Crierwick: Text to Speech Reader — Privacy Policy
Short version: Crierwick reads pages aloud with the voices of your own computer. It stores its settings only in your browser (storage.local). Nothing is sent to Zydeno or anyone else. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking.
What is stored, and where
- Your settings: speed, pitch, volume, the voice chosen for each language, reading filters, theme, interface language, player position.
- Your pronunciation list (words and how to say them).
- Saved places: for up to 300 pages, the address of the page (without the part after # and without tracking parameters such as utm_*), the number of the sentence you stopped at, the first 80 characters of that sentence and the page title. They let Crierwick offer “Continue” when you open the same page again.
All of this is kept with the browser's storage.local on your device. It is never uploaded. You can delete saved places in Settings → Places you stopped → Forget all, reset settings in Settings → Backup, or remove everything by removing the extension. Settings → Export writes the same data to a JSON file that stays where you save it.
What is not collected
Crierwick does not collect, transmit or sell personal data, browsing history, page contents, selections or usage statistics. It makes no network requests of its own and contains no remote code.
Pages and text
Crierwick reads a page only after you ask: a click on its toolbar button, its right-click menu items or its keyboard shortcuts. It then works only in that tab. The text of the page is split into sentences in the tab itself and handed to the speech service of your browser. Crierwick does not keep page text, apart from the short sentence beginning in saved places described above.
Voices
Voices marked On device speak on your computer; the text does not leave it. Some browsers also offer voices marked Online: the browser sends each sentence to that voice provider's service to produce the sound. Crierwick hides online voices until you switch on “Show online voices” in Settings, and marks them as Online wherever they appear. If you choose an online voice, the provider's own privacy policy applies to that text; Zydeno receives nothing.
Permissions
- activeTab — access to the tab you start Crierwick on, only after your click, menu choice or shortcut. No access to other sites or tabs.
- scripting — puts the reader, the highlight and the small player into that tab.
- contextMenus — the “Read from here” and “Read selection” items in the right-click menu.
- storage — the settings, word list and saved places described above, in this browser only.
- tts (Opera only) — the browser's speech service, which speaks with the voices of your system.
Keyboard shortcuts are declared with the commands manifest key; it is not a permission. The bundled fonts are the only files web pages can load from the extension.
Children
Crierwick does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date. A version that started to collect data would be announced in the store listing first.
Contact
Zydeno · [email protected] · zydeno.com