What happens to the words you paste in
Not a statement of values. A description of where your text goes, who processes it, and what is still there afterwards — specific enough that you can check it against somebody else's published terms rather than taking ours on faith.
Where it actually goes
ABCcount does not run its own models. Your text is sent to one provider for each kind of tool, and only when you use that tool. Most companies do not publish this. It is not complicated, and you are entitled to know.
Rewriting, grammar, summaries, translation, the Humanizer and chat
Anthropic
Does not train on API inputs under its commercial terms. Default retention is deletion within 30 days.
And then it is gone. Your text is used to produce your result and is not kept by us once the result is returned, apart from the Projects and suggestions listed below. That holds for every request, every tool and every plan, including the free one. Each provider's own retention is listed above.
What we keep
- Your email address
- To identify the account. That is what it is for.
- Word and token counts
- So the usage figures on your dashboard are correct. Numbers, not text.
- Which modes you used, and how the check went
- To know which are worth improving. The mode name and the outcome, not what you put through it.
- Your preferences
- Theme, default mode, the toggles you set.
- Projects you choose to save
- On abccount.com, a document you save as a Project stays until you delete it.
- Suggestions you accept or dismiss
- On abccount.com, when you are signed in, to tune future suggestions to your writing.
What we do not
- —What you wrote, apart from the Projects and suggestions listed above. Removed from our systems when the job finishes.
- —Your payment card. It never touches our servers — see below.
- —Your browsing. There is no advertising profile and no cross-site tracking.
- —Your chat history. That lives in your own browser and is never sent to us.
Your card details are not here
Payments run through Stripe. When you enter a card, the form is Stripe's and the details go to Stripe — they do not pass through our servers, and there is nowhere on our systems where a card number could be stored even by accident.
What we receive back is an identifier, the last four digits, and whether the payment succeeded. That is enough to show you an invoice and not enough to charge anybody.
What you can do about any of this
Nothing changes without you pressing something
Suggestions are offered, never applied. Your document is not edited in place by anything other than you.
Only what you send
Your text leaves your browser only when you press a tool. The free word counter runs entirely in your browser and sends nothing at all.
Delete your chat history whenever you like
It is in your browser, not ours. There is a clear-all button on the chat page, and clearing your browser data removes it too.
Close the account and it goes
Email us and the account and everything attached to it is deleted. There is no retention period we hold you to.
Where this stops
We are not certified against any particular standard, and we do not hold a Business Associate Agreement. If your organisation requires either before you can use a third-party tool, ask us — the answer will be a real one rather than a badge on a page.
And nothing above is a reason to paste in something you would not put in an email. It is a description of how carefully this is handled, not a promise that any system anywhere is without risk.
The formal version is in the privacy policy and the terms. Anything either of those leaves unclear, ask and we will answer it here.