Fair Use Policy

Conword is a software program designed to help people understand the content of websites.

Conword is not software for search engine optimization (SEO) or for generating multilingual content. The content generated by Conword is displayed only to the user and is not stored on the customer's CMS.

Our "Fair Use Policy" states that Conword is intended to be used precisely for these purposes. Specifically, this means that content should be translated only by users, not by bots or crawlers.

For this reason, it is prohibited to provide automatically translated content—for example, by parameterizing URLs.

Example: If you have a parameterized page, such as https://webseite.de/artikel-xy/?english, then Google (and other bots) will pick up on that as well. As a result, a very large number of pages are automatically crawled and translated. A quick calculation: With 15 languages and 15,000 subpages, this results in 225,000 page-language combinations.

Conword's business model works only as a "fair use" model. This means that not everything is translated automatically; instead, only what is specifically requested is translated.

Solution for Parameterized Pages

To allow you to still send pages in various selected languages, Conword provides its own parameter: conword_translate=[language code]

Example: https://conword.io/?conword_translate=es

When the Conword parameter is selected, a modal box (pop-up) appears in which the selected language must be confirmed. The modal box prevents bots from translating and thus prevents automatic translation.