Terminotix, makers of the LogiTerm TM tool and (more to the point) the excellent alignment engine AlignFactory, launched this free web service a few months ago. It uses the same algorithms as AlignFactory, which will also be included with the 2010 update of LogiTerm.
There's probably no better alignment tool on the market. In the free version you can't edit the bitexts, but for rough-and-ready alignment it can't be beat.
And what happens to the files you just aligned on the Terminotix servers? Back in August when the service launched, the Canadian company's (excellent) customer service said "All files are deleted as soon as you close YouAlign. We will soon be indicating that procedure on the Web site so that our clients know what happens to the files." Sure enough, tucked away in the sign-up page, the privacy policy now says this in black and white, so there's every reason to trust them not to feed our confidential data into the mother of all translation memories... or sell it to Google!
That's right John, Terminotix does not keep any original or aligned files and has no intention to change that policy. YouAlign is a free service with no hidden agenda, except maybe to have its products better known, but that is certainly clear when accessing the YouAlign site.
ReplyDeleteWhat the Privacy Policy says on that subject is "[...] Please note that all source, target and aligned files are deleted when you log out of YouAlign [...]".
Micheline