Phrasit

The short version

The text you paste into client-side tools (word counter, case converter, reading-level analyzer, text comparator) never leaves your browser. The AI tools (paraphraser, grammar checker, summarizer, tone rewriter, translator, AI Humanizer, AI Detector, and the title and outline helpers) send your text to our AI provider, Anthropic, to generate the result and return it. The citation generator sends only the URL, DOI, or ISBN you paste, never the text of your own writing. The plagiarism checker sends distinctive sentences to a search provider to look for public-web matches. You do not need an account, and you never have to give us your name, email, or any other personal detail to use a tool.

How the AI tools handle your text

The AI tools run server-side. When you run one, the text you submit is sent over an encrypted connection to Anthropic’s API, processed for that single request, and the result is streamed back to you. The text is used only to produce your result.

Under Anthropic’s commercial API terms, the inputs and outputs of these requests are processed transiently to serve the request and are not used to train their models. Phrasit does not store the text of your AI requests beyond the request itself. We keep no copy of your input or the generated output on our servers once the response is returned, and there is no account, so nothing is tied to an identity. We do count anonymous, per-request usage against rate limits (a hashed form of your IP address) purely to stop abuse and keep the tools free, and those counters hold no text and expire on a short schedule.

Because the AI tools send text to a third party, do not paste anything you are not comfortable sharing for processing, such as secrets, passwords, or confidential personal data about other people. The tools that run entirely in your browser, listed above, never send your text anywhere.

What we collect

We use Plausible Analytics, which is a privacy-friendly analytics service that does not use cookies and does not collect personal data. It records aggregate counts of page views, referrers, browsers, and country (not city). It does not track individual users across pages or sessions.

We also record anonymous tool-use events such as “word-counter:copy_text” so that we know which tools are useful and which need improvement. These events do not include the text you typed or any identifier that could link back to you.

When you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address and send it to Kit (formerly ConvertKit) to manage subscriptions. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter email.

When you save citations to the bibliography, they are stored in your browser’s local storage. They never reach our servers.

Cookies

We use a single first-party cookie to remember your theme preference (light, dark, or system). We also store your cookie preference in browser local storage so the banner does not ask on every visit. Plausible Analytics is cookieless.

If you consent to advertising cookies, third-party advertising vendors may set or read cookies, pixels, or similar identifiers in your browser. These cookies are non-essential and are controlled through the cookie banner.

Advertising

Pages outside of the tools (the home page, guides, legal pages) may show display ads from Google AdSense. Google and other third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site and other websites. Google may use the Google advertising cookie, sometimes referred to as the DoubleClick cookie, to help serve and measure ads.

You can control personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings. You can also learn about broader interest-based advertising opt-outs at aboutads.info. Opt-out tools are managed by third parties and may depend on your browser, device, and cookie settings.

Your rights

You can request access to or deletion of any data we hold by emailing privacy@phrasit.com. Under GDPR and UK GDPR, you may also ask us to correct, restrict, export, or stop processing personal data where those rights apply.

If you are a California resident, the CCPA may give you the right to know what personal information is collected, request deletion, request correction, and opt out of sale or sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not sell the text you paste into tools. Advertising cookies are controlled by the consent banner and the third-party opt-out links above.

Changes

If we change this policy in a material way, we will update the date at the top and announce the change on the changelog.