Privacy Policy

Last updated September 17, 2026

This page describes, in plain language, what happens to text you submit through the scan tool on this site. It doesn't cover anything else -- if we add accounts, newsletters, or other features later, we'll update this page to match.

What happens to the text you submit

When you paste text into the scan box and click Scan, your browser sends that text to our backend server over HTTPS. The server holds it in memory only for as long as it takes to run the detectors and build a response -- typically a few seconds. Once that response is sent back to your browser, the text is gone from our server. We don't write it to a database, a log file, or any other form of storage; we checked the code that handles this request to confirm that before writing this page.

Your browser doesn't hold onto it either. We don't use cookies, localStorage, or any other browser storage to remember text you've pasted or results you've seen. Refresh the page and it's gone.

Which detectors actually see your text

Not every detector shown in your results handles your text the same way:

• Runs entirely on our own server, never leaves it: our fine-tuned classifier and our two statistical detectors (log-perplexity and log-rank) are self-hosted models. Your text is processed locally and is never transmitted anywhere for these three.
• Sent to a third party: Sapling (sapling.ai). When Sapling is configured, we send your submitted text directly to Sapling's AI-detection API over HTTPS so it can return a score. That transmission is subject to Sapling's own privacy practices, which we don't control.
• Named, but not currently connected: GPTZero and ZeroGPT are part of this tool's planned detector lineup, but as of this writing neither is wired up to make any API call. Submitting text never sends it to GPTZero or ZeroGPT right now -- both simply report back “not connected yet” without any network request happening. We'll update this policy before that changes.

What we don't do

We don't require an account, we don't run analytics or tracking scripts on this site, and we don't sell or share submitted text with anyone beyond the detector described above. This is a small audit tool, not an ad-supported product.

Changes to this policy

If we connect GPTZero, ZeroGPT, or any other new detector, or otherwise change how text is handled, we'll update this page before that change goes live.