Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026 · GDPR compliant

Data Controller

Shaista Shabbir

TU Dortmund University · Lamarr Institute for ML & AI

Dortmund, Germany

Email: shaista.s.shabbir@gmail.com

What Data We Collect

Free tier (no account)

  • Document text submitted for review — processed in memory, not stored
  • Anonymous usage analytics (page views, feature usage)
  • No personal data collected

Registered accounts (paid plans)

  • Email address (authentication only)
  • Review history (stored locally in your browser)
  • Payment information (processed by Stripe — we do not store card data)

How We Use Your Data

  • To provide supervisor review, dataset, and research memory services
  • To improve the heuristic review engine (anonymised, aggregated only)
  • We do NOT sell your data to third parties
  • We do NOT use your research content for AI training
  • We do NOT send your documents to LLM providers without your explicit opt-in

Your Rights (GDPR)

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

  • Access — Request a copy of your personal data
  • Rectification — Correct inaccurate data
  • Erasure — Request deletion of your data
  • Portability — Export your data
  • Objection — Object to processing

To exercise any right: shaista.s.shabbir@gmail.com

Cookies

ResearchOS uses minimal cookies for session management only. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. Review history is stored in your browser's localStorage — never on our servers.

Data Retention

Free tier: document text is not retained after your session. Account data is retained for the duration of your subscription plus 30 days after cancellation.