Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-11-12

EssayScore ("we", "the site") is a free tool that gives writing feedback on college application essays. This page explains what we handle.

What we collect

• Your essay and the prompt you pick. We send them to an AI model provider to write the feedback. We do not store your essay or the feedback on our servers or in our database, and we do not write essay text to our logs. The result is shown in your browser and is gone when you close or reload the page.
• Limit data: a salted hash of your network address that changes every day (no cookie), with the date and the number of gradings, so we can apply the daily free limit.
• Waitlist email: only if you submit it in a "Coming soon" window. We use it to write to you once when paid features open, and for nothing else.
• Usage analytics: page views and button clicks through Google Analytics 4, which sets _ga cookies. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland these stay off until you accept them. Events do not include your email or your essay.
• Standard server records: our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes your network address and request details to deliver the site and to block abuse.

Who receives your essay

• The AI model provider. Your essay is sent to Cloudflare Workers AI, which runs the open-source OpenAI model gpt-oss-120b that writes the feedback. We do not train models. Cloudflare has its own terms. What Cloudflare's published documents say, as of 2026-11-12:
• Retention: Cloudflare says it does not retain inputs or outputs after they are no longer needed to process the request, and it gives no fixed number of days. We do not store your essay ourselves; it is processed and returned. Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/data-usage/
• Training: Cloudflare states that it does not use customer content processed by Workers AI to train its models. Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/data-usage/
• Do not submit anything you are not comfortable sending to Cloudflare Workers AI.
• Cloudflare hosts the site and our small database. Google provides analytics.

Retention: we keep no essays. Limit records hold only a date, a daily-changing hash and a count. Limit records are kept while the service runs. Waitlist emails are deleted 12 months after you submit them, or sooner if you ask. What the model providers keep is described above.

Your choices: to see or delete your waitlist email, write to hello@howtallai.com. You can decline analytics cookies with "Cookie settings" in the footer or block them in your browser; the tool works the same either way.

Children: EssayScore is not directed to children under 13, and you must confirm you are 13 or older before you grade an essay. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and we follow the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar children's privacy laws. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it. If you believe a child under 13 has given us information, write to hello@howtallai.com. If you are under 18, ask a parent or guardian before you use the site.

Changes: we will update this page and its date when practice changes.

Contact: EssayScore is operated by an independent developer. Write to hello@howtallai.com. Governing law: the laws of the place where the operator resides, unless mandatory consumer law of your country says otherwise.