Who we are

This policy covers the website at www.spell-mistake.com (“SpellMistake”, “we”, “us”). If you have a question about it, use the contact page.

What the tools do with your text

Five of the seven tools — Word Counter, Article Rewriter, URL Encoder and Decoder, Robots.txt Generator and the sitemap builder itself — run entirely in your browser. The text you paste is never transmitted to us or to anyone else, and it is discarded when you close the tab. We could not read it if we wanted to.

Two tools make a request:

• Spell Checker. Your browser sends the text you are checking directly to the LanguageTool API (languagetool.org) and receives the results back. That request does not pass through our servers. LanguageTool’s own privacy policy governs what they do with it; at the time of writing they state that text submitted to the public API is not stored.
• Page Size Checker and the optional URL fetcher inside Sitemap Generator. The address you enter is sent to our server, which fetches that page on your behalf and returns the measurements. We do not log or retain the addresses.

Information you give us deliberately

Contact form. If you write to us we store your name, email address, chosen subject and message so that we can reply, together with the time it was sent. We keep these for as long as the conversation is useful and then delete them. We do not add contact form addresses to any mailing list.

Newsletter. If you subscribe we store your email address and the date you subscribed. It is used only to send the newsletter, and every issue contains an unsubscribe link. You can ask us to remove you at any time and we will do it without asking why.

Comments. If commenting is enabled and you leave a comment, WordPress stores the comment, your name, your email address and your IP address. This is standard WordPress behaviour.

Information collected automatically

Our web host keeps standard server access logs, which include IP addresses, requested URLs, timestamps and user-agent strings. These are used for security and for diagnosing faults, and are rotated on the host’s own schedule.

The Wordfence security plugin records request metadata, including IP addresses, in order to identify and block attacks against the site.

We do not run Google Analytics, advertising pixels, cross-site trackers or fingerprinting scripts.

Cookies

The site sets no marketing or analytics cookies. WordPress sets functional cookies only if you log in or leave a comment, and Wordfence may set a cookie as part of blocking automated abuse. Because we set no non-essential cookies, there is no consent banner to click.

Third parties

The two third parties that can receive data connected with your use of this site are LanguageTool (only when you press Check in the spell checker) and our web host, DreamHost, which operates the servers. We use Google Fonts to serve typefaces, which means your browser requests font files from Google’s servers and Google receives your IP address as part of that request.

We do not sell, rent or trade personal data. Ever.

Your rights

If you are in the UK, the EU or another jurisdiction with comparable law, you have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, and to object to our processing it. In practice the only personal data we are likely to hold is an email address and a message you sent us. Ask via the contact page and we will act on it.

Children

The site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the revised policy.