NIKAPrivacy policy
The short version
- Your documents are read on your computer and are never sent to us or to anyone else by the extension. It has no analytics, no telemetry and no advertising.
- Settings, reading history and licence keys stay in your browser.
- One exception that is not ours: voices marked with ⚡ are synthesised on Microsoft servers, so the text being read goes there. Voices without the mark work entirely on your computer.
- We only receive personal data if you buy a licence or write to us.
1. Who we are
The Nika extension is published by [LICENSOR: name or company, registration code, address] (“we”). We are the controller of the personal data described in sections 7 and 8. Contact: [E-MAIL].
2. Your documents
Nika opens Markdown files from your disk, from web addresses that end in .md or .markdown, and text you paste. It reads the content on your computer, turns it into a formatted page and reads it aloud with your system voices. The extension has no permission to contact any server. The only host permission in its manifest is file:///*, for reading local files you open.
To show a Markdown address from the web, the extension reads the text of that page in your browser and hands it to its own viewer tab. Nothing leaves your browser during this.
3. What is stored in your browser
| What | Where | Why, and how to remove it |
|---|---|---|
| Settings: theme, typeface, size, paper colour, interface language, selected and pinned voices, speech speed, panel widths | The extension’s local storage | To remember your choices. Removed when you uninstall the extension or clear its data. |
| Reading history: names and addresses of your last 20 documents and where you stopped | The extension’s local storage | To offer “continue where you stopped”. The “Clear” button in the history menu removes it. |
| A copy of the text of up to five recently opened web or pasted documents | Browser memory (session storage) | To pass the text to the viewer tab. Not written to disk; gone when the browser restarts. |
| Licence keys, if you enter one | Browser sync storage | To keep Pro active. If browser sync is on, your browser may sync it between your own devices; that is done by the browser, not by us. |
None of this is sent to us.
4. Speech and Microsoft voices
Nika does not produce speech itself. It asks your browser and Windows to do it. Voices marked with ⚡ are Microsoft “natural” voices that Windows synthesises on Microsoft servers, so the text being read is sent there under Microsoft’s privacy statement. This is done by Windows, not by Nika, and we receive none of it. If you need your text to stay entirely on your computer, choose a voice without ⚡.
5. Images and links inside documents
If a document you open contains an image or a link to another address, your browser loads that image from that address, exactly as any web page would. The address you pointed it at then sees the request. Nika itself does not add such requests.
6. Licence key
A paid licence is a signed text key. Nika checks the signature and the expiry date on your computer. It does not contact a server to do this.
7. If you buy a licence
Payments are handled by [PAYMENT SERVICE: Paddle, to be confirmed], which acts as the seller. It receives your payment details; we never see your card number. We receive from it what we need to issue and support your key: your name or company, e-mail address, country, the order number and the type and dates of the licence. We use this only to issue the key, answer your questions, keep the accounting records the law requires, and prevent abuse. We do not sell it or use it for advertising.
We keep these records for as long as the law requires us to keep accounting records ([7 years in Estonia, to be confirmed]), and your support messages for as long as needed to answer you.
8. If you write to us
We use your e-mail address and message to answer you and keep the correspondence for as long as needed for that.
9. This website
This website is made of plain pages. It sets no cookies, has no analytics, and loads no fonts, scripts or images from other sites. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, handles technical request data such as your IP address in order to deliver the pages and protect the service.
10. What we do not do
- We do not collect or sell your documents, browsing history or reading habits.
- We do not use analytics, telemetry, advertising or tracking in the extension.
- We do not load code from the internet: the extension runs only the code in its own package.
11. Your rights
If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you can ask us for access to the personal data we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, ask us to restrict or stop using it, and receive it in a portable form. Write to us and we will answer within one month. You can also complain to your data protection authority; in Estonia this is the Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon).
The data in section 3 is on your computer: you control it directly, and uninstalling the extension removes it.
12. Children
Nika is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
13. Changes
If this policy changes, we publish the new text here and change the date at the top. A change that affects what the extension does with your documents would also be described in the extension’s store listing.
14. Contact
[E-MAIL FOR QUESTIONS AND LOST KEYS]