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Your privacy is our
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No accounts. No behavioral tracking. Your documents are deleted within 2 hours. The credit system stores only the minimum needed to prevent abuse — never your document content.

Where does your data go?

Every step of your document's journey — transparent and honest.

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Your Device

Your PDF starts here. Nothing is sent until you press Sweep it.

  • ✅ File stays local until upload
  • ✅ You control what you share
🔐 HTTPS Encrypted in transit

PaperSweep Server

Your PDF is stored temporarily on disk while it is processed. No one reads it.

  • ✅ No human access to content
  • ✅ No document content logged or stored
  • ⏱️ Document files auto-deleted within 2 hours
  • 📊 Usage total (bytes, not content) kept for credits
🤖 HTTPS Images only, 3rd party
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Mistral AI

Page images are sent for text recognition (OCR) and classification. Text is returned; images are not retained.

📦 HTTPS Results only, back to you
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Back to You

Sorted PDFs and the Excel log are downloaded directly to your device.

  • ✅ Files go straight to your browser
  • ✅ Server files deleted in 30 min after download

Data lifecycle

From the moment you upload to the moment everything is gone.

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Upload PDF received over HTTPS, written to a temporary folder unique to your job
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Processing Pages rendered in RAM and sent to Mistral AI for OCR. No content is logged.
Ready Sorted PDFs and Excel log available for download. Timer starts.
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Download Once you download the ZIP, the server schedules deletion in 30 minutes.
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Auto-deleted All document files wiped from the server. Maximum 2 hours from completion, whether or not you download.
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Usage record retained A record of bytes processed (not document content) is kept for the free-tier credit system. If you paid, the payment record is kept for accounting. No document content is ever retained.

Our commitments

Simple, verifiable promises about how PaperSweep handles your data.

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Documents deleted within 2 hours

No document, page, or extracted text is kept on our servers beyond the 2-hour processing window. Only your byte total (not content) is retained for the free-tier credit system.

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No account required

No email, no password, no profile — ever. The credit system uses a random browser ID; we never know your identity.

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Encrypted in transit

All data between your browser, our server, and Mistral AI travels over HTTPS (TLS 1.3).

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No behavioral tracking

No analytics, no fingerprinting, no ad networks. A random browser ID is stored in your browser's localStorage solely to allocate your free usage — not to profile you.

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No human reads your files

Your documents are processed entirely by automated systems. No PaperSweep employee ever sees your content.

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Not used for AI training

Your documents are never used to train PaperSweep's systems or any third-party AI model.

Honest about third parties

We use two external services. Here's exactly what each receives.

Mistral AI

OCR & document classification
Privacy policy ↗

What is sent

  • 📸 Each page rendered as a PNG image
  • 📝 OCR text (for classification step)
  • 🔐 Transmitted over HTTPS

What is NOT sent

  • 🚫 Your original PDF file
  • 🚫 Your name, email, or identity
  • 🚫 Any metadata beyond the page content

Retention

  • Per Mistral's policy, API data is not used for model training
  • Requests are processed in real-time and not stored beyond transient caching
  • Mistral operates on EU infrastructure

Stripe

Payment processing (optional — only if you purchase credits)
Privacy policy ↗

What is sent

  • 💳 Payment card details (handled entirely by Stripe — never seen by us)
  • 📧 Email address (entered on Stripe's hosted checkout page)
  • 🔗 A random session reference (not your identity)

What we store

  • ✅ Amount paid and credits granted
  • ✅ Stripe session ID (for reconciliation)
  • 🚫 No card number, no CVV, no full card data

Why

  • Payment records are retained to comply with accounting and tax obligations
  • Stripe operates globally — their data transfer mechanisms are covered by SCCs and Privacy Shield successor frameworks

Questions?

PaperSweep is designed to be transparent by default. If you have questions about how your data is handled, reach out — we'll answer plainly.