Thank you for using xRead, your AI-powered companion for extracting, validating, and summarizing academic citations. Your continued use of the service implies acceptance of these terms.
Terms of Use
- Academic Use Only: xRead is designated for academic, research, and educational applications. You agree not to use xRead for any unlawful, exclusively commercial, or unethical activities, including academic dishonesty.
- Accuracy: While xRead is powered by advanced LLMs (Large Language Models), citation extractions, matchings, and summaries may occasionally contain errors or hallucinations. Always verify the results manually before relying on them for critical academic work.
- Intellectual Property: You retain complete ownership of the documents and text you process. xRead does not claim any intellectual rights to your original content.
- Prohibited Content: You must not use xRead to process illegal materials, strictly confidential trade secrets, or highly sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) prohibited by law.
- Service Availability: xRead is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without any express warranties. We reserve the right to temporarily suspend or modify services for maintenance or upgrades.
Data & Privacy Statement
- Document Processing: Text snippets from your documents are transmitted securely to our backend APIs to extract citations and fetch external metadata. No full document content natively resides permanently on our servers.
- Local Storage: To speed up your workflow and reduce network trips, citation results, system state, and custom regex formatting settings may be cached locally in your browser or within your Office document environment.
- Integration Ecosystem: Using integrations (e.g., Zotero) requires storing API keys locally on your machine. xRead guarantees we will never sync, share, or expose your private credentials to our databases.
- Analytics: Anonymous usage metrics (e.g., component click rates or error logs) may be collected to proactively improve service stability. The actual text contents of your papers are completely excluded from analytics.
- Third-Party Services: xRead operates by interacting with APIs from trusted partners like OpenAI, Google (for Gemini), and OpenAlex. By using xRead, you acknowledge that processed data is governed under their respective privacy terms as sub-processors.
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.