# Account & privacy

> Your InnerHook account settings, what stays private and what others can see, and how the lyrics writing app handles your lyrics.

Canonical: https://innerhook.com/docs/account-and-privacy/
Last updated: 2026-10-06

Your songs are yours. They are private to your account until you choose to share them, and your lyrics are not used to train AI models. This page shows the settings you have and who can see what.

## Where to find it

Click your initial at the bottom of the left rail. The account menu shows your name, your email address and your workspace, and has:

- **Your credits** for this month (see [Plans & credits](https://innerhook.com/docs/plans-and-credits/)).
- **Plan & credits**: your plan, credits, purchases and history.
- **Public profile**: your own public page as a writer, off until you turn it on (see [Your writer page](https://innerhook.com/docs/writer-page/)).
- **Email me about comments**: a check box (see below).
- **Open the last song at start**: a check box (see below).
- **Log out** (see [Sign in & invites](https://innerhook.com/docs/sign-in/)).

## Your settings

### Email me about comments

On by default. You get an email when someone mentions you in a comment or replies in a thread you wrote in. You never get an email about your own comments, and at most one email per song every 10 minutes: comments that come in meanwhile are gathered into one. Untick it to stop the emails. See [Comments](https://innerhook.com/docs/comments/).

### Open the last song at start

Off by default. When it is on, opening InnerHook takes you straight to the song you had open last instead of Home. The **Home** link in the rail still takes you home.

## What is private, and what is shared

| What | Who can see it |
|---|---|
| Your songs | Only you, until you share one. Sharing gives access to **that one song** only. |
| A shared song | The people you shared it with, in the role you gave them: **Can edit**, **Can comment** or **Can view**. See [Sharing](https://innerhook.com/docs/sharing/). |
| A song with a public link | Anyone who has the link can read its title and lyrics, without an account. See [Public link](https://innerhook.com/docs/public-link/). |
| [Today's pages](https://innerhook.com/docs/todays-pages/) | Only you. Daily pages are never shared, not even when you share a song. |
| Your [recordings](https://innerhook.com/docs/recordings/) and the song's sung takes | Everyone who can open the song can hear them, and download your recordings. |
| Comments | Everyone who can open the song. |
| Your artist profiles | Only you. A co-writer sees the name of the song's profile, never the profile itself. |
| Your name and email | Co-writers of a song see the name and email of the person who shared it, and the owner sees each co-writer's name and email. A public link shows the owner's name, never an email address. |

> **Writing tools in a shared song**
>
> When a co-writer uses a writing tool in your song, the tool gets your profile's style, but never the example songs from your other lyrics. Those stay yours.

## Your lyrics and AI

- Your lyrics are **not used to train AI models**, and neither are your half-finished ones.
- When you use a writing tool, the text it needs (for example the lines you selected, the song as context, its brief and the style of its artist profile) is sent to the AI provider to get the answer. Hear it sung sends the lyrics to its music service.
- Rhymes and synonyms also use AI; they are free.
- An artist profile's **name** is never sent to the AI, only its style.

The [privacy policy](https://innerhook.com/privacy/) says exactly what is sent, to whom, and how long things are kept.

## How long things are kept

> **Limits**
>
> - Deleted songs and artist profiles wait in Recently deleted on the Songs page for **30 days**, then they are removed for good. See [Your library](https://innerhook.com/docs/library/). Deleted setlists wait the same way under Recently deleted on the Setlists page.
> - Deleted daily pages, recordings and sung takes are removed for good after **30 days**.

## Your data and your account

There is no button to delete your account in the app. To delete your account or get a copy of your data, see the [privacy policy](https://innerhook.com/privacy/): it explains how to ask and what happens. You can copy or print any song's lyrics from **⋮ More → Preview**.

The legal details are in the [privacy policy](https://innerhook.com/privacy/) and the [terms](https://innerhook.com/terms/).