What happens to your information here.

There’s no sign up here, so there’s no user database. No analytics, no advertising pixels, no third party scripts, and this site doesn’t set any cookies of its own.

Nothing is being built about you. There’s no account to log into, nothing of yours to delete, and no profile with your name on it sitting anywhere.

Here’s the one thing I can’t switch off. The company that hosts this site keeps basic request logs, the way almost every host does. Those can include your IP address, the page you asked for, and what browser you used. I don’t build them and I don’t read them. They’re the host’s, under the host’s own terms.

I’m telling you because a privacy page that says nothing is collected, while a server quietly writes your IP address down, isn’t being straight with you.

This is switched off at the moment. The button isn’t on the page, on any device, while I work on it. Nothing below is running today. It’s here so you know what it did and what it will do again.

It’s off until you turn it on. It never starts listening by itself, and if your browser can’t do speech recognition the button doesn’t appear at all. It doesn’t appear on a phone or a tablet either, because the browsers there can’t be relied on to do this and a button that won’t switch on or off is worse than no button. If you’ve blocked the microphone for this site, it goes away too, and comes back on its own if you unblock it.

When you do turn it on, your browser turns what you say into text. That text goes into a small piece of code that understands a short list of things. It scrolls, it jumps to any name printed on the page, it walks you through the checks, and it moves between this site’s four pages. It can tell you what it understands and where you are. One thing leaves the site, and that is opening the donation page when you clearly ask it to.

That donation address is fixed in the code. You can’t speak a web address into this, it can’t change anything you’ve saved, and it can’t press any other button on the page. Anything it doesn’t recognize does nothing at all.

Once it’s on it stays on while you move around the site, because you turned it on and you haven’t turned it off. It stops the moment you say turn off, tap the button, reload, or close the tab. Come back tomorrow and it’s off again.

Off means off. The listening is shut down and the microphone is released. It isn’t muted, and it can’t switch itself back on. Only your tap can start it.

Nothing you say is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere by this site.

Here’s the part I can’t promise. The speech recognition isn’t mine, it’s your browser’s. Browser makers document that on some browsers, Chrome included, the audio goes to their own web service to be turned into text. Where a browser can do that work on your device, this site asks for it. Where it can’t, your voice may leave your device, and that’s between you and your browser. I’d rather tell you that than claim something I can’t prove.

The donate button is a plain link out to a payment provider. There’s no payment code in this site and no payment script loading in the background. Follow that link and everything after it is covered by that provider’s own privacy policy. Your card details never touch this site, because there’s nothing here that could take them.

This site links to public sources so you can check the claims yourself instead of taking my word for them. Those sites have their own privacy policies. Clicking a link takes you to them.

This is a technical reference for people building software. It isn’t aimed at children, and it doesn’t knowingly collect information from anyone, whatever their age.

This site doesn’t follow you around other websites, so a do not track signal doesn’t change anything here. There’s nothing to switch off.

If this site ever adds analytics, accounts, a database, a form, or an embedded payment script, this page changes in the same commit and the date at the top moves. A privacy page that describes a product which doesn’t exist is worse than no page at all.