Privacy

Screenshots never leave your computer

When you capture a region, Second Read takes a picture of the visible tab, crops it to your selection, reads the text, and discards the image. All of that happens inside your browser. The image is never uploaded, never stored, and never sent to us or anyone else. There is no copy of it to request, subpoena, or leak.

When the page already contains the text as text, no screenshot is taken at all.

What we store

If you sign in, we store on our database:

• the text you captured, including any edits you make
• the page address, page title, and site icon it came from
• whether the text was read from the page or from pixels
• any tags you add, and when the passage was saved and last shown to you
• your email address, used to sign you in and to send digests if you enable them

If you do not sign in, all of this stays on your device and we hold nothing.

Who can read your saves

Only you. Access is enforced by the database itself: every row is bound to the account that created it, and a request carrying a different account's credentials returns nothing. This is not a check in our application code that could be bypassed by a bug in it.

What we do not do

• We do not sell or share your data with anyone.
• We do not use your saved text for advertising or to train models.
• We do not track which pages you visit. We only see pages you capture from.
• We do not run analytics that record the contents of a save.

Services we rely on

Supabase stores the database and handles sign-in. Resend delivers sign-in codes and digest emails. Vercel hosts this website. Each receives only what it needs to do that job.

Leaving

You can export everything you have saved as Markdown or JSON at any time, from your library, without asking us. Deleting your account removes your saves from the database.

Permissions the extension asks for

• Access to the current tab, granted only at the moment you press the shortcut, so it can screenshot what you are looking at. It does not have standing access to every site you visit.
• Storage, to keep your saves on the device so capture works offline and the new tab loads instantly.
• New tab page, to show you a saved passage. You can turn this off in the extension.

Limited use of the data we receive

Second Read's use of information received from Google APIs, and of any data collected through the Chrome extension, adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. Specifically:

• We use your data only to provide and improve the single purpose of this extension: saving text you read and bringing it back to you.
• We do not transfer your data to third parties except to run the service itself.
• We do not use your data for advertising, personalisation, or to train machine learning models.
• No human reads your saved text, except you.

How long we keep it

Your saves are kept until you delete them or delete your account. There is no expiry and no archive we hold on to afterwards. Deleting your account removes your saves from the database, and we keep no backup copy to restore from. Delivery logs for digests record only whether a send succeeded, never its contents, and are discarded after 90 days.

Children

Second Read is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, write to us and we will remove it.

Scope and contact

This policy covers the Second Read Chrome extension and the website at secondread.cc, which share one account and one set of data.

Questions, corrections, or a request to delete your data: hello@secondread.cc