Privacy & Data Sovereignty
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 1, 2026 · Last Revised: September 2026
At Scansion Tool (scansiontool.com), your privacy and intellectual property sovereignty are foundational principles of our software engineering. We believe that poets, students, researchers, and educators should have complete confidence that their creative manuscripts, private drafts, and student assignments remain strictly confidential.
1. 100% Client-Side In-Browser Execution
Unlike cloud-based linguistic processors, automated writing assistants, or generative AI platforms that transmit your text to remote server farms, Scansion Tool operates on a 100% client-side web architecture.
When you paste, type, or edit a poem in any of our 15 analytical tools (including the Poetry Meter Checker, Rhyme Scheme Generator, Latin Scansion Tool, Sonnet Checker, Haiku Validator, and Poem Analyzer), the entire computational execution occurs exclusively within your device's local web browser (using WebAssembly and compiled JavaScript).
Immutable Technical Guarantee: Your poem text is never sent across the internet, never uploaded to a backend server, never recorded in server logs, and never stored in any cloud database. All operations execute strictly within client memory (RAM) and disappear when you close your tab.
2. Zero Collection of User Poetry & Literary Manuscripts
We maintain a strict zero-retention policy regarding user-generated content:
- No AI Model Training: We never utilize your poetry, creative drafts, or translation exercises to train or fine-tune machine learning or AI models.
- No Content Scraping: We do not log, index, or index-search user inputs.
- No Account Profiling: We do not require user accounts, logins, passwords, or personal identity verification to access any tool or guide.
- No Metadata Tracking: We do not extract document author names, creation timestamps, or linguistic profiles from your text.
3. Local Browser Storage & Cache
To provide convenience during active writing sessions, certain tools may temporarily store your working text or display
preferences in your browser's local sandbox memory (such as HTML5 localStorage or sessionStorage).
This data resides solely on your physical device and can be cleared at any time simply by clearing your web browser cookies and site data.
Our website does not access or inspect any other local files, folders, or browser storage keys belonging to other websites.
4. Cookies, Analytics & Third-Party Advertising
To maintain our infrastructure, provide free access to all 15 educational tools, and support continuous linguistic updates, Scansion Tool uses industry-standard cookies and privacy-preserving telemetry:
• Technical & Aggregate Telemetry
We gather minimal, privacy-preserving, anonymized aggregate telemetry (such as total page visits, country-level geographic counts, and browser type via Google Analytics with IP anonymization) solely to ensure site reliability, diagnose server performance, and optimize device compatibility. These technical metrics do not contain names, emails, IP addresses, or poetic text.
• Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Cookies
We partner with third-party advertising vendors, including Google, to serve relevant advertisements when you visit our website. Please review the following required disclosures regarding advertising cookies:
- Third-Party Vendor Cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites on the Internet.
- Advertising Personalization: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to Scansion Tool and/or other sites across the Internet.
- User Opt-Out Controls: Users may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, users can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices/.
- Complete Isolation from Poetry: Third-party advertising networks have zero access to the poems, verses, syllables, or rhymes you evaluate in our client-side tools.
5. Compliance with Global Privacy Regulations (GDPR & CCPA/CPRA)
Because Scansion Tool does not collect, store, or sell Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or user poetry:
• European Union & UK (GDPR / UK GDPR)
We adhere strictly to principles of data minimization and privacy-by-design under Articles 5 and 25 of the General Data Protection Regulation. For users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the UK, we implement consent mechanisms complying with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF v2.2) to give you transparent choice over advertising cookies.
• California (CCPA / CPRA)
We do not 'sell' or 'share' personal consumer information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, and we do not maintain consumer profiles.
6. Children's Online Privacy & Classroom Safety (COPPA)
Scansion Tool is widely used in K-12 English, Latin, and literature classrooms. We comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly solicit, collect, or retain personal information from children under the age of 13. Teachers and educators can safely deploy our worksheets and scansion tools in student learning environments without privacy risks.
7. Static Hosting & Security Infrastructure
Our website assets (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and fonts) are delivered over secure, encrypted HTTPS channels utilizing modern Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3). Static assets are served via high-performance, globally distributed Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) that enforce standard security headers, Content Security Policies (CSP), and DDoS mitigation.
Privacy Questions & Answers
Do you store or read my unpublished poetry? ▶
No. All text processing and scansion occur strictly inside your device's web browser memory. Your poem is never uploaded to our servers or saved in any database.
Do you use user poetry to train AI models? ▶
No. We have a strict zero-retention policy. We never collect, retain, or feed user text into machine learning or artificial intelligence models.
Are cookies used on this website? ▶
We use essential technical cookies to ensure site reliability and partner with third-party vendors, including Google, who use cookies to serve contextual advertisements. Your creative poetry drafts are never tracked, collected, or linked to advertising identifiers.