Privacy & Cookies

Who is responsible

The publisher of fudami (see the legal notice) is the data controller for everything on this page. Questions and requests: [email protected]. This policy covers fudami.net, the dictionary jisho.fudami.net and the app app.fudami.net.

What we process, why, and on what basis

• Waitlist: if you join it, your email address, used only to tell you when fudami opens. Basis: your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)); ask us and it is deleted.
• Account (app): your email, and your name and profile picture if you sign in with Google, processed by our authentication provider Clerk to create and secure your account. Basis: our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b)).
• Learning progress (app, once study launches): your reviews, tied to your account ID, to show and schedule your progress. Basis: contract.
• Dictionary searches (jisho): the words you search are sent to our server to find the answer. They appear in its technical logs without your IP address, and those logs are overwritten as they rotate (30 MB at most). Basis: our legitimate interest in running and securing the dictionary (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• Technical and security data: Cloudflare processes your IP address and request metadata to deliver and protect all three sites; the app's server keeps a per-IP request counter for one hour to stop abuse. Basis: legitimate interest.
• Language poll: if you vote, we store one vote per language and a per-IP marker that expires within 24 hours to prevent duplicates. Basis: legitimate interest.

An email address is needed for the waitlist or an account; nothing else is required. We make no automated decisions about you and build no profile.

Cookies & local storage

No advertising, analytics or cross-site cookies. What we use is strictly necessary or something you asked for, so it needs no consent and we show no cookie banner:

• Security cookies set by Cloudflare on all three sites (cf_clearance, __cf_bm, _cfuvid).
• Sign-in cookies set by Clerk when you open the app (__client, __client_uat), which manage your session.
• Local storage, which stays in your browser and is never sent to us: your theme and language, your jisho search history (clear it from the search box), and Clerk's settings cache in the app.

Fonts are served from our own sites: your browser never contacts Google or any font provider.

Who processes your data

• Cloudflare, Inc. (United States): hosting of fudami.net and the app, the waitlist database, network and security for all three sites.
• Clerk, Inc. (United States): accounts and sign-in.
• Google: only if you choose to sign in with Google.

Transfers outside the EU rely on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission's standard contractual clauses in these providers' data processing terms. The dictionary runs on the publisher's own server, reached through Cloudflare. We do not sell or share your data with advertisers.

How long we keep it

• Waitlist: until fudami opens and you have been told, or until you ask us to delete it.
• Account and progress: as long as your account exists; deleted when you delete it.
• Dictionary logs: overwritten as they rotate. Request counters: one hour. Poll markers: 24 hours.
• Cloudflare security logs: as set by Cloudflare for the protection of the network.

Your rights

You can ask to access, correct, delete, restrict or receive a copy of your data, withdraw your consent, and object to processing based on our legitimate interest. Write to [email protected]; we answer within one month. You can also complain to your data protection authority, in France the CNIL. fudami accounts are not meant for children under 15.

Changes

We update this page when our practices change and revise the date above; people on the waitlist and account holders are told of significant changes by email.