Privacy Policy

Introduction

Legesher (“Legesher,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit www.legesher.io and when you use our products and community features.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using our website, you consent to the practices described in this policy.

Who We Are

Legesher operates globally through two sibling entities:

• Legesher Inc — a Delaware C-Corporation, United States
• Legesher Global Tech Limited — registered in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), United Arab Emirates

These are separate legal entities with a coordinated service relationship. Depending on your region and the service you use, your data may be processed by either entity. The contact address below reaches both.

Privacy contact: privacy@legesher.com

Information We Collect

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

• Newsletter Subscriptions: first name and email address, submitted through our newsletter form and processed by Buttondown. When you submit the form, your IP address is also forwarded (server-side, not from your browser) to Buttondown as part of the subscription payload, which they may use for their own spam prevention and audit logs.
• Survey Responses: feedback provided through optional surveys we link to. Our surveys are hosted on Google Forms; responses are collected by Google on our behalf under their privacy terms.
• Email Correspondence: any information you include when emailing us directly (for example, at hello@legesher.com or privacy@legesher.com).

We do not operate user accounts or process payments on www.legesher.io at this time. Product-specific data practices (such as optional telemetry in the VS Code extension) are described in the Our Products section.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, our hosting provider and analytics service may automatically collect:

• Server logs (from Vercel, our hosting provider): IP addresses, request timestamps, and URLs, as part of normal hosting operations. See Vercel's Privacy Policy.
• Aggregated analytics (from Vercel Web Analytics): page URL, referrer, country/region-level geolocation, device type, operating system, and browser. Vercel Web Analytics is designed to be privacy-compliant: it does not set cookies, does not use personal identifiers, and cannot reconstruct a browsing session or identify individual visitors.

Information from Third Parties

We may receive limited information from third parties when you interact with us through their services (for example, social media platforms listed in our footer). We do not purchase personal information from data brokers.

How We Use Your Information

To provide and improve our services

• Respond to your inquiries and requests
• Send newsletters and updates (only with your consent)
• Improve our website and user experience
• Develop new features and services

To communicate with you

• Send administrative information
• Provide support
• Send marketing communications (only with your consent, and you can unsubscribe at any time)

For analytics and research

• Analyze website traffic and usage patterns at an aggregate level
• Measure the effectiveness of our content

For security and legal purposes

• Protect against fraud and unauthorized access
• Comply with legal obligations
• Enforce our terms and policies

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We do not set cookies

We set zero cookies on your browser, and we do not write to localStorage, sessionStorage, or any other client-side storage. Our analytics (Vercel Web Analytics) and hosting stack are cookieless, and we do not use cookies for advertising, cross-site tracking, or behavioural profiling. Our newsletter form submits to our own server-side endpoint and never loads third-party scripts in your browser, so Buttondown cannot set cookies through our site either.

Because we set no cookies and use no cookie-based analytics, we do not display a cookie consent banner — none is required under GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive.

Fonts

The website loads the Noto Sans font family from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com). Google may receive your IP address when your browser requests these font files. We are in the process of self-hosting Noto Sans to remove this third-party dependency; until that change ships, you can block Google Fonts at the browser level without affecting site functionality.

Your Cookie Choices

You can control cookies and client-side storage through:

• Browser settings: most browsers allow you to refuse or delete cookies and clear local storage.
• Do Not Track: we honour Do Not Track browser signals where technically feasible. In practice, our analytics stack does not profile visitors regardless.

How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share your information in the following circumstances:

Service providers. We share information with third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf:

• Vercel — website hosting and aggregated analytics
• Buttondown — newsletter delivery
• Google Forms — optional survey hosting
• Google Fonts — web fonts (see Fonts)

Legal requirements. We may disclose information if required by law, court order, or government request.

Business transfers. In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

With your consent. We may share information for other purposes with your explicit consent.

Data Retention

We retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Our Products

Legesher's product surfaces have their own data practices that are documented in product-specific privacy policies. This company-wide policy applies to everything below in addition to any product-specific terms.

Legesher VS Code Extension

The Legesher VS Code extension processes your source code locally on your machine. We never send your code, file paths, project names, or literal values to our servers or to any third-party service. Optional anonymous telemetry and opt-in ML training feedback are described in detail in the Extension Privacy Policy.

Legesher Documentation (docs.legesher.io)

Our documentation site uses Vercel Web Analytics and self-hosts all fonts. No cookies are set by us, and no consent banner is required under GDPR or ePrivacy regulations. Full details in the documentation privacy page.

Future products

When we launch additional products (for example, a hosted SaaS translation API or paid tiers), this section will be updated and product-specific policies will be linked here.

Community Features

Where we host community surfaces — for example, project showcases, user-contributed translations, or a future "Legesher Home" platform — additional terms may apply. At the time of this policy's last update, those surfaces are in early development. When they launch, content you submit publicly (for example, a showcase project) will be visible to other community members, and we will update this policy to describe the specific data flows involved.

Third-party community platforms we link to (GitHub, Slack, LinkedIn, Instagram) are governed by their own privacy policies, not this one.

GDPR & CCPA Compliance

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

All Users

You may:

• Opt out of marketing communications at any time
• Request information about what data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of your information (subject to legal obligations)

California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):

• Right to Know: request disclosure of personal information collected, used, and shared
• Right to Delete: request deletion of your personal information
• Right to Correct: request correction of inaccurate information
• Right to Opt Out of the sale or sharing of personal information (we do not sell your data)
• Right to Non-Discrimination: we will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights

To exercise your rights, contact us at privacy@legesher.com.

Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah Residents

Similar rights may apply under your state's privacy laws. Contact us to exercise your rights.

European Economic Area (EEA) and UK Residents

If you are located in the EEA or UK, you have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or UK GDPR:

• Access: request a copy of your personal data
• Rectification: request correction of inaccurate data
• Erasure: request deletion (the “right to be forgotten”)
• Restriction: request limitation of processing
• Portability: receive your data in a portable format
• Object to certain processing activities
• Withdraw consent at any time
• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority — for EEA residents, your local Data Protection Authority; for UK residents, the Information Commissioner's Office

Legal basis for processing (EEA/UK):

• Consent (e.g., newsletter subscriptions)
• Legitimate interests (e.g., aggregated analytics, security)
• Contract performance (e.g., responding to inquiries)
• Legal obligation (e.g., compliance with laws)

International Users

If you are located outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States or in the United Arab Emirates, where data protection laws may differ from your country.

By using our website, you consent to the transfer of your information. We take appropriate safeguards to protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your information, including:

• Encrypted data transmission (HTTPS/TLS 1.3)
• HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) and a strict Content Security Policy (CSP)
• Secure hosting infrastructure (Vercel)
• Access controls and authentication for our internal systems
• Regular security assessments

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe we have collected information from a child, please contact us immediately at privacy@legesher.com, and we will take steps to delete such information.

Third-Party Links

Our website links out to third-party platforms (GitHub, Slack, LinkedIn, Instagram, Buttondown, Google Forms, and documentation for integrations). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any website you visit.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes:

• We will update the “Last updated” date at the top
• For material changes, we may notify you via email (if you are subscribed to our newsletter) or through a prominent notice on our website

Your continued use of our website after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please email us at privacy@legesher.com.

For general inquiries, you can reach us at hello@legesher.com.

Additional Disclosures

For California Residents

Categories of personal information collected (past 12 months):

Sources: directly from you, automatically via analytics, third-party service providers.

Business purpose: to provide services, improve the website, communicate with you, and perform aggregated analytics.

Sale / sharing: we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.

For Nevada Residents

We do not sell your personal information as defined under Nevada law. If you wish to submit a request regarding the sale of your information, contact privacy@legesher.com.

Affiliated Entities

As described in Who We Are, Legesher Inc (USA) and Legesher Global Tech Limited (DIFC, UAE) operate as sibling entities with a coordinated service relationship. The two entities share this Privacy Policy as the governing framework for how personal information is handled on www.legesher.io. If you engage with a service through a specific entity that requires additional terms, those terms will be presented to you at that point.