Wonders AI, Inc.
This privacy notice for Wonders AI, Inc. ("we," "us," or "our") describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"), such as when you:
Visit our website at https://readwonders.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at dpo@readwonders.com.
Summary of Key Points
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? We do not receive any information from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
Do we use AI to process my content? Yes. Wonders uses artificial intelligence to power core research features including summaries, paper chat, and search ranking. Academic content you submit (paper text, search queries, chat messages) is transmitted to third-party AI sub-processors. Your personal information — name, email address, payment details — is never sent to AI providers. See Section 2a for full details.
In what situations and with which parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific categories of third parties. See Section 4.
How do we keep your information safe? We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to access, rectify, export, or delete your data. See Section 12.
How do you exercise your rights? Contact us at dpo@readwonders.com. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Table of Contents
What Information Do We Collect?
How Do We Process Your Information?
2a. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Processing
What Legal Bases Do We Rely On to Process Your Personal Information?
When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
What Is Our Stance on Third-Party Websites?
Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?
Is Your Information Transferred Internationally?
How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
Do We Collect Information from Minors?
What Are Your Privacy Rights?
Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?
Do We Make Updates to This Notice?
How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?
How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?
1. What Information Do We Collect?
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us, as well as some information that is collected automatically.
Personal Information You Disclose to Us
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information we collect may include: email addresses, names, passwords.
We do not process sensitive information.
Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Stripe, Inc. You may find their privacy notice at https://stripe.com/privacy.
Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect the information described in Section 7 below.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information Automatically Collected
In Short: Some information — such as your IP address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, and information about how and when you use our Services.
We also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. See our Cookie Notice at https://readwonders.com/cookie-policy.
Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services. This may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and information about your activity in the Services (date/time stamps, pages and files viewed, searches, features used, system activity, error reports, and hardware settings).
2. How Do We Process Your Information?
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law.
We process your personal information for the following reasons:
Account creation and authentication. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
Delivery of services. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service and to respond to your inquiries.
Administrative communications. We may process your information to send you details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
Feedback requests. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Services.
Marketing and promotional communications. We may process your personal information for marketing purposes, in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt out of our marketing emails at any time.
Usage trend analysis. We may process information about how you use our Services to better understand usage patterns and improve them.
Vital interests. We may process your information when necessary to save or protect an individual's vital interest, such as to prevent harm.
2a. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Processing
In Short: Wonders uses AI to power core research features. Academic content you submit is processed by third-party AI providers. Your personal information is never sent to AI providers.
AI-Powered Features
Wonders uses artificial intelligence to help you research, summarize, and understand academic literature. The following features are powered by AI models:
Research Summaries — Synthesizes key findings across multiple papers from your search results.
Paper Q&A — Generates questions about a paper and answers them based on the paper's content.
Paper Chat — Interactive AI chat that answers your questions about a specific paper.
AI Key Points — Generates accessible summaries of individual papers.
Conclusions — Analyzes and synthesizes findings across all your research searches.
Writing Assistant — Offers suggestions to improve, expand, summarize, or rephrase your writing in the notebook.
Topic & Keyword Generation — Suggests research directions and search keywords based on your research question.
Search Ranking — AI-assisted relevance scoring influences the order in which search results are displayed.
All AI-generated content is labeled with an "AI-generated" indicator in the user interface and links to our AI Transparency page.
AI Service Providers (Sub-Processors)
We use the following third-party AI service providers to process your content. Each provider acts as a data sub-processor under our instructions:
Provider | Models | Purpose | Data Processing Location |
|---|---|---|---|
Anthropic, PBC | Claude (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) | Paper chat, conclusions, complex research analysis | United States |
OpenAI, Inc. | GPT-4o-mini, text-embedding-ada-002 | Q&A generation, writing suggestions, semantic embeddings | United States |
Together AI, Inc. | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Research summaries, keyword generation | United States |
We maintain Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) with each provider. These providers process data solely to fulfill your requests and do not use your content to train their models.
What Data Is Sent to AI Providers
When you use AI-powered features, the following types of content may be transmitted to the providers listed above:
Paper abstracts, full text, and metadata (title, authors, journal, year, DOI)
Your search queries and research questions
Chat messages you type when using the Paper Chat feature
Text you select when using the Writing Assistant in the notebook
We do not send your personal information (name, email address, institutional affiliation, payment details) to AI service providers. Only the academic content necessary to generate a response is transmitted.
Automated Decision-Making
We use AI-assisted relevance scoring to rank search results. This ranking considers factors such as citation count, publication venue quality, recency, and semantic relevance to your query. These weights are adjusted by domain — for example, fast-moving fields like AI weight recency more heavily than established fields like mathematics.
You are not subject to decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal effects or similarly significantly affect you, within the meaning of GDPR Article 22.
Limitations of AI-Generated Content
AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies, omissions, or misinterpretations. It is not a substitute for reading original research papers and does not constitute legal, financial, medical, or any other professional advice. We recommend verifying AI-generated outputs against original source material.
3. What Legal Bases Do We Rely On to Process Your Personal Information?
In Short: We only process your personal information when we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law.
If You Are Located in the EU or UK
The GDPR and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on to process your personal information:
Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services.
Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights. Examples include: sending users information about special offers; analyzing how our Services are used so we can improve them; processing academic content through AI models to deliver the research assistance service you signed up for (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)).
Legal Obligations. We may process your information where necessary for compliance with our legal obligations.
Vital Interests. We may process your information where necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party.
For analytics processing, our legal basis is consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)).
In legal terms, we are generally the "data controller" under European data protection laws, since we determine the means and/or purposes of the data processing we perform.
This privacy notice does not apply to the personal information we process as a "data processor" on behalf of our customers. In those situations, the customer is the "data controller" responsible for your personal information, and we merely process your information on their behalf in accordance with their instructions.
If You Are Located in Canada
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (express consent), or in situations where your permission can be inferred (implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted to process your information without your consent, including for fraud detection and prevention, business transactions meeting certain conditions, compliance with court orders, and other circumstances permitted under applicable Canadian law.
4. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
In Short: We may share information in specific situations with the following categories of third parties.
Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf. We have contracts in place with our third parties designed to safeguard your personal information. They cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do so.
The following table lists our current third-party service providers:
Service | Purpose | Data Shared |
|---|---|---|
Anthropic (anthropic.com) | AI research analysis | Paper text, search queries, chat messages |
OpenAI (openai.com) | AI content generation & embeddings | Paper text, search queries, selected text |
Together AI (together.ai) | AI research summaries | Paper text, search queries |
Stripe (stripe.com) | Payment processing | Email, billing address, payment method |
RudderStack (rudderstack.com) | Analytics (with consent) | Usage events, anonymized interactions |
Crisp (crisp.chat) | Customer support chat | Support messages, session context |
Jam.dev (jam.dev) | Error reporting (with analytics consent) | Session recordings, error data |
Supabase (supabase.com) | Database & authentication | All user data, stored encrypted at rest |
Vercel (vercel.com) | Hosting & web analytics | Web vitals, page views |
Fathom Analytics (usefathom.com) | Privacy-focused analytics | Page views (no personal data) |
Business Transfers
We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
5. What Is Our Stance on Third-Party Websites?
In Short: We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third parties that we may link to.
The Services may link to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications. We do not make any guarantee regarding any such third parties, and we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by the use of such third-party websites, services, or applications. The inclusion of a link towards a third-party website does not imply an endorsement by us.
Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this privacy notice. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly with any questions.
6. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice at https://readwonders.com/cookie-policy.
The following cookie is used for analytics purposes (opt-in):
Cookie / Service | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
Jam.dev capture & recorder | Analytics (opt-in) | Error reporting and session replay for debugging | Session |
7. How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?
In Short: If you choose to register or log in using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.
Our Services offer you the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider — typically your name, email address, friends list, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on that platform.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes described in this privacy notice. We are not responsible for other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider.
8. Is Your Information Transferred Internationally?
In Short: We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.
Our servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing our Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us and by those third parties with whom we share your personal information in the United States and other countries.
If you are a resident in the EEA, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, these countries may not have data protection laws as comprehensive as those in your country. However, we will take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable law.
European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses: We have implemented the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies and between us and our third-party providers. These clauses require all recipients to protect personal information originating from the EEA or UK in accordance with European data protection laws. This includes our AI sub-processors (Anthropic, OpenAI, Together AI), with whom we maintain Data Processing Agreements providing equivalent protections.
9. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
The following retention periods apply:
Data Type | Retention Period | Deletion Trigger |
|---|---|---|
User account data | Until account deletion | User-initiated or 3 years of inactivity |
Research projects & searches | Until account deletion | User-initiated |
AI chat history | Until account deletion | User-initiated |
Highlights & bookmarks | Until account deletion | User-initiated |
Analytics data | 26 months | Automatic rolling deletion |
AI processing logs | 90 days | Automatic |
Session recordings (Jam.dev) | 30 days | Automatic |
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or securely store it in isolation from further processing until deletion is possible.
10. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
11. Do We Collect Information from Minors?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent's use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at dpo@readwonders.com.
12. What Are Your Privacy Rights?
In Short: Depending on your location, you may have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information.
In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These include the right to:
Access your personal data — available via the "Download my data" button in Account Settings
Rectify inaccurate data — contact support@readwonders.com
Delete your account and all associated data — available via the "Delete account" button in Account Settings
Restrict the processing of your personal information
Object to processing — contact support@readwonders.com
Data portability — export your data in JSON format via Account Settings
Withdraw consent for analytics and advertising cookies at any time via the cookie consent banner
Not be subject to automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects (GDPR Article 22)
You can make a request by contacting us using the contact details in Section 16.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or the UK data protection authority. If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
Withdrawing your consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before its withdrawal.
Account Information
To review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, contact us using the contact information provided. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. We may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce our legal terms, and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can set your browser to remove or reject cookies, though this could affect certain features or services. See our Cookie Notice at https://readwonders.com/cookie-policy.
If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, email us at dpo@readwonders.com.
13. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
14. Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?
In Short: If you are a US resident, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
Category | Description | Collected |
|---|---|---|
A. Identifiers | Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, email address, and account name | Yes |
B. Protected classification characteristics | Gender and date of birth | No |
C. Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information | No |
D. Biometric information | Fingerprints and voiceprints | No |
E. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with websites, applications, systems, and advertisements | No |
F. Geolocation data | Device location | No |
G. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | Images and audio, video or call recordings | No |
H. Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details, job title, work history, and professional qualifications | No |
I. Education information | Student records and directory information | No |
J. Inferences drawn from collected personal information | Inferences to create a profile about, for example, an individual's preferences and characteristics | Yes |
K. Sensitive personal information | — | No |
We will use and retain the collected personal information as follows:
Category A — As long as the user has an account with us
Category J — As long as the user has an account with us
We may also collect other personal information through customer support channels, customer surveys or contests, and delivery of our Services.
Will your information be shared with anyone else? We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal information. We have not sold or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months.
15. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently.
16. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at dpo@readwonders.com or contact us by post at:
Wonders AI, Inc. 16192 Coastal Highway Lewes, DE 19958, USA
EEA and Switzerland residents: We are the "data controller" of your personal information. We have appointed Josef Pacal as our representative in the EEA and Switzerland. You can contact them directly at privacy-eea@readwonders.com, or by post to:
Wonders AI, Inc. c/o Josef Pacal Passeig del Mare Nostrum 15 08039 Barcelona, Spain
United Kingdom residents: We are the "data controller" of your personal information. We have appointed Josef Pacal as our representative in the UK. You can contact them directly at privacy-uk@readwonders.com, or by post to:
Wonders AI, Inc. c/o Josef Pacal Winchester Close London SE17 3DQ, England
17. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it.
You can exercise these rights in the following ways:
Download your data — via the "Download my data" button in Account Settings (JSON format)
Delete your account and all data — via the "Delete account" button in Account Settings
Rectify inaccurate data or object to processing — contact support@readwonders.com
All other requests — contact us at dpo@readwonders.com
