Privacy Policy
Effective date: July 20, 2026
Nudge (“we,” “us,” “our”) is operated by Nudge. This policy explains what data we collect, why, and what we do with it. We wrote it in plain language because you deserve to actually read it.
The short version
- Your essays are yours. We do not sell, license, or share your essay content with anyone.
- No data goes to colleges. We never send your essays, drafts, questions, context, or any personal information to any college, university, admissions office, or educational institution.
- Your writing is not used to train AI. We use Anthropic’s commercial API, which contractually prohibits using API traffic for model training.
- We do not sell your data. Not to advertisers, data brokers, or anyone else. Period.
1. What we collect
| Data | Why we need it | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Account info (name, email) | Create your account and send transactional emails (receipts, password resets) | Until you delete your account |
| Essay drafts and context you enter | Generate questions about your writing | Stored while your account is active so you can return to your work; deleted when you delete your account |
| Nudge questions and feedback history | Show your progress across passes and avoid repeating questions | Same as essay drafts |
| Payment info | Process your purchase | Handled entirely by Stripe — we never see or store your full card number |
| Basic analytics (page views, feature usage) | Understand how people use the product so we can improve it | Aggregated and anonymized |
2. How we use your essay content
When you click “Get Feedback” or use Nudge’s coaching features, we send your draft text, the prompt you’re answering, and any context you’ve provided to Anthropic’s API to generate questions. That’s the only reason your essay leaves our servers.
- Anthropic’s commercial API terms prohibit using API traffic for model training. Your essay is not used to train AI models.
- We do not store, cache, or log the raw API responses beyond what is needed to display your questions.
- We do not run your essay through any other third-party AI service.
3. What we never do
To be explicit:
- We never sell your data — not your essays, not your email, not your usage patterns, not anything.
- We never share your essays with colleges or admissions offices. No college, university, counselor, or educational institution receives any data from Nudge, directly or indirectly.
- We never share your essays with other users. Your work is private to your account.
- We never use your content for marketing without your explicit, separate written permission.
- We never sell or provide data to data brokers, advertisers, or analytics resellers.
4. Third-party services
We use a small number of services to run Nudge:
- Anthropic — AI question generation (essay content sent per Section 2)
- Clerk — Authentication (manages sign-in; stores your email and name)
- Stripe — Payment processing (handles card details; we never see your full card number)
- Supabase — Database hosting (stores your essays and account data with row-level security)
- Vercel — Application hosting and basic analytics
- PostHog — Product analytics (anonymized usage data)
Each of these services has its own privacy policy. None of them receive your essay content except Anthropic, and only as described in Section 2.
5. Data about minors
Nudge is designed for high school students, many of whom are under 18. We collect only the data listed above — no more. We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13. If you are a parent and believe your child under 13 has created an account, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.
6. Your rights
You can, at any time:
- Export your data — request a copy of everything we store about you
- Delete your account — removes your essays, context, questions, and profile; payment records are retained by Stripe as required by financial regulations
- Correct your information — update your name or email in your account settings
To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@usenudge.com.
7. Security
We use row-level security in our database so users can only access their own data. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. We don’t pretend to be infallible — if we ever discover a breach that affects your data, we will notify you directly and promptly.
8. Changes to this policy
If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or by a notice in the app before the changes take effect. We will never retroactively weaken your privacy protections without your consent.
9. Contact
Questions or concerns? Email privacy@usenudge.com.