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ScanVerse – Privacy Policy
Last updated: 19 October 2026

ScanVerse ("the extension") translates the text in comic images on web pages you choose to translate, and in image files you choose on the "Translate my files" page. This policy explains what data is handled, where, and for how long. In short: pages you translate are processed and then discarded. We do not keep your images or translations, we do not track your browsing, and we do not sell or share data.

HOW PAGES ARE TRANSLATED
You can use one of two ways, chosen in Settings:

• ScanVerse Cloud (default). When you start a translation, the comic images on that page (or the files you picked) are sent over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) to our server, which runs on Google Cloud. The server checks your plan and page allowance, sends the image to Google's Gemini AI on Google Cloud Vertex AI to read the text, then sends the text to Gemini again to translate it, and returns the result to your browser. Images and text are processed in memory only and are not stored or logged by our server. Google processes them as our service provider under the Google Cloud terms; Google does not use this data to train its models. Processing may take place outside your country.
• Your own Google key (Own Key plan). If you add your own Gemini API key, images go straight from your browser to Google using your key, under your agreement with Google, and never pass through our server. On Google's free Gemini API tier, Google may use submitted content to improve its products.

WHAT WE STORE
- On our server (Cloud): a random install ID created by the extension, page counts per day or month, and a one-way salted hash of your IP address with a daily page count (to stop abuse of the free pages). These counters are deleted automatically after about 40 days. Our own logs contain only the request type, result, duration and page count. Google Cloud also keeps standard request logs (time, IP address, response code) for security and troubleshooting; these are deleted after 30 days.

• If you buy a paid plan: your license key, the email address you gave at checkout, which plan you bought, its status (active, cancelled, refunded), Stripe's reference numbers for the purchase, and a one-way code for each browser the key is activated in. We keep this while your license exists so we can resend a lost key and handle refunds, and afterwards only as long as we must keep purchase records for accounting. You can ask us to delete it.
• In your browser: your settings, any API key you add, your license key, and a cache of the text read from each page and its translation (not the images), kept for up to 30 days so re-reading is instant. You can clear the cache in Settings. Settings such as your language may sync between your own browsers if browser sync is on.

PAYMENTS
Paid plans are paid through Stripe, which handles checkout and your payment details under the Stripe Privacy Policy. We never see your card details. When a payment succeeds, Stripe tells our server your email address and what you bought. We use that to create your license key and email it to you, and we keep your email with the key only so we can resend a lost key and match refunds and cancellations. We don't send marketing emails. To check your license, the extension sends your license key to our server, which also counts how many browsers use it (as a one-way code, not the browser itself).

WHAT WE DO NOT DO
- We do not collect your browsing history, analytics or advertising identifiers.
- We do not keep, view, share or reuse the images you translate or their translations.
- We do not sell, rent or transfer user data, or use it for advertising or credit purposes.
- We do not use data for anything other than the extension's single purpose: translating comics you choose to translate.

YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS
You can stop using Cloud at any time by removing the extension. You can ask us to delete the counters linked to your install ID or license, or ask what we hold about you, by emailing the address below. Because we keep so little, most requests can be answered within a few days.

PERMISSIONS
The extension needs access to web pages so it can find comic images and replace them with translated versions, and to download those images (some sites require the page address as "Referer" to allow this). It does nothing on a page until you start a translation, or until you turn on auto-translate for that site.

CONTACT
Questions, data requests or copyright notices: wlade2861@gmail.com