TextSeal Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 12, 2025

TextSeal ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency in how we handle your data. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, and manage your information when you use our services.

1. Information We Collect

Anonymous Users (No Account)

  • We do not collect personally identifiable information.
  • We may collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, and content submitted for processing.
  • Content is stored without any user account association, linked only to technical identifiers such as IP addresses.

Registered Users (Free and Paid Accounts)

  • When you create an account, we collect your email address and account preferences.
  • We also collect and store your submitted content ("User Content"), which includes text and other data you input.

Automatically Collected Data

  • We collect usage data (such as feature usage, frequency, and device information) to monitor service performance, ensure security, and improve our services.

2. How We Use Your Information

  • Provide and operate our services.
  • Monitor and enforce service integrity and security.
  • Improve service functionality and user experience.
  • Communicate regarding your account, data usage, or updates to our services and policies.
  • Comply with legal obligations where applicable.

3. Data Retention

  • Anonymous Users: User Content is retained for limited time only, after which it may be deleted automatically without prior notice.
  • Free Account Users: User Content is retained for up to 10 years from the date of creation. After this period, it may be deleted or archived.
  • Paid Account Users: User Content can be retained indefinitely as long as the account remains active and in good standing. Users can manually delete their data at any time, and deleted data is permanently removed and cannot be restored.
  • We retain technical and system logs as necessary for operational, security, and legal purposes.

4. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. However, no system is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

5. Data Sharing

  • We do not sell, rent, or trade your data.
  • We may share data with trusted service providers under strict confidentiality agreements to help us operate our services.
  • We may also disclose data if required by law or to protect our legal rights.

6. User Rights

  • Access, correct, or delete your data.
  • Object to or restrict certain types of data processing.
  • Withdraw consent where applicable.

To exercise your rights, contact us at [email protected].

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Significant changes will be communicated through our website or email (for registered users). Continued use of our services after such changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.