Privacy Policy
Last updated 11 July 2026
Skarvia is a writing studio built on a simple promise: your manuscript lives in your storage, not ours. This policy explains what we collect, what we don't, and how the two cloud services we connect to — Google Drive and Dropbox — fit in.
Who we are
Skarvia is a product of Aristocratix, LLC ("Skarvia", "we", "us"), operating the website and application at skarvia.com. You can reach us about anything in this policy at .
Where your writing lives
When you create a document, you choose where its canonical copy is stored: your Google Drive, your Dropbox, or a folder on your own computer. That copy is yours. Skarvia keeps a working copy on our servers only so the app can function — to render the editor, run fact-checks, produce insights, and let you browse version history. If you delete a document, or disconnect a storage provider, we remove the corresponding working copy.
Information we collect
- Account information — your email address and a securely hashed password. We never store your password in readable form.
- Your documents — the text and structure of documents you write, plus document metadata (titles, settings, comments, and version snapshots), held as the working copy described above.
- Fact-check data — when you run a check, the relevant passage is sent to our AI providers and web-search sources so claims can be verified; the resulting findings are stored with your document.
- Storage connection tokens — if you connect Google Drive or Dropbox, we store the access and refresh tokens needed to save your files there, encrypted at rest.
- Basic operational logs — standard server logs (timestamps, request paths, error traces) used to keep the service running and secure.
How Skarvia uses Google user data
If you connect Google Drive, Skarvia requests a single, narrowly-scoped permission:
drive.file — "See, edit, create, and delete only the specific Google Drive
files that you use with this app." Concretely, this means Skarvia can only touch the folders
and files it creates for your Skarvia documents. It cannot see, list, or access any other
file in your Google Drive.
We use this access solely to save your documents (as .skarvia.json and
.txt files), to write version snapshots, and to read a document back when you open
it. Skarvia's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app
will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Specifically,
we do not use Google user data for advertising, we do not sell or transfer it to third parties
except as needed to provide the storage feature you asked for or as required by law, we do not
allow humans to read it except with your consent, for security, or as required by law, and we do
not use it to train generalized or artificial-intelligence models. Dropbox connections work the
same way, limited to the Skarvia files they create.
You can review or revoke Skarvia's access to your Google Account at any time from Skarvia's Account page, or directly at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Revoking access removes the stored tokens; files already saved to your Drive remain yours.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your data or your writing — to anyone, ever.
- We do not use your manuscripts to train AI models.
- We do not read your connected cloud storage beyond the Skarvia files it holds.
- We do not show advertising.
Service providers we rely on
To run the service we use infrastructure and processors including our hosting provider, our database, AI providers used for fact-checking, and web-search services for claim verification. These providers process data only to perform their function for Skarvia. If and when paid plans launch, payments are handled by a third-party processor (Stripe) and we never store your card details.
Your choices
- Disconnect Google Drive or Dropbox at any time from your Account page; this revokes the stored tokens.
- Export any project as a
.zip, or your documents as DOCX, Fountain, FDX, or plain text, whenever you like. - Delete a document to remove its working copy, or contact us to close your account and erase your data.
Data retention & security
We keep your working copy and account data for as long as your account is active. Passwords are hashed; storage tokens are encrypted at rest; traffic is served over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, but keeping the canonical copy in your own storage means the most valuable thing — your finished words — is never solely in our hands.
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you. Continuing to use Skarvia after a change means you accept the updated policy.