Privacy Policy
What we collect
Your email address; the links, notes and files you save; the summary made from them; links, dates and account names you choose to bring in from your own data download; your time zone and choices; the reminders you schedule; and, only if you connect a calendar, the start and end of your busy periods (no titles, guests or locations). What we read from what you save is used only to write your summary and is deleted once the summary is made, or within a day if a summary could not be made. We do not store videos, images or audio belonging to others. If you join the beta waitlist, we keep your email and what you said you save most, to send your invite.
Cookies
Scrolute uses only cookies that are needed to sign you in and keep you signed in (session cookies from our sign-in provider). We do not use advertising cookies, analytics cookies or session-replay tools, and we do not set non-essential cookies that would need a consent banner. Changing that would mean updating this page and asking again before any such cookie is used.
Direct marketing
We use your email address, and nothing else about you, to send Scrolute news, tips and offers. These emails are from Scrolute only: we never share your email with anyone else for their marketing and never sell it. You can object at any time by using the box when you sign up, the "Emails from Scrolute" switch in Settings, the unsubscribe link in any marketing email, or by writing to support@scrolute.com. We honour an objection within 10 working days. If you are in the European Union, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or we cannot tell where you are, we ask you to opt in with an unticked box instead. We record when and how you chose, and which notice you saw.
Why
To provide the service you asked for: remembering what you saved, summarising it, and reminding you. When you use Ask, your question and the summaries of your own saves go to our cloud AI provider to produce the answer, and are not kept beyond your saves. We keep basic usage information, such as what kind of thing was saved and whether plans were done, to run and improve the service; it holds no links, notes or summaries and is deleted with your account. We do not sell data, show ads, or use analytics or advertising trackers.
Who we share it with, and where
Only service providers that help us run Scrolute:
- A cloud hosting provider (Singapore).
- A database and sign-in provider (Singapore).
- A cloud AI provider, which writes summaries and answers and reads files you share.
- A third-party content data provider (United States).
- A DNS and email routing provider.
- Google, if you choose Google sign-in or connect Google Calendar.
A list of our current providers is available on request to support@scrolute.com. They handle data only to do the job we send them, and we do not sell your data. Some route traffic over networks in other countries. The operator opens your saves only when needed to fix a problem or to answer a request from you.
Scrolute uses YouTube API Services; by using it with YouTube links you are bound by the YouTube Terms of Service, and Google's use of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
Google Calendar (optional)
If you choose Connect Google Calendar, Scrolute asks Google for two permissions, separately from signing in. It reads only your free and busy times, with no event titles, guests, locations or other details, and keeps only the start and end of each busy period. It writes only to a separate calendar called Scrolute that it creates in your account, holding the plans you choose. It cannot see or change your other calendars. You can disconnect in Settings at any time, which ends the access and deletes the connection we hold; events already added stay in your Scrolute calendar until you delete them there. Deleting your account does the same.
Scrolute's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Where it is stored and for how long
Stored with a database provider in Singapore (outside Hong Kong), so that each account can see only its own data. Data is kept until you delete it or your account. Our database provider may hold short-term operational backups under its own terms, after which deleted data is gone.
Sharing a summary
You can share a summary by link. Anyone with the link can see its title, summary, key points, where it came from and a link to the original post, and the display name you chose if you set one. They cannot see your notes, plans, deadlines, email or other saves. A shared page is not listed by search engines. You can stop sharing from the More menu on the save, which ends the link straight away, and deleting the save or your account does the same. We do not show anyone else's name or email on shared pages.
Shared folders
You can share a folder by link and choose whether people can only view it or add their own saves too. Anyone with the link sees a preview of the titles and short summaries in the folder. People who sign in and add the folder, its members, see the folder as it stands now, including what you add later, and the display name you chose shown next to the folder, for example "Careers (Max)". If you let members add, what they add shows their display name, and you can remove it. Members can save any item to their own folders. Your notes, plans, deadlines, stars and email are never shared. You can see who has added a folder by display name, remove a person, reset the link or stop sharing, which removes the folder from everyone else's list. A member can leave at any time. Deleting your account ends your shared folders.
Optional uses, only with your permission
Two further uses are off unless you turn them on in Settings, and each choice is recorded with its date. First, de-identified, combined information about what people save, to understand trends and develop new features; it is never sold. Second, your saved summaries and notes, with your name and email removed, to improve Scrolute's own sorting and suggestions, which may include training its models. You can withdraw either at any time; withdrawal stops new use from then on. We will not use your data for any other new purpose without asking you first.
Your rights
In Settings you can export all your data and delete your account and every row immediately. To ask for a copy of your data or to correct it, use the export in Settings, or write to support@scrolute.com (support@scrolute.com); under Hong Kong's Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance we reply within 40 days. If you live in the EU or UK you also have the rights to erasure, portability and objection, and to complain to your data protection authority. We do not sell personal information.
Children
The service is for people aged 18 or over (18 during the private test). We ask users to confirm this and do not knowingly collect data from younger children.
Third parties' content
Saved links may point to other people's posts. We keep only text derived for your private use, show it only to you, and never republish it. See the copyright and takedown policy.
Changes and contact
We will update this page and the notice version when practices change. Contact: support@scrolute.com.