Privacy Policy
Last updated: December 25, 2025
1. Introduction
SmartSummary.ai ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our email summarization service.
2. Information We Collect
Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address and optional name.
Email Content: When you forward emails for summarization, we process the content of those emails to generate summaries. This content is stored securely to provide you with summary history and regeneration capabilities.
Usage Data: We collect information about how you use our service, including timestamps, summary counts, and feature usage.
Authentication Data: We store hashed authentication tokens and login attempt logs for security purposes.
3. How We Use Your Information
- To provide and maintain our summarization service
- To generate AI-powered summaries of your forwarded content
- To send summaries back to your email address
- To maintain your summary history for later reference
- To authenticate your identity and secure your account
- To improve and optimize our service
- To communicate with you about service updates
4. Data Storage and Security
We implement multiple layers of security to protect your data:
- Encryption at Rest: All data is encrypted using AES-256 encryption—the same standard used by banks and government agencies.
- Encryption in Transit: All data transmission occurs over HTTPS/TLS.
- Two-Factor Authentication: Optional TOTP-based MFA is available for additional account protection using authenticator apps like Google Authenticator or Authy.
- Authenticated Access Only: All data access is strictly controlled through authenticated API endpoints. No anonymous access is permitted.
- Comprehensive Audit Logs: We maintain detailed logs of all data access and modifications, including who accessed data, when, and what actions were taken.
Email content and summaries are stored to provide you with history and regeneration features. You can delete individual summaries or your entire account at any time from your dashboard.
5. Third-Party Services & AI Processing
⚠️ Important: AI Processing Disclosure
When you forward content to SmartSummary, your email content is sent to Anthropic's Claude AI for analysis and summarization. This means:
- Your forwarded content is transmitted to Anthropic's servers for processing
- No human at SmartSummary or Anthropic reads your documents
- Per Anthropic's commercial terms, your content is not used to train AI models
- Processing occurs in real-time; content is not retained by Anthropic after processing
We use the following third-party services to operate SmartSummary.ai:
- Anthropic (Claude AI): AI analysis and summarization of your content. Anthropic Privacy Policy
- Postmark: To process inbound emails and send summary responses
- Supabase: For secure database storage with AES-256 encryption
- Vercel: For web application hosting
- Railway: For backend API hosting
Each of these services maintains their own privacy policies and data handling practices. We encourage you to review them.
6. Data Retention
We provide you with control over how long your data is retained:
- Auto-Delete Options: You can configure automatic deletion of summaries after 30, 60, or 90 days from your dashboard
- Manual Deletion: You can delete individual summaries at any time
- Account Deletion: You can delete your entire account, which permanently removes all associated data including summaries, authentication records, and account information
- Default: If no auto-delete policy is set, summaries are retained until manually deleted
When data is deleted (manually or automatically), it is permanently removed from our systems and cannot be recovered.
7. Your Rights
- Access: View your summaries and account information in your dashboard
- Deletion: Delete individual summaries or your entire account at any time
- Data Portability: Download your summaries as PDF files
- Correction: Update your custom instructions and allowed email addresses
8. Children's Privacy
SmartSummary.ai is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this 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.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.