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This is what the law actually requires.

"…concise, easily accessible and easy to understand, using clear and plain language." GDPR, Article 12(1)

Burn the
legalese.

Burn the worst policy paragraph, training sentence, or privacy notice clause you've ever had to read. You'll feel better for it.

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How to burn your legalese

1 — Paste the offending text in this box:

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2 — Pick a voice for the translation:

Same text, different voice. All five use the same EU-hosted model, and none of them represents legal advice.

3 — Translate (optional)

4 — Burn it

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Storing anything on your device — not just cookies — needs your permission under the ePrivacy rules, unless it is strictly necessary for what you actually asked for.

We could have argued that keeping your burns is strictly necessary and said nothing. We do not think that is true: the burn works perfectly without it, so keeping them is a convenience, not a necessity. So we ask. No answer means nothing is kept.

This panel reads your own browser directly. Other things running in your browser, extensions in particular, can also write to this site’s storage and read what is there, and we can neither see nor prevent that.

Where your text goes

Nothing you paste here reaches our server. What you burn stays in this browser, on this device. We keep no account, no database and no backup of anything you paste — there is nothing on our side to look at.

Asking for a rewrite in any voice is the exception, and the only time anything you paste leaves your device. That text is sent to a language model hosted in the EU by Hetzner, who also host this site, and the result comes straight back to you. Hetzner’s experimental platform states that usage and telemetry data may be collected for evaluation; I have asked Hetzner to confirm whether this extends to the text submitted and am awaiting their reply. Please paste legalese only — no personal data, yours or anyone else’s.

If you did ask us to keep your burns, they are cleared on your first visit after midnight. Clearing your browser data wipes them immediately.

Visit counts. This site uses self-hosted Plausible Analytics, running on my own hardware. It counts visits and records approximate country, device type and referrer. No cookies are used and no persistent identifier is created. Your IP address is not stored — it is used only to derive country, then discarded. I can see aggregate numbers; I cannot see who you are or what you pasted.

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Tim Clements, Purpose and Means

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