Privacy policy

Account details

EXAMPLESYour email address and name

WHYTo sign you in, send your sign-in codes, and contact you about your account

Your writing

EXAMPLESOne-offs, projects, cards, columns, titles, labels, and earlier versions

WHYTo store it and show it back to you. Nothing else

Writing activity

EXAMPLESWhen a writing session started and ended, which document, and word counts at the start and end (not the text)

WHYYour writing goals, calendar, and progress

Settings

EXAMPLESTheme, font, daily goal, and editor preferences

WHYTo keep the app the way you set it

Sign-in history

EXAMPLESDevice and browser type, IP address, and approximate city, region, and country of each visit

WHYTo show you your sign-ins, let you sign out other devices, and protect your account

Workspace records

EXAMPLESMembers, roles, invites, and a log of workspace actions

WHYTo run shared workspaces

Billing details

EXAMPLESPlan, seats, payment history, and your card’s brand, last four digits, and expiry. Our payment processor holds the card itself, never us

WHYTo bill workspace owners

Waitlist

EXAMPLESYour email and what you’re most excited about

WHYTo tell you when Pubsworth opens

Public site visits

EXAMPLESPages viewed, time read, scroll depth, referrer, and a visitor code that changes every day. Your IP address is used to make that code and isn’t stored

WHYTo see how the public site is doing

Support messages

EXAMPLESWhat you send us

WHYTo help you

We don’t collect your contacts or anything from other apps.

• We never use it to train AI or machine learning models, and we never let anyone else do so.
• We don’t sell it, rent it, license it, or use it for advertising.
• Pubsworth has no AI features, so your writing is never sent to an AI model.
• We don’t scan, filter, or moderate it.
• We don’t read it, except when you ask us to help with something specific, or when the law requires it (below).

The screens we use to run Pubsworth show statistics (how many documents, how many words), never the text itself.

• You.
• Your workspace’s owner and admins, in a workspace you’ve joined. They can export every member’s writing in that workspace. If an owner or admin removes you, they choose which member receives your writing there, and if you leave, it goes to the owner. If they deactivate you, your writing there stays under your name, and nobody else receives it.

Other members of a workspace can’t read your writing. Nothing is shared with them unless you choose to share a piece (sharing isn’t in Pubsworth yet, and when it arrives it will work this way). The owner and admins of one workspace can’t see anything in your other workspaces, including any workspace of your own: not its writing, its name, or that it exists.

We follow the law, and it’s the only thing that can make us hand over your data: a valid subpoena, court order, or search warrant. For your writing, it takes a court order or search warrant, nothing less. Even then, we give only what the order covers, push back when it asks for too much, and tell you first unless the law or a court forbids it.

These companies process data for us under contract, only to provide their service.

Vercel

WHAT THEY DOHosts our app and website

WHAT THEY HANDLEEverything between your device and our servers

Turso

WHAT THEY DOHosts our database

WHAT THEY HANDLEEverything we store

GitHub

WHAT THEY DOStores our backups and our code

WHAT THEY HANDLEAn encrypted copy of the database

Resend

WHAT THEY DOSends our emails

WHAT THEY HANDLEYour email address and emails we send

Cloudflare

WHAT THEY DOHelps us fight bots

WHAT THEY HANDLEYour IP address and browser details

Stripe

WHAT THEY DOProcesses payments

WHAT THEY HANDLEYour card and billing details

Google

WHAT THEY DORuns our email

WHAT THEY HANDLEEmails between you and us

None of them receive your writing for any purpose other than storing or delivering it.

• One cookie, pubsworth_session, keeps you signed in. It’s essential, so there’s no cookie banner.
• Your browser holds your edits until they reach us. Your spellcheck dictionary and small preferences (sort order, the calendar’s view) are kept there too, and stay on your device.
• If you turn on Settings › Backup folder (Chrome and Edge), a copy of your writing is saved to the folder you choose on your computer. It stays there, and we can’t see it.
• Our analytics on the public site use no cookies.
• We don’t follow you around the web. No ads, no ad trackers, no tracking pixels. Ever.

Your writing and its versions

Until you delete it. Up to 200 earlier versions per document

Writing activity

Until your account is erased

Writing you delete

Removed at once

A deleted workspace or account

90 days to restore it, then it’s gone

A workspace whose subscription lapsed

Read-only for six months, then erased, with reminders 30, seven, and one day before

Sign-in history

12 months

Signed-in devices

Until you sign out, or after 30 days unused

Sign-in codes

They work once, for 10 minutes, then they’re deleted

Billing details and payment history

Until the workspace is erased

We encrypt everything on its way to us and wherever it’s stored. You sign in with a one-time code by email, so there’s no password to steal.

• Export everything you wrote from Settings › Export my writing.
• Correct your name and email in Settings.
• Delete your account in Settings › Danger zone. We keep it for 90 days in case you want to restore it.
• See and end your sign-ins on every device, from Settings › Your sign-ins on any of them.
• Ask us for a copy of the other data we hold about you, or to delete or correct it, at support@pubsworth.com. We’ll reply within 30 days.

Depending on where you live (for example the EU, the UK, or California), you may have further rights, including to object to how we use your data or to complain to a regulator. We don’t sell or share personal information as California law defines it.

Pubsworth isn’t for anyone under 16. If you think a child has an account, tell us and we’ll delete it.

We store your data in the United States, and it stays there. If you use Pubsworth from another country, your data travels to the US to be stored, with the safeguards the law requires, such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we’ll email account holders at least 30 days before it takes effect. The promises about your writing will never be weakened for writing you’ve already stored.

The Info Lab LLC. support@pubsworth.com