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unwritten: privacy notice

Version 1, 1 November 2026

This says what unwrittenmind.com keeps about you, what the unwritten app sends, and what you can ask for. unwritten is made by Michael, who decides how this information is used. If you have a question or a request, write to michael@unwrittenmind.com.

Your writing

Your books stay on your computer. unwritten never sends them to me, and unwrittenmind.com never has them.

What the app sends

Once a day, unwritten asks unwrittenmind.com whether there's a new version. Only which system your computer runs goes with it and, like any visit to a website, the internet address it comes from. You can turn this off in Settings.

If you sign in, the app also checks your plan once a day. It sends the name you gave this computer, which system it is, unwritten's version, and codes that let the site recognise this computer.

It never sends any book, chapter, canon or file name, your AI keys or conversations, word counts, how long you write, or anything about what you do in the app.

AI services

When you use the assistant or the AI helpers, the text they need goes straight from your computer to the AI service you connected. That service's own privacy policy applies. unwritten doesn't supply the AI and never sees what you send. Your AI keys are kept in your computer's own keyring.

If you keep a book online, it goes to your own private place on GitHub or GitLab, under their policies. A web page you paste a link to is read from the web.

What the site keeps

  • Your account: your email address, your name if you give one, and your password, stored so that no one can read it. If you sign in with Google, Google tells the site your email address and an account number, and the site never sees your Google password.
  • Your computers: each computer you sign in, with the details the app sends (above), and when it last checked; and, when you approve a computer, the internet address you approved it from, kept in your account's history.
  • Your plan: your Pro invitation and its dates, and the record of the plan each computer is given.
  • When you agreed to these terms: which version, and when.
  • Feedback: what you send, the replies, and, if you choose to include them, which computer, system and version it's about.
  • If you asked to hear from me (email updates or release emails): your email address and which systems interest you.
  • Signing in: a short description of your browser for each signed-in session, so you can see where you're signed in.
  • The site's logs: like every website, the server records visits, including the internet address they came from. These are kept for security and to fix problems.

Why

  • To run your account, your computers and your plan, which is what you asked for when you made the account.
  • To keep the site and its plans safe from misuse, and to fix problems.
  • To send email updates and release emails, only if you said yes.

Emails

The site sends the emails your account needs: confirming your address, signing in, security, and replies to your feedback. Email updates and release emails go only to people who asked for them, and every one has a link to stop them.

Cookies

The site uses cookies only to work: one that keeps you signed in, and keeps a form safe while you sign in or fill it in; and, if you tick "Remember", cookies that keep you signed in for 30 days. Pages for reading, such as the home page and the blog, set no cookie. There are no analytics, tracking or advertising cookies.

Who else handles it

A few companies help run the site and handle information only to do that:

  • DigitalOcean, which hosts the site's server, in London;
  • Brevo, which sends the site's emails;
  • Cloudflare, which carries the site's address, and stores the downloads and the site's backups;
  • Google, only if you sign in with Google.

Some of them may handle information outside the UK. Where they do, they use the safeguards the law requires. Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared for advertising.

How long it's kept

  • Your account, computers, plan and feedback: while your account exists.
  • The site's logs: 30 days.
  • When you ask for your account to be removed, it's switched off straight away and kept for 30 days in case you change your mind, then deleted. Copies in the site's backups are deleted as those backups expire, within a further 30 days, and are never used to bring an account back.
  • If the site closes, accounts and what the site keeps may be deleted (the terms say more).

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of what the site keeps about you, have it corrected, or have your account removed (how long that takes is under "How long it's kept"). You can also object to how it's used, or ask for it in a form you can take elsewhere. Write to michael@unwrittenmind.com. Removing your account doesn't touch your writing, which is on your computer, and Free keeps working.

If you're unhappy with how your information is handled, please tell me first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Age

You need to be 18 or over to make an account.

Changes

Each version of this notice has a number and a date, and earlier versions stay readable on unwrittenmind.com. If something important changes, I'll tell account holders by email.