Effective date: May 7, 2026

OptiTranslate ("the app", "we", "us") is a menu-bar translator for macOS. This Privacy Policy explains what happens with your data when you use the app. Plain summary: we don't collect, store, or sell anything about you.

1. Information we collect from you

None. OptiTranslate does not include analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising SDKs, fingerprinting, or any other form of data collection performed by us. We do not have servers and we do not have user accounts. We never see what you type, paste, dictate, capture, or translate.

2. Data sent to third parties when you translate

To translate text, the app sends your input text to one translation provider that you select inside the app:

• Google Translate (translate.googleapis.com) — see Google's Privacy Policy.
• DeepL API (api.deepl.com or api-free.deepl.com) — see DeepL's Privacy Policy.

Only the text you actively want translated, plus the source/target language codes, is sent to the selected provider. The request is initiated only when you type, paste, dictate, or capture text into the app. We do not add any identifiers, device data, or metadata. After the translated response is returned to your Mac, no copy of your text remains on our side because we have no servers.

The language pair you last used, your selected provider, and your last 10 translations (for your local history) are stored locally on your Mac in UserDefaults (a standard macOS preferences store) so the app remembers your choices between launches. This data never leaves your device.

3. Speech recognition (microphone)

If you use the voice-input feature:

• The microphone is opened only while you are actively dictating, and is closed automatically when you stop speaking or click stop.
• Audio is processed using Apple's on-device Speech Recognition framework whenever your Mac supports it (macOS 13+ supports on-device recognition for most languages). When on-device recognition is supported, the audio never leaves your device.
• For languages that do not yet support on-device recognition on your specific Mac, Apple may process the audio on Apple servers per Apple's standard Speech framework behavior. See Apple's Privacy Policy for details.
• We never record, store, or transmit your microphone audio ourselves.

The app declares the standard macOS permission strings NSMicrophoneUsageDescription and NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription. You will be asked for permission the first time you press the microphone button. You can revoke these permissions at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security.

4. Screen capture (OCR)

If you use the screenshot-to-translate feature:

• We invoke the standard macOS screen capture utility (/usr/sbin/screencapture), which behaves exactly like the system shortcut Control+Shift+Cmd+4. macOS, not the app, manages the area selection UI.