Privacy Policy
Here are no accounts, therefore, collection will be limited to what we have, why we have it, and how long we will keep it.
What the Articled Privacy Policy Covers
Since Articled does not require user accounts, the data that Articled collects is nearly non-existent. Unlike most websites, we do not construct user profiles. We don’t follow you around the web. We do not sell data to (and do not share data with) advertisers. There is no login. There is no password to lose. There is no name associated with a behavioral history. Your interaction with Articled is completely non-identifiable.
There are three categories of information we collect. The first category is information presented in the form: name, email address (with the possibility of adding the company name and the deadline), as well as the brief. The second category is the information necessary to conclude a transaction. Our payment processor is responsible for credit card data, and this information is never retained on our servers. We only have information on the last four digits of the card, the amount charged, and whether the transaction was successful. The final category is access logs, which include the IP address, user browser information, and the pages accessed. This information is kept for a limited amount of time and is used for security and troubleshooting.
We do not collect special category data, and we would appreciate your cooperation in not sending us special category data in your briefs. If you feel that your brief absolutely necessitates the inclusion of sensitive health, biometric, political or similar information, please communicate this to us in advance so that we can agree on how we would best handle this sensitive data rather than receiving this sensitive data in a form.
- Contact details you give us: name, email, optional company
- The brief you submit, and the delivered work
- Payment confirmation only — card numbers never reach us
- Standard server logs for security and diagnostics
- Not collected: advertising identifiers, cross-site tracking, profiles
How the Articled Privacy Policy Works
Why we hold it. Your contact details and brief allow us to fulfill the service you requested. We can’t draft and deliver a piece without your contact details. Server logs and fraud checks are necessary for us to maintain a secure service, and thus are processed based on our legitimate interest. When we send you anything that is not about your order specifically, this is based on your consent that you can withdraw at any time.
Who sees it. The editor working on your order and the writer assigned to your order. Most writers comply with confidentiality agreements and only see what is in the brief. Only a handful of people process information, including an email service provider to send/receive emails, a payment service provider to collect payment, a hosting service provider, and a form supplier in case a service is used to process forms. All of these services sign agreements obligating them to process data only when we instruct them to do so.
How Long We Keep it The work and the brief are kept for a year so that we can send you files again, amend the briefs to accommodate urgent or subsequent requests, and capture/remain consistent with your voice when you return. We also keep records of our invoices and payments for seven years as legally required by tax law. Our servers only keep logs for ninety days. Everything else is deleted once it is no longer required.
This is relevant to where it goes. Our writers operate globally. Because of this, a brief may move out of your country. If this is the case and the brief is transferred out of the UK or the EEA, it is covered by standard contractual clauses or an equivalent safeguard.
No account means no profile
There’s nothing to log in to, so there’s no history, no saved payment methods, and no behavioral data. That’s by design, not because of an oversight. This template includes comments that you can remove before finalizing.
When the Articled Privacy Policy Applies
Your rights. In the UK and EEA, please note that you have a number of rights. You have the right to access data that we hold on you. You also have the right to have this data corrected or erased. If you want to restrict or object to processing, you have that right too. You can request that we give you your data in a portable format. Lastly, if we are processing your data under your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. To request any of your rights, email privacy@articled.org. You can expect a response within thirty days, free of charge.
California residents, You have the right to know what personal information is collected, to delete, to correct, to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information under the CCPA and the CPRA. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined, therefore the right to opt out does not apply. However, your rights to know and to delete are exercised through the same address.
Complaints. Contact us if you wish to follow up on concerns regarding the way we have handled your data. Where we are at fault, we will ensure adequate remedy is offered. In addition to contacting us, you are also within your rights to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the competent authority in the UK, immediately without prior compliance with us.
Cookies. By default, our site does not set any advertising or analytics cookies, and that is why there is no consent banner that needs to be dismissed. If cookies for analytics are implemented on our site, then this page and a mechanism for consent will be updated before any other cookies are set.
Articled Privacy Policy FAQs
Users of the site, applicants who submit briefs, those who apply to write for us, and those who contact us. This policy also covers samples and application information of writers who wish to apply. We hold this information for twelve months, unless a writer asks for it to be removed.
Email privacy@articled.org Data requests typically receive a response well before the thirty day period. Furthermore, a human actually reads data requests and does not utilize software to do so.
No. We do not train models, provide client materials to anyone else for training, paste briefs or drafts into third-party AI tools, or do any number of other things which would totally defeat the purpose of the organization.
Yes. We do need a working email address to send the work and to make payments. A name would be nice, but not necessary. Most ghostwriting clients like to keep things brief.
Email privacy@articled.org and we will delete all records except for records that we are legally obligated to retain, most notably invoices. A record of this deletion will be kept and will be sent to you upon completion.
This policy is written to be specific and accurate about a deliberately minimal data footprint. It is not meant to be legal advice. Before publishing, the operator must add the legal entity name, registered address, data controller information, the actual processors in use, and, if operating in the UK or EEA, any required representative.
Content a person actually wrote
$10 per 100 words, and the writer keeps all of it. Our 1% sits on top, 0.5% goes to trees, and no generated text appears anywhere in the process.