Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 1, 2023

Welcome to HumanWroteIt. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how HumanWroteIt collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up for our service, purchase a subscription, or use our text humanization tools.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

Controller

HumanWroteIt is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "HumanWroteIt", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy policy).

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data includes email address.
  • Financial Data includes payment card details. Note that we do not store complete payment information as payments are processed by our third-party payment processors.
  • Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your preferences, and feedback.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and services.
  • Content Data includes the text you submit to our service for humanization.

Special Categories of Personal Data

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions

You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

  • Create an account on our website;
  • Subscribe to our service;
  • Request marketing to be sent to you;
  • Submit text for humanization;
  • Give us feedback or contact us.

Automated technologies or interactions

As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data:

  • To register you as a new customer
  • To process and deliver your service including:
    • Managing payments, fees, and charges
    • Collecting and recovering money owed to us
  • To manage our relationship with you which will include:
    • Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
    • Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
  • To administer and protect our business and this website
  • To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
  • To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
  • To process your text submissions for humanization

Content Data and AI Processing

When you submit text to our service for humanization, we process this content using our AI models. Here's how we handle your Content Data:

  • Your submitted text is processed by our AI models to transform it into more human-like writing.
  • We do not use your submitted text to train our AI models unless you explicitly opt-in to allow this.
  • We store your submitted text and the resulting humanized text for a limited period to provide the service and for troubleshooting purposes.
  • You retain all ownership rights to both your original submitted text and the humanized output.

5. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out in section 4 above.

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers.
  • Regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
  • Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

6. International Transfers

We may transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe.
  • Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe and the US.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see your legal rights below for further information.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

No Fee Usually Required

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

10. Children's Privacy

Our service is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal data to the website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any screen name or user name you may use.

If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us.

11. Academic Integrity

HumanWroteIt is designed to help users improve their writing by transforming AI-generated text into more natural, human-like writing. We encourage all users to use our service ethically and in accordance with their institution's academic integrity policies. Users are responsible for properly citing sources and using our service in a manner consistent with academic honesty.

12. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Email: privacy@humanwroteit.com