Privacy
Short version: what you type stays in your browser.
Your text
- English-to-Hindi and Hindi-to-Roman conversion run entirely in your browser. The website consists of static files; there is no HindiWrite server that receives, processes or logs your writing.
- When the editor opens, your browser downloads the Hindi dictionary file from this website. That request contains nothing you have typed.
- Your text is never put in page addresses (URLs) and is never sent to analytics, advertising or error tracking services. HindiWrite uses no advertising or error tracking, and no third-party analytics.
- Copy and Download work locally: Copy uses your device’s clipboard, and the .txt file is created by your browser.
What is stored on your device
- Nothing you type, by default. If you close or reload the page, the text is gone.
- Drafts, only if you turn on “Save draft in this browser” in the editor settings. The draft is kept in this browser’s local storage on this device until you delete it, clear your browser data, or turn the setting off (which deletes it immediately).
- Display preferences — theme, text size, the autosave setting and whether you have seen the voice typing notice — are kept in local storage. They contain no text.
- Corrections you choose are remembered only in memory while the page is open, to rank your preferred spelling first, and are forgotten when you leave.
Usage counts
To know which tools people use, HindiWrite tells ViPlay (viplay.in, which makes it) a few things: that the editor or the Hindi-to-Roman tool was opened and for how long, which mode or tool was used (for example voice typing or special characters), and that text was copied or downloaded. With them go a random id for this browser and your device type (phone, tablet or computer). Never the text you type, paste or say, and no IP address is kept. The details are deleted after 90 days; only daily totals remain.
Browsers that send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control are not counted, and you can turn it off for every ViPlay app on the ViPlay privacy page.
Voice typing
Voice typing uses the speech recognition built into your browser, which may send your audio to the browser maker’s speech service — Google for Chrome, Microsoft for Edge, Apple for Safari — under their privacy policies. The microphone is only used after you press Voice and allow it, and recognition stops when you press Stop. HindiWrite never receives the audio; recognised text is added to the editor on your device. If you prefer not to use a speech service, simply don’t use voice typing.
Hosting
Like any website, the hosting provider that serves these files may keep standard technical logs (such as IP address, browser type and the pages requested) to operate and protect the service. Those logs never contain the text you write in the editor.
Changes
If the way HindiWrite handles data changes — for example if an optional online feature is added — this page will be updated before the change takes effect.