Privacy Policy
Last updated: 16 September 2026
This Privacy Policy (the "policy") is published at https://blisswriter.app/legal/privacy, alongside the Terms of Service and the End User License Agreement.
1. Controller and Definitions
1.1 Weedon & Scott, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company ("we", "us", or "our"), is the controller of the personal data this policy covers. We make an app ("Bliss Writer") and run a club ("the Club"). What we run for you on our side, such as the website and the Club, is "our services". "Personal data" means data about a living individual who can be identified from it, on its own or together with other information we hold or are likely to come to hold; the "controller" is whoever decides why and how personal data is processed, and for the data this policy covers that is us.
1.2 Write to privacy@blisswriter.app with a privacy question, a complaint, or a rights request that the Club does not let you act on yourself (see section 8).
2. Scope
2.1 This policy covers your personal data once it has reached us. What Bliss Writer does on your machine, including what it sends us, is covered by the EULA. Section 4 says what each service collects.
2.2 By using any of our services, and/or by buying a license, you accept this policy. Where a use of your personal data rests on your consent instead, the clause that describes that use says so, and says how to withdraw the consent.
3. Purposes and Legal Bases
3.1 We use your personal data to deliver what you asked us for, such as your license and your membership of the Club; our legal basis for that is performing our contract with you. The newsletter rests instead on the consent you give when you sign up, and unsubscribing withdraws that consent.
3.2 We also use it to keep our services working and secure, on the basis of our legitimate interest in doing so. That includes, for example, running the trial and keeping it from being taken again and again, seeing how the website is used, keeping backups, and moderating the Club.
3.3 We may use it to answer a legal demand or to defend a claim, on the basis of a legal obligation or of our legitimate interest in defending claims. Beyond these, we use personal data only for a purpose that would be reasonably apparent to you when we collect it.
4. Categories of Data Collected
Buying a license
4.1 We do not take your payment ourselves. What reaches us from a purchase is what we need to tie your license to it.
The Club
4.2 Joining the Club creates a record of your membership: the email address you gave, and beside it whatever running a membership takes, such as the name you choose to go by there. Other members know you by that name and not by your address, which is seen only by you, by the people who run the Club, and by whoever brought you into it.
4.3 Logging in to the Club sets cookies in your browser that keep you signed in. Logging out clears them.
The website
4.4 The website itself sets no cookie of its own; the Club's login cookies are the only ones we set.
4.5 The pages where a purchase can begin make your browser contact someone other than us as they load, whether or not you buy. On every other page your browser talks only to us.
4.6 We count visits, and do it without cookies. What is recorded is the page you were on and which of the actions we count was taken there.
4.7 The counting happens on the website only; nothing in Bliss Writer counts you. There is no way out of it, because we consider that counting privacy-aware.
4.8 Signing up for the newsletter asks you for your email address and nothing else.
The email we send you
4.9 We write to you at the address we hold for you with the email our services require. Any email we send you carries a marker that tells us whether you opened it. Newsletter mail goes to the address you gave when you signed up for it, until you unsubscribe.
4.10 The mail you cannot unsubscribe from is the mail our services themselves require, such as what you need to use what you bought. Every newsletter carries an unsubscribe link at its foot. Unsubscribing stops the newsletter and nothing else.
When you write to us
4.11 When you write to us, we keep what you send and our reply to it.
What our servers record
4.12 Our servers keep a record of the requests they answer, to keep our services running and to protect them.
What comes from someone other than you
4.13 Not everything in this section comes from you: what a purchase tells us about you comes from the record of it, and who invited you to the Club comes from the member who did.
5. Disclosure
5.1 We use other companies to run our services, Paddle among them, and your personal data reaches them for that purpose.
5.2 We do not sell personal data, run no advertising or remarketing, and use no data broker.
5.3 We may publish or share figures drawn from the data above once they identify no one, and we do not work back from them to a person.
5.4 Beyond the companies we use to run our services, we disclose personal data only where the law requires it, to defend or enforce the Terms of Service, or to whoever takes the business over — with notice to you in that last case.
6. Retention
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Your license record | Perpetually. |
| Your Club member record | Until you close your membership. After that, nothing in it points to you. |
| The mail you write to us | For as long as we need it to deal with what you wrote to us about. |
| Backups | No more than 210 days. |
| Your newsletter address | We hold it to send you the newsletter, and unsubscribing stops the mail. |
6.1 Deleting something from our services does not take it out of the backups.
6.2 Records may outlive the periods above where the law requires us to keep them, or while a dispute or a claim they bear on is running.
7. International Transfers
7.1 We are a US company and run our services from the United States, so using them sends your personal data there.
7.2 Where a company we use to run our services processes personal data is for that company's own privacy policy to say.
8. Data Subject Rights
8.1 Data-protection law gives you rights over your personal data: (a) to see it; (b) to correct it; (c) to have it deleted; (d) to restrict or object to our use of it; (e) to take a copy of it away; and (f) to withdraw a consent you gave.
8.2 Where the Club lets you act on a right yourself, you do it there, logged in. Where it does not, you write to privacy@blisswriter.app.
8.3 Your email address is how we reach you, and there is no other way, so keeping it current is your responsibility.
8.4 Closing your membership takes your name off what you left in the Club: your member record stops pointing to you, and what you posted stays without an author. Your license record stays, because it is the license.
8.5 Any rights you have against a company other than us are exercised with that company, through the routes its own privacy policy gives.
8.6 If you are in the EU, the EEA, or the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.
8.7 Where a US state privacy law gives you rights, the routes above are how you use them.
9. Security
9.1 We take reasonable care to protect personal data.
9.2 No care we take can make our services perfectly secure, and sending anything over the internet carries a risk that no measure removes.
10. Third-Party Sites
10.1 What members post in the Club can include material held on other sites, chosen by the member who posted it. Looking at it makes your browser contact the site holding it, and we do not control those sites.
10.2 Where we link to a site we do not run, following the link takes you under that site's own policy, and we are not responsible for that site.
11. Children
11.1 Everything we make is for people aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect anything from anyone younger, and we do not ask anyone's age. If we learn that we hold personal data about someone under 18, we delete it.
12. Amendments
12.1 This policy lives at https://blisswriter.app/legal/privacy. It shows the date it was last changed.