Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 26, 2026

This policy explains what data Second Read collects, what we do with it, and how to get it deleted. The short version: we collect the minimum needed to give you essay feedback, we never train AI models on your essays, we never sell data, and you can delete everything by sending one email.

1. What we collect

Account data. Your email address and name.
Essays and drafts. The essay text you submit for review, including earlier draft versions you save.
Review results. The feedback, scores, and flags the service generates for your drafts.
Purchase status. Whether you hold a Season Pass, received from Creem, our payment provider. We never see your card number or full payment details.
Minimal technical logs. We keep hashed IP addresses for abuse prevention. Raw IP addresses are not stored.

2. How your essays are used

When you request a review, your essay text is sent to Anthropic’s Claude API solely to generate your feedback. Under Anthropic’s API terms, API inputs and outputs are not used to train their models.

On our side, the commitment is plain: we never use your essays to train any AI model, we never sell your data, and we never share your essays with any third party beyond the processors listed below — each of which handles data only to run the service.

3. Processors we use

These are the companies that process data on our behalf, and why:

Vercel — hosting the application.
Neon — the database where your account, essays, and reviews are stored.
Resend — sending sign-in emails.
Creem — payments, as our merchant of record.
Anthropic — generating review feedback via the Claude API.

That is the whole list. If it changes, this page changes.

4. Minors

Second Read is designed for college applicants aged 13 and up, and many of our users are 16 or 17. That shapes how we operate: we collect the minimum data needed to run the service and nothing more. Parents and guardians may contact us at any time about their child’s data — to review it, correct it, or have it deleted.

5. Your rights

Every user, in every country, has the same rights here — we do not make you cite a statute:

Access and export. Ask for a copy of your data.
Correction. Ask us to fix anything inaccurate.
Deletion. Ask us to delete your account, your essays, or everything. Deletion is honored promptly, and essays are deleted on request.

To exercise any of these, email support@getsecondread.com from your account address.

6. Retention

Account data, essays, and reviews are kept for the application season plus 12 months, then deleted. Database backups roll off within 30 days of a deletion. If you request deletion earlier, we delete earlier.

7. Cookies

We set one cookie: the session cookie that keeps you signed in. There are no ad trackers and no third-party analytics cookies.

8. Changes and contact

If we make a material change to this policy, we will notify you by email before it takes effect. Questions: support@getsecondread.com.