Privacy
What we see, what we keep, what we never touch.
This notice is written from the code, not from a template. It describes the
interPROter plugin, the translation service it talks to, and this website — and it is short
because there is not much to describe.
Version 1 — draft of 17 September 2026. Controller: Bastinet, Business ID 2492063-7, Teknologiantie 18, 90590 Oulu, Finland.
In one paragraph. The plugin sends the text of your pages to our service to be
translated and gets a translation back. We do not store that text. We keep a small record of
your site — its address, a hashed key, how many characters it used per day — so that limits
and billing work. The plugin sets no cookies, loads no JavaScript on your visitors' pages and
sends us nothing about your visitors at all.
1. Your visitors
People who read your site never interact with us. The plugin renders every translation from
your own database, on your own server. It sets no cookies, adds no scripts to your pages and
makes no request to our servers or anyone else's while a page is being served. The language
a visitor sees is chosen by the address they open — /de/, /fr/ —
and nothing else. There is nothing about your visitors for us to collect, so we collect
nothing.
2. What the plugin sends to the service
When your site needs a new translation — after you publish or change a page — the plugin
sends the service:
- the text segments to translate, with their inline HTML formatting;
- the target language, and for some languages the formality setting you chose;
- the page title, as context for the translation engine;
- your glossary, if you have set one;
- your site's service key and your site's address.
The text is your site's published content — the same text anyone can read on your site.
If your site contains personal data in its pages, that data is part of what gets translated,
in the same way it would be if you pasted the page into any translation tool. The plugin does
not send draft content, comments, user accounts, orders, form submissions or anything from
the WordPress admin.
The plugin also reads pages from your own site over HTTP, because it finds the
texts to translate by looking at the finished page rather than at the database. That
traffic never leaves your server: it is your site asking itself.
Two more connections exist, and neither one reaches us. If you use
your own DeepL key instead of our service, the plugin talks to
api.deepl.com or api-free.deepl.com directly and we see nothing
at all — no texts, no site address, no counts. And when you add a language,
WordPress downloads that language's own translation files for your plugins and theme from
wordpress.org. That is WordPress's own mechanism, the same one it uses for
every update, and we are not part of it.
3. What the service keeps
Not the text. Each request is forwarded to the translation engine, the translation is
returned to your site, and the text is gone from our side. Our request log records the time,
your site's name, the endpoint, the target language, the number of characters and whether the
request succeeded — deliberately never the content.
What we do keep, per site:
| What | Why | For how long |
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| Site name and address | To know which site a key belongs to | While the key exists |
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| Service key, as a SHA-256 hash | To authenticate requests; we cannot recover the key from it | While the key exists |
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| Tier, monthly allowance, status, creation date | To apply limits and billing | While the key exists |
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| Contact email, if you gave one | To tell you about changes to the service or your key | While the key exists |
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| Characters and requests per day | Allowance and billing — a count, not the content | While the key exists |
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| Requests per minute | Rate limiting | Current minute only; older rows are purged |
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| Domain, IP address and time of a key request | To stop scripts from creating keys in bulk (five per IP per hour) | 7 days |
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When a key is deleted at your request, its site record and usage counts go with it. Server
access logs on the machine that runs the service contain the requesting IP address and are
rotated in the ordinary way.
4. The translation engine
Translations are produced by DeepL SE (Cologne, Germany) through the DeepL API,
under DeepL's terms for API customers. We send DeepL the text, the target language, the
context and the glossary described above; we do not send your site's address or key. DeepL
states of its API and Pro products that "texts are never stored or used for model
training without your consent", and we have given no such consent. DeepL SE is a German
company bound by the GDPR.
5. This website
interproter.com is a static site. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics. The web server
keeps ordinary access logs (IP address, requested page, time, browser) for security and
troubleshooting, rotated in the ordinary way. Fonts are served from this site's own
server, so no third party learns that you opened the page.
6. Paying
Card payments are taken on Stripe's checkout page, and the payment is processed by
Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland). Your card number goes to Stripe, never to us.
Stripe passes us your name, email address, billing address, VAT number if you entered one, the website
address you typed in, and the status of the payment. We keep these for as long as the subscription runs
and afterwards for as long as Finnish bookkeeping law requires. Stripe processes the data as a payment
provider under its own privacy policy and runs its own fraud
checks on the payment; it also sends the receipts on our behalf.
7. Email
If you write to hello@interproter.com, we keep the
correspondence for as long as it is needed to answer you and to handle your account, and we
do not add you to any list.
8. Your rights
Under the GDPR you can ask what we hold about you or your site, have it corrected or
deleted, or object to how it is used. Write to the address below; we answer within a month.
You can also complain to the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman (tietosuoja.fi) or the
supervisory authority in your own country.
9. Changes
If this notice changes, the new version is published here with a new date. If the change
means we would collect something we do not collect today, we tell paying customers by email
before it takes effect.
Bastinet · Business ID 2492063-7
Teknologiantie 18, 90590 Oulu, Finland
hello@interproter.com