Privacy Policy

Wavely enhances PDF reading inside the browser. It can detect when the current page is a PDF or browser PDF viewer, open that document in Wavely's custom reader, let signed-in users save notes and collections, inspect citations, and send user-selected PDF text to AI features only when the user explicitly asks for explanation, translation, or follow-up help.

PDFs can be served from many different websites and file URLs, so the extension needs host access broad enough to detect when the current page is a PDF document or a browser PDF viewer. That access is used only to determine whether a page is a PDF-compatible document and to enable Wavely's PDF-viewer switch for that document.

On normal non-PDF pages, the extension does not activate unrelated reader features, does not inject ads, and does not use that access to collect general browsing activity or unrelated page content.

We process only the data needed to provide the product's features. This may include account identifiers needed for authentication, PDF URLs and document identifiers, local extension state such as a per-PDF viewer preference, user-selected text from PDFs, notes, annotations, collections, saved document metadata, AI prompts, follow-up questions, AI responses, citation metadata, citation context, reference text, and basic usage or error information needed to keep the service reliable.

We use this data to authenticate users, restore saved viewer state for a document, provide AI responses requested by the user, save notes and collections, resolve and display citation metadata, monitor reliability, prevent abuse, and improve the service.

Data is sent to our servers only when needed to provide the requested feature. Examples include signing in, saving notes or collections, restoring a signed-in user's saved data, asking AI to explain, translate, or answer a question, and fetching citation metadata or citation analysis.

Simply detecting that a page is a PDF, deciding whether the browser viewer or Wavely viewer should open for that PDF, and storing a local per-PDF preference do not by themselves require sending full browsing history or unrelated page content to our servers.

We do not sell personal data. We may use service providers that help us operate authentication, storage, AI, analytics, and infrastructure. These providers may process data only as needed to deliver the service on our behalf.

We do not use data collected through the extension for advertising, creditworthiness, unrelated profiling, or sale to data brokers.

We retain account and saved document data for as long as needed to provide the service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Users may request deletion of saved account data through our support contact.

Users can choose whether to use the custom viewer or the browser's default PDF view, whether to sign in, whether to send text to AI features, and whether to keep saved notes and document data associated with their account.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect data in transit and at rest. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

If you have questions about this policy or want to request deletion of account data, contact Wavely at support@thewavely.com.