Privacy Policy

Effective November 10, 2026

What data Selection AI collects, why, and the choices you have.

Summary

• Nothing is sent until you choose an action, and then only the text you selected.
• We don't store your selections or AI answers on our servers. Your history stays on your Mac.
• We don't sell your data or use it for advertising, and we don't use it to train AI models.

Who is responsible

Selection AI is responsible for your personal data ("controller"). Contact us at support@getselection.ai.

What we collect

Your account

• Email address, and your first and last name.
• Profile picture, if you add one, or if your Google or GitHub account has one. It's visible only to you.
• When you sign in with Google or GitHub, we receive your name, verified email address, profile picture and account ID from them. We don't get your password or access to anything else in those accounts.

When you use an action

• The text you selected and any question you type are sent to our servers and passed to our AI provider to write your answer. We don't keep them after the answer is delivered.
• Usage counts: how many actions and Research runs you've used this month, and how many AI tokens, to apply plan limits.

Payments

Polar, our reseller and Merchant of Record, collects your payment details and billing address. We never see your card number. Polar tells us your subscription status, plan, renewal date and customer ID.

Technical data

• Sign-in sessions, stored as one-way hashes. The website uses a cookie for this; the Mac app keeps its token in the macOS Keychain.
• IP addresses, held briefly in memory to prevent abuse and limit sign-in attempts.
• Server error logs, which don't include the text you selected.

What stays on your Mac

Your history of rewrites, chats and research, and your writing modes, are saved only on your Mac. You can turn history off or clear it in Settings. We don't receive or back them up.

The website demo

If you try "select any text" on our homepage, the selected text is sent to our AI provider to write a short explanation or translation, and isn't stored.

Cookies

We use only the cookies needed for sign-in and its security. Your light or dark theme choice is saved in your browser. We don't use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies.

Who we share data with

Only the service providers we need to run Selection AI, under agreements that limit how they can use it:

• Cloudflare (Workers AI): AI answers. Receives the text you selected and your question. It doesn't keep them after answering and doesn't use them to train AI models.
• Polar: payments, tax and invoicing.
• Google and GitHub: sign-in, if you choose them.
• Amazon Web Services: our servers, database and app downloads, in the United States (Oregon).

We may also disclose data if the law requires it, or to a buyer if Selection AI is sold, in which case this policy continues to apply.

International transfers

Our providers may process data outside your country, including in the United States. Where required, we rely on safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

Why we use your data (legal bases)

• To provide the service you signed up for (contract): your account, AI answers, plan limits and payments.
• To keep it secure and working (legitimate interests): preventing abuse and fixing problems.
• To meet legal duties: tax and accounting records.

How long we keep it

• Selected text and AI answers: not kept after your answer is delivered.
• Account and usage data: while you have an account, and deleted within 30 days after you ask us to delete it.
• Sign-in links and sessions: deleted when they expire.
• Payment records: kept by Polar and us as long as tax law requires.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask to access, correct, delete or export your data, or object to or restrict how we use it. You can change your name and picture on your Account page. For anything else, email support@getselection.ai and we'll reply within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

We don't sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, as defined by California law.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit. Sign-in tokens and sessions are stored only as hashes, and your profile picture is never public. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your data, we'll tell you as the law requires.

Children

Selection AI isn't meant for anyone under 16, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you think a child has given us data, contact us and we'll delete it.

Changes

We'll post updates here and change the date at the top. For significant changes, we'll tell you by email or in the app first.