1. Information We Collect
We collect information in the following ways when you use AksharaTool:
1.1 Information You Provide
- Contact Form Submissions: When you use our Contact Us form, we collect your name, email address, subject selection, and message content. This information is used solely to respond to your inquiry.
- Feedback and Communications: Any information you voluntarily provide when communicating with us via email at contact@aksharatool.site.
1.2 Information Collected Automatically
- Usage Data: We automatically collect certain information when you visit our website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and the date/time of your visit.
- Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access our website, including device type, screen resolution, and browser version.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies as described in Section 6 below.
1.3 Information We Do NOT Collect
AksharaTool's core utility tools — including the Unicode Converter, English-Telugu Translator, Character Counter, and AI Background Remover — are designed to run entirely in your browser. The text you type, translate, or convert and the images you process are never transmitted to our servers. We do not collect, store, view, or have access to any content you process through our tools.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service: Ensuring our website and tools function correctly.
- To improve our Service: Analyzing usage patterns to enhance user experience, fix bugs, and develop new features.
- To communicate with you: Responding to your inquiries, feedback, and support requests submitted through our contact form.
- To display advertisements: We use third-party advertising services (such as Google AdSense) to display relevant advertisements on informational pages like our Blog.
- To comply with legal obligations: Fulfilling any legal or regulatory requirements applicable to us.
3. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
We use Google AdSense, a third-party advertising service provided by Google LLC, to serve advertisements on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies and web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
- Google's use of the DoubleClick advertising cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to AksharaTool and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- You may also opt out of third-party vendor cookies by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.
We maintain a strict policy of no advertisements on tool interfaces. Ads may appear only on informational pages such as our Blog and resource pages, ensuring your professional workflow remains uninterrupted.
For more information about how Google uses data when you use our site, please visit Google's Privacy & Terms page.
4. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to help us understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as:
- How often users visit our site
- Which pages they view
- How long they spend on each page
- What other sites they visited before arriving at our site
This data is aggregated and anonymized. We do not use Google Analytics to track individual users or to collect personally identifiable information. Google Analytics data is subject to Google's Privacy Policy.
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
5. Data Processing — Client-Side Privacy
AksharaTool is fundamentally designed with a privacy-first architecture. Our core utility tools process data entirely within your web browser using client-side JavaScript and WebAssembly technologies:
- Unicode Converter: Text conversion algorithms run locally in your browser. No text data is transmitted to any server.
- AI Background Remover: The AI model (ONNX format) is downloaded to your browser and runs via WebAssembly. Your images are processed on your device and never uploaded.
- Character Counter: Text analysis is performed entirely in the browser.
- English-Telugu Translator: Transliteration runs locally. For AI translation features, text may be sent to a third-party translation API (MyMemory) as described in Section 7.
- Image Converter, Smart Crop, Text Overlay: All image processing runs locally in your browser using Canvas API.
We do not log, store, or analyze any text or images that you process through our tools.
6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your web browser. We use the following types of cookies:
6.1 Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They include cookies that remember your theme preference (dark/light mode) and recently used tools. These cookies do not collect personal data.
6.2 Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website. These cookies collect anonymized usage data as described in Section 4.
6.3 Advertising Cookies
Google AdSense and its advertising partners may place cookies on your device to serve personalized advertisements based on your browsing history. You can manage your ad preferences through Google Ads Settings.
6.4 Managing Cookies
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies, delete existing cookies, or be notified when a cookie is set. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of some features on our website.
7. Third-Party Services
Our website integrates with the following third-party services:
- Google AdSense: For displaying advertisements (see Section 3).
- Google Analytics: For website usage analytics (see Section 4).
- Formspree: Our contact form submissions are processed through Formspree. Their privacy policy can be found at formspree.io/legal/privacy-policy.
- MyMemory Translation API: When you use the AI translation feature in our English-Telugu Translator, your text may be sent to the MyMemory API for processing.
- Firebase Hosting: Our website is hosted on Google Firebase. Firebase may collect server logs including IP addresses as part of standard hosting operations.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party services. We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies.
8. Your Rights Under GDPR (European Users)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These include:
- Right of Access: You have the right to request copies of any personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@aksharatool.site. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
9. Your Rights Under India DPDP Act
If you are a resident of India, you have rights under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act). These include:
- Right to Access: You have the right to obtain a summary of your personal data being processed and the processing activities undertaken.
- Right to Correction and Erasure: You have the right to correct inaccurate or misleading personal data and to erase personal data that is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected.
- Right to Grievance Redressal: You have the right to have readily available means of registering a grievance with us.
- Right to Nominate: You have the right to nominate another individual to exercise your rights in case of death or incapacity.
For exercising any of these rights, you may contact our Grievance Officer at contact@aksharatool.site.
10. Children's Privacy
AksharaTool does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the EEA). Our Service is not directed at children under these ages. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at contact@aksharatool.site. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
11. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Specifically:
- Contact form submissions: Retained for up to 12 months after resolution of your inquiry, then deleted.
- Analytics data: Google Analytics data is retained for 14 months as per Google's default retention settings.
- Tool usage data: No tool usage data is retained — all processing is client-side.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this 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 at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
- Email: contact@aksharatool.site
- Contact Form: www.aksharatool.site/contact
- Website: www.aksharatool.site
We aim to respond to all privacy-related inquiries within 30 business days.