Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Copyleaks. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website or use our services and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:

  • Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data: includes email address and telephone numbers.
  • Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform.
  • Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website and services.
  • Content Data: includes documents and text you submit for plagiarism checking.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our plagiarism detection services
  • To notify you about changes to our service
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information to improve our service
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues
  • To comply with legal obligations

4. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. We use industry-standard encryption protocols to protect your documents and personal information.

All documents submitted for analysis are:

  • Encrypted during transmission using SSL/TLS protocols
  • Stored securely with encryption at rest
  • Automatically deleted after processing (unless you choose to save them)
  • Never shared with third parties without your explicit consent

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Documents submitted for plagiarism checking are retained for the duration of the analysis and then deleted unless you explicitly choose to save them to your account.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

  • Request access to your personal data
  • Request correction of your personal data
  • Request erasure of your personal data
  • Object to processing of your personal data
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data
  • Request transfer of your personal data
  • Right to withdraw consent

7. Third-Party Services

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, provide the service on our behalf, perform service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

8. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: