Privacy
What we know about you, and what we don't
Software Dictionary is built to be read without an account. Most of what it remembers stays in your own browser. What leaves it is an anonymous visit count without cookies and, only if you say yes, Google Analytics.
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Stays on your device
Your reading history, quiz scores and review schedule, saved pages, and your theme and language choices. They live in this browser's local storage and are never sent to us.
Counted without cookies
Every visit adds to an anonymous count: the page, the site you came from, the country, and the browser and device type. No cookies, and nothing that follows you from one day to the next.
Counted only with your OK
With your consent, Google Analytics records page views: the page address, the time, the country and city it guesses from your connection, your device and browser type, and the site you came from.
Never collected
Your name or an account (there are none), what you type into search, your reading progress, or anything you write in the contact form. Your email only if you sign up for the newsletter.
Anonymous visit count
Vercel, the service that hosts the site, counts visits for us with Vercel Web Analytics. It runs without asking because it can't recognise you: it sets no cookies, and visitors are told apart only by a hash of the request that is reset every day.
It records the page address (without its search part, so search words are never counted), the site you came from, your country, and your browser, operating system and device type. Your IP address isn't stored.
In the same anonymous way, Vercel Speed Insights measures how fast pages load and respond for readers (the Core Web Vitals), with the page address and the device type, so we can keep the site fast.
How Vercel Web Analytics handles privacyGoogle Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to see how many people visit, which pages they read and where they come from, so we know which terms to write next. It runs only after you press Accept in the banner, and you can change your mind at any time below.
Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. We turn off Google signals and ad personalization, and page addresses are sent without their search part, so search words never reach it. Google keeps the detailed data for at most 14 months.
Google processes this data as our service provider. You can read how in Google's privacy policy.
Google's privacy policyWeekly newsletter
If you sign up for the newsletter, your email address is stored by Kit, the service that sends it, in the list for the language you signed up in. It is used only to send the weekly email, and we never sell or share it.
You confirm your address by email before anything is sent, and every email has a link that unsubscribes you at once. To have your address deleted entirely, write to us through the contact page.
Kit's privacy policyWho handles what
The services the site relies on, what each one is for, the grounds we have for it and how long the data is kept.
Vercel
Hosts the site and delivers every page.
- Grounds
- Legitimate interest: the site can't be shown without it
- Where
- USA and nearby edge servers
- Kept for
- Short-lived request logs
Vercel Web Analytics
Counts visits anonymously, without cookies.
- Grounds
- Legitimate interest: knowing which pages help
- Where
- USA
- Kept for
- Only as anonymous totals
Google Analytics
Measures page views, only after you accept.
- Grounds
- Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time
- Where
- USA
- Kept for
- 14 months
Kit
Sends the weekly newsletter to the address you confirmed, and notes which part of the site you signed up from.
- Grounds
- Your consent, given when you confirm by email
- Where
- USA
- Kept for
- Until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it
These providers are in the United States and handle the data under their own data protection agreements, which their privacy policies describe.
Your choices
Analytics on this browser: Not chosen yet
Turning it off stops Google Analytics at once and deletes its cookies from this site.
Cookies and browser storage
The site sets no cookies of its own. Google Analytics sets two, only after you accept:
| Name | Purpose | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Tells one visitor's visits apart from another's, without knowing who they are. | 2 years |
| _ga_<ID> | Remembers the current visit, so one visit is counted once. | 2 years |
Everything else is in your browser's local storage, which only this site can read and which never leaves your device:
softwaredictionary:historyPages you opened and how far you read.softwaredictionary:history-quiz…Quiz scores and the daily review schedule.softwaredictionary:history-interviewThe interview questions you marked as known in practice mode.softwaredictionary:theme / :langYour light/dark and language choices.softwaredictionary:consentWhether you accepted or declined analytics.softwaredictionary:newsletterWhether you signed up for the newsletter here or hid its short invitations, so those stop showing.softwaredictionary:puzzleYour guesses in the daily puzzle, for your streak and stats.
Ads
When sponsored ads appear, they are plain text chosen for the page, not for you. They load no scripts and set no cookies.
Browser extension
The term linker extension keeps its settings (on or off, the sites you turned it off on, the language) in your browser's extension storage, which your browser may sync between your own devices. Once a day it downloads the term list from this site; that request says nothing about the pages you read, which never leave your browser.
Your rights
Know
Ask what data about you we have, if any, and what it is used for.
Correct or delete
Have it corrected, or deleted entirely.
Withdraw
Take back your consent: turn analytics off above, or unsubscribe from any email.
Complain
Go to the data protection authority where you live; in Türkiye, the KVKK Authority.
To use any of them, write to us from the contact page. We answer within 30 days.
Questions
Software Dictionary is an independent project. Write to us from the contact page and we'll answer.
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