Terms of Service

CiteSeek is a personal project, offered free and without warranty. It is not a company, there is no subscription, and there is no service level of any kind. It may change, break, or be switched off without notice.

Documents you own or are entitled to process. Do not upload confidential material, personal data about other people, or anything you would mind a third-party model provider receiving — the privacy page explains where document text goes and why that warning is there.

Uploading something here gives this project no ownership of it. The only rights taken are the ones needed to do what you can watch it do: store the text extracted from your file, split and index that text, and send the passages relevant to your question to the model provider that writes the answer. Nothing is used to train or improve anything under this project’s control, and nothing is sold or shared beyond the processors named on the privacy page.

What the model provider may do with what reaches it is a separate question, and the honest answer is on that page rather than this one.

Usage is capped per person and globally, because the underlying model quota is finite and shared. Reaching a limit produces a clear message rather than a failure, and the caps exist to keep the demo working for everyone rather than to upsell anything. Guests are limited more tightly than signed-in users.

Every answer is generated from passages retrieved out of your own documents, and every claim carries a citation you can open and read. That makes answers checkable, not correct. A language model can misread a passage it cites accurately. Check the source before relying on anything that matters — the citation exists precisely so that you can.

The demo is shared, read-only, and seeded with a fictional company handbook. Ask as a guest and nothing is stored — a reload starts the conversation over. Ask while signed in and it is saved to your own history, where only you can see it. The handbook is shared; the conversations are not.

You can delete your account and everything in it at any time from the account page. No confirmation email, no waiting period, no recovery.