Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 5, 2026

Your essay is personal. This page explains what happens to it when you ask for feedback.

Your essay

When you click Grade my essay, the text you pasted is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic (the maker of Claude), which reads it and writes the feedback. We do not publish your essay, sell it, or use it to train any model, and we do not save the essay text itself after the feedback is returned. Anthropic processes it under its own terms and privacy policy and may keep a copy for a limited time under that policy.

Your feedback

We store the feedback so you can come back to it through its private link. Keep that link: anyone with it can read the feedback, and your account page does not list past feedback. Feedback from your free review is deleted 30 days after it is created. Feedback from reviews you paid for is kept until you delete your account. You cannot yet delete a single piece of feedback. Feedback can quote parts of your essay.

Your account

You sign in with Google or with a link sent to your email. We keep your email address, your name and profile photo if you use Google, the IP address and browser of each sign-in session, your review balance, and your purchase history. Payments are handled by Stripe; we never see your card number. You can delete your account from the account page, which removes your saved feedback. Purchase records are kept under a pseudonymous ID where the law requires, and Stripe keeps its own payment records.

Other services we use

Cloudflare hosts the site: your essay passes through its servers on its way to Anthropic, and your saved feedback is stored there. Cloudflare also checks that you are not a bot before an essay is graded. Our email provider sends sign-in links and never receives your essay.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to count visits. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, and when we cannot tell where you are, it runs only if you accept it. Elsewhere it is on by default. You can turn it off on the privacy choices page. We never send your essay or feedback text to analytics, but page counts can include the private link to a piece of feedback.

Age

You must be at least 13 to use College Essay Checker. If you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian before buying reviews. If we learn we have collected information from a child under 13, we delete it.

Contact

For privacy questions or to ask us to delete your data, see the contact page.