Privacy

The short version

Papertrek stores the manuscripts you put in it, and nothing else. It is hosted in the EU. You can export everything as JSON at any time, and deleting your account deletes it all, immediately.

What’s stored

• Your name and email address, so you can log in.
• Your ORCID iD, if you sign in with ORCID or import from it.
• Everything you enter about your work: titles, abstracts, notes, co-authors, journals, submissions, reviewer notes, deadlines and links.
• A session cookie, so you stay logged in. No tracking cookies, no third-party analytics, no ad-tech.
• Anonymous usage counters: Papertrek counts how often a feature is used per day — one number per feature per day, nothing else. No user id, no account id, no IP address is stored with these counts, so they cannot be traced to you. They exist to learn which features matter during the beta.

Who else sees it

Nobody, unless you choose to share it. Your work is private to your account and isolated at the database level.

• A work you mark public is readable by anyone with its unlisted link. Turning sharing off makes the link dead immediately.
• Your calendar-feed link needs no password. Treat it as private; you can regenerate it in settings.
• We ask ORCID and Crossref about a DOI or an iD only when you press import or fetch — that request tells them a DOI was looked up, not who you are.
• Payments are handled by Paddle. We never see or store your card details.
• Hosting: the application and its database run on a server operated by netcup GmbH (Karlsruhe, Germany) under an Art. 28 GDPR data processing agreement — EU territory, no transfer outside the EU.

Your data

Settings has a one-click JSON export of everything, and account deletion. Deletion is permanent and immediate — there is no soft-delete and no backup we can restore for you afterwards. Export first if you want a copy.