Privacy policy.

What we collect

When you sign in with Google, we receive your Google account identifier, email address, and basic profile details needed to create and secure your account. We also store the pen name you choose, your story contributions, saved stories, reports, moderation requests and decisions, writing allowances, and basic timestamps connected with those actions.

We use a session cookie to keep you signed in. It is HTTP-only, secure in production, and unavailable to client-side scripts. We do not use advertising cookies or sell personal information.

How we use information

We use account information to authenticate you, apply writing limits, attribute contributions to your pen name, preserve your reading list, prevent abuse, respond to reports, and administer the community. Your email address is visible to site administrators where needed to manage your account, but it is not displayed publicly.

Automated moderation and writing ideas

Submitted sentences and pen names are checked using local rules and Cloudflare Workers AI. The automated check receives the submitted sentence and public pen name; it does not receive your email address, Google credentials, or account identifier. A flagged submission may be held for human review. Automated screening can make mistakes, so you can request another review from your account.

If you request writing ideas, the story title, genre, opening, published sentences, and your public pen name are processed by Cloudflare Workers AI to generate and screen possible continuations. No account email or identifier is included.

Service providers

Cloudflare hosts the site, database, session infrastructure, generated writing ideas, and automated safety checks. Google provides optional Google sign-in. Resend delivers passwordless sign-in emails, moderation alerts to administrators, and story updates that a reader explicitly enables. Resend receives the destination email address and the information needed for that message, such as a one-time code or a generic story title and site link. Submitted writing, report text, pen names, and account identifiers are not included in notification emails. These providers process information under their own privacy terms. We do not currently use third-party advertising or analytics services.

Public contributions

Published sentences and your pen name are public and may be read or shared by anyone. Avoid putting private information in your pen name or writing. Drafts kept only in your browser remain on that device unless you submit them.

Retention and security

One-time login codes expire after 10 minutes and sessions expire after 30 days. Unpublished submissions, reports, moderation actions, administrative grant records, and beta feedback are retained for up to 24 months so we can resolve disputes, improve the service, and prevent repeated abuse. Account details and reading-list preferences are kept while the account is active and removed or anonymized after a verified deletion request. Published sentences and their displayed pen names may be retained indefinitely because later contributions depend on them.

We use access controls and server-side sessions, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

Your choices

You can sign out, change your pen name within the stated limit, download a copy of your account data, or delete your account from the Account menu. You can also ask us to correct information by emailing accounts@nextsentence.club. Published collaborative writing may be retained with the pen name displayed when it was published to preserve the surrounding story and moderation records.

Children and changes

Next Sentence Club is not directed to children under 13. We may update this policy as the service changes. We will post the revised policy here with a new effective date.