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Users of our main website, NaNoWriMo.org, do not type their work directly into our interface, nor do they save or upload their work to our website in any way. On our main website, we do not have access to what you are writing and therefore cannot access, harvest, or otherwise use your written work.
Though certain writing apps integrate with our goal tracking feature, information passed between the NaNoWriMo API and the APIs of third-party apps only involves word count information and does not contain your written work itself.
The extent of NaNoWriMo's exposure to what a writer is working on amounts to information that writers voluntarily share about their projects. Writers wishing to participate in a personal or group writing challenge can do as little as giving a project a name and creating a word count goal. Writers wishing to share more information about their projects may choose to add a project description, a genre tag, a book cover, and other high-level details.
The amount of information shared about a project on our main website is always up to the individual writer, and writers are always at liberty to change their own personal privacy settings about who can see what. This can be done independently and does not require special intervention from NaNoWriMo staff. Again, information we have access to on NaNoWriMo.org is merely information about your project. On NaNoWriMo.org, we have no access to what you have written.
Our YWP website works a bit differently. Since this was built to support teachers and classrooms, it was designed in a way that asked students to place their writing directly in the interface. The purpose of this was to give teachers insight into their students' work. NaNoWriMo does not touch this written work, nor do we harvest, or otherwise use this work in any way.
Finally, since the spring of 2024, it has been on our YWP product roadmap to retire the aforementioned feature. There are so many wonderful composition tools out there with features that surpass ours; providing an embedded app for writers to write is not really in our wheelhouse. We also think there's a way for us to continue providing resources to teachers and their classrooms full of young writers without taking on the responsibility of storing their work.
Please review our Privacy Policy for more information about how we protect your data.