Last updated: 5 August 2026
MagiWords has no account system, no server, and no analytics. Your vocabulary, your scores and your settings are stored on your own computer, in your own browser, and are never sent anywhere.
The only data that ever leaves your device is an individual dictionary word, sent to look up its meaning — and only if you leave that feature switched on.
When you save a word, MagiWords records it using your browser's local extension storage
(chrome.storage.local). Each entry holds:
All of this stays on your device. It is not uploaded, backed up to us, or shared. We have no way to see it. If you uninstall MagiWords, Chrome deletes it. You can also delete everything yourself at any time under Settings → Delete all words, or export it to a JSON file you control.
MagiWords has an optional feature that fetches a word's dictionary definition and its meaning in your language. It is on by default and can be turned off in Settings. When it is on, and only when you save or open a word MagiWords has not looked up before, it sends that single word and nothing else to:
| Service | What is sent | Why |
|---|---|---|
| dictionaryapi.dev | One English word | Its definition, part of speech and pronunciation |
| MyMemory | One English word | Its meaning in your chosen language |
These requests never include the sentence you found the word in, the page you were reading, your browsing history, an identifier, or anything else about you. They are made from the extension's background service worker without cookies or credentials. Each result is cached on your device, so any given word is requested at most once.
Two further requests happen only when you ask for them. Pressing the speaker button on a word downloads that word's pronunciation recording from dictionaryapi.dev, the same service the definition came from. Clicking a meaning opens Google Translate in a new tab with that one word in the address, so you can check the translation and hear it spoken; nothing is sent to Google unless you click, and Google's own privacy policy applies from that point on.
Those two services are operated by third parties and have their own privacy practices. If you would rather no data leave your device at all, switch off “Look up definitions and meanings online” in Settings — MagiWords will keep working: you can still collect words with their sentences and take fill-in-the-blank, recall and context quizzes.
MagiWords has no standing access to any website. It requests no site permissions when you install it. It can read the page you are on only at the moment you explicitly invoke it — by clicking its toolbar icon, pressing its keyboard shortcut, or using its right-click menu item — and only in that one tab. It cannot read pages in the background, cannot read other tabs, and cannot see anything before you ask it to.
When invoked, it reads the visible text of the page in order to highlight words. Interactive and technical content — form fields, password boxes, editable areas, scripts, styles and code blocks — is deliberately skipped and never read or modified. Nothing read from a page is transmitted anywhere; only the words you actively choose to save are recorded, locally.
MagiWords is a general-purpose learning tool suitable for all ages. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
If a future version of MagiWords changes what data is handled — for example if optional cloud sync or an AI service is added — this policy will be updated before that version is released, and any new data handling will be opt-in.
Questions about this policy or about MagiWords: malibayram20@gmail.com