Privacy.
What Wurding sees, what it doesn't, and how the writer stays in control. Written plainly, because the writer should be able to read this once and trust it.
The short version
Your prose stays on your machine. Wurding never reads your draft. When you select a word and open the panel, the only thing Wurding sees is the single selected word. Not the sentence around it. Not the document. Not your file name. Not your editor.
The companion is a reference book. A reference book does not remember which page you opened it to, and neither does Wurding.
What Wurding stores on your device
- The dictionary itself — a static binary file shipped with the app. It contains words and their relationships. It does not contain anything about you.
- Your settings — axis visibility, locale preferences. Stored locally; never sent anywhere.
What leaves your device, and when
The core feature — the axis-aware thesaurus — runs entirely on your machine. Selecting a word and opening its neighborhood involves no internet. The panel populates from the local dictionary in under 100ms. You can use Wurding's headline feature offline, on a plane, with the wifi off, indefinitely.
What our servers do
The Wurding server has two small jobs and nothing else:
- License verification — confirming that the copy of Wurding you're using is licensed to you. Your license key is checked occasionally; we record the timestamp and a hash of the key.
- This website — basic access logs (IP, page, referrer, user agent), kept for 30 days for security and aggregate analytics. We do not use third-party analytics trackers. No cookies are set beyond a session cookie if you sign in to manage your account.
What we never do
- We don't sell your data. There is no buyer.
- We don't share your data with advertisers. There are no ads.
- We don't train models on your prose. Wurding's engine is pre-built; the dictionary is shipped, not learned from you.
- We don't read your documents. We can't — we never see them.
- We don't track you across the web. No third-party analytics, no pixels, no advertising IDs.
If you sign up for the launch letter
When you put your email in the form on the home page, we store that single address until we send the launch letter. After the launch announcement goes out, we delete the list. We do not pass your address to a newsletter service that retains its own copy; we hold it directly and discard it directly.
Children
Wurding is built for adult writers and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with information, write to us and we will delete it.
Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us what data we hold about you, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it. For most users, the answer to "what do you hold about me" is: a license key hash, a timestamp, and possibly a queued email address. We respond to requests within 30 days.
If you're in the European Union or the United Kingdom, the GDPR and UK GDPR apply. If you're in California, the CCPA/CPRA applies. We treat all users to the strictest of these standards regardless of where they live, because the alternative is keeping track of which writer lives where, and that is itself a privacy problem we don't want to have.
Security
License keys are stored hashed. Server endpoints use TLS. The engineering surface is small: a static marketing site, a small licensing server, a CDN. Less surface means fewer ways for things to go wrong. If a security issue happens that affects you, we will write to you directly within 72 hours of confirming it.
Contact
Privacy questions, data requests, security reports — all to info@wurding.com. A human reads that address.
Changes to this policy
We update this page when our practices change. The change history and effective dates are kept below. Substantive changes are announced before they take effect.