Pure Writer Privacy Policy

Software Information

Pure Writer is a writing app that pursues non-loss and reassurance, featuring extremely fast startup speeds and a smooth writing experience.

Basic Statement

Pure Writer does not collect your private information. It only queries the following contents unrelated to your personal information:

Current phone model name, Android version number, and the Android ID provided by the Android system (this is an ID that can be reset by the user in the system settings page or automatically reset after a factory reset): This data will be automatically reported when the app crashes, to help us understand the app version's bugs and related models, facilitating developers to replicate and solve problems, and improve the stability of the software. We cannot and will not use this information to locate specific users or phones.
Error logs: Relevant code stack information automatically generated by the Android system when the app crashes. We automatically report it to Microsoft's AppCenter platform via the internet. AppCenter platform URL: https://appcenter.ms
Information about other apps installed on the phone: Pure Writer will try to check if Alipay or WeChat is present on your phone to guess if you are a user in mainland China. Alipay cannot provide payment services for overseas user platforms like Google Play, so we need to provide Google Pay for overseas users. Thus, this is necessary content to query. However, rest assured, these information checks are entirely local, and the results will not be uploaded anywhere, purely local checks, purely local analysis guesses. No one will know what other apps you have installed on your phone, as we do not upload or store this information.

Some features of Pure Writer may come with their own terms. When you use these features, those terms take precedence.

Copyright of Works

Pure Writer is merely a creative tool. The works you create in it completely belong to you personally, and you also fully own the copyright, authorship, and other rights of the works.

Permissions Requested

To better protect user privacy, starting from Android 11, Pure Writer no longer needs full disk read and write permissions. Instead, it lets users specify a folder directory, and Pure Writer will only have read and write permissions for that directory. Therefore, for Android 11 and above systems, Pure Writer will not request any permissions.

For systems before Android 11, Pure Writer will request read and write permissions to the phone's storage, for functions like automatic backups, exporting articles, long images, etc. We will not read any of your other file contents without your knowledge.

Third-party SDKs Used

Google Billing SDK: Google's payment method SDK, Privacy Policy
Dropbox SDK: Dropbox cloud storage SDK, Privacy Policy

Article Data and Backup

By default, Pure Writer does not automatically perform cloud backups. Pure Writer only supports third-party cloud storage as your cloud backup space. Pure Writer does not provide official cloud backup disk services. Therefore, you can set your WebDAV disk (e.g., Nutstore) or Dropbox, Google Drive, etc., in Pure Writer as the cloud backup service space. Pure Writer will strictly encrypt and transmit your article backups to your cloud storage via HTTPS. Due to the security of HTTPS itself, no one can intercept and view the content during transmission, and your content can only be seen by you on your cloud storage, or pulled and viewed in Pure Writer. Apart from you, including the developers, no one can see your backups and article contents.

If you register a Pure Writer account in the app (this is not necessary), your password will be stored as a digest on the Pure Writer server. We do not store your password in plain text, and the digest cannot be reverse-engineered to your original password. In other words, no one can know your original password because we have not stored it anywhere. Without storage, there is no possibility of leakage or being viewed by others.

Fanhuaji Conversion

When the app language is Simplified Chinese, Formatting options include "台灣化（繁化姬）". When you use it (or the one-tap "Format" action, if you've added it there), Pure Writer sends the text of the current document over HTTPS to Fanhuaji (https://zhconvert.org), a third-party service, to convert it into Traditional Chinese with Taiwanese usage. Pure Writer explains this and asks for your consent before the first use. The request contains no account or device information. Nothing is sent to Fanhuaji unless you use this option; the other Chinese conversions in Formatting options run on your device and don't need a connection.

How to Cancel Your Account

If you need to cancel your Pure Writer account, please enter Pure Writer - Settings - Minority Options - Cancel Pure Writer Account. The "Cancel Pure Writer Account" option is at the bottom of the "Minority Options" page. Clicking on it allows you to self-service cancel your Pure Writer account.

Note: If you do not have a Pure Writer Pro membership, entering the "Minority Options" will show a

"This page requires the premium version" prompt. You can click the "Try" button in the dialog box to ignore it, then scroll to the bottom of the page to find the cancellation option. Cancellation does not require a Pure Writer Pro membership, rest assured!

Updates to This Policy

We may modify and update this privacy policy from time to time. You can visit this page at any time to check the latest version of the privacy policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy, or encounter any problems and suggestions while using Pure Writer, you can send an email to writer@drakeet.com. We will do our best to serve you.