Privacy

No account to write code

Writing, running and sharing code needs no sign-up and no account: there is no profile, password or email address to keep. Only companies that run online assessments sign in (see below).

Your projects stay in your browser

Projects, files, settings, run history and interviews you set up are saved in this browser (its local storage), not on our servers. Clearing the site's data in your browser deletes them. “Move to another device” sends a copy only when you ask it to.

The browser also keeps a random id that is sent with your runs, so that run limits apply to each person even when many share one network. It is not linked to anything about you.

When you run, debug or visualize a program

Your code and its input are sent to our server, run in an isolated sandbox and then thrown away with the sandbox. A record of the run (the language, timings, exit code and the program's output) is kept for 30 days to run the service and find faults, together with a one-way hash of your network address used for rate limits. Your network address itself is not stored with it.

Share links and moving projects

A share link stores a copy of the code you chose to share, for 90 days after it was last opened. Anyone with the link can read that copy. A code to move projects to another device holds a copy of those projects for 12 hours, then it is deleted.

Live sessions and interviews

In a live session, the code, cursors, runs and names of the people in it are passed between them through our server and kept while the session is active, then removed within a day.

In an interview with the camera on, the video goes directly between the two browsers, or through our relay server when a network blocks direct connections. It is not recorded. Invitations you choose to email are sent through our email provider (Resend).

The assistant

When you ask the assistant, the files of the open project, its last output and your question are sent to Google's Gemini service to write the answer. We do not store what you send. You can turn the assistant off in Settings → Coding help; nothing is sent to it then.

Companies running online assessments

A recruiter signs in with a link sent to their email address. We keep that address, their name if they give one, the organization they belong to and its team, and the assessments they write. There is no password; the sign-in link works once, and the session is kept in a cookie that only our server can read.

Students taking an online assessment

The company that invites you gives us your name and email address, and we email you your link (through Resend). When you take the assessment we keep, for that company: the code you write and submit, your test results and score, when you started and finished, and what your browser reports during the test (leaving the window or full screen, the first 300 characters of anything you try to paste, the camera turning off).

If the company requires the camera, a still photo is taken every 30 seconds and whenever you leave the test window, and kept with your report. Photos are not used for anything else: no face recognition, and they are never shared outside that company's team. Nothing is recorded as video or sound.

Only the people in the company's team can see your results. Everything about an assessment (results, code and photos) is deleted 180 days after it closes, or earlier when the company deletes it. To ask about your data, write to the company that invited you, or to us.

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Contact

Questions, requests or a problem to report: write to support@writecode.in.