Your permissions
Last updated: 1 October 2026
Writ asks for three permissions. Every one is off until you say yes. Saying no, or never answering, changes nothing else: the coach, your drafts and everything you paid for work exactly the same.
Sign-up asks for none of these. Your dashboard asks about emails once, and asks whether you would share your statement once it is finished or a university has replied. You can also say yes, or change your mind, at any time in Settings → Your permissions, which also shows when you chose and every change you have made. We keep the exact words you were shown with your choice, so changing this page later can never change what you agreed to.
Emails from Writ
If you say yes: Tips for your statement, news about Writ, and the occasional offer, from the founder.
Whatever you choose: We never pass your email address to anyone else. Emails about your account, payments, tutor feedback and your own deadlines still arrive either way.
The words you tick: “Send me emails from Rayan about Writ: tips for my statement, news, reminders to come back, and the occasional offer.”
The results-day question
If you say yes: After results day, an email asking how your applications went and whether Writ can learn from your statement.
Whatever you choose: It is only permission to ask. Nothing of yours is used unless you say yes at the time.
The words you tick: “After results day, email me to ask whether Writ can learn from the statement I wrote here. I understand this is only permission to ask, that nothing is used unless I say yes at the time, and that I can stop these emails in Settings whenever I like.”
Learning from your statement
If you say yes: Writ can use your statement, with your name and details removed, to improve the coaching it gives future students.
Whatever you choose: Never published, sold, shown to another student, or used to write anybody else's statement.
The words you tick: “Writ can learn from my personal statement, with my name and personal details removed, to coach future students better. In future, that could include training Writ's own AI. It will never be published, sold, shared with anyone for their own use, shown to another student, or used to write anybody else's statement. I can change my mind in Settings at any time: Writ then stops using it, though anything already learned from it stays.”
What is not a permission
Some emails are part of the service and do not need a yes: your account and password, payment receipts, tutor feedback on your statement, and countdowns to your own UCAS and school deadlines.
To coach you, Writ has to send your drafts to the AI that reads them. That is how the service works rather than a permission, and how our AI works explains exactly what it sees and what it may not do with it. Who else handles your data, and why, is on our security page.
If you are under 18
You can say yes to emails and to the results-day question yourself: UK law lets anyone aged 13 or over agree to an online service. Anything that uses your statement is different. If you are under 18, we will not use your statement under “Learning from your statement” until a parent or guardian has agreed too, or you have turned 18.
If your account comes through your school
Your school decides how your data is used, so Writ does not ask you these questions and never uses your statement for anything but your own coaching.
Changing your mind
Untick it in Settings, or email enquiries@writai.co.uk. You never need to give a reason. Withdrawing “Learning from your statement” stops any future use of it, though anything already learned from it stays. The full legal detail is in our privacy policy, section 3a.