Last updated: May 8, 2026
When you purchase Write It Down or sign up for our mailing list, we collect your email address. We do not collect passwords, financial data, bank information, or any content you enter into the Google Sheet.
All data you enter into the Write It Down spreadsheet lives in your own Google Drive. We have no access to it. Your financial information is entirely private and under your control.
The optional Write It Down Dashboard at write-it-down.com/dashboard lets you visualize your sheet over time. Using it is entirely optional.
Your finance data never touches our servers. We never store the contents of your sheet — not transactions, not amounts, not categories. The dashboard reads your sheet live from Google each time and discards the rows as soon as the charts render.
When you sign in with Google, we request the following scopes:
What we store: your email address, sign-in timestamps, OAuth tokens (so you don’t have to re-sign-in every hour), and anonymous usage events (e.g. “dashboard viewed”) to improve the product. We also cache historical foreign-exchange rates we look up from public sources.
What we never store: the contents of your sheet (transactions, amounts, categories, descriptions). Sheet data is read on demand from Google’s API and discarded as soon as the response is sent.
What stays on your device: to keep the dashboard fast, your browser temporarily caches the rows it just read from Google so it can re-render charts without re-fetching. The cache lives entirely in your browser’s local storage. It never leaves your device, and we never see it. Clear your browser data and it’s gone.
Use of Google user data: we use Google user data only to power the dashboard features described above. We do not sell, transfer, or otherwise share Google user data with third parties for advertising, analytics, or any other purpose unrelated to the dashboard. Our use complies with the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
You can revoke our access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
We use Google Analytics and DataFast (a self-hosted, EU-friendly analytics product) to understand which channels bring visitors and which actions lead to a purchase. We never share analytics data with advertising networks.
On first visit you choose between two analytics modes via a consent banner: Accept sets one analytics cookie used to attribute purchases back to the channel that brought you. Reject switches to a cookieless variant that only counts anonymous pageviews and aggregate goals — no per-visitor attribution. You can change your mind by clearing the cookie/local storage in your browser.
We use at most one analytics cookie, set only if you accept the consent banner (see Analytics above). The cookie holds an opaque visitor ID — no email, no name, no payment data — and is used solely to link your sessions for attribution. Rejecting the banner means no analytics cookie is set. Refusing cookies does not affect site functionality.
You can request deletion of your email and account data at any time by contacting us at l.cundric@gmail.com. We will process your request within 30 days.
California residents: under the CCPA you have the right to request deletion of your personal information and to know what we’ve collected. Email us with the subject “CCPA request” and we’ll respond within 45 days. We do not sell personal information.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, email us at l.cundric@gmail.com.