Privacy
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This site is operated by Pellamere LLC, a United States company. Pellamere LLC decides how the little personal data that passes through Conversation Mile is used. For anything on this page, email contact@conversationmile.com.
Nothing here sits behind a login, and no page wants your name. Visits are counted by Google Analytics and by nothing else. There are no ads or affiliate links, and this page gets rewritten before either one appears.
The Mile Log
Your Mile Log never leaves your browser. The dates, minutes and notes you put into the Mile Log are written to this browser's local storage on the device you're using. A CSV download is created on your device, and a CSV you add back is read by your browser. No server sees either file.
Because of that, other people who use this browser can see your log. Clearing data for this site wipes it out, and a private window may discard it as soon as you close the window. Conversation Mile has no copy to recover, so keep a CSV if the log matters to you.
The other tools
Three more tools run entirely in your browser: the 90-day planner on the main plan page, the minimal pairs tool and the CEFR self-check. They remember nothing, and a reload resets them. When the planner prints or makes a CSV, that happens on your device.
The verb lookup fetches one language's verb table from this site once you choose that language. Matching the verb you type happens in your browser, and the verb itself goes nowhere.
When Google Analytics is active for you, a visit to a tool page is still counted like any page view. What you type and what you log are never part of it.
Google Analytics
The point of Google Analytics here is to see how many people come and which pages get read. For each visit it notes the page, the address that linked you here, what kind of device and browser you use, and a rough location derived from your IP address. Scrolling, file downloads and clicks that leave this site can be noted too.
Google Analytics uses two cookies set under this site's own domain. Google's standard lifetime for each is 2 years.
| Cookie | Job |
|---|---|
_ga | Holds a random number so one browser can be told from another |
_ga_ followed by an ID | Ties together the pages of one visit |
On this site, the settings for ad storage, ad user data and ad personalization are all denied. For users in the EU, the UK and Switzerland, Google says that Google Analytics doesn't log or store IP addresses; see Google's help article. Google describes its use of the data on its partner sites page, and its privacy frameworks page says the data can be handled in other countries.
The cookie question
Visitors from the UK, the European Economic Area, Switzerland and a handful of territories tied to them see a bar at the foot of the page: "May Google Analytics set a cookie to count visits?" Google Analytics stays unloaded, with nothing sent and no cookie written, until Yes, count me is pressed. When no country can be determined, the bar shows up as well.
Visitors from everywhere else aren't asked, and Google Analytics starts as the page loads.
Wherever you are, the Cookie settings button at the bottom of every page brings the question back. After No, thanks, Google Analytics won't load again in this browser. Cookies set earlier remain until you remove them in your browser settings. Google's own opt-out add-on blocks Google Analytics across all sites.
The country comes from a lookup through Cloudflare when a page opens. It's used for that one decision and kept nowhere, and once you've answered, pages stop looking it up.
Stored in your browser
| Name | Contents | Written when |
|---|---|---|
ga-consent-889f (local storage) | granted or denied | You answer the cookie question |
conversation-mile-log (local storage) | The rows of your Mile Log | You add a row to the Mile Log |
Each one stays until you delete what the site has stored. A browser that refuses storage can't remember your cookie answer. In the regions listed above, that means the question comes back. Everywhere else, Google Analytics starts on each page you open. The Mile Log can't keep anything either, so save a CSV before closing the tab. Session storage isn't used, and the light or dark colors come straight from your device setting.
A message you send is used to answer you, and a report of an error is used to correct the page too. Nobody who reports an error is named in the corrections log. Ask at the same address if you want your messages erased. Don't send anything sensitive, such as other people's details or recordings of other people.
Hosting, fonts and links
Cloudflare runs the servers, so each request for a page, and the IP address it comes from, goes through Cloudflare's network. This site serves its own fonts and images rather than loading them from another company. Source links take you to other organizations' sites, and their privacy policies apply there.
Your rights
The law in your country may give you the right to see what's held about you, have it erased, or complain to the authority that oversees data protection. Requests go to the email address at the top of this page. Analytics figures here can't be matched to a name or an email address, so a search by your email address finds only the messages you've written.
Conversation Mile is meant for adults and asks children for nothing.