Privacy
What you translate stays on your Mac.
Selarik contacts mandorkode.com only to check for and download updates. Those requests include your Selarik version and, like any web request, your IP address and your Mac’s preferred languages. Nothing you type, copy or save is sent.
Translation
Translations are processed on-device using Apple Translation.
The first time you use a language pair, macOS may download a language model from Apple. macOS manages that download, not Selarik.
Apple says it may collect usage and performance metrics when an app uses Apple Translation, such as which app it was and the two languages, but not the text or its translation.
Selected text
When you choose Translate with Selarik or Translate and Replace with Selarik, the app you’re in sends Selarik the text you selected. If you turn on “Use the selected text with the shortcut”, Selarik instead copies the selection when you press the shortcut. To replace, it briefly puts the translation on your clipboard and pastes it. Each time, it then puts your clipboard back. Either way, the text is translated on your Mac and isn’t sent anywhere. Selarik doesn’t capture password fields in apps that use standard ones.
After Selarik replaces your selection, it keeps the original text in memory until the next replacement or until Selarik quits. It reaches your clipboard only if you choose Copy Original Text from Selarik in the menu bar. It’s never saved to disk or included in diagnostics.
Updates
Selarik checks for updates at most once a day while it’s open, and when you choose Check for Updates… yourself. Release notes load only when an update exists, and an update downloads only when you choose to install it.
To stop automatic checks, turn off Check for updates automatically in Settings › General. Selarik then checks only when you ask.
Update requests go to updates.mandorkode.com, which Cloudflare hosts. Cloudflare sees your IP address, the time of the request, your Selarik version and your Mac’s preferred languages.
Update requests never include:
- an account or a device identifier
- a system profile
- your language pairs
- your clipboard or translated text
- saved translations
- diagnostics
Stored on your Mac
Saved translations, favorite pairs, your settings and update state stay on your Mac.
Diagnostics and bug reports
Report a Bug… in Settings › About shows you a preview first. It holds limited details: the app and macOS versions, whether a shortcut is set, and up to 20 recent results from this launch, such as the language codes used, whether each translation worked and, when one didn’t, the system’s error code. It contains none of your text.
Nothing is sent automatically. You decide whether to paste the preview into an email you send yourself.
Selarik has no telemetry, crash reporting or analytics.
If you contact support, we receive what you send and use it to reply to you.
Beta sign-up
When you sign up for the beta, we store your email address, the language pairs you chose, your macOS version, where you’d use Selarik if you told us, the version we offered you, the date of this privacy page when you signed up, and when you signed up.
We use it to run the beta: to ask how Selarik works for you and to send important notices about the beta.
We send you Selarik news only if you tick the box for it. We record that you did and when. To stop, use the unsubscribe link in any news email, or ask through Contact support. Signing up again without ticking the box doesn’t remove it.
It’s kept in one place, a Cloudflare D1 database. If you signed up only for the beta, we delete it when the beta ends, or sooner if you ask through Contact support. If you ticked the news box, we keep only your email address and the record of your agreement until you unsubscribe: when you signed up and agreed, and which version of this page you saw. Your other answers are deleted when the beta ends.
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We also use your IP address briefly to limit how often the form can be sent. We don’t store it, or any details about your browser.
This website
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