Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 6, 2025

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information when you use our services, including both the WordTip Chrome Extension and the WordTip website (wordtip.org). We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about our data practices.

WordTip Chrome Extension Privacy Information

The WordTip Chrome Extension is designed with your privacy in mind:

  • Local Processing: Most of the extension's functionality operates locally on your device. When you hover over words, the initial word detection and basic information retrieval happens directly on your browser.
  • Data Storage: The extension stores information locally using browser storage technologies (IndexedDB) to improve performance and provide offline capabilities. This data remains on your device and is not transmitted to our servers unless you explicitly use the sentence explanation feature.
  • Sentence Analysis: When you use the sentence explanation feature, the selected text is sent to our servers for analysis. This is necessary to provide detailed etymology and meaning information that cannot be processed locally.
  • No Personal Data Collection: The extension does not collect personal information such as your browsing history, login credentials, or personal identifiers.
  • Permissions: The extension requires specific permissions to function:
    • "tabs" - To navigate between content and our analysis pages
    • "activeTab" - To access the content of the current page for word detection
    • "host_permissions" - To communicate with our servers for sentence analysis
    • "sidePanel" - To provide in-depth linguistic analysis of selected text while browsing web pages

SidePanel Feature

The WordTip SidePanel provides enhanced language learning capabilities:

  • In-depth Analysis: When you highlight words or sentences, the SidePanel delivers comprehensive explanations including grammatical structure, word-by-word meaning, idiomatic expression clarification, and cultural context.
  • Real-time Learning: This feature helps language learners understand text more deeply in real-time and learn new vocabulary and expressions in their natural context.
  • Privacy-Focused: Similar to our other features, we prioritize your privacy. The text you select is only processed to provide you with linguistic analysis and is not stored permanently.

Website Information Collection

For our website (wordtip.org), we use third-party services that may collect certain information:

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This service may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and other browsing activity. This helps us improve our website and user experience.
  • Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. This service may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activity to provide personalized advertisements.

How Information Is Used

The information collected through these third-party services is used for:

  • Analyzing website traffic and user behavior
  • Improving our services and user experience
  • Displaying relevant advertisements
  • Measuring the effectiveness of our content
  • Enhancing our language learning tools and algorithms

Third-Party Privacy Policies

The third-party services we use have their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review these policies:

Your Choices

You can control how your information is collected and used:

  • Browser Settings: You can configure your browser to reject cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent.
  • Google Analytics Opt-out: You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on .
  • Ad Personalization: You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ad Settings .
  • Extension Permissions: You can review and manage the permissions granted to the WordTip extension through your browser's extension settings.

Data Security

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your information. For the extension, we use secure HTTPS connections when communicating with our servers. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

International Data Processing

As WordTip supports dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, and many more, our services are used globally. Your data may be processed on servers located outside of your country of residence. By using our services, you consent to this processing.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

[email protected]

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