Privacy

The one thing to read first

When you look up a word, that word and its translations are written to a shared cache that every Polygelato user reads from. It is what makes a repeated lookup instant and free.

Those cache rows contain the word, its translations, and the language it was detected as. They do not contain your account, your email, an identifier, or a timestamp that could be traced back to you. Nobody — including us — can tell who looked a word up from the cache.

But it does mean the words themselves outlive your account. If you look up a term you would not want in a shared dictionary, do not look it up here. Deleting your account removes everything tied to you; it does not remove a word from the shared cache, because at that point the word is no longer connected to you.

What we store, and why

Email address

To sign you in. Nothing else.

Words you look up

Answered, then cached as described above.

Words you save

Your wordbank. Yours, kept until you delete them.

Language set and colours

So the grid looks the same each time.

Lookup counts and cost

To enforce your monthly allowance and to know whether the service pays for itself.

Subscription status

To know which plan you are on.

We do not store payment card details. When billing launches, card data goes to Stripe and never touches our servers.

Who else sees your words

Three companies process data on our behalf. These are our only sub-processors:

Anthropic (US)

Receives the word you type, to translate it and explain its origins. Anthropic does not train models on it.

Supabase (EU)

Runs our database and sign-in. Stores everything in the table above.

Vercel (US)

Runs the application and serves the pages.

We do not sell your data, we do not share it with advertisers, and there are no analytics or tracking scripts on this site.

What you can do, right now

Both of these are on your account page, and neither requires asking us:

• Download everything. One file, JSON, containing every word you have saved and everything else listed above. Free on every plan — it is your data, not a feature.
• Delete your account. Immediate and irreversible. Your saved words, settings, and subscription are erased. Billing records are kept as required by law, with your identity stripped from them.

If you are in the EU or UK, these are your rights under GDPR Articles 15, 17 and 20; in California, under the CCPA. We have built them as buttons rather than an email address because a right you have to request is a right with a queue in front of it.

How long we keep things

Saved words and settings: until you delete them or your account. Lookup counts: 24 months, for billing and capacity planning. Anonymous cost records: kept, as accounting records. Sign-in sessions expire after 400 days of inactivity.

Age

Polygelato is not for children under 13, and in the EU/UK not for anyone under 16. We ask your age at sign-up and do not knowingly keep accounts below it. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will remove it.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or a complaint: privacy@polygelato.app. If you are in the EU or UK you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.