Privacy Policy

1. Zero-Vault Ephemeral Architecture

Unlike conventional plagiarism detectors that index submitted manuscripts into a persistent global repository (where subsequent drafts of your own paper may trigger false similarity flags), ScholarScreen operates on a strict Zero-Vault ephemeral execution model.

Your document text is analyzed inside isolated Cloudflare Worker edge memory. To enable authors to review sentence-level highlights, inspect citations, and download their official tamper-proof PDF report, screening evidence is retained in temporary encrypted cloud storage for 24 hours, after which it is automatically and permanently purged.

Immediate Erasure: All temporary screening files are automatically deleted once your session is closed / within 24 hours (we store nothing permanently). Authors may also delete temporary files immediately at any time via the one-click "Delete Temporary Files Immediately" action inside the report viewer.

2. No AI Training on User Submissions

We firmly maintain that academic researchers, doctoral candidates, and students retain absolute copyright and intellectual ownership of their manuscripts. ScholarScreen never utilizes submitted text, drafts, or papers to train, fine-tune, or calibrate any machine learning, generative, or neural models.

3. Scholarly Search Probing & Sub-Processors

To detect textual overlap, paraphrasing, and citation matches, the engine extracts non-confidential search phrases (6-word n-gram shingles) and queries established academic registries and scientific publication indexes:

• Global Academic Registries: International open-access citation indexes, persistent DOI registries, and peer-reviewed journal databases.
• Scholarly & Preprint Archives: Multi-disciplinary preprint servers, university doctoral dissertation archives, and institutional repositories.
• Syntactic Classification: Ephemeral neural inference (running isolated edge execution with zero customer data retention).

Only localized search fragments are transmitted to identify matching publications—your full manuscript is never broadcast or transferred to third-party training repositories.

4. Payments & Access Credentials

Financial transactions for Student Plans (₹99), Author Packs (₹499), and Campus Pro (₹49,000) are processed through Razorpay over encrypted TLS channels (PCI-DSS Level 1 compliant). ScholarScreen never receives or stores your credit/debit card numbers, CVVs, or UPI credentials.

Access codes, payment transaction IDs, and Campus master keys are stored in secure encrypted relational database storage solely to verify remaining quota balances, maintain idempotent order fulfillment, and enforce rate caps.

5. Official PDF Screening Reports

Every completed screening generates an official digital PDF report bearing a unique Report ID and timestamp. This report summarizes numeric scores (TSI similarity and AI content probability), matched sources, and metrics, while keeping the manuscript contents private to the author.

6. Data Subject Rights & Retention (DPDP Act 2023)

Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India) and international privacy frameworks, data principals retain the right to summary confirmation, access, correction, and permanent erasure.