Privacy
In short
You can read everything here without telling me anything. No accounts, no cookies, no ads and no tracking across sites. Beyond the request logs every website has, the only personal data I keep is what you choose to send me: a report, or an email.
Who is responsible
ReadSuda is run by Rick Lithan (TODO: legal name), from TODO: country, as a one-person, non-commercial project. I decide what the site collects and I’m the one to ask about it: [email protected].
What I collect, and why
Reports
When you send a report, I store what you typed, the kind of problem you picked, the entry or address it is about, the time, and when that entry was last copied from Suda On Line. Your email, if you give one, is used only to reply to you or credit you, and is deleted when I close the report. I don’t store your IP address, browser details or anything else about your visit with it. If the report is about SOL’s translation, I pass its text on to SOL’s editors, without your email. Why: you asked me to look into something.
To stop floods of spam and exact repeats, the site keeps a count and a short fingerprint of each recent report in memory (not its text, and not who sent it), and forgets them within ten minutes.
If you write to [email protected], I get your message and your address, and keep them as long as the conversation is useful. The address forwards to my own inbox through TODO: forwarding service, and the mail is stored with TODO: mailbox provider. Why: you wrote to me.
Request logs
Like every website, the services that carry your requests see your IP address, your browser’s user agent and the address you asked for, which for a search includes the words you searched. Railway, which hosts the site, keeps this in its request logs for TODO: 7 or 30 days, by Railway plan; Cloudflare processes it to deliver pages and block floods of requests, under its own privacy policy, and doesn’t give me its logs. I only look at logs to fix problems. Why: a legitimate interest in running a reliable, secure site.
Error reports
When a page fails on the server, the site sends Sentry the error, the page’s address without its query (so never your search) and the version of the site. Nothing about you: no IP address, browser details or cookies. Sentry keeps these for 30 days. Why: a legitimate interest in fixing broken pages.
Page-view counts
TODO: confirm Cloudflare Web Analytics is switched on I count page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which Cloudflare adds to pages as a small script. It sets no cookies, stores nothing on your device and doesn’t follow you across sites; I see totals (pages, countries, referrers), never individual visitors. Why: a legitimate interest in knowing roughly how the site is used.
Your reading preferences
Text size, theme and Greek font, if you change them, are saved in your own browser (local storage) and never sent to me. Clear your browser’s site data to remove them.
What I don’t collect
- No accounts, logins or profiles.
- No cookies, and no cookie banner, because there is nothing to consent to.
- No ads, no tracking pixels, no cross-site tracking.
- No record of your searches. The site doesn’t log them. For speed, it keeps recent search results in server memory, not linked to anyone, until newer ones push them out or the server restarts.
- Share buttons are plain links: nothing is sent to a social network unless you click one, and then that network’s own policy applies.
Who handles it
These services process data for ReadSuda. Each has its own privacy policy and a data processing agreement.
- Railway (EU West region; a US company) hosts the site and its database, including reports, and keeps its request and server logs. Privacy policy · Data processing agreement
- Cloudflare (global network; a US company) runs the domain’s DNS and the network in front of the site (caching, blocking floods of requests). Privacy policy · Data processing agreement
- Sentry (EU data region; a US company) receives reports of server errors, which carry no reader data. Privacy policy · Data processing agreement
All three are companies based in the United States, and Cloudflare’s network spans the world, so your data may be processed outside the EU. Each one’s data processing agreement includes the EU’s standard contractual clauses for such transfers; Cloudflare and Sentry are also certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. The text of translation reports that I pass on goes to Suda On Line’s editors, whose project is hosted in the United States (at the University of Kentucky).
How long it is kept
- Report emails: deleted when the report is closed.
- Report text: kept while it is useful for fixing the site or correcting a translation.
- Emails to [email protected]: as long as the conversation is useful; ask and I’ll delete them.
- Railway request and server logs: TODO: 7 or 30 days, by Railway plan.
- Sentry error reports: 30 days.
- Cloudflare: as its privacy policy says; I have no access to its request logs.
Your rights
You can ask me what I hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, or object to how I use it. Write to [email protected] and say which report or email it’s about; I’ll answer within a month. If you think I’ve got it wrong, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live or work (in the EU, the list of authorities).
Last updated 27 October 2026.