This Privacy Policy describes how [full legal name of the operator] (“Essay Corrector,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) handles information when you visit EssayCorrector.com, use our website editor, or use our Chrome Extension and related services (together, the “Service”).
1. Who we are
The data controller or equivalent responsible operator is [full legal name], located at [registered business address and country]. For privacy questions or requests, contact [privacy contact email].
If the Service is offered through a different legal entity or changes operator, this section must be updated before that change takes effect.
2. Scope and principles
Essay Corrector is designed to correct text while respecting the writer’s meaning and personal style. The Service may process text you submit, plus the writing preferences or samples you expressly choose to use for your Writing Profile.
We aim to collect only the information needed to deliver, secure, and support the Service. The Chrome Extension should access page text only to the extent necessary for a user-facing correction action and the permissions you have granted. It is not designed to collect a general browsing history or monitor unrelated activity.
Some website examples describe a concept or planned feature. A feature that has not been released should not collect or process data. This policy must be updated before new data practices or features go live.
3. Data we process
Account and contact information
If account features are available, we may process your email address, account identifier, authentication-related information, account settings, and messages you send to support.
Text you choose to correct
When you submit text for correction, we process that text and the instructions required to return a result. Text can contain personal information, confidential details, or information about other people. Please submit only information you have the right to share with the Service.
Writing Profile information
If you choose to enable personalization, we may process your selected writing samples, explicit preferences, and derived style characteristics such as preferred formality, sentence length, directness, and recurring language preferences. The profile is intended to guide correction, not to infer unrelated traits about you.
Technical and usage information
To operate and protect the Service, we may process request timestamps, feature/action type, word or token counts, response status, error diagnostics, IP address, browser and device details, and security logs. We should avoid recording the actual text of your essay in routine diagnostic logs unless necessary for a specific, disclosed support or security purpose.
Payment information
If paid plans become available, a payment provider may process payment details and transaction information. The provider and its role will be identified at checkout. We do not intend to store full payment-card numbers or security codes on our own servers.
4. How we use data
Depending on which features you use, information may be processed to:
- provide text correction and return the requested result;
- apply the Writing Profile and preferences you choose to enable;
- operate your account, enforce usage limits, and administer a subscription or credit balance;
- secure the Service, prevent abuse, troubleshoot errors, and maintain reliability;
- respond to support requests and important service notices;
- comply with legal obligations and resolve disputes.
Where applicable, our legal bases may include performing a contract with you, taking steps at your request, our legitimate interests in securing and maintaining the Service, compliance with legal obligations, and your consent for optional processing such as a voluntary Writing Profile sample or non-essential cookies. Where consent is the basis, you may withdraw it at any time; withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before it.
5. AI processing and providers
To produce a correction, the text you submit and relevant instructions or Writing Profile information may be sent to our AI infrastructure provider, currently planned to use OpenRouter, and to the model provider selected to fulfil your request. The actual providers and their applicable data-processing terms must be confirmed before launch.
Provider disclosure to complete before launch: [list each active AI gateway and underlying model provider, its role, relevant privacy terms, processing locations, retention settings, and whether submitted data may be used for model improvement]. A provider may process information under its own terms or under an agreement with us, depending on the configured service.
Our intended product principle is that correction content is used to fulfil your request and is not sold or used by Essay Corrector to build advertising profiles. Before launch, we must verify and configure provider settings and contracts to match any promise about provider retention or model training. We will disclose material exceptions rather than imply that every third-party provider has identical practices.
For the Chrome Extension, our intended handling is limited to the extension’s disclosed purpose: correcting text and applying writing preferences you chose to share. We do not sell extension user data, use it for targeted advertising, or transfer it to data brokers. Any third-party transfer must be necessary to provide the correction, secure the Service, comply with law, or otherwise be expressly disclosed and legally permitted.
6. When data is shared
We may disclose the minimum information needed to the following categories of recipients:
- Hosting and infrastructure providers that operate our servers, database, security, and backups;
- AI processing providers needed to generate requested corrections;
- Payment providers that process purchases, subscriptions, refunds, or fraud checks, if billing is available;
- Support or security providers where needed to maintain the Service;
- Authorities or other parties where disclosure is required by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, and security.
We do not sell personal information. We do not share text or Writing Profile information with advertising platforms for targeted advertising. If the business is reorganized, sold, or merged, any transfer of personal information will be handled in accordance with applicable law and any consent or notice required in the circumstances.
7. Retention and deletion
We keep information only for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, subject to legal, security, and accounting requirements. The exact retention periods must be confirmed against the live implementation:
- Correction text: the initial product design is to process text to return the requested result and not retain the text as a default permanent history. If a saved-history feature is introduced, it must be opt-in and separately described.
- Writing Profile: retained while personalization remains enabled or until you delete the profile or account, subject to a short period for deletion to propagate through backups.
- Technical and security logs: [insert retention period and deletion schedule].
- Account and support records: retained while needed to provide the Service and handle related issues.
- Billing and tax records: retained for the period required by applicable accounting and tax laws.
- Backups: [insert backup retention period and deletion process].
To request deletion, contact [privacy contact email] or use the account controls when available. We will explain if any information must be retained by law and restrict it to the required purpose.
8. Cookies and technical data
The website may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for functions such as maintaining a secure session, authentication, protecting forms, and remembering essential settings. The Chrome Extension may store local settings needed for its operation.
Non-essential analytics, advertising cookies, or similar tracking should not be enabled unless they are disclosed here and any legally required consent is obtained. Before launch, add a complete list of actual cookies and technologies, their purposes, providers, and lifetimes—or state clearly that no such technologies are used.
9. International transfers
Our hosting, AI, or payment providers may process information in countries other than the one where you live. Before launch, we will identify relevant processing locations and implement any safeguards required by applicable law, such as an adequacy decision or approved contractual safeguards where appropriate.
10. Your rights and choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request access to your personal information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, a portable copy, or to object to certain processing. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent. You may also have the right to complain to a relevant data-protection authority.
You should be able to review, change, pause, or reset your Writing Profile when that feature is available. You can also choose not to provide optional writing samples. To exercise a privacy right, contact [privacy contact email]. We may ask for information needed to verify your request and will respond within the period required by applicable law.
11. Security
We intend to use appropriate technical and organizational safeguards, including HTTPS for data in transit, access controls, secure secret management, limited access to production systems, and appropriate protection for stored information. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure; please avoid submitting passwords, payment-card details, or information you are not authorized to share.
12. Children
The Service is not intended to be used in a way that violates age or consent requirements applicable to you. Where applicable law requires parent or guardian consent for a child’s data, that consent must be obtained before the relevant data is collected or processed. If you believe a child has provided personal information in breach of these rules, contact [privacy contact email] so we can assess and address the request.
13. Policy changes
We may update this policy when our practices, products, or legal obligations change. We will update the “Last updated” date and, when required, provide additional notice or seek consent for material changes before applying them.
14. Contact
For questions, requests, or concerns about this policy, contact:
[Full legal name of operator]
[Registered business address and country]
Privacy contact: [privacy contact email]
Publication checklist: replace all bracketed placeholders; confirm the controller and jurisdiction; document each hosting, payment, and AI subprocessor; set retention periods; verify provider model-training settings; inventory cookies and extension permissions; and make the published copy match the deployed Service.