1. Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to Read You Later and the products and services we operate under that name, including the web app, marketing site, browser extension, mobile app, email-to-save address, shared reading links, import and export tools, and related support and security workflows.
By using the service, you acknowledge that we need to process certain information to operate the core read-it-later experience. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, do not use the service.
2. Information You Provide
When you create an account, we collect information such as your email address, account credentials, and any information you choose to submit through sign-up, sign-in, or support interactions.
We also collect the content and library data you intentionally send to the service, including saved URLs, imported reading lists, article metadata, forwarded emails, tags, favorites, highlights, archive or trash actions, share links, and reader preferences.
3. Information We Collect Automatically
We automatically collect limited technical and operational data needed to run the service, secure accounts, and diagnose reliability issues.
- Device, browser, app, and request metadata such as IP address, user agent, approximate request timing, and error logs.
- Authentication, session, and security data such as login attempts, anti-abuse signals, and verification challenge results.
- Usage state needed to operate the product, such as reading progress, sync timestamps, and saved-view preferences.
- Cookies and local storage used to keep you signed in, remember settings, and support the signed-in experience across visits.
4. How We Use Information
We use information we collect to provide, maintain, protect, and improve Read You Later.
- Create and manage your account.
- Save, parse, organize, sync, and display articles and other reading items in your library.
- Generate exports, imports, email-to-save workflows, shared links, and reader features like highlights and reading progress.
- Detect abuse, enforce rate limits, prevent fraud, and keep the service secure.
- Fix bugs, monitor uptime, investigate incidents, and improve product reliability.
6. Data Retention
We keep account and library information for as long as needed to operate your account, provide the features you use, and satisfy reasonable legal, security, and operational requirements.
Items you move to archive or trash may remain in the service until you permanently remove them or we clear them under our normal retention processes. Backups and logs may persist for a limited time after deletion.
8. Third-Party Content and Services
The service helps you save and read content that originates on third-party sites, newsletters, and other external sources. Those publishers and services have their own terms and privacy practices, which we do not control.
If you open original article pages, forward email through third-party email services, or interact with websites linked through saved content, your interactions with those third parties are governed by their own policies.
9. Your Choices
You can control much of the information in your library directly inside the product. For example, you can add or remove saves, organize tags, archive or delete items, export your library, log out of your account, or stop using the service.
If you need help with an account-level request that is not self-service in the product, use the contact method published with Read You Later.
10. Children
Read You Later is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the service.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as the product evolves, our vendors change, or legal requirements shift. When we make a material change, we will update the effective date on this page and may provide additional notice when appropriate.
12. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or a request related to your information, use the contact information published with Read You Later.