Privacy

Who is responsible

PlainSpell is published by Kiznis Studio, based in Lithuania, the controller of the data described here. Questions about your data, or a request under the rights below, go to hello@plainspell.com; a request is answered within one month.

The tools that run on the site, and why

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   Journey by Mediavine serves the advertising, which pays for the site, and runs the consent banner. It and its advertising partners may set cookies and use your visits to this and other sites to choose ads. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland nothing of that runs until you consent in the banner (legal basis: consent). In the United States advertising cookies and personalised ads are on by default, as US state privacy laws allow, and you can switch them off at optout.aboutads.info; a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser switches off personalised ads through Google (legal basis there: our legitimate interest in funding the site, with those opt-outs). In other countries Google's own advertising tags wait for your consent. Mediavine's policy: mediavine.com/privacy-policy.

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   Google Analytics 4 counts visits (pages, referrers, devices, rough location) and sets cookies. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland it is not loaded until you consent to measurement (legal basis: consent); elsewhere it loads after the page (legitimate interest in knowing which pages are read). The address of a search page is recorded without the words you searched for. Google keeps the data for 14 months.

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   Umami, on the studio's own analytics server (analytics.opspixel.com), counts page views without cookies and without storing your IP address or anything else that identifies you (legitimate interest; nothing personal is kept). Search terms in addresses are not recorded.

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   Cloudflare delivers the pages and protects the site from attacks; it processes your IP address to do so and keeps short-lived security logs (legitimate interest in a secure site).

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   Sentry records errors on the server (never in your browser); it is set not to send IP addresses or other personal data (the SDK's default), and stores errors in its EU data region.

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   Wikimedia Commons: when you press Listen, your browser fetches the recording from upload.wikimedia.org, and Wikimedia sees your IP address. Nothing is fetched until you press it.

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   Your browser remembers whether you chose light or dark paper (in local storage, on your device only).

What you type, and what you send us

A word or text you check is sent to PlainSpell's server to be looked up. The server's access logs, kept for at most 7 days for security, record the page address you asked for, which includes a single word you look up; the analytics tools above do not record it, and pasted text is sent in the body of the request, which is not logged. An email to hello@plainspell.com is kept only as long as the question or correction needs, and deleted within 12 months (legal basis: answering you).

Data sent outside the EU

Mediavine, Google, Cloudflare and the Wikimedia Foundation are based in the United States, so data they process may leave the European Union. Each relies on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, as their own policies set out.

Your rights

You can ask to see the data held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable form, by writing to hello@plainspell.com. You can withdraw consent at any time in the consent banner's settings or by clearing this site's cookies; what ran before stays lawful. For data held by Mediavine or Google, their policies explain how to ask them directly. You may complain to a data protection authority: in Lithuania, the State Data Protection Inspectorate (vdai.lrv.lt), or the authority where you live.