Privacy Policy

Introduction

LitSynth helps researchers search literature, screen evidence, and generate review drafts. This policy explains how we handle account data, research questions, uploaded or retrieved paper content, evidence tables, and generated drafts.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

• Account information: Name, email address, authentication provider, billing status, and support messages.
• Research workspace data: Research questions, search settings, selected papers, evidence tables, review drafts, exports, and project metadata.
• Uploaded or retrieved paper content: Files, abstracts, snippets, metadata, and extracted evidence used to run your review workflow.
• Usage and device data: Pages visited, feature usage, IP address, browser type, operating system, and diagnostic logs.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following purposes:

• To run literature retrieval, screening, drafting, citation audit, export, and saved project features.
• To authenticate your account, process payments, manage credits, and provide support.
• To monitor reliability, prevent abuse, debug errors, and improve product quality.
• To send service notices related to your account, billing, or important product changes.

AI Processing and Model Training

Your research questions, papers, evidence tables, and drafts are processed to provide LitSynth features. They are not used for public model training. When third-party AI or infrastructure providers are required to deliver the service, we send only the information needed for that task and rely on provider terms and safeguards for processing.

Data Retention and Deletion

We retain account, billing, project, and workspace data while your account is active or as needed to provide the service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and prevent abuse. You can contact us to request deletion of projects or account data, subject to billing, security, and legal retention requirements.

Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. No online service can guarantee absolute security, but we design LitSynth to keep research materials and generated drafts private to your account.

Third-Party Services

We use third-party services for authentication, payments, hosting, analytics, email, storage, academic metadata retrieval, and AI processing. These providers may process limited data on our behalf only as needed to operate LitSynth.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.