Your work stays yours

Copyright in your manuscript is yours and stays yours. Sending it here grants me a licence to do one thing, which is to read it in order to produce your editorial letter. That licence ends when you delete the work or close your account.

Nothing you send is published, quoted publicly, shown to another customer, or used as an example without your explicit permission asked for separately at the time.

Producing the letter means the text of your pages goes to Anthropic's Claude model, through the tool I run on my own computer, and I read what comes back before you do. Those are the two parties that handle your text: Anthropic, whose model does the reading, and me. Nothing of mine is trained on it; there is no model of mine to train. What applies on Anthropic's side is described on the privacy page.

Me, and the systems needed to store and process it: the database and file storage (Supabase, in Frankfurt), the site itself (Vercel), and the model that reads (Anthropic). No other customer can reach your work; access is enforced by the database rather than by the application, which means a mistake in the interface cannot expose it.

Files are stored privately and can only be retrieved through short-lived links generated for you.

You can delete a manuscript at any time from your account. That cancels any read in progress on it, removes the stored copy of the text, and queues the file for removal from storage; the letters you have already received stay yours. Deleting a book removes the book, its brief, its reads, its letters and your notes on them. Ask me to remove everything and I will, including the record of the reads.

The file I export to run the reading stays on my own computer, the way a manuscript stays on an editor's desk, so that I can answer a question about the read later. There is no fixed date on which it is removed; ask me to remove it, along with everything else about you, and I will.

Encrypted backups roll on a cycle and are kept for sixty days, so deleted material can persist in one of them for that long before it ages out. It is not accessible in the meantime.

If I stop running it, you get told in advance with enough time to download everything. Your work is not an asset that gets sold with the business.