Privacy policy

Last updated: 5 August 2026

Your text stays on your device

Every translator on CipherPad runs entirely in your browser. The text you type is encoded and decoded locally by JavaScript on your own device. It is never sent to us, never uploaded to a server, and never stored. When you close the tab, it is gone.

Check this yourself

You do not have to take our word for any of this, and you should not have to. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab, and type into any translator on this site. You will see no requests at all while you type: no request carries your text, because nothing on the page ever sends it anywhere.

The site also ships a Content Security Policy that forbids the page from opening a connection to any other origin. That is not a promise about our intentions, it is a rule your browser enforces on us. Even if a future bug tried to transmit what you typed, the browser would block the attempt.

What we do and do not collect

We do not collect the content you translate. We do not require an account, and we do not ask for personal information to use any tool on the site.

Like most websites, our host may keep basic, aggregate server logs (such as page addresses and rough timing) to keep the site running and secure. These do not contain the text you type into any translator.

Cookies and storage

CipherPad itself stores one thing on your device: your light or dark theme preference, kept in your browser's local storage so the site remembers your choice. You can clear it at any time through your browser settings.

Advertising and analytics

There are none. CipherPad shows no adverts, loads no advertising network, and runs no analytics product of any kind. There is no Google Analytics tag, no tracking pixel and no third-party script on any page. That is why you are not asked to accept cookies: there are no non-essential cookies to accept.

This section describes what the site does today, not what it might do one day. If advertising or analytics is ever added, this page will be rewritten to describe exactly what runs, before it runs, and the date above will change.

The embeddable widget

The widget follows the same rule. Text typed into an embedded widget is processed in the visitor's browser and is not sent to us.

Contact form

The contact page is the one place on this site that deliberately sends something to a server. When you submit it, your name, email address and message are posted to a contact endpoint run by FusionStudios, the studio that builds and maintains CipherPad, so that we can reply. That information is used only to answer your message. This is the only form on the site, and no translator shares any part of this behaviour.

Changes

If the way the site works changes in a way that affects your privacy, including turning on advertising or analytics, the date above will be updated and this page will describe it accurately, in terms you can verify in the Network tab.

Contact

Questions about privacy? See the contact page.