Formatly's Privacy Promise: What Happens to Your Documents

Privacy is a core principle of Formatly's design. Here's exactly what happens — and doesn't happen — to your documents when you use our service. ## What Happens When You Upload ### Document Reception Your document is received through an encrypted connection and transferred to a secure processing environment. ### Formatting Processing The document is analyzed by Formatly's rule-based formatting engine. This engine operates in an isolated environment without persistent storage. ### No Permanent Storage Once formatting is complete, your document is not retained. We do not maintain copies of your uploaded or formatted documents. ### Download Delivery Your formatted document is delivered through a secure, time-limited download link. After download, the temporary copy is deleted. ## What We Never Do ### No AI Training Formatly never uses your documents to train AI models or machine learning systems. Our formatting engine is rule-based, not AI-trained. ### No Data Mining We do not analyze, mine, or extract data from your documents for any purpose beyond the formatting you requested. ### No Third-Party Sharing Your documents are never shared with third parties. We do not sell, license, or transfer document content. ### No Advertising Use Document content is never used for advertising, marketing, or promotional purposes. ## Data We Do Collect Formatly collects minimal usage data to improve our service: - Account information (email, subscription status) - Processing metrics (document size, processing time, style selected) - No document content is collected or retained ## The Formatly Promise We believe your academic work belongs to you — completely. Our privacy-first approach ensures that: - Your research remains confidential - Your ideas are protected - Your unpublished work stays unpublished - You maintain full control over your content If you have questions about our privacy practices, contact us at support@formatlyapp.com.