Manuscript privacy: what NovLore sees

When you write a novel you entrust an online tool with something very personal: an unfinished story, sometimes pages nobody else has read. It's fair to ask who can see them. This article explains what happens to your texts on NovLore, plainly. The formal reference remains the privacy policy; here we explain how it actually works.

Where your texts live

Your books, chapters and versions are stored in a database run by Supabase. The database applies row-level access rules: every request carries the identity of whoever makes it, and the database returns only the data belonging to that user. It isn't an interface filter that could be bypassed: the database itself refuses to hand over someone else's text.

Who can read a manuscript

In the normal running of the service, nobody reads your books. Texts aren't read for statistics, advertising or content selection, and there are no advertising cookies or third-party profiling tools.

The only people who can read a book, besides you, are:

• anyone you send a beta-reader link to: the link expires, and you choose who gets it;
• authorised staff, in the cases described below.

When text goes to artificial intelligence

The writing assistant works through external artificial intelligence providers. When you trigger one of its features, such as a correction, a rewrite or a chat message, the data needed for that request is sent to the provider that processes it: the selected passage and the information about the book needed for context.

Two important points:

• this only happens when you decide. If you don't use the assistant, your texts don't go to any external provider;
• the editor, structure, dictation, spell checker and downloads work without AI. The spell checker, in particular, runs directly in your browser.

The handling of data sent to each provider is governed by its own privacy policy, and the list of providers in use is published on the Privacy page.

Support access

It can happen that someone needs to look at a book: your request for help with a chapter that won't open, preventing abuse, a legal obligation. In these cases access by authorised staff has three constraints:

• it's read-only: the support tool has no technical ability to modify texts;
• it's limited to what's needed to handle the request;
• every access is logged with date, time and the identity of whoever made it, in a record the admin panel can neither edit nor delete.

Copies on your device

If a save fails, for example because the connection dropped, the editor keeps a safety copy of the chapter in your browser, so you don't lose your work. That copy stays only on your device, never replaces anything on its own and is deleted as soon as the save to the server succeeds.

Deleting everything

Deleted books and chapters go to the trash, recoverable for 30 days. Deleting your account is also recoverable for 30 days: access is blocked immediately, but no data is touched until that period ends. Then the data is permanently erased. If you prefer immediate deletion, you can request it and it's carried out straight away.

Frequently asked questions

Are my texts used to train NovLore's artificial intelligence?

NovLore doesn't train its own models on users' texts. When you use the assistant, data goes to the provider only to process that request, under the provider's policy listed on the Privacy page.

Can I use NovLore without ever sending text to an AI provider?

Yes. Just don't use the writing assistant features: everything else in the studio works without artificial intelligence, and it's free.

Can I get a copy of everything I've written?

Yes, at any time: downloading your books as TXT, Markdown, Word and HTML is built into the service and doesn't require credits.