Privacy

Updated September 27, 2026

Your account and reading lists

You can browse public articles without an account. When you sign in, LitScout uses your account identifier, email address and, when available, your name to provide your account. Your saved articles, reading status, hidden articles and reading preferences are stored with your account. These lists and preferences are private to you.

Login providers

Supabase handles Google and email-code authentication. Resend delivers login emails. Google login provides your basic profile and email; LitScout does not request access to your Gmail messages, Google Drive files or contacts. Session cookies keep you signed in.

Feedback

Feedback submitted in Settings is stored with your account identifier and submission time. The LitScout owner can read and remove submissions. Please do not include patient information or other sensitive personal information.

Articles and summaries

Article metadata comes from PubMed. Article abstracts are used to generate summaries through OpenAI. Your private reading lists are not included in those summary requests. LitScout is not intended to collect or store patient data.

iPhone app

The iPhone app stores sign-in credentials in the device Keychain and downloads encrypted copies of saved article details and summaries for offline reading. Signing out removes downloaded articles. If you enable notifications, LitScout stores your device notification token and delivery records to send weekly update alerts through Apple. You can turn notifications off in Settings.

Account removal

Account deletion removes your reading data, preferences, feedback, notification registrations and login account. A minimal deletion record containing your account identifier and deletion timestamps is retained to prevent previously issued sessions from accessing a deleted account. Service providers may retain backups or operational records under their own retention policies.

Service providers and contact

LitScout uses OpenAI Sites hosting and storage, Supabase for authentication, and Resend for email delivery. These services process information needed to operate the website under their own policies. For privacy questions or to request removal of your account and stored reading data, email brettwinter22@gmail.com.