Paper Reader

Privacy

What this service stores about you, who else gets to see it, and how to have it removed. Written to be read rather than to be survived.

What is stored

Who else sees it

One of these matters more than the rest, so it is said plainly first.

When you ask a question, the passage you selected and your question are sent to an AI model provider — OpenAI or Anthropic, depending on the model you chose in the reader. At whole-paper scope, the text of the whole paper is sent. There is no way to answer a question about a paper without sending the paper, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. If that is not acceptable for a particular document, do not upload it.

Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared with advertisers. There are none.

Cookies

One signed session cookie, so the site knows you are signed in, and a small cookie that counts your demo questions if you use the demo without an account. There is no analytics cookie, no advertising cookie and no third-party tracker on this site.

Keeping and deleting

Delete a thread or a paper in the reader at any time and it is removed, along with any image cropped from it. To have your whole account and everything in it deleted, email namran.pan@zenovalabs.org from the address you signed in with and we will do it within 30 days.

Two honest caveats. Deleted data can persist in encrypted backups for up to 30 days before those backups age out. And what has already been sent to a model provider is governed by that provider's own retention policy, not ours.

Who to ask

ZENOVA INNOVATION LABS PRIVATE LIMITED. Questions about any of the above, or a request to see or delete what we hold, go to namran.pan@zenovalabs.org. See Contact for the postal address.