TextLantern legal
Privacy Policy
· Last updated October 4, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how TextLantern (“TextLantern,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) processes information when you use our Discord translation application, website, Discord Activity, account, support channels, or one-time digital translation packs (together, the “Service”). It is a product description, not a promise that any particular legal regime applies to every user.
- Operator
- L, the operator of TextLantern
- Privacy contact
- support@textlantern.com
1. Scope and roles
TextLantern is an independent application that works with Discord. Discord remains a separate platform and controls its own accounts, content, policies, and privacy practices. Your use of Discord is also subject to Discord’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and, for the application integration, the Discord Developer Terms and Developer Policy.
A server administrator decides whether to install TextLantern and which server text channels to enable. The administrator is responsible for having authority to make that choice and for giving server members any notice or obtaining any consent required by applicable law. We do not ask an administrator to hand us Discord passwords or payment-card numbers.
Some information is processed by providers on our behalf, and some providers act under their own terms or as an independent controller. The applicable provider’s notice may give you additional rights or explain processing that TextLantern cannot control.
2. Information we process
We limit collection to what is needed to measure public website visits and access interest, authenticate a server administrator, operate the translation flow, measure paid usage, protect the Service, provide support, and meet legal or accounting obligations.
| Category | Examples and use |
|---|---|
| Discord identity and access | Your Discord account and profile details, server and channel identifiers, permissions, installation status, and temporary sign-in information. We use these to sign you in, show the servers you can manage, and protect access to your settings. |
| Configuration and usage | Your channel and language settings, trial and purchase information, account balance, translation usage, and records used to identify requests and resolve errors. |
| Message and translation data | Text from a new message in a channel that the administrator enabled or a message you select for personal translation, language-detection metadata, requested target language, and the resulting translation. This is used to provide the requested Discord reply or private interaction response. |
| Billing and transaction data | Waffo Pancake may receive checkout, tax, payment, invoice, refund, and chargeback information. TextLantern may receive transaction, customer, pack, character count, balance, status, currency, and event identifiers needed to grant, adjust, or remove a character balance. TextLantern does not ask for or store the full payment-card number. |
| Technical and support data | Hosting and payment providers may handle request timestamps, IP addresses, and security signals. We process messages you send to support. |
3. Discord Message Content
We use message text to provide the translation you request or the automatic translation enabled for a channel. If a message we have already processed is edited, we may update its translation. We may retrieve the current message from Discord when you request another language. We do not scan historical messages for edits.
Discord. We receive the message to be translated from Discord.
TextLantern. We use your selected languages and settings to prepare the translation.
Translation provider. The source text and requested target language are sent to a third-party machine-translation service to generate the requested translation.
Discord. You receive the translation in Discord. Translations do not trigger mention notifications.
Message text and translations are used for short-term processing, not kept as a permanent conversation archive. Source text may be held for up to 15 minutes while a translation request is being processed. Our application logs and error reports do not include original messages or translations. We keep limited usage and processing records to operate the service and avoid duplicate charges. Discord, our hosting provider, and our translation provider may retain records under their own policies.
We do not scan historical messages or automatically translate Discord direct messages. We process direct-message or group-chat text only when you explicitly request a supported personal translation. We do not process voice or OCR input or use Message Content to train a TextLantern or third-party machine-learning model. Discord’s Developer Policy separately prohibits using message content obtained through its APIs to train AI models unless Discord gives express permission.
Site analytics
We measure pages, broad referral sources, language, fixed tool actions and active page time to improve this website. A random temporary identifier is stored in the current tab. These analytics do not collect typed content, files, Discord messages, credentials, email addresses, account identifiers or URL query parameters.
We respect your browser’s Global Privacy Control signal. Events pass through Cloudflare to servers we manage. There is currently no automatic deletion schedule for these records. For questions or deletion requests, contact support@textlantern.com.
4. Purposes and legal bases
Depending on your location and the context, we may rely on contract performance or steps requested before a contract, your consent where required, legitimate interests such as security and service operation, and legal or accounting obligations. We do not rely on one legal basis for every user.
- Authenticate a Discord administrator, verify Manage Server access, and save channel and language configuration.
- Translate messages, return the results, and avoid repeating the same translation request.
- Measure character usage, administer the one-time 300-character trial and one-time translation packs, reconcile Waffo Pancake transaction events, and enforce character-balance limits.
- Prevent fraud, unauthorized access, abuse, security incidents, and violations of Discord or Service rules.
- Provide support, investigate failures using sanitized operational data, communicate about the account or character balance, and respond to legal requests.
- Produce aggregated or de-identified operational statistics. We do not use original Message Content for advertising profiles or model training.
5. Providers and international transfers
We use the following providers to deliver the service. Each provider handles information as described below and in its own privacy notice.
- Discord. Discord provides your account, messages, and server features. Discord’s own terms and privacy notice apply to its processing.
- Cloudflare. Cloudflare helps us host, deliver, and protect the service. It may process technical and security information in the regions where it operates.
- Translation provider. A third-party machine-translation service receives the source text and requested target language needed to produce a translation. Its service terms, privacy notice, model configuration, processing locations, and technical retention controls may apply.
- Waffo Pancake. Waffo Pancake provides checkout for one-time translation-pack purchases and, where identified in the checkout record, acts as Merchant of Record or authorized reseller. Waffo Pancake handles payment method data, tax and transaction records, and the workflow for eligible refunds and chargebacks under its buyer terms and refund policy.
These providers may process information outside your country. The applicable location, transfer mechanism, notice, and safeguards depend on the provider, your location, and the law that applies to the transfer. We do not claim that any transfer mechanism is available in every jurisdiction; we will apply the measures required for the offering and processing at issue.
6. Retention and deletion
- Message Content. Original text is used to complete translation requests and may be held for up to 15 minutes during processing. We do not keep a permanent copy of your messages or include them in application logs. Providers may retain limited records under their own policies.
- Translations. We may briefly retain a translation to avoid repeating the same work. We do not maintain a permanent translation archive.
- Configuration and usage. We retain settings, account and message identifiers, selected languages, character balances, usage records, and error information for as long as needed to run the service, provide support, prevent abuse, and keep accurate accounts. Valid purchased characters do not expire; the related balance record is retained while needed for these purposes.
- Payments. Waffo Pancake and TextLantern may retain transaction, tax, pack, refund, and chargeback records for the periods required for payment operations, fraud prevention, tax, accounting, disputes, and law.
- Sessions and support. Login/session records are short-lived or retained only as needed for account security. Support correspondence is kept for the time needed to answer the request and protect our legal or operational interests.
A server administrator can disable a channel, uninstall the Bot, or ask us to remove the server’s configuration and operational metadata. Deletion may not remove a copy held by Discord, Waffo Pancake, a provider, a lawful backup, or a regulator. We may retain a limited transaction or translation record when necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, prevent fraud, or comply with law.
7. Choices and rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of personal information, withdraw consent, and complain to a competent authority. These rights are not absolute and may have exceptions. We will verify a request before acting and may ask for the server ID, Discord account information, transaction ID, or other information reasonably needed to locate the record.
- For Discord account, server, channel, or Message Content questions, contact us at support@textlantern.com and consider asking the server administrator to disable TextLantern or remove the Bot.
- For a Waffo Pancake charge, receipt, pack, or payment-method request, use the “View receipt” link in the Waffo Pancake email, or contact Waffo Pancake through Waffo Pancake portal. Do not email a full card number, password, access token, or other secret.
- If you act for a server or organization, make sure you have authority to submit a request about its configuration and usage records.
We will respond within the period required by applicable law, or explain if additional time or information is needed. If a request concerns data controlled by Discord, Cloudflare, our translation provider, or Waffo Pancake, we may direct you to that provider or coordinate where appropriate.
8. Security, children, and changes
Security
We use access checks, short-lived sessions, secret management, least-privilege server configuration, signed requests where applicable, and separate operational records from Message Content. No online service can promise that every transmission or system will always be secure. Tell us promptly at support@textlantern.com if you believe an account, server configuration, or personal information has been accessed without authorization.
Age and sensitive information
TextLantern is not directed to people below the minimum age required by Discord or the law where they live. Do not intentionally submit passwords, payment-card data, government identifiers, health information, or other highly sensitive information to a Discord channel for translation. Server administrators must not use the Service to bypass Discord safety, privacy, or age controls.
Changes
We may update this Policy when the Service, providers, legal requirements, or processing purposes change. We will post the new version and update the effective date. If a change requires notice or consent under applicable law, we will use the method required for that change.
Contact and governing context
Questions, access requests, deletion requests, and privacy complaints may be sent to support@textlantern.com. The operator is L. Mandatory laws and non-waivable privacy or consumer rights that apply to you remain unaffected.