What happens to the data a visit to this site produces, in plain terms. ConjureRhyme is made by ConjureDSP, whose privacy policy covers the family of products; this page is about this site alone.
There are no accounts and nothing to sign in to. What you type is sent to our server to run the search, and the answer comes back. The server keeps no record of who asked for what.
Two copies do exist. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, caches each answer at its edge for up to a week, keyed by the search itself — the word, the rhythm and the settings — and not by who asked, so the next person asking the same thing gets the cached answer without waking the server. And the analytics described next receive each search as typed.
Cloudflare also keeps ordinary request logs for a short time, as any host does. Those include the network address a request came from and the search in its URL.
The page reports to Mixpanel, an analytics service: that a page was viewed; each search as typed — the word and the rhythm — with the settings used, how many results came back and how long it took; and a few clicks — opening a group of results, switching a view on or off, opening the ARPAbet reference. Nothing else. The point is to learn what people look up and whether the tool answers well.
To tell visits apart, Mixpanel keeps a random identifier in your browser's local storage. It is not tied to a name or an email address, because we have neither. Mixpanel is set not to work out a location from your network address, and it honours your browser's Do Not Track setting.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the analytics wait for your answer to the consent message the search page shows, and do not run unless you agree.
To keep your browser out entirely, open rhyme.conjuredsp.com/?mp_optout=1 once. Nothing is sent from that browser from then on, until ?mp_optin=1 undoes it.
The results page carries one advertisement served by Google AdSense, shown once a search has run. Google sets cookies to do that. In the words Google's programme asks us to pass on:
How Google uses data from sites that show its ads is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Where the law requires consent before anything is stored on your device — the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland — the search page asks first, with a message provided by Google, and neither Google's advertising nor the analytics above run until you agree. Declining changes nothing about the search itself.
Local copies of the tool — the command line and the ConjureRhyme app — send nothing anywhere and show no advertising. Both run entirely on your own machine.
Write to conjuredsp@gmail.com. You can ask what Mixpanel holds under your identifier and have it deleted; say which browser you used and roughly when, since the identifier is all there is to go on.