Privacy Policy

The short version

Your screenplay is yours. Writing happens in your browser; your drafts are saved to your account so they follow you between devices, and nobody at EvoScript reads them. We collect the minimum needed to run accounts, subscriptions and the registration service — an email address, an author name on registrations, and a payment reference when you subscribe — and nothing else. No advertising, no analytics trackers, no selling of data, no training on your work.

Your script text

• Writing needs an account. Your screenplays are saved to your EvoScript account so they survive a lost or wiped device and open on any other one. They are private to your account: we do not read them, share them, sell them, or use them to train anything.
• Fingerprinting for registration and verification happens in your browser. Registration stores the fingerprint (a one-way SHA-256 code), never the script text. The text of your screenplay cannot be reconstructed from a fingerprint.
• You can always take your work out — every project exports as a file you keep (Fountain, PDF, or the project's own format).

Tamil typing

• It happens on your device. When Tamil typing is on, Tanglish becomes Tamil script in your browser. Your text is not sent anywhere to be converted.
• It downloads one file, the first time you switch it on. If you never use Tamil typing, the file is never downloaded. It is about 95 KB, it holds no personal data, and nothing you type is sent back or added to it.
• What the file is. A table of three-letter spelling patterns, each scored by how much more often it appears in English words than in Tanglish ones. It is used for one decision. When a Tamil spelling rule would change a word — satru into சற்று — the app adds up that word's pattern scores, and if the word looks English, the way train or petrol do, it is left in English. Words no spelling rule touches are never checked.
• Where the patterns come from. English words: Webster's Second International word list (1934), whose copyright has lapsed. Tanglish words: the Tamil–English comments in DravidianCodeMix: Sentiment Analysis and Offensive Language Identification Dataset for Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text, by Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Ruba Priyadharshini, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran, Navya Jose, Shardul Suryawanshi and John P. McCrae (doi:10.5281/zenodo.4750858), used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0).
• We changed that data. We used only the comments written without Tamil or other Indian script, split them into words, dropped every word found in the English word list, and reduced the rest to counts of three-letter patterns. No comment, and no word list from either source, is in the file.

What we store, and why

• Account: your email address — to sign you in with one-time codes.
• Cloud projects: if you save projects to your account, we store those project files so you can open them from any device. They are private to your account and we do not read them.
• Registrations: registration number, script title, author name, email, word count, fingerprint, and timestamp. This record is the product — a dated, verifiable entry in an append-only registry.
• Subscriptions: which plan your account is on and when it renews or expires. Card details are handled entirely by our payment provider — EvoScript never sees or stores your card number.

Public verification

Anyone with a registration number or the exact registered file can look up its registry entry (title, author name, date, fingerprint). This is by design — verifiability is what makes a registration worth having. Your email is never shown on verification results.

How long we keep things

• Cloud projects — until you delete them, or until we delete your account on request.
• Registry entries — permanently. A registration is a dated record; deleting records would defeat the purpose of the registry for every writer who relies on it. Account deletion removes your email from account systems but registry entries persist as service records.

Your rights

Under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, you can ask us what personal data we hold about you, ask for corrections, and ask for deletion of your account and projects. Write to contact@evoscript.in — this is also our grievance contact. We respond to access and correction requests within 30 days. Deletion requests are actioned within 30 days.

Where data lives

Account and registry data is stored with our cloud database provider (Supabase) in the Asia-Pacific region. If a save cannot reach it, the studio keeps that draft in your browser and shows "OFFLINE — draft kept on this device" until the project is next opened and saved.

Changes

If this policy changes, the effective date above changes and material changes will be noted on this page.