document: title: our privacy policy
text: ### Our Privacy Policy

co:tweet a very powerful tool for managing multiple twitter accounts - in fact, it's a web based twitter client. What this means is that we, by necessity, have to store your twitter usernames and passwords for this whole thing to work. If you think about it, you're trusting every twitter client save twitter.com itself to behave responsibly and not steal your usernames and passwords. Just because it's on your personal computer doesn't guarantee it's behaving honestly. 

Recent twitter security scares for sites like TwitterRank only emphasize the need for Twitter to provide a more open, transparent way for 3rd party apps like co:tweet to store authentication information without compromising usernames and passwords. Frankly, we're as scared as you are, and we understand the knee-jerk aversion to typing in your twitter credentials at every site that asks you for them. 

That said, co:tweet needs your username and password in order to work. This is, like all things, a relationship that requires trust. We promise, on pain of death, that we won't do anything with this data that you wouldn't expect. We'll never reveal usernames or passwords, impersonate you, change subtle things about your twitter account, or otherwise jeapordize the value that we're trying to create.