedback form, which does what a form does — it emails us what you wrote in it, when you press the button and not before.
What each tool stores, and where
“Stores” here means on your own machine or in your own browser profile. None of it reaches us.
| Tool | What it keeps | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Browser extension | One setting: whether conversion is currently on. Nothing about the pages you visit. | Your browser's own storage.sync, which syncs through your browser account — Google's or Mozilla's, not ours. Removing the extension removes it. |
| Eupub reader | Your library, reading position, and display preferences. | A folder on your computer, like any desktop application's settings. |
| Word, LibreOffice, Google Docs | Nothing beyond what the host application saves in your document. | Inside the host application. The Google Docs add-on runs in your own Apps Script context and sends nothing outward. |
| This website | One value, euspell-theme, remembering whether you chose light or dark. | Your browser's localStorage. No cookies are set, and nothing is used for tracking. |
The text you read stays where it is
Converting a page means rewriting words in the browser, in place, against a bundled 205000-entry lexicon. Disambiguation — deciding whether records is the noun or the verb — reads the surrounding words on the same page, in the same tab. No part of that process transmits the page, its address, or its text anywhere. The same is true of PDFs opened in the bundled viewer, EPUBs opened in Eupub, and documents converted in an office add-in.
The first exception: dictation
Dictation is the only feature in any Euspell tool that sends anything off your device, and we would rather say so here than have you discover it.
When you start dictation, Euspell uses your browser's built-in speech recognition— the Web Speech API, the same mechanism any website can use. Chrome implements it by streaming the microphone audio to Google's speech service for transcription; Safari does the equivalent with Apple's. That audio is handled by your browser vendor under their privacy policy, not ours.
- We never receive the audio, and we never see the transcript before your browser hands it back.
- The euspell conversion still happens locally: the recognizer returns ordinary English, and the respelling is done on your machine.
- Nothing is captured unless you have started a dictation session, and it stops when you stop it.
- If you would rather nothing left the device at all, simply do not use dictation. Every other feature is unaffected.
The second: the feedback form
The feedback form is the one place on this site where something you type travels to us. It sends exactly the fields you filled in — the kind of feedback, the tool it concerns, the word and respelling if you gave them, your message, and your email address if you chose to leave one — as a single email, and keeps no copy on the server afterwards.
- It posts to this domain, not to a form service. A hosted form provider would have meant handing your message to a third company on its way to us, which is precisely what the rest of this page says we do not do.
- Your IP address is not recorded and never appears in the email. To stop scripted spam the handler keeps a truncated one-way hash of it, with a timestamp, for twenty-four hours — enough to notice the same sender flooding the form, not enough to identify anyone or to reconstruct the address.
- The email address is optional, and it is used to reply to you. Nothing else. It goes on no list, because there is no list.
- If you would rather not use the form at all, kamran@euspell.org reaches the same inbox, and the public issue trackers on GitHub reach it too.
This website, and the shop
The site is static files on shared hosting. It loads no third-party scripts, no external fonts, no embedded video, and no trackers — the typefaces are served from this domain precisely so that reading a page here does not tell anyone else that you did. As with any web server, the host records ordinary access logs (IP address, page requested, timestamp) for delivery and abuse prevention. We do not analyze them and we do not build profiles from them.
The merchandise shop is a separate storefront run by Fourthwall, and links out to it. If you buy something there, that purchase is governed by Fourthwall's privacy policy and terms — we never see your payment details.
Why the extension asks for so much access
The browser extension requests access to all sites, which is a broad-sounding permission, so it is worth being direct about why. A spelling reform has no site list: it applies to any page written in English, and you choose where it runs by switching it off, not by granting access site by site. The extension also watches for PDF responses so it can open them in its own converting viewer rather than the browser's. Both capabilities are used for conversion and nothing else — and because the whole project is open source, that is a claim you can check rather than take on trust.
Children
Euspell is a reading and writing tool suitable for any age, and it collects no data from anyone — including children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from any user, because we do not collect personal information at all.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of any Euspell tool ever collects or transmits data, this page will say so beforethat version is released, and the change will be visible in the site's public commit history. A policy that quietly grows a data-collection clause is not one worth writing.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about anything Euspell does with data: kamran@euspell.org. The source for every tool described here is public: the browser extension, the lexicon and the add-ins are at github.com/ossiak/euspell, the Eupub reader is at github.com/ossiak/eupub, and the conversion game is at github.com/ossiak/euspell-game.
Last updated 23 August 2026