Last updated: this describes current app behavior as built.
VeriThesis is a source-grounded academic project copilot. This page explains what data the app collects, how it's used, and how to control or delete it.
| Data | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Account identifier (anonymous by default, or an email if you create one) | Identifying your account and its credit balance |
| Research topic, plan, sources, evidence, drafted chapters | The core service — building your project |
| Uploaded CSVs or scanned documents | Computing statistics or extracting text you requested |
| Purchase and credit history | Billing accuracy and support |
Only you, by default. If you invite a supervisor by email, they can view your plan, integrity scorecard, and flagged claims, and leave comments — nothing else. Nobody else at VeriThesis reads project content as a matter of course.
Drafting, verification, and evidence extraction send the relevant text (a topic, a claim, an approved source's abstract) to the AI provider handling that step (Anthropic, OpenAI, or DeepSeek). Uploaded datasets and scanned documents are never sent to an AI model — CSV analysis is plain arithmetic, and scanned-document text extraction uses Google Cloud Vision for OCR only.
Deleting a project in-app is permanent and complete — it removes the project, every source, evidence item, chapter, comment, and uploaded file for it. There is no undo. To delete your entire account, contact support at the email below.
| Service | What it's used for |
|---|---|
| Firebase (Google) | Authentication, database, storage, hosting, crash reporting, analytics |
| Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek | AI processing for planning, drafting, and verification |
| Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar | Academic source discovery (public metadata APIs) |
| Google Cloud Vision | Text extraction from scanned documents you upload |
| Google Play Billing / Apple StoreKit | Processing purchases |
| Copyleaks (optional add-on) | Similarity checking, only if you explicitly request it |
Questions about this policy or your data: support@princedevlabs.com