PRIVACY

What happens to your text.

This notice describes how the current Dumb Down Text text simplifier handles your information.

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Text you submit

Pasting text into the editor does not send it to an AI provider. When you submit a rewrite request, your text and chosen settings go through our server to the text service. Our application does not retain the original passage or generated result on the server.

Text and results stay in the open page so you can compare and copy them. The application does not save a history in cookies or browser storage. Your browser may independently restore page content as part of its own settings.

Request metadata, including language, simplification level, word counts, approximate country, status, processing time and reported AI usage, is available to the administrator within a seven-day window. These records contain no submitted or generated text and no raw IP addresses. Expired records are deleted on subsequent reads or writes. Country may reflect a VPN or proxy location. AI providers and hosting backups have separate policies.

If you choose Helpful or Not helpful after a rewrite, we keep that rating with its date, simplification level and a random result identifier to prevent duplicate votes and understand usefulness. Feedback does not include your original text or the rewrite. These rating records are available only to the administrator and are kept for historical comparison.

AI providers

When you submit, your text is sent to Kie.ai and its upstream model providers to create the rewrite. Our application does not retain submitted passages or generated results on the server. The providers’ data handling policies apply. Kie.ai states that text and metadata logs are retained for two months. Daily usage is tracked using a hashed network address. Avoid submitting confidential information.

See Kie’s API data-retention information and Kie’s privacy policy. Provider retention is separate from storage by this application.

Daily usage records

The server receives your network address to handle requests. To enforce the free allowance, it stores a keyed hash based on that address and the current day, together with attempt times and usage information. The usage store does not contain your original IP address or your text.

People sharing a network share the allowance. Old daily records are removed from the active database when the next rewrite request checks the quota after the daily reset. Failed attempts remain counted toward the site-wide daily limit.

Service performance statistics

We keep daily totals of rewrite attempts, completions, failures, cancellations, allowance limits, response times and AI usage costs when the provider reports them. These totals do not contain submitted text, generated results, IP addresses or visitor identifiers. We retain these aggregate totals to compare service performance and costs over time.

Website hosting

Cloudflare hosts this website and processes network information needed to deliver it. The application uses Cloudflare D1 for usage records. Hosting logs and database backups are separate from the active usage records described above. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Administrator login

The private administration area uses a secure session cookie that expires after eight hours. To limit password attempts, it temporarily stores a keyed hash of the login network address and an attempt count in 15-minute windows. Expired attempt records are removed on later login attempts. These records are separate from public rewrite statistics.

Cookies, advertising and analytics

This version does not use advertising scripts, analytics scripts or tracking cookies. If those services are added, this notice will need to describe their data practices.

Contact messages

If you email us, your email service and ours handle the message. We use the address and information you send to respond to your enquiry. Avoid including confidential source text.

For privacy questions, visit Contact.