SelecTranslate
1. Summary
SelecTranslate is a Chrome extension that shows the English for Romanised Hinglish you select. This policy explains what leaves your browser, what is kept, and why.
- There is no account and no sign-in.
- We never store your text.
- We don’t sell data or show ads.
2. What is sent
Your text is only sent when you click the SelecTranslate icon or use the shortcut (Windows: Alt+T, Mac: Cmd+Shift+Y). When you do, the extension sends these to the SelecTranslate translation service:
- The text you selected, up to 8,000 characters. A sentence that is already English stays on your computer.
- The options for that translation: tone, output language, and whether it is a reply.
- If you chose a style: its instruction, and its topic when you set one.
- The terms from your term list that match the text, when you use them.
- A hint of the source language: Hinglish, or Hindi written in Devanagari. An English reply does not send that hint.
- A random, anonymous install ID, so the service can count today’s translations for the 50-a-day free limit.
Password fields are ignored. The install ID is not your name, email, or Google account.
Your browser also sends your IP address and ordinary browser information with each request. We don’t store the address or that browser information. We use the address only to make a short-lived code that is used for about a minute and then deleted automatically, so one computer can’t call the service too often.
3. What else is sent
Upgrade buttons send the anonymous install ID, the time, how many translations you have used today, and the browser’s language, so we know who wants more.
Thumbs up or down sends the install ID, the extension version, a rough length of the text (short, medium, or long), whether Apply was used, and the reason you chose if you picked one. It also sends the tone, whether it was a translation or a reply, and the output language. It never sends the text or the translation.
4. What is stored
We never store your text or its translation. We do keep:
- A daily count of translations for each install ID, for the 50-a-day free limit, until two days after that day ends.
- Upgrade requests, until we delete them: the install ID, the time, how many translations you have used that day, and the browser’s language. We may be notified of these requests.
- Thumbs feedback, without the install ID, for 90 days.
- Daily totals of usage events, without the install ID. These stay until we delete them.
- Short-lived rate counters, used for about a minute.
Backups and service logs may keep copies for up to 35 days.
On your computer, the extension keeps:
- whether it is on or off
- today’s translation count
- the install ID
- the hostname of the last site you used, not the full page address
- the date the free limit was reached
- which settings section to open, such as styles, until Settings has opened
In your Chrome profile, it keeps your settings, including which sites you turn it off for and where Apply may change text, your styles, and your term list. Chrome syncs these if you have Chrome sync turned on.
5. Usage events
The extension also sends a few anonymous usage events: when you install it, when you translate, when you reach the free limit, and when you tap Upgrade. Each one contains only the install ID and the kind of event, never your text.
6. Permissions
- Storage: to save your settings, styles, and terms on your computer.
- Access to the SelecTranslate translation service only. No other site receives data.
- Runs on the pages you visit, so the icon can appear when you select text. It doesn’t read a page until you select text.
- Everything the extension runs is packaged inside it.
7. What we don’t do
We don’t sell data, share it with advertisers, or ask you to sign in.
8. Your choices
- Turn SelecTranslate off for one site or everywhere from the toolbar.
- Block sites in Settings so the icon never shows there.
- Clearing the extension’s storage creates a new install ID.
- Removing the extension deletes its data on this computer.
9. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top of this page.
10. Contact
Questions about privacy: