Effective Date: 02/10/2026
At Scribeist, we believe in the power of human creativity and are committed to preserving and enhancing it—not replacing it. Our platform is built with writers at its core, and we offer optional AI features designed to work alongside you as supportive tools, never as substitutes for your creative voice.
This AI Usage Policy explains how artificial intelligence is implemented on our platform, what data is processed, and how you maintain complete control over when and how AI features are used with your work.
No AI features run automatically or in the background. Every AI-powered tool on Scribeist requires your explicit activation. You choose when, where, and how to use AI assistance with your creative work. If you never use an AI feature, your work is never processed by AI services.
All AI features on our platform are powered by third-party service providers, including:
When you choose to use an AI feature, your work or selected portions of it may be transmitted to these third-party services for processing. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these providers to understand how they handle data.
We have configured our API accounts and organizational settings with third-party AI providers to ensure that your data is not used to train or improve their AI models. This means:
While your data is not used for training, third-party AI providers may temporarily retain data for operational purposes:
This temporary retention is standard practice for maintaining service quality and security, and does not involve using your content for model training or improvement.
Transparency is important to us. All features that utilize artificial intelligence are clearly labeled as "AI" or include the word "Generate" in their naming or description. If a feature is not explicitly identified as AI-powered, it does not use artificial intelligence.
The amount of your work sent to AI services varies by feature:
While we have taken steps to ensure your work remains private through our agreements with AI providers, please understand that by using these features, you are choosing to share your content with third-party services, and we cannot exercise complete control over their data handling practices.
We are actively developing our own AI infrastructure that will allow us to process your work entirely within our secure environment, eliminating the need to transmit data to third-party services. This will provide enhanced privacy and control over your creative work. We will notify users when this option becomes available.
In the near future, we will offer the ability to use your own API keys from various AI providers. This will give you direct control over which services process your data and allow you to leverage your own agreements and data handling preferences with AI companies.
You retain full ownership of your content. This includes both your original prompts and any AI-generated output you receive through our platform ("AI Output").
Our third-party AI providers, including OpenAI, assign all rights, title, and interest in AI Output to you, subject to applicable law. We do not claim any ownership over your content, whether created by you or generated with AI assistance.
By using our platform, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to store and process your inputs and AI outputs solely for the purpose of providing and improving our service. This license does not transfer ownership and terminates when you delete your content or close your account.
You maintain complete control over AI usage:
As AI technology and our platform evolve, we may update this AI Usage Policy. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. We will notify users of significant changes through email or platform notifications.
If you have questions, concerns, or feedback about our AI usage practices, please contact us at:
Email: support@scribeist.com
Website: https://scribeist.com
By using AI features on our platform, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this AI Usage Policy.
