Privacy

Lingopane reads and translates what is on your screen on your own computer. We do not receive your screen content, your audio, or anything else from the app.

What the app does with your data

• Screen content. The app takes pictures of your screen to find text, reads the text and translates it. All of this happens in the computer's memory. The pictures are not saved and not sent anywhere.
• Audio. If you turn on captions, the app listens to the sound your computer is playing, turns it into text and translates it, on your computer. The audio is not saved and not sent anywhere.
• No account, no usage statistics. The app has no sign-in and does not report how you use it.

What the app saves on your computer

• Settings (languages, captions on or off) and your glossary.
• Notes, only if you turn them on: the original and translated text of the screens the app saw, as a file in your Documents folder.
• A log file for troubleshooting. It is overwritten each time the app starts. It holds status and timing lines and, while captions are on, the recognised speech as text.

These files stay on your computer. You can delete them at any time; removing the app does not remove your notes.

When the app uses the internet

Only to download a language model or the speech model the first time you choose it. The download comes from the public servers that host these models (currently GitHub, Hugging Face and the Argos Translate project). As with any download, those servers see your IP address. The request does not contain anything from your screen.

Microsoft Store

If you get Lingopane from the Microsoft Store, the purchase and installation are handled by Microsoft under Microsoft's own privacy statement.

This website

This site sets no cookies, loads nothing from other sites and has no visitor tracking. We do not record visits: the web server keeps no access logs.

Contact

Lingopane is published by CCG Consulting. For any question about privacy or the app, write to marketing@ccg-consulting.co.