ScriptoriumScriptorium privacy policy
In short. Scriptorium works on your own computer, and your documents never leave it for us. The program sends Momo Designs a few facts about its trial or licence, listed below, and your name and email address only if you choose to register or buy. Nothing is sold, ever.
1. Who we are
Momo Designs cc (“we”, “us”) makes Scriptorium and is the responsible party for the personal information described here, under South Africa's Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPIA).
Momo Designs cc, registration number 2005/082538/23, 2 Slabbert Street, Salsoneville, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), 6059, South Africa. Email: [email protected].
2. Your documents
Everything you write, open, import, print or save in Scriptorium stays on your computer. We do not receive, store or have any access to your documents, projects, pictures or settings. The only way any of it leaves your computer is if you send it yourself: by email, for instance, or to an AI service through the assistant (section 5).
3. What the program sends us, and when
Scriptorium talks to our licence server at licences.momoworx.com. It works fine when it cannot reach it; nothing is ever held back for lack of an answer.
3.1 Until it has a licence
During the 14-day trial, and afterwards while it is a reader, Scriptorium says hello once a day when it is online. It sends:
- this computer's code: a string of 16 letters and numbers worked out from the computer, which identifies the computer but not you (if you register or buy, we keep it with your email address and name);
- the day the trial began, and whether it is still running;
- the version of Scriptorium;
- the kind of computer (Windows or Linux, for example);
- the language Scriptorium is showing.
We use this to count the people trying Scriptorium, to know which versions and languages are in use, to extend a trial when somebody asks, and to notice a trial started again by reinstalling.
3.2 With a licence
About once a week, when it is online, a licensed Scriptorium sends this computer's code to ask whether its licence still stands. We use it to withdraw a licence that was stolen, charged back or refunded, and to see when a licence was last in use. If the program cannot reach us, nothing changes.
3.3 When you ask for your licence
When you press I have paid — fetch my licence, Scriptorium sends this computer's code so that we can send back the licence paid for it. From version 3.40.1 it also sends the codes the same computer went by in earlier versions, which worked the code out differently, so that a licence bought before then is still found.
3.4 If you register your trial
Scriptorium asks once, early in the trial, whether you would like to register. It is up to you: the program works exactly the same either way. If you do, it sends your email address, your name if you give it, this computer's code, and whether you ticked the box for news and offers. The box is never ticked for you.
We use your email address to write to you about your trial and your licence. We send news and offers only if you ticked the box, every such email has a link to unsubscribe, and you can ask us at any time to forget you completely.
Scriptorium sends a name or an email address only to a server that proves, with a signature only we can make, that it is ours.
Registering is meant for adults. If you are under 18, please do not register; Scriptorium works exactly the same without it.
4. Buying a licence
When you buy on our licence server, we ask for your email address (the payment provider needs one, and it lets us send your licence again if you ever need it), your name if you wish to give it, and the code of the computer the licence is for. We keep a record of the sale: those details, the amount, the payment reference and the date, and when the licence last checked in. When you start a payment we note the computer's code, the payment reference and the time, so that a payment that went through can still be found if the news of it goes astray.
Card payments are made on the pages of Paystack, our payment provider, under their own privacy policy. We never see or store your card details; Paystack tells us only that the payment went through, with its reference.
If you pay by EFT or ask for an invoice, we keep the details you send us by email, for the same purposes.
5. Features that talk to other services, only when you use them
- The assistant. If you set one up, your request, the open document (the assistant can read all of it, and does for jobs such as summing up or translating), anything you attach, and the conversation so far go to the AI service you chose (for example Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, Groq or OpenRouter), under that service's own terms, using your own key or subscription. It does not pass through us and we never see it. With Ollama the model runs on your own computer and nothing leaves it.
- Voices for reading aloud. When you open the voice library, Scriptorium fetches the list of voices from Hugging Face; when you choose a voice, it downloads it from there, and the Piper speech program from GitHub. The reading aloud itself happens on your computer.
- Dictation. Where your computer offers speech recognition, what you say is turned into text by the speech service that provides it, under that service's terms. A voice clip you record stays in your document.
- Spelling. The first time you check spelling in a language, the dictionary for it may be downloaded from Google's servers, as in the Chrome browser. The words you type are not sent.
- Pictures from the web. A document that shows a picture from a web address fetches it from that address when the document is shown, as a web page does.
- Links. A link you click in a document opens in your web browser.
6. What we never do
- We never receive your documents or anything you type.
- We never sell, rent or trade personal information.
- Scriptorium has no advertising and does not track what you do in it.
7. This website
- Contact form. Your name, email address and message are emailed to us through our email provider (Resend), and we email you an acknowledgement.
- Visitor statistics. The website uses Google Analytics, which sets cookies to count visits and see which pages are read. You can block these cookies in your browser without losing anything on the site.
- Downloads and hosting. The website and the downloads are served by Cloudflare, whose systems keep ordinary technical logs, such as IP addresses, to keep the site working and secure.
8. Who else handles it, where, and for how long
We share personal information only with the providers that help us run the service: Railway, which hosts the licence server; Paystack, for payments; Cloudflare, for the website and downloads; Resend, for email from the website; and Google, for website statistics. Some of them process information outside South Africa; where they do, we take reasonable steps to keep it protected in line with POPIA. We may also disclose information where the law requires it.
We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes above and to meet legal, tax and accounting requirements, then delete it or make it anonymous. If you ask us to forget you, we erase your name and email address from the trial and mailing records.
9. Your rights
Under POPIA you may ask to see the personal information we hold about you, have it corrected, have it deleted where we no longer need to keep it, object to its use, and withdraw your consent to news and offers at any time. Email [email protected]. If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, you may complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa).
10. Changes
If what Scriptorium sends ever changes, we will update this page and the Licence page in the program. The date at the top shows when this page last changed.