Sp1ke Image Translator privacy policy
Last updated: 25 October 2026 · Made by Sp1ke

WHAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE
- Images are never uploaded. The text in an image is read on your own device by an OCR engine bundled inside the extension. No image, screenshot or page content is sent to the developer or to any server.
- Your settings (languages, look of the text, chosen sites) are stored in the browser's storage.sync, so your browser can sync them between your own devices. The developer cannot see them.
- Saved translations (a cache so a page you reopen is instant) are stored in your browser's local IndexedDB. You can erase them with "Clear cache" in the extension.

WHAT CAN LEAVE YOUR DEVICE
Only the extracted text is ever sent anywhere – never the image. Firefox has no built-in on-device translator, so the extracted text is sent over HTTPS to Google Translate (translate.googleapis.com) or MyMemory (api.mymemory.translated.net) to be translated. Firefox asks for your consent to this ("website content") when you install the extension. Those services receive the text and your IP address and handle them under their own privacy policies.

Nothing else is transmitted. There are no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no accounts. The developer receives no data.

PERMISSIONS
- Access to all websites: needed to find the images on pages you choose to translate and to download those image files so the text can be read. It only acts on pages where you press the button, use the right-click menu, or have chosen "always translate on this site".
- Storage and declarativeNetRequest: save settings, and let image downloads carry the page's own address as Referer (many image servers require it).

YOUR CHOICES
Turn the extension off with its switch, set it to "Only when I ask", clear the cache, or remove it at any time.

CONTACT
slowzwd@gmail.com