Last updated: September 04, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
Application refers to Summarist, the software program provided by the Company.
Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Summarist.
Country refers to: Texas, United States
Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service refers to the Application.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Email address
First name and last name
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
The Company allows You to create an account and log in to use the Service through Google OAuth. When you authenticate with Google, we collect:
If You decide to register through Google OAuth, We collect Personal data that is already associated with Your Google account, such as Your name, Your email address, and your unique Google user identifier.
You may revoke this access at any time through your Google Account settings. When you do so, we will no longer have access to your Google account information, though we may retain previously collected data as described in this policy.
Our Chrome Extension collects the following information to provide its functionality:
When you use AI features, we process your content through:
Article content sent to AI services is processed in real-time and is not permanently stored by these third-party AI providers beyond their standard processing requirements.
Our Chrome Extension requires the following browser permissions to function:
Local storage is used to cache your bookmarks, store authentication information, and maintain your preferences. You can clear this data at any time through Chrome's extension settings.
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Service, including to save and organize your articles, generate AI summaries, and track your reading progress.
To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service and provide personalized features like reading statistics and bookmark organization.
For AI Processing: to generate article summaries, categorize content, and provide intelligent reading recommendations using Google Gemini AI services.
For Analytics and Improvement: to analyze reading patterns, feature usage, and service performance to improve the extension and add new features.
To contact You: To contact You by email regarding important service updates, security notifications, or changes to features you use.
For Research and Development: to understand user behavior, conduct surveys for feature development, and improve our AI categorization algorithms.
To manage Your requests: To provide customer support and respond to your feedback or feature requests.
For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
For legal compliance: to comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes, and to protect the rights and safety of our users and services.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
Your data flows through the following systems:
Data transfers between these systems are encrypted using industry-standard protocols (HTTPS/TLS).
We retain your personal data for the following periods:
You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us. Upon account deletion, we will remove your personal data within 30 days, except where we are legally required to retain certain information for longer periods.
Your data may be transferred to and processed in the following locations:
These transfers are necessary for providing our services and are protected by:
Your consent to this Privacy Policy represents your agreement to these data transfers. We ensure all transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and maintain appropriate safeguards.
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
We will respond to your data requests within 30 days. For account deletion, we will remove your data within 30 days except where legal obligations require longer retention.
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
We implement multiple security measures to protect your personal data:
While we implement industry-standard security measures, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security but continuously work to protect your data using best practices and regular security assessments.
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
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.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: