Your book stays yours.
Autor has no account, no analytics, no ads and no servers. Your book stays on your devices and in the storage you connect. Nothing is sent to us.
What stays on your device
Your book folder, which you choose and can open without Autor, and Autor's own data folder with chapter history and settings. We cannot see either.
When something leaves your device
Autor's writing app itself makes no network calls. These connections happen only when you turn them on or ask for them. Each is off until then.
- Google Drive
- "Keep this book in step" copies the book's files to a folder Autor makes in your Google Drive, and reads them back on your other devices. See the next section.
- Dropbox backup
- Copies of your book go into Autor's own folder in your Dropbox. Dropbox's privacy policy covers what Dropbox stores.
- Your own AI assistant
- If you set up an AI service with your own key, or a model on your own computer, the text you ask about goes straight from your device to that service, under its terms. No server of ours stands in between. Your key is kept in your device's keychain.
- Looking up a source
- When you look up a source by its DOI or ISBN, only that number is sent to Crossref or Open Library.
- Update check (Mac)
- Only when you ask for it in Settings.
Google user data
Autor asks Google for one permission, drive.file: access to files that Autor itself creates in your Drive, or that another person shares with Autor. Autor cannot see, open or list any other file in your Drive.
- What Autor accesses: the files of the books you keep in step, in a folder named after the book under "Autor" in your Drive, and their names, dates and revision list.
- How Autor uses it: only to keep the same book up to date on your devices, and to put a copy beside a chapter when two devices changed it at once, so no writing is lost.
- Where it is stored: on your devices and in your own Google Drive. The sign-in token is kept in your device's keychain. Nothing goes to us or to anyone else.
- Sharing: Autor does not share, sell or transfer Google user data to anyone, does not use it for ads, and does not use it to train AI models. Your Google data is never sent to an AI assistant by Autor.
- Removing access: "Disconnect" in Autor forgets the sign-in on that device and asks Google to revoke it. You can also remove Autor's access at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Files in your Drive stay until you delete them.
Autor's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
What we never do
- We do not collect, sell or share personal data. We have none to share.
- We do not track you, and there are no ads.
- We do not run servers that your book passes through.
Children
Autor collects no data from anyone, children included.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you may ask what data we hold about you and have it deleted. For Autor the answer is none: everything is on your devices or in accounts you control. If you write to us, we keep your email only to answer it and delete it when the matter is closed.
This website
autorstudios.com sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from other companies. The company that hosts it keeps standard server logs (such as IP addresses) for security for a short time.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be here with a new date. Questions: support@autorstudios.com.