Auteur Intelligence™ — Privacy Policy

Version 2026-11-07

In plain words

Auteur Intelligence provides local, hosted, and hybrid software for writing, film, media, games, software development, research, education, and release workflows.

We collect the information needed to run your account, provide the Products you choose, process billing, secure the service, connect the third-party providers you authorize, and support your work.

Your project content remains yours. Auteur Intelligence does not use your content to train our own models.

Some features send content or instructions to third-party providers that you connect or select. Those providers process information under their own terms, privacy policies, account settings, retention practices, and service configuration.

If an offer includes a 7-day trial, we collect a payment method at signup through our payment processor. We do not store your complete card number. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the paid subscription begins when the seven-day trial ends and the payment method on file is automatically charged the price disclosed at signup, plus applicable taxes.

1. Who we are

Saucer Century LLC, trading as Auteur Intelligence ("Auteur Intelligence," "Auteur," "we," "us," or "our"), is responsible for the personal information described in this Policy except where another provider processes information under its own terms.

Privacy contact:
hello@auteurintelligence.com

For account, billing, website, service-operation, and company records, Auteur Intelligence generally acts as the controller of the personal information we collect.

When you use Auteur Cloud to process personal information contained inside your own project files on behalf of yourself, your business, or another person, you control that project information and we process it to provide the service you requested.

2. How Auteur runs

Auteur Products may operate locally, in Auteur Cloud, or through a hybrid combination.

Local. Software runs on hardware you control. Local-only project files remain on that hardware. Account activation, connected providers, optional cloud features, synchronization, and hybrid workflows may still send selected information outward.

Hosted. Auteur Cloud provides hosted accounts, project workspaces, storage, coordination, billing, generation routing, receipts, and other enabled services.

Hybrid. Some workflows combine Auteur Cloud with a local node, creative application, model, file system, or other system that you control.

The route you choose determines which systems and providers receive information.

3. Information we collect

Public website

Our website host may receive ordinary request information such as IP address, time, requested page, browser or user-agent information, and technical logs needed to deliver and secure the site.

We use Vercel Web Analytics, provided by our website host, to count visits and see which pages are viewed. It is cookieless: it sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, and it does not follow you across other websites. Vercel reports the results to us in aggregate, such as page views, unique visitors, referrers, and approximate country, device, and browser type. We do not use it to identify you, and we do not combine it with account information.

If we add advertising, other tracking technologies, or non-essential cookies beyond what is disclosed here, we will update this Policy and provide any notice or choice required by law.

Hosted sites and apps

Hosted sites and apps use a built-in visitor counter. It sets no cookies and runs no scripts in your browser. It never stores your IP address or browser details. Your visit is counted with a one-way code that changes every day and is deleted once the day ends, so we can only show the site owner daily totals: unique visitors, page views, top pages, referring websites and countries. Totals are kept for 13 months. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, your visit isn't counted at all.

Account information

We may collect:

• name;
• email address;
• sign-in identifiers;
• organization and project memberships;
• plan, trial, subscription, and entitlement information;
• account status;
• device-pairing and licence-activation records; and
• settings and preferences associated with the service.

Trial and billing information

When you begin an offer that includes a 7-day trial, our payment processor collects your accepted payment method at signup.

We do not receive or store your complete credit-card or debit-card number.

Our systems may receive payment-related information such as:

• payment-provider customer identifiers;
• payment status;
• subscription and trial status;
• billing period;
• invoice information;
• last four digits or card brand where supplied by the payment processor;
• tax-related information where required; and
• records of charges, refunds, disputes, and payment failures.

The payment processor may perform a temporary authorization or verification at signup.

Unless you cancel before the seven-day trial ends, the paid subscription begins immediately when the trial ends and the payment method on file is automatically charged the subscription price disclosed at signup, plus applicable taxes.

Your hosted content

When you use hosted Products, we may process the project information you upload or create there, including manuscripts, scripts, media, research, prompts, project records, generated material, uploaded files, and information derived from them that is necessary for the Product to work.

Derived technical data such as search indexes, embeddings, caches, or structured project representations is treated as project content for privacy and deletion purposes unless it must be retained separately for security, billing, legal, or audit reasons.

Photos of people: if you add a photo of a person to a ReadYourPet reading, see “Photos of people” in the Terms of Service for how that photo is used, stored and deleted.

Operational records

We maintain records used to operate and secure the service, including information about:

• what task ran;
• what Product, model, provider, or route was selected;
• when an operation occurred;
• whether it succeeded or failed;
• approvals and control decisions;
• estimated or reported usage and cost;
• receipts and audit events;
• security events; and
• technical errors or diagnostics.

We design these records to avoid storing project content where it is not needed, but some support or diagnostic records may contain limited portions of information necessary to understand a problem.

Provider credentials and connections

Some features allow you to connect third-party accounts using API keys, OAuth, subscription authentication, MCP, command-line tools, service accounts, local nodes, or other supported methods.

Where Auteur Cloud stores a provider credential, we use technical controls intended to protect that credential, including encryption and tenant separation.

Credentials are used to make the provider calls you authorize.

Deleting or disconnecting an Auteur credential does not necessarily cancel a third-party subscription, close the provider account, delete data held by that provider, or revoke every authorization maintained by that provider. Use the provider's own controls where appropriate.

Local installations

Local-only project data remains on the device or storage you control unless you choose a feature that sends selected information to Auteur Cloud or another provider.

Some Products may maintain local learning, history, preferences, caches, or project records on your own machine so that the software can operate.

Support and correspondence

If you contact us for support, send a bug report, respond to a service message, or provide files needed to diagnose a problem, we process the information you send for that purpose.

Files supplied solely for support may be deleted after the support issue is resolved unless they must be retained for legal, security, or dispute purposes.

Service-continuity contact copy

We maintain a limited encrypted service-continuity contact copy, separate from the primary hosted environment, so we can reach active customers if our normal hosting or notification systems are unavailable.

This copy is limited to information reasonably needed for service notices, such as account email, organization or account label, plan or subscription status, access-end information, and the time the copy was generated.

It is used for operational messages such as outages, security notices, billing problems, account closure, or the end of access. It is not used as a marketing list.

The service-continuity copy is encrypted and maintained on a company-controlled local device. Rolling copies are replaced regularly, and older copies are deleted within seven days according to our operating procedure.

Marketing, if offered, uses a separate opt-in where required and can be withdrawn independently from service notices.

Community and separately supplied services

A community platform, training platform, payment provider, connected provider, or other separately supplied service may operate under its own terms and privacy policy.

Participation in one Auteur Product does not automatically authorize unrelated marketing or data use by another provider.

4. How connected providers receive information

A provider you choose may receive information necessary to perform the request you send to it.

Depending on the feature, that may include:

• prompts;
• project text;
• source files;
• images, video, or audio;
• instructions;
• model parameters;
• metadata;
• identifiers needed to route or authorize a request; and
• information generated during the provider workflow.

Third-party providers operate under their own terms, privacy practices, retention periods, training controls, geographic processing locations, and account settings.

Auteur does not control a provider's later changes to those practices.

Before using a provider for sensitive material, review the provider route and the privacy and account settings that apply to your account.

5. How we use information

We use personal information to:

• create and administer accounts;
• authenticate users and devices;
• provide the Products and requested workflows;
• maintain hosted workspaces;
• connect and operate provider routes selected by users;
• process trials, subscriptions, billing, refunds, and taxes;
• measure usage needed for account operation, limits, receipts, and billing;
• secure the Products and investigate misuse or security incidents;
• diagnose bugs and provide customer support;
• send service, billing, security, export, retention, and account notices;
• maintain records needed for disputes, compliance, and service integrity;
• improve the operation, reliability, and usability of the Products without training our own models on your project content; and
• comply with legal obligations.

Where applicable privacy law requires a legal basis, the basis may include performance of our contract with you, compliance with legal obligations, our legitimate interests in operating and securing the service, your consent where required, or your instructions where we process project information on your behalf.

6. What we do not do

We do not sell personal information.

We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We do not use your project content to train our own models.

We do not claim that third-party providers follow Auteur's no-training rule. Their own terms, plans, settings, and policies govern their use of information sent to them.

We do not store your complete payment-card number.

We do not treat the service-continuity contact copy as a marketing list.

7. Service providers and subprocessors

We use third parties to operate parts of Auteur Intelligence.

These may include providers for:

• website hosting;
• cloud hosting and storage;
• authentication and database services;
• DNS and network services;
• payment processing;
• transactional email;
• customer-directed AI, model, and media services; and
• other infrastructure needed for a Product or connection you choose.

The current Service Providers and Subprocessors page identifies the providers used for Auteur-operated services and distinguishes them, where appropriate, from third-party services that you connect or direct us to use.

A provider you connect for your own account may be a customer-directed third party rather than an Auteur-selected subprocessor for that particular request.

We may update the provider list as our infrastructure and Products change.

8. International processing

Auteur may be available to customers in more than one country, and the processing route you select may involve infrastructure or providers located outside your country.

Where required by applicable law, we use or require appropriate mechanisms for international transfers of personal information under our control.

Third-party providers you connect may use their own international-transfer mechanisms and processing locations.

9. Retention and deletion

Account information

We keep account information while your account is active and for the period reasonably required afterward for account closure, disputes, security, legal obligations, and records that must be retained.

Hosted project content

During active hosted access, project content is retained as needed to provide the Product.

When your paid or authorized hosted access ends, your hosted workspace remains available for export for 90 days.

When you delete your account, we first create a final export of your hosted content as a safety copy. That copy is kept for 7 days and then permanently deleted. Any exports you made earlier are deleted along with your account.

After the 90-day export period, hosted project content may be deleted from active systems.

Residual technical or disaster-recovery copies may remain for a bounded period as ordinary backup, security, or recovery systems rotate.

Backup copies of hosted files are kept for up to 30 days and then permanently removed, including after you delete your account.

Derived project data follows the deletion of the underlying project content unless it must be retained separately for a legitimate security, billing, legal, or audit purpose.

Provider credentials

Stored provider credentials are retained until replaced, revoked, disconnected, or deleted, subject to technical security and recovery processes.

Deleting a stored credential from Auteur does not control copies or authorizations held by the third-party provider itself.

Operational, security, and billing records

We retain operational, security, billing, tax, refund, and audit records for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which they were created and for applicable legal or accounting obligations.

Service-continuity contact copy

The current service-continuity contact copy reflects eligible accounts and is refreshed regularly. Older encrypted copies are deleted within seven days under our operating procedure.

If an account is deleted or otherwise becomes ineligible for service notices, it is removed from the active source and disappears from rolling service-continuity copies as those copies are replaced.

Local files

Deleting hosted information does not delete copies stored on your own computer, local node, export location, backup, connected third-party service, or other storage outside our control.

Backup copies of hosted files that we keep are separate: they are kept for up to 30 days and then permanently removed, including after you delete your account.

10. Security

We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect the systems and information we control.

These may include authentication controls, encryption, tenant separation, access restrictions, security logging, credential protection, backups for platform integrity, and other safeguards appropriate to the service.

No security system can guarantee that a breach, data loss, software defect, provider failure, or unauthorized access will never occur.

If we become aware of a security incident requiring notice under applicable law, we will provide the required notice.

11. Your privacy choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:

• request access to personal information we hold about you;
• request correction;
• request deletion;
• request a portable copy;
• object to or restrict certain processing;
• withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; or
• exercise other privacy rights available under applicable law.

To make a request, contact hello@auteurintelligence.com.

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before acting on a request.

You may also use available in-product export, credential-disconnection, account, and deletion controls.

Privacy rights involving data held independently by a third-party provider must generally be exercised with that provider.

12. Children

Ordinary independent Auteur accounts are intended for adults who can enter into a contract.

Minors may use Auteur Products only under the supervision of a parent, guardian, teacher, or other responsible adult.

A minor may not independently create or hold an ordinary adult account.

If you believe a child has provided personal information outside an adult-supervised arrangement, contact hello@auteurintelligence.com.

13. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as the Products, infrastructure, legal requirements, or data practices change.

If a change materially affects how we use personal information already associated with an account, we will provide notice where required by applicable law.

The current version posted with the Products applies from its stated effective date.

14. Contact

Auteur Intelligence™
Saucer Century LLC

hello@auteurintelligence.com