Privacy Policy

Last updated: 4 May 2026

ORBIT is a personal research tool. We try to keep this policy short and human. If anything is unclear, ask us.

What we store

We store the data you create inside ORBIT — your account (name, email, hashed password), your reading notes, your saved papers, your concepts, your articles, your goals, and your reading history. We also keep basic logs (IP, user agent, timestamps) for sessions, for security and abuse prevention.

What we do with it

Your data is used to make the product work for you: showing your notes back to you, syncing across devices, recommending papers based on your stated topics, and generating your weekly digest. We do not sell your data and we do not use it to train third-party models.

Public content

When you publish an article or a note and share its link, that content becomes readable by anyone with the link. Drafts always remain private. You can unpublish at any time, which immediately invalidates the public link.

Third parties

We use a few standard infrastructure providers (database hosting, email delivery, optional Google/Apple sign-in). They process data only as needed to provide their service. Paper metadata comes from public APIs (arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef) and is not personal to you.

Your controls

You can export everything you have in ORBIT as JSON from Settings → Data. You can delete your account from the same screen; deletion is final after a short grace period and removes your notes, articles, concepts, goals, questions, and any public links derived from them.

Cookies

We use a single session cookie to keep you logged in. We do not use third-party advertising or tracking cookies.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about your data? Reach out to the maintainer of your ORBIT instance, or open an issue on the project's repository.