The AI-powered
article summarizer

Scholarcy Summarizer

Your data

All data is transmitted via SSL and TLS in both directions. When you use the Scholarcy Library, Scholarcy Chrome Extension, Scholarcy API, or any of our demos, we process the following data:

  • your IP address. This data is logged and retained for 1 year.
  • The current URL in your browser. This data is logged and retained for 1 year.
  • The contents of the current page in your browser, or the contents of the file that you upload. This data is deleted immediately after processing - usually within 30 seconds.
  • If you are logged in to the Scholarcy Web Library, an authentication cookie that allows the Chrome Extension to store the summary content in your Web Library account.

When you sign up to the Scholarcy Library web app, we securely store your name, email address, and affiliation if you choose to provide it. This data is stored as part of your account, and you have control over its retention and deletion.

If you sign up to our mailing list (via separate opt-in), we use secure, third-party services to process your email address. Any other processing of your data is initiated by you, such as requesting a password reset.

We do not store credit card or other sensitive information. Our payment services are handled by Stripe. See our general Terms of Service, our Scholarcy Library Terms of Service, and our Privacy Policy for more information. You can also delete your account at any time and this will completely remove your information from our systems, apart from data required for legal compliance purposes.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of the Scholarcy Website, Scholarcy Library, and the Scholarcy Extension. For more details, see our Cookies Policy and our Privacy Policy.

The Scholarcy Chrome extension has passed all of Google's automated and manual security checks and is safe to use. The extension only needs to read the current URL of the page you have open and its content type. You can also give it permission to upload PDF files from your computer. It does not read or change any data on the page. You will also see the same warning on practically all Chrome Extensions including chart-topping extensions such as Grammarly and Evernote. We are rolling out some changes to our Extension that will give you more control over the permissions. This may limit its functionality for you, but the Extension will request the permissions that it needs and you can grant or deny the request.
Scholarcy streams the document into memory, and then permanently deletes it immediately after processing - usually within 30 seconds. It returns the extracted reading list, summaries, and references back to you. Use of these snippets in good faith for the purposes of dissemination of knowledge is covered by US Fair Use and recent UK Copyright Exemptions for Text and data mining for non-commercial research.