Privacy policy
Last updated: October 29, 2026
Plotty is a writing companion for a young novelist who writes in Google Docs. It's a private family project. This page explains, in plain language, what Plotty stores, why, and what you can do about it. Questions: hello@getplotty.com.
Who uses Plotty
Plotty is used by a minor, with a parent's supervision and consent. It is not a public service and isn't offered to the general public.
Signing in with Google
You sign in with your Google account. Plotty asks Google for only these permissions:
- openid, email, profile: your name, email address and Google account ID, so Plotty knows who you are.
- drive.file: access to only the specific Google Docs you pick in the Google Picker. Plotty can't see, list or open anything else in your Google Drive.
What Plotty stores
- Your name, email address and Google account ID.
- For each Doc you pick: its title, its link, and its text. Plotty keeps the latest text to count your words and work out your streak, and (later) for the story-help features.
- How many words you added each day, which is your streak, and your time zone, so "today" means your today.
- A Google sign-in token that lets Plotty keep reading your picked Docs while you're away. It's encrypted before it's stored.
- Short technical logs (for example, which page was requested and whether it worked). They never contain your writing.
Plotty has no ads, no analytics and no tracking cookies.
Where it's stored
On our own server, which we rent from a hosting company (Hostinger), reached only over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). Backups are encrypted with a key that isn't kept on that server, and are deleted after at most 90 days.
Who we share it with
Your information and your writing are never sold, never used for advertising, and never shared, except:
- Google, to sign you in and to read the Docs you picked.
- An AI provider (Anthropic), once the story-help features are built: the text of your story may be sent to it solely to create feedback for you. The AI providers we use don't train their models on this data.
- If the law requires it.
Google user data
Plotty's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Your choices
- Unlink a Doc in Plotty at any time; its stored text is deleted.
- Delete your account and data: email hello@getplotty.com and we'll delete it. Encrypted backups age out within 90 days.
- Revoke Plotty's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.