Privacy and credits

Everything QuotePull does happens inside the browser it is open in. This page says exactly what that means, how to check it yourself, and where the books come from.

QuotePull collects nothing about the people who use it.

• There is no account and no sign-in. Nobody is ever asked for an email address or a password.
• There are no analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising, and no third-party scripts of any kind.
• There are no cookies.
• Student work is never transmitted. Quotes, notes, themes and names stay in the browser's own storage on the student's device.
• The site talks to no other company's servers. Fonts, dictionaries and the books themselves are files served from this site, not fetched from anywhere else.
• There is no server that could collect anything. QuotePull is a set of static files; there is no database and no back end.

What is stored, and where

So that a student can close the tab and come back to their work, QuotePull saves to local storage — a space the browser keeps on that one device, for this one site. It is not sent anywhere and it is not readable by any other website.

• Quotes a student has taken, their notes, and the themes they have named.
• Which assignment and chapter they were last on, and how far through it they were.
• A name, course, teacher and period — only if the student typed them for a printed sheet and left Remember on this device ticked. That box can be unticked, and the sheet prints perfectly well with no name on it at all.
• On a teacher's device, the assignments they have built.
• Two small preferences: whether the opening animation has been seen, and where a search deck was left off.

Everything saved uses a key beginning quotepull:. Clearing the browser's site data for quotepull.com erases all of it, permanently — there is no copy anywhere else, which is worth knowing in both directions. A student who wants to move work to another device uses Save your work as a file and Import; that file goes wherever they put it, and nowhere else.

For administrators

The usual student-privacy questions mostly do not arise here, and it is worth being precise about why: not because of a promise in a policy, but because the software has no mechanism to do the things those rules govern.

• COPPA governs operators who collect personal information from children online. QuotePull collects none and transmits none, so there is nothing to disclose, verify or delete on request beyond clearing the browser.
• FERPA governs education records held and disclosed by a school. QuotePull creates no record outside the student's own browser and discloses nothing to anyone. A printed quote sheet is a piece of paper the student hands to their teacher, exactly like any other assignment.
• State student-privacy laws (SOPIPA and its equivalents) prohibit targeted advertising, profiling, and the sale of student data. None of the three is possible without collection, and there is no collection.
• No vendor relationship. There is no third-party processor to review, no data-sharing agreement to sign, and no subprocessor list, because no data reaches anyone.

How to check this yourself, in about a minute

Open QuotePull, press F12 to open the browser's developer tools, and choose the Network tab. Reload, use the site, take some quotes. Every request listed will be to quotepull.com, and every one of them will be a file the app is made of — a chapter, a font, a stylesheet. Nothing is sent out, and no other domain appears.

The site also ships a Content Security Policy that instructs the browser to refuse any connection to anywhere but quotepull.com. That is the same promise, enforced by the browser rather than asserted by this page: even if the code tried to send something somewhere, the browser would block it.

Using this site

• QuotePull is free to use, for anyone, with no account and no licence to buy.
• Teachers are welcome to use it with their classes, print from it, and post its links wherever they like.
• It is offered as it is, with no guarantee that it is available or that it is free of faults. Please do not make it the only place a student's work exists — that is what Save your work as a file is for.
• Because nothing is stored centrally, work that a student loses cannot be recovered by anyone.
• The books are in the public domain and free to read, copy and quote.

Where the books come from

Every text bundled with QuotePull is in the public domain in the United States, taken from Project Gutenberg's plain-text editions and re-typeset for this site.

• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain, 1884
• The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass, 1845
• The Odyssey — Homer, in Samuel Butler's prose translation of 1900

The typefaces — Literata, Instrument Sans and Public Sans — are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and are served from this site rather than from a font service. The Spanish glossary is built from open dictionary data, and the card search's related words come from Princeton WordNet. All of that work happens before the site is published; the app itself never fetches anything from them.

Questions

If you are a student or a parent with a question about QuotePull, please ask the teacher who assigned it, or your school's technology office. They can reach whoever maintains this site.

Last updated 28 August 2026. If this page ever changes, the change will be to describe something the site started doing — and since the site is designed not to do any of it, that is not expected.