Privacy Policy

Last updated 2023-02-03

This Privacy Policy was originally written in English and it is translated into other languages. In the event of a conflict between a translated version of this Privacy Policy and the English version, the English version will control.

The privacy of our users (“you”) is critically important to Itself Tools (“us”, “we”, “our”). At Itself Tools, we have a few fundamental principles:

We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.

We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.

We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when:

You use our website https://translated-into.com

You interact with us in other related ways - including sales and marketing

In this privacy policy, if we refer to:

“Our Services”, we are referring to any of our website, application or “chrome extension” that references or links to this policy, including any listed above, and other related services including sales and marketing.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS Our Services.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of Our Services after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via Our Services depends on the content and materials you use, and the actions you take, and includes:

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you create or log in to your account with us, or when you make an order. This information may include:

Personal information provided by you. We may collect names; email addresses; usernames; passwords; contact preferences; contact or authentication data; billing addresses; debit/credit card numbers; phone numbers; and other similar information.

Third party login. We may allow you to create or log in to your account with us using your existing accounts, such as your Google or Facebook account, or other accounts. If you choose to create or log in to your account with us in this way, we will collect and use the information we receive from this third party only for the purposes that are described in this Privacy Policy or that are otherwise made clear to you on Our Services.

Log and Usage Data

Log and usage data is usage and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use Our Services and which we record in log files.

Device Data

Information about your computer, phone, tablet or other device you use to access Our Services. This may include your device model and manufacturer, information on your operating system, your browser, plus any data you choose to provide.

Device Access

We may request access or permission to certain features from your device, including your device’s bluetooth, calendar, camera, contacts, microphone, reminders, sensors, SMS messages, social media accounts, storage, location and other features. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.

User feedback data

We collect the star ratings that you provide on Our Services.

Data collected by third-party vendors

We may use third-party vendors, including Google, to serve ads to you when you access Our Services. Third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to Our Services or to other websites. For more information, see the section “COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES”.

We use OpenAI, an AI-powered service, to provide translations and content generation within our applications. Your data, such as the text you input for translation or content generation, is sent from our applications to OpenAI's API and is subject to OpenAI's own data usage and retention policies.

Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by us (“Itself Tools”) and does not cover the collection of information by any third-party vendors.

Data collected by tracking and measurement technologies ***

*** We've stop using Google Analytics on our websites and we have deleted all of our Google Analytics accounts. Our mobile applications and “chrome extension”, which may use Google Analytics, are now “end-of-life” software. We recommend to users to delete our mobile applications and “chrome extension” from their devices and to use the web versions of Our Services (our websites) instead. We thereby consider to have completly phased-out the use of Google Analytics on Our Services. We reserve the right to remove this section from this document at any time.

We may use third-party software including Google Analytics to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of Our Services, traffic sources (users’ demographics), device data and other types of data, and to determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity.

HOW AND WHY WE USE INFORMATION

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

To provide Our Services. For example, to set up and maintain your account, to process payments and orders, to verify user information, and other operations that are necessary to provide Our Services. Additionally, this includes operations that are core functionality of some of Our Services such as converting your files, displaying a map of your current location, allowing you to share your audio clips, translating your text, generating content on your behalf, and more.

To enable you to create or log in to your account with us. If you chose to create or log in to your account with us using a third-party account, such as your Apple or Twitter account, we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate the creation and logon to your account with us.

To deliver personalized and/or non-personalized advertising to you. In the section “COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES”, you will find resources to learn more about how Google use information from sites and apps such as Our Services, how Google Adsense uses cookies, how to opt-out of personalized ads on our websites, and how California residents and users located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR can manage privacy settings on our websites.

To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve Our Services. For example, by monitoring and analyzing server log files so we can fix potential software issues with Our Services and to understand usage trends of Our Services to create new features that we think users will like.

To protect Our Services and our users. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; complying with our legal obligations.

To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing your account with us.

To manage your orders and subscriptions. We may use your information to manage your orders, subscriptions and payments made through Our Services.

To respond to user inquiries. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries.

To analyze the feedback provided by you on Our Services.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

Our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update Our Services; to improve Our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard Our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with Our Services; and to personalize your experience; or

(5) You have given us your consent — for example, before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in the section “COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES”; or before we utilize OpenAI for translations, content generation and share your data with them, as described in the section “Data collected by third-party vendors”.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We may share information about you in the following circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy.

Third-party vendors

We may share information about you with third-party vendors in order for us to be able to provide Our Services to you. Furthermore, we may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you. These may include:

Advertisers and Ad Networks

Cloud Computing Services

Data Storage Service Providers

Payment Processors

User Account Registration & Authentication Services

Map and Location Service Provider

Translation and content generation services

Legal and regulatory requirements

We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.

Aggregated or de-identified information

We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you.

To protect rights, property, and others

We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Automattic, third parties, or the public at large.

With your consent

We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.

TRANSFERRING INFORMATION INTERNATIONALLY

Our Services are offered worldwide and the technological infrastructure we use is distributed across locations in different countries including the US, Belgium and the Netherlands. When you use Our Services, the information about you may be transferred, stored and processed in countries other than your own. This is required for the purposes listed in the section “HOW AND WHY WE USE INFORMATION“.

If you are a resident in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, then the countries in which your information may be transferred, stored, and processed may not have data protection laws as comprehensive as those in your own country. However, we do take measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section “HOW AND WHY WE USE INFORMATION” — and we’re not legally required to keep it.

We keep server logs that contain information automatically collected when you access or use Our Services for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze usage of Our Services and investigate issues if something goes wrong on one of Our Services.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

CHOICES

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

You may choose not to access Our Services.

Limit the information that you provide. If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of Our Services — for example, subscriptions that carry an additional charge — may not be accessible.

Limit access to information on your mobile device. Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the option to discontinue our ability to collect stored information. If you choose to limit this, you may not be able to use certain features, like geotagging for photographs.

Set your browser to reject cookies. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using Our Services, with the drawback that certain features of Our Services may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

If you are a California resident, choose to opt out of the sale of your personal information. As described in the section “COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES”, California residents can, at any time, use the tool available on our websites which display ads to opt out of the sale of their data.

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, do not consent to the use of your personal data. As described in the section “COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES”, users located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR can, at any time, use the tool available on our websites which display ads to refuse consent to the use of their personal data.

Close your account with us: if you have opened an account with us, you can close your account. Please keep in mind that we may continue to retain your information after closing your account when that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies are small data files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website.

Cookies are either first party (associated with the domain that the user is visiting) or third party (associated with a domain that's different from the domain that the user is visiting).

We (“Itself Tools”), and third party vendors (inlcuding Google), may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on Our Services in order to enable the essential functionalities and to serve ads (and to analyze the usage and the online activity - see the note *** below).

Strictly necessary cookies

Those cookies are essential for Our Services to perform basic functions and are necessary for us to operate certain features. These include account management, authentication, payment, and other similar services. Those cookies are stored by us (Itself Tools).

Advertising cookies

Third-party vendors (including Google) use cookies and/or similar tracking technology to help manage your online experience with us and to serve ads to you based on your prior visits to or usage of Our Services and/or to other websites on the internet.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to or usage of Our Services and/or other sites on the Internet.

Google may use first-party cookies when third-party cookies aren't available.

If you want to learn more on how Adsense uses cookies you may visit https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/7549925.

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, our websites which display ads present to you a tool (provided by Google) which collects your consent and allows you to manage privacy settings. These settings can be changed at any time by navigating to the bottom of the web page.

If you are a California resident, our websites which display ads present to you a tool (provided by Google) to opt out of the sale of your data. These privacy settings can be changed at any time by navigating to the bottom of the web page.

All users may opt out of personalized advertising on websites and apps (such as Our Services) that partner with Google to show ads by visiting https://www.google.com/settings/ads.

Alternatively, you may opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://youradchoices.com.

For more information about opting-out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or the Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

Also, as pointed out in the CHOICES section, you may limit access to information on your mobile device, set your browser to reject cookies and choose not to access Our Services.

Analytics cookies ***

We may use third-party vendors, including Google (using their analytics software Google Analytics), to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on Our Services. These technologies and services use first party cookies and third-party cookies among other things to analyze and track users’ use of Our Services, to determine the popularity of certain content, and to better understand online activity. For more information on how to opt-out of having data collected through Google Analytics visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels”

We may use “web beacons” or “pixels” on Our Services. These are usually small invisible images often used in conjunction with cookies. But web beacons are not stored on your computer like cookies are. You cannot disable web beacons, but if you disable cookies, the functionality of web beacons may be restricted.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, SERVICES OR APPLICATIONS

Our Services may contain links to third-party websites, online services or mobile applications that are not affiliated with us. Our Services may also contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link to third-party websites, online services or mobile applications. Once you have used these links to leave Our Services, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, online services or mobile applications, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, online service or mobile application. You should take the steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from Our Services.

POLICY FOR CHILDREN

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

Request access to your personal data;

Request correction or deletion of your personal data;

Object to our use and processing of your personal data;

Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and

Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it.

The CCPA also requires us to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information we collect, as that term is defined in the law, so, here it is. In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:

Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and device and online identifiers);

Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of Our Services);

You can find more information about what we collect and sources of that information in the section “COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION”.

We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the section “HOW AND WHY WE USE INFORMATION”. And we share this information with the categories of third parties described in the section “SHARING YOUR INFORMATION”.

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:

Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you;

Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;

Opt out of any sale of personal information (for more information see the section “COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES”); and

Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

Contacting Us About These Rights

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to or you’d like to contact us about one of the other rights, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we will need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything. For example, if you are a user, we will need you to contact us from the email address associated with your account.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: hi@itselftools.com

CREDIT AND LICENSE

Parts of this Privacy Policy have been created by copying, adapting and repurposing parts of the Privacy Policy of Automattic (https://automattic.com/privacy). That Privacy Policy is available under the Creative Commons Sharealike license, and so we also make our Privacy Policy available under this same license.