Wordrobe privacy policy

Last updated October 14, 2026. Questions: support@wordrobe.app

The short version

Wordrobe rewrites, translates and summarizes the text of web pages you choose, and it does that by sending that text to a server. It has no accounts, no ads and no analytics, and it does not keep the text of the pages you read.

You choose the sites. Wordrobe does nothing on a site until you turn it on for that site.
Page text leaves your device only for those sites, only to be rewritten, translated or summarized, and only after you agree on first use. If you turn on the optional Word meanings, one word and its sentence are sent when you double-click a word.
Two companies handle that text: Cloudflare (runs Wordrobe's server) and Anthropic (the AI that does the rewriting).
Wordrobe's server does not save page text. It keeps a small daily count per internet address so no one person can use up everyone's share.
Wordrobe skips banking, health, email, government, sign-in, checkout and other sensitive pages, and pages behind a paywall.
Your settings stay in your browser and can be reset or removed at any time. Read aloud, the reading ruler, the focus aid, colors, and copying or saving the text all happen on your device.
Extras are off by default: Word meanings (sends a word and its sentence) and Natural voices (your browser's online speech service). You switch them on yourself.

What Wordrobe collects, and what it does not

Wordrobe collects only what it needs to do the job you asked for. Most of it never leaves your browser.

Information	Where it goes	How long
Text of pages you turned Wordrobe on for	Sent to Wordrobe's server, then to Anthropic, to be rewritten, translated or summarized	Wordrobe's server does not save it. See Anthropic's retention below
Your settings: sites, reading level, language, display options and focus aid, reading ruler, read-aloud speed and voice, summary options, Word meanings on or off, popup colors, a level or language kept for one site only (saved with that site's name, only if you choose "Just for this site"), where you stopped reading (a code for the page and a paragraph number, never the page's address or words; up to 20 pages, kept 14 days), your consent	Stored in your browser only	Until you reset them or remove Wordrobe
One word and the sentence it is in, only if you turned on Word meanings and double-click a word	Sent to Wordrobe's server, then to Anthropic, to explain the word. Wordrobe's server does not save it	Wordrobe keeps the last few answers in your browser's memory only, never on disk. See Anthropic's retention below
Recent rewrites, so a page does not need rewriting twice	Stored in your browser's session memory only	Cleared when you close the browser
Internet (IP) address of each request	Seen by Cloudflare. Wordrobe's server keeps request counts against it for fair use	Per-minute counts are deleted within a minute, per-day counts the next day

Wordrobe does not collect: your name, email, or any account (there are none); the web address or title of the pages you read; your browsing history; cookies for tracking; analytics; or advertising data. Wordrobe does not sell or share information, and it shows no ads.

The web address of a page is not sent to the server. Only the text to be rewritten, your chosen level, language and summary style are.

How page text is processed

When Wordrobe is on for a site, it sends the page's article text in short batches to Wordrobe's server. The server checks the request, passes the text to Anthropic's Claude model, and returns the result to your browser. Translating into one of Wordrobe's languages and writing a summary work the same way. Wordrobe asks for rewrites only for the paragraphs you scroll to, and not for a tab you are not looking at, so it does not send a whole page at once or keep sending while you are away.

Your browser sends the text, your level, and your language and summary choices.
Wordrobe's server runs on Cloudflare. It applies size and fair-use limits, then forwards the text. It does not write the text to storage or to its logs.
Anthropic runs the AI model that does the rewriting. Anthropic's current terms for its commercial API say it does not train its models on inputs or outputs from commercial products, and that it deletes inputs and outputs from its backend within 30 days. Longer retention can apply when content is flagged for a Usage Policy violation or when the law requires it (Anthropic: data retention, Anthropic: model training, both checked October 12, 2026).

Word meanings (optional, off by default). If you turn on "Word meanings" in the popup, double-clicking a word in an article sends that one word and the sentence it is in (nothing else from the page, and never the page's address) through the same path: your browser, Wordrobe's server, then Anthropic, which returns a short explanation at your level and language. It is not used in form fields, inputs or on pages Wordrobe stays off, it counts toward the same fair-use limits, and the same retention described above applies. Turn it off at any time in the popup.

Cloudflare and Anthropic are the only companies that receive page text. Each handles it under its own terms and privacy policy.

Because the text is sent to an AI service, do not turn Wordrobe on for pages that show private information. Wordrobe skips many such pages automatically, but it cannot catch all of them.

What stays on your device

Your choices (sites, level, language, display options, ruler, speed, summary options) and your record of agreeing to this policy are saved in your browser's extension storage. Recent rewrites are kept in your browser's session memory so a page is not rewritten twice, and they are cleared when you close the browser. Wordrobe's server never sees any of this.

Read aloud remembers where you stopped so you can carry on later. That place is kept in your browser only, as a code for the page and a paragraph number: not the page's address, and none of its words. It is never sent anywhere. Reset to defaults and Remove Wordrobe from all sites clear it. It uses the voices installed on your device by default ("Private" voices), so nothing leaves your device for speech. If your device has no voice for a language, Wordrobe says so and does nothing.

Natural voices (optional, off by default). Under "Reading comfort" you can switch the read-aloud voice to "Natural (online)". Those voices come from your browser's own online speech service (Microsoft in Edge, Google in Chrome), sound much more natural and cover more languages. When you choose them, your browser sends the text being read to that company, under its own terms and privacy policy. Wordrobe does not receive or store that text. Switch back to "Private" at any time.

The reading ruler, background colors, text size, font changes and the focus aid (bold word starts, or dimming the other paragraphs) are drawn on your screen only. They do not change the website. "Copy text" and "Save .txt" on the round W card make the text from what is on your screen, on your device, and put it on your clipboard or in a file your browser downloads. Nothing is sent anywhere, and Wordrobe does not keep a copy.

If you choose "Just for this site" in the popup, the level and language you pick are saved with that site's name (for example, example.com) in your browser, only on your device. Resetting the look-and-feel options leaves them; Remove Wordrobe from all sites clears them.

Browser permissions

Wordrobe asks your browser for only what it needs.

Storage saves your choices on your device.
Access to one site at a time. When you turn Wordrobe on for a site, your browser asks you to allow that site. Without that, Wordrobe cannot read or change the site. The only other address it can contact is Wordrobe's own server.
Scripting and the active tab let Wordrobe run on the sites you turned on, and only there.
Page-state rules change the toolbar icon on pages where Wordrobe stays off (for example, subscription sites), so you can tell it is not broken. They do not read the page.
Keyboard shortcuts (Alt+Shift+W to show the original, Alt+Shift+R to start or pause Read aloud). You can change them in your browser's extension shortcut settings.

Pages Wordrobe will not touch

Wordrobe stays off pages where sending the text would be risky or would go against the site's rules.

Sensitive pages: banking and money, health, email, government, sign-in, checkout and similar pages.
Paid content: pages behind a paywall, metered article limit or sign-up wall, and a list of subscription publishers. This applies even if you are a paying subscriber, because many publishers' terms do not allow AI use of their content. When Wordrobe stays off, a grey badge says why.
Anything the site restricts: Wordrobe never removes a pop-up, wall or scroll lock, never turns text selection or copying back on, and never reads text a site is hiding from you. If a site blocks selecting or copying (licence and terms pop-ups often do), that stays blocked.
Outside the United States: Wordrobe's server only answers requests from the United States for now.

Wordrobe's detection is not perfect. It can miss a sensitive or paid page, so you remain responsible for where you turn it on.

Fair-use limits and internet addresses

Wordrobe is free, and its AI costs real money, so the server limits how much each person and all users together can use in a day. To do that, the server keeps three kinds of counters: requests per internet (IP) address per minute, requests per IP address per day, and total requests per day. Today the limits are 30 per minute and 300 per day per address, and 1,000 per day overall.

The counters hold a number and an IP address or a date. They never hold page text. Per-minute counters are deleted within a minute, and per-day counters are deleted the next day.

The limits are per IP address, so people who share a connection (a school, a library, a family) share one allowance. Cloudflare also receives the IP address of every request in order to deliver it, under its own privacy policy.

Your choices and controls

Consent comes first. Wordrobe sends no text until you read the notice and agree. If this policy changes in a way that affects your text, Wordrobe asks again.
Per site. You turn Wordrobe on for one site at a time and can turn it off for that site with the switch in the toolbar pop-up.
Show original. One click, or Alt+Shift+W, shows the page's original text at any time.
Reset. "Reset reading and summary options" in the pop-up returns your display and focus aid, language, ruler, speed, voice, Word meanings, popup colors, summary choices and saved reading places to the defaults.
Extras. Word meanings and Natural voices are off until you switch them on, and you can switch them off again at any time.
Remove everything. "Remove Wordrobe from all sites" in the pop-up clears your site list, your per-site choices, your saved reading places and your agreement. Removing the extension deletes all the settings Wordrobe stored in your browser.
Nothing to delete on our side. Wordrobe has no accounts and does not keep page text, so there is no profile to export or erase. The one copy outside your browser is Anthropic's temporary backend copy, which it deletes within 30 days as described above.

Children, accuracy and availability

Age. Wordrobe is meant for people 13 and older. Parents and teachers may use it to help children read, and should choose the sites. Wordrobe has no accounts and does not ask for a name, email or birth date, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
AI can be wrong. Rewrites, translations and summaries are written by AI and may contain mistakes or change the meaning. Translation is weaker for less common languages such as Haitian Creole, Swahili and Bengali. Check the original for anything important, such as medical, legal, money or safety information.
United States only. For now Wordrobe works only from the United States. Requests from elsewhere are declined, and their text is not passed on to Anthropic.

Changes and contact

If Wordrobe changes what it does with your text, this policy will be updated, the date at the top will change, and Wordrobe will ask for your agreement again before sending any text under the new terms. Questions or reports of a bad rewrite: support@wordrobe.app.