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Privacy Policy
Last updated 2026-09-15
This page is a draft. Counsel has not reviewed it yet, and the wording may change before it is final.
The short version
Text you paste goes over a secure connection to our detector. Human scores the text in memory and does not save it. Neither this site nor our detector keeps a copy of the papers you check.
Information we collect
Firebase Authentication handles sign-in, with Google or with an email and password, and stores your email address for us.
The server keeps a count of the checks and the words your account uses, per day on the Free plan and per month on the Education plan, so your plan's allowance can be enforced. It does not keep the text you checked.
What happens to the text you submit
Your text travels over TLS to our detector, which we run ourselves on a cloud GPU provider. The detector scores the text in memory and returns a verdict. It does not write the text to disk or to its logs, and the web app does not keep the text either.
We never send your text to any other company's detector.
If you are not signed in, checks on the homepage are rate-limited by IP address. That address is held in memory only for the hour it takes to enforce the limit.
API keys
An API key is a signed token that you hold. We do not store it. We check its signature when you use it, and it expires 90 days after you create it.
Cookies
The only cookie the app sets is the one Firebase uses to keep you signed in. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.
Children
You must be 13 or older to use this product. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone younger.
The Education plan
Whether you get the free Education plan depends on your email address, once you verify it. Addresses ending in .edu qualify, as do .edu, .ac or .sch followed by a two-letter country code (such as .ac.uk), and US school addresses ending in k12 and a state code (such as k12.ca.us).
Deleting your account
To delete your account, email hello@olive.is.
Governing law
The governing law and the regional disclosures for this policy are not set yet. Ask us: hello@olive.is.
Changes to this policy
If we change what we collect or how we use it in a way that matters, we will say so here and update the date at the top of this page.
Contact
Send questions about this policy to the address on the contact page.