Privacy Policy

LectO is a free text editor made for people with dyslexia. We built it to help, with no hidden agenda: there are no accounts, no ads, and we don't sell or collect your personal data.

This policy explains, in plain language, what happens to your information when you use LectO on the web, as an installed app (PWA), on Android, or as a browser extension. The short version: almost everything happens on your own device, and nothing personal leaves it.

What we don't do

• You don't need to create an account or sign in.
• We don't use tracking cookies or show ads.
• We don't sell, rent, or share your data with advertisers.
• We don't track you across sites or build a profile of you.
• We don't ask for or use your location.
• We don't send you marketing emails.

What stays on your device

Your documents and your preferences (font, colors, size, language, and so on) are saved only in your browser's local storage (localStorage), on your own device. We don't send them to any server and we can't see them. If you clear your browser data, that information is gone from your device.

Anonymous usage statistics

To understand how many people use LectO and which features help most, we measure visits and events anonymously and without cookies. We use Umami in the app and Cloudflare Web Analytics on the website. These tools count things like how many people opened a page, but they don't identify you, don't use cookies, and don't collect personal data.

When information leaves your device

Some features need to be processed outside the browser. For that we use a relay server (a proxy) that stores nothing: it has no database, no accounts, and keeps none of your content. It only forwards what's needed, in the moment, to the right provider, and then discards it. This happens only when you use that feature:

• Importing a .docx or .rtf file: the file is processed to convert it to text and is not stored.
• Reading text from a photo (OCR): the image is sent to Microsoft Azure to extract the text. LectO does not keep the image.
• Reading aloud (text-to-speech): the text you want to hear is sent to Microsoft Azure (or, where applicable, ElevenLabs) to generate the audio. It is not stored.
• Pictograms: the images are fetched from ARASAAC.
• To protect the service from abuse, the server temporarily sees your IP address when rate-limiting requests, but it does not store it.

If you contact us

If you use the contact form or email us, we receive the name, email, and message you choose to write. We use it only to reply to you. The website form sends that message through Resend. We don't use that data for anything else.

Third-party services

LectO relies on a few external services to work. Each has its own privacy policy:

• Microsoft Azure — OCR and text-to-speech
• ElevenLabs — text-to-speech
• ARASAAC — pictograms
• Umami — anonymous app statistics
• Cloudflare Web Analytics — anonymous website statistics
• Resend — sending the contact form
• Google Play — downloading the Android app

Security and international transfers

Whenever a feature needs to send something off your device, the data always travels over encrypted (HTTPS) connections. Some of the providers we use may process that information on servers located outside your country. In every case it's one-off processing to fulfill your request, and neither LectO nor the relay server keeps a copy.

Children

LectO is made especially for school-age children. That's exactly why we designed it to be safe: we don't ask for accounts, we don't collect personal information, and we don't show ads. A child can use LectO without handing over any personal data. If you're a parent, guardian, or teacher and have any question about privacy, write to us at [email protected].

How long we keep your data

We don't keep your content: we have no database and no copies of your documents. Your content lives only in your browser, for as long as you keep it there, and you can delete it anytime by clearing your browser data or from within the app itself. Whatever you send to providers for a one-off feature (for example, OCR or reading aloud) is processed in the moment and not stored by us.

Your control

Because everything is saved on your device, you're in control. You can view, change, or delete your documents and preferences anytime from the app, or by removing them along with your browser data. You don't need to ask us, because we don't hold any copies.

Your rights

Because almost everything is stored on your device, you can exercise your rights directly: view, change, or delete your content whenever you want. The only personal information we might ever hold is a message you've sent us by email or through the contact form; you can ask us to delete it by writing to [email protected]. If you live in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another region with data-protection laws, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your country's data-protection authority.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we'll change this page and the “last updated” date. If the change is significant, we'll try to make it clearly noticeable.

Contact

If you have any question about privacy, write to us at [email protected]. We're happy to help.