Thank you for using xRead, including the Microsoft Word add-in, the Google Chrome extension, and the xread.io web APIs that power them. Your continued use of the service means you accept these terms and our Privacy Policy.
Terms of Use
- Academic integrity: xRead is meant for lawful academic, research, and educational work. You are responsible for complying with your institution’s policies (including originality and citation rules). Do not use xRead to commit plagiarism, fraud, or other misconduct.
- Accuracy: Citation extraction, matching, verification, and summaries use AI and external catalogs; outputs can be wrong or incomplete. You remain responsible for verifying sources and final work product.
- Intellectual property: You retain ownership of your documents and ideas. You grant xRead only the rights needed to transmit and process content you submit so we can provide the service.
- Prohibited content: Do not submit unlawful material, trade secrets you are not authorized to share, or special-category personal data you should not put through cloud AI systems.
- Chrome extension scope: The extension may request permission to run on many websites because academic reading happens across domains. You should only use it on pages you are permitted to access and process.
- Service availability: xRead is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We may change, limit, or suspend features for maintenance, abuse prevention, or legal reasons.
Data & privacy statement
- What leaves your device: When you run a feature, relevant text (for example a selection, a references section, chat input, or rubric content) is sent over TLS to xread.io. We do not claim to “upload your whole hard drive”; we process what the client sends for the action you chose.
- Server-side and AI processing: Our servers may call Google Gemini and other models, and scholarly or search APIs such as OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and where enabled SerpAPI, to fulfill that request. Those vendors act as sub-processors for the duration of the request.
- Accounts: If you sign in, we store account data described in the Privacy Policy, including optional saved references, grading calibration events (which may include short document snippets you provide), rubrics you upload, and structured activity events tied to your user id.
- Shared reference cache: We may retain aggregated public metadata and summaries about works (for example keyed by DOI) to avoid redundant external API calls. That cache is not a copy of your entire manuscript.
- Local storage: Clients cache tokens, UI state, and results locally (browser local storage / Office host) for performance. Third-party keys you configure generally stay on your device unless you explicitly send them to us.
- Logs: Like most hosted services, we may keep security, error, and operational logs. Avoid sending secrets in chat or support messages.
Contact & Support
For inquiries, to report misuse, or for general support regarding these terms, please contact our legal and support team at support@xread.io or visit our main homepage at xread.io.