Legal notice

Letterbench, the spell checker, magnetic poetry board and word articles at broken-notebook.com, owes its readers a plain account of who publishes it, who serves its files and the rules it writes by.

Who publishes Letterbench

The company legally responsible for Letterbench is HSTART, a simplified joint-stock company (SASU) whose share capital stands at €1,599,893 and whose registered office is at 66 avenue des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris, France. It is entered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register (RCS) under number 853 093 714; its VAT number is FR77853093714. Axel Hars is the publication director.

Who serves the pages

Pages, word lists and images reach your browser through Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.

How the word articles are written

Claims about spelling history, dictionaries and algorithms are checked against dictionaries, original papers, standards documents and reference works, and those sources are linked. When usage authorities disagree, the article says so rather than declaring a winner. Letterbench does not proofread documents sent to it, sell editing services or recommend products; its two tools run in your browser and keep your text on your device.

Words, code and pictures

Articles, code samples and tile illustrations were made for Letterbench. The spell checker's word lists are derived from SCOWL and remain under SCOWL's own licence, and each photograph is credited, with its licence, on the photo credits page. Names of products and companies belong to their owners.

Not the old notebook

Letterbench is unofficial and independent. It has no link with the personal blog that used this domain around 2008–2010, with that blog's author, or with the unrelated sites that occupied the address afterwards.

Writing to Letterbench

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