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Terms of Service

These Terms cover your use of Translate X, a free web-based translator. They are written to be short enough to actually read, and specific to what this site really does — not a generic template.

Effective date: 2 October 2026 Last updated: 2 October 2026 Applies to: translate-textx.pages.dev

1. What Translate X is

Translate X ("the Service", "we") is a single web page that translates text you type or paste into it. It currently offers the following, all in your browser:

• machine translation between 106 language pairs, with automatic detection of the source language;
• a searchable language picker, so you can filter the list by English name, the language's own name, or its code;
• a history of your recent translations, kept only in your own browser;
• read-aloud playback using your device's built-in speech engine;
• copy, download, drag-and-drop text files, shareable links, and keyboard shortcuts.

A single request is capped at 5,000 characters. The set of languages and the quality of each one depend on the translation engine described in Section 11, so both can change without notice.

2. Free, and no account

The Service is free. There is nothing to buy, no trial, no paid tier and no upsell.

There is no sign-up and there is no account. You are never asked for an email address, a name, a phone number or a password, so we hold no user profile and there is no credential for either of us to lose. Because there is no account, we also cannot restore anything for you — see Section 5 for how the data on your device works and how you delete it yourself.

3. How a translation happens

Translating requires somebody's computer to read your text. The route is deliberately the shortest one available:

1. Your browser sends your text, plus the source and target languages, straight to the third-party translation engine described in Section 11.

2. The engine returns the translation, and the source language it detected, directly to your browser.

3. Your browser displays the result and, if you use history, saves a copy in its own local storage.

If your network or browser blocks that direct connection, the request is automatically retried once through a serverless endpoint on this domain. That endpoint validates the input, enforces the 5,000-character limit, and forwards it to the same engine. It is used only when the direct route fails, and once it works it is preferred for the rest of your session.

4. Your text stays yours

You keep all right, title and interest in everything you type, paste or drop into the Service. We claim no ownership of your text and take no licence to it beyond the technical minimum needed to hand it to the translation engine and return the result.

Before you submit text you confirm that:

• you have the right to submit it, and submitting it does not infringe anyone else's copyright, confidentiality or privacy;
• it contains nothing you are contractually, legally or ethically barred from sending to a third party; and
• you have read Section 7 and will not use the Service in any of the ways it rules out.

To be explicit about the one consequence people miss: do not paste passwords, keys, unpublished source code, medical records or anything else you would not paste into a chat window. A web translator is not a private channel, because a third party has to read the text to translate it.

5. What is stored on your device

So the tool behaves consistently between visits, a small amount of data is saved in your own browser's localStorage. It never reaches us and we cannot read it. The full list is in the Privacy Policy; in short it is your chosen languages, your layout and theme choices, and up to 40 recent translations.

You delete it whenever you want, without asking anyone: the Clear all button in the history panel removes the translations, and clearing site data for this domain in your browser removes everything including your preferences.

6. What we ask of you

• Check the output. Read what comes back before you act on it. Every translation we produce needs your eyes on it.
• Get a human to check anything important. If a mistake in the text could affect someone's health, safety, money, freedom, employment or legal rights, have a qualified bilingual person review it before it is used.
• Be accurate about the source. Garbage in, garbage out — bad punctuation, typos or a wrongly detected language will produce a bad translation.
• Do not present the output as certified. Calling machine output a certified, sworn or professional translation misrepresents it, and Section 7 rules it out.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Service, and not to let anyone else use it, to:

• translate material that is unlawful in the country you are in, or in the country the Service is operated from;
• infringe copyright, trademark, patent or database rights, or submit text that defames, harasses or expresses hatred toward a person;
• submit sexual content involving minors, or content promoting self-harm, terrorism or violence;
• submit malware, or attempt to break in, probe or interfere with the Service, its hosting or the network underneath it — including by getting around rate limits or using automated agents that degrade the service for everyone else;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-download the site, or copy its code and design, except where the law expressly allows it;
• resell, rebrand or repackage the Service as your own product without written permission;
• misrepresent the output as a certified, professional or human translation; or
• send enough traffic to degrade the Service for other people.

We will rate-limit, block or refuse access where we reasonably believe these rules have been broken, or where the law requires it.

8. Machine translation is not a human translator

This is the single most important section on the page. The output is produced by statistical models. That means it can and will:

• mistranslate words whose meaning depends on context;
• drop negation, which inverts a sentence's meaning;
• translate idioms, slang, wordplay and culturally specific references literally;
• handle formality, gender and register inconsistently;
• guess wrong about the source language when several languages look alike;
• produce output that reads fluently while being subtly wrong.

Read-aloud playback also depends on your operating system: if your device has no voice installed for the target language, nothing will play, and some voices mispronounce specialised vocabulary. Subtitles and captions that ship with the translation are a rough guide, not a guarantee.

Never rely on this Service as your only check for safety-critical information, and never use it where a wrong word has legal or physical consequences.

9. Availability and changes

The Service is provided as-is and as-available. We do not promise that it will be up, fast or bug-free at any particular moment, and we may change, limit or remove any part of it — including features you like — with or without notice.

Because the Service is free, there is no refund, credit or compensation if something is removed or stops working.

10. Ownership and licensing

Our side. The site's code, design, layout, icons, language list, documentation and the name "Translate X" belong to us or our licensors. We let you use the Service free of charge for personal or internal business purposes, and that is the extent of the permission. You may not copy, modify, redistribute, sublicense, resell, scrape or reverse-engineer it, or remove any proprietary notices.

Your output. As between you and us, and as far as the law allows, you may use, edit and redistribute the translation however you like. We make no claim over it. We cannot promise it is identical to your source text or free of someone else's rights — because Section 8 explains why it sometimes is not.

Feedback. If you send us an idea or a bug report, you let us use it without restriction or credit.

11. The services we depend on

Translate X is deliberately thin, which means a lot of the work is done by other people:

• The translation engine. A third-party service supplied by Google. It receives your text and your language pair, and returns the translation. Its own terms and policies govern what it does with the data it receives, and we do not control that.
• Cloudflare. The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and the fallback endpoint described in Section 3 runs there. Cloudflare processes connection data — IP address, user agent, request time, status — to serve the page and block abuse.
• Your own device. Speech playback, clipboard access and local storage are provided by your browser and operating system, not by us.

None of these providers is endorsed by us beyond what is needed to make the Service work. We do not use advertising networks, remarketing pixels or third-party analytics, and we do not sell, rent or trade anything you type.

12. No warranty

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We specifically do not warrant that:

• any translation will be accurate, complete, idiomatic or fit for your purpose, audience or jurisdiction;
• the source language will be detected correctly;
• a given language pair will keep working, or keep existing;
• read-aloud will be available for a given language; or
• the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or free of defects.

13. Limits on our liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY — ARISING FROM ANY MISTAKEN TRANSLATION OR FROM YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE. ANY DIRECT CLAIM IS LIMITED TO USD 100, WHICH IS MORE THAN THE SERVICE COSTS YOU, WHICH IS NOTHING.

You agree to cover us against claims brought by someone else because you used the Service unlawfully, submitted text you had no right to send, or relied on a translation in a regulated or safety-critical situation where the error caused harm.

Nothing here excludes liability that the law does not let us exclude — for example death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or fraud. Nothing here limits mandatory consumer protections you have under the law of where you live, or your right to use free consumer dispute resolution. If you disagree with these limits, do not use the Service.

14. Privacy

The Privacy Policy is part of these Terms. The short version: no accounts, no analytics, no advertising trackers, no cookies, and your history never leaves your device.

15. Suspension

You can walk away at any time and erase your local data as described in Section 5.

We may block or refuse access, without notice and without liability, if you break these Terms, if continuing to serve you would harm us or someone else, if a supplier or a network operator stops carrying traffic for you, or if the Service is discontinued.

16. Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the country where the operator of Translate X resides, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Neither of us is required to arbitrate or to waive rights you have under the mandatory law of where you live.

If something goes wrong, email us before you escalate. A short, specific description — what you typed, what came back, and what you expected — is usually resolved in one reply. That is better for both of us than a formal claim, and where the law gives you a formal route we are not trying to take it away.

You may bring proceedings in the courts of your own country if the law entitles you to. We may seek an injunction in any competent court to protect the name or code of the Service.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms. When we do, the "Last updated" date above changes and the new version is published on this page. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the revised Terms; if you do not accept them, stop using the Service.

If a change alters something you would reasonably rely on — for example, suddenly requiring an account — we will say so plainly on this page rather than burying it.

18. Reporting a problem

Translate X is run by one person as a free public tool. There is no support desk, no ticket queue and no postal address, because there is no company behind it. Email is the only channel, and it is a real one:

If your concern is about a copyright or other rights infringement, say so in the subject line and include a link to the material in question so it can be assessed.