Privacy

The names, IDs and files you paste, type or upload stay out of our analytics (the feedback forms, below, are the exception you choose). So do your search text, your results, and the query part of any address, where pasted names travel. Session recordings hide all page text and every form field.

Until you choose, we set no cookies and store nothing in your browser. If you choose “No thanks”, your browser keeps only that answer, so we do not ask again. We use PostHog, an analytics service in the United States. It counts visitors with an anonymous code made from your IP address, browser and the date, so the same visitor counts once a day. PostHog does not keep the IP address, so it cannot tell your country.

We record which pages you open, and these actions: running a translation (how many names, how many matched, which ID type), using the example, uploading a file (how many rows), turning a database release on or off, expanding a result row, downloading results, opening an NCBI or GTDB link, starting the tour, changing a release on a taxon page, trying the API on the docs page, seeing an error page, opening or sending feedback, searching on the home page (how many matches), opening a result or the bulk-translate link from the home page, and your cookie answer. We record counts and settings only, never the names.

PostHog stores an anonymous ID in a cookie and in your browser's storage, both named ph_…_posthog, which recognise you when you come back. PostHog also records your country from your IP address, and makes session recordings: the page layout, clicks and scrolling, with all text and form fields hidden.

To change your answer, use “Cookie settings” at the bottom of any page.

For each call to the API, we record the address path (for example /api/v1/translate), the method (GET or POST), the host name called, the kind of client (for example Python or a browser), and the country our host Vercel reports. Calls are grouped by an anonymous code made from the IP address, the client's user agent and the date, with a secret, so it changes every day. We never record the query or the request body, which hold the names you send.

The feedback and bug forms send the maintainer a private Telegram message with your message, the full address of the page you were on, and your email if you give one. On the translate page that address holds the names you entered. “Report a wrong name” also sends the result row you are reporting, including the name you entered, so we can check it. Only add your email if you want a reply.

The site runs on Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel handles your IP address to deliver pages and keeps short request logs.

Use “Give feedback” at the bottom of any page.