PRIVACY

What happens to your text.

This notice describes how the current Dumb It Down text simplifier handles your information.

Last updated: September 27, 2026

Text you submit

Pasting text into the editor does not send it to an AI provider. When you submit a rewrite request, your text and chosen settings go through our server to the text service. The application does not save submitted passages or generated results on its server.

Text and results stay in the open page so you can compare and copy them. The application does not save a history in cookies or browser storage. Your browser may independently restore page content as part of its own settings.

AI providers

When you submit, your text is sent to Kie.ai and its upstream model providers to create the rewrite. This application does not save your passages or results on its server. The providers’ data handling policies apply. Kie.ai states that text and metadata logs are retained for two months. Daily usage is tracked using a hashed network address. Avoid submitting confidential information.

See Kie’s API data-retention information and Kie’s privacy policy. Provider retention is separate from storage by this application.

Daily usage records

The server receives your network address to handle requests. To enforce the free allowance, it stores a keyed hash based on that address and the current day, together with attempt times and usage information. The usage store does not contain your original IP address or your text.

People sharing a network share the allowance. Old daily records are removed from the active database when the next rewrite request checks the quota after the daily reset. Failed attempts remain counted toward the site-wide daily limit.

Website hosting

Cloudflare hosts this website and processes network information needed to deliver it. The application uses Cloudflare D1 for usage records. Hosting logs and database backups are separate from the active usage records described above. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Cookies, advertising and analytics

This version does not use advertising scripts, analytics scripts or tracking cookies. If those services are added, this notice will need to describe their data practices.

Contact messages

If you email us, your email service and ours handle the message. We use the address and information you send to respond to your enquiry. Avoid including confidential source text.

For privacy questions, visit Contact.