What we do with your work.

The short version

• Your manuscript is never used to train AI to write. Not by us, and not by the companies whose models we use.
• Nobody reads it unless you say so. No agent, no publisher, no other author. Sharing is off by default and stays off until you turn it on, one party at a time.
• It is encrypted while we hold it, and every access is logged.
• You can delete it whenever you like, from the link in your email. You do not have to ask us or explain.
• We do not track you. No analytics, no advertising pixels, no cookies on this site today.

The rest of this page is the detail behind those five lines.

What we collect

From you: your email address, the title, your name if you give it, and the manuscript file itself. That is the whole list. We do not ask for an address, a phone number, or a date of birth, because we do not need them.

From the evaluation: the scores, the written report, and internal records of which models were used and what they cost us. These are about the book, not about you.

Automatically: nothing beyond the ordinary server records any website keeps to stay online and stop abuse. There is no analytics service on this site, no advertising pixel, and no cookie set by us. The pages load a typeface from Google Fonts, which means Google's servers see the IP address of anyone loading a page here — that is the only third party the site itself contacts.

If we ever add advertising or analytics, this section changes first and we will say so.

What happens to your manuscript

When you upload, the file is encrypted immediately and stored that way. The evaluation reads it, produces scores and a report, and the report is what you receive.

It goes to AI models — under a restriction we set on every request

We do not run our own models. Reading your book means sending it to AI providers. On every single request we set the flag that forbids the provider from keeping your text or training on it, and we route only to providers that honour it. That is set per request, not left to a default and not assumed from a signup page.

We deliberately do not name the providers here. We change them — when a better model appears, when one gets slower, when one gets more expensive — and a privacy policy that has to be rewritten every time we switch is a policy that will drift out of date. The commitment is the part that does not change: whoever we use is barred from retaining your work or training on it, and if a provider will not accept that, we do not use them.

It is never shown to a person without your say-so

Not to an agent, not to a publisher, not to another author. Marketplace visibility is off by default. If you turn it on, you choose whether that means specific agents or every subscribing agent in your category — and an agent who wants your contact details has to ask, which creates a record you can see.

Our own staff access is limited to running the evaluation, handling a support request you have raised, and checking the system is scoring consistently. Every access is written to a log.

Why we keep it, and for how long

We keep your manuscript in encrypted storage after the evaluation. We would rather explain why than quietly do it.

A score is only worth something if it means the same thing in six months as it does today. Checking that requires re-running books we have already scored whenever the system changes — otherwise we are asking you to trust a number we have not tested. Held manuscripts are what make that possible. They are used to check our scoring. They are not used to teach an AI to write. Those are different activities and we treat them as different.

We keep it until you delete it. There is no fixed expiry, and no point at which it quietly becomes ours.

Deleting your work

There are two different things you might want, and they are not the same.

Delete the manuscript

This destroys the file. Use the link in any email we have sent you. The encrypted object is removed from storage and cannot be recovered by us or by anyone else. Your score, your report and your marketplace listing survive, because none of them contain your text.

If you ask while an evaluation is running, we finish the evaluation and then delete the file. Destroying it mid-run would leave you with no assessment and a failure that looks like ours. If you would rather we stopped and deleted it immediately, email us and we will.

Erase everything

This is the larger one: your account, your email, your scores, your reports, your listings and your manuscript, all removed. Write to cathy@readiculous.ai and ask for full erasure. We do not put this behind a one-click button, because people click it and mean the smaller thing.

Two things survive full erasure, and you should know what they are:

• An anonymous outcome row — a genre, a score band, and whether it cleared. No title, no name, no text, nothing that points back to you. This is what keeps our published clear rate honest; if erased books vanished from the statistics, the rate would quietly drift upward every time someone left.
• A record that the erasure happened, identified by a one-way fingerprint of your email rather than the address itself. We can prove we honoured your request without keeping the thing you asked us to forget.

Your rights

Depending on where you live — the UK and EU under GDPR, California under the CCPA, and a growing number of other places — you have rights over your data. We extend all of them to everyone, because operating two standards is how mistakes happen.

• See what we hold. Ask, and we will send it.
• Correct it. Wrong email, wrong name, wrong title — we will fix it.
• Delete it. Either kind, described above.
• Take it with you. We will export your scores and reports in a readable format.
• Object. If you object to us holding your manuscript for consistency checking, say so and we will delete it and keep evaluating for you regardless.
• Complain. To us first, we hope. If that fails, to your data protection authority — in the UK, the ICO.

One request, one address: cathy@readiculous.ai. We aim to answer within a few days and are required to within a month.

The things a policy usually leaves out

• We do not sell your data. There is no arrangement under which anyone pays us for it, and there will not be one.
• Submitting transfers no rights. Your work is yours. Nothing here gives us a licence to publish, adapt or exploit it. We are being paid to assess it, not to acquire it.
• We are a beta. If this company were ever sold or wound up, your manuscript would not be treated as an asset to be handed over. We would give you notice and the chance to delete first.
• The score is a judgement, not a fact. It is produced by software and can be wrong. It is not a promise that anyone will represent or publish your book.