Privacy Policy

In short

Qaari is a browser extension that renders a translation over pages you open yourself. Balloon detection and optical character recognition run on your machine. What leaves your device is the extracted text and a reduced copy of the page, for translation only — set out precisely in the next section.

We do not sell your data, use it for advertising, or train models on it.

What is sent to our servers

When you ask for a page to be translated we receive: the text extracted from its text regions, the glossary for that series, and a downscaled image of the page (at most 1024px on its longest edge) used to determine who is speaking and in what tone.

That data is passed to a language model provider to produce the translation and returned to you. The page image is not stored and is discarded as soon as the request finishes.

The extracted text and the translation produced from it are kept, so that the quality of Arabic translation can be improved. Deleting your account removes the link between you and that text; nothing remaining in it identifies a person.

What stays on your device

The per-series glossary is held in your browser (IndexedDB) and is sent to our servers only as part of a translation request itself.

Your settings, and your account key if you have one, are kept in the extension's local storage.

Permissions

Qaari requests access to each site the first time you use it there, rather than a blanket grant across all sites. That access is needed to read the images shown on the page and to draw the translation layer over them.

We do not read pages you have not asked to translate, and we do not track your browsing.

Accounts and billing

If you create an account we keep your email address, your plan, and the number of pages translated in the current period, in order to apply usage limits.

Payments are processed by Lemon Squeezy, which is the merchant of record for subscriptions. We never receive or store your card details.

Retention and deletion

Usage records are retained for support and accounting. You may request deletion of your account and everything associated with it by contacting us; requests are completed within thirty days.

Text kept for improving translation survives deletion, but with no link to your account. That is deliberate: a translated line does not identify who read it, and severing the link is enough.

Content

Qaari is a viewer that operates on what you open in your own browser. We do not host, distribute, or own rights to any content.

Contact

For any privacy question: privacy@qaari.space