Privacy
Last updated 29 September 2026. CiteTeX is run by Eyas Alrawi.
CiteTeX is a place to write LaTeX documents and keep a research library. This page says, in plain words, what we store, why, who can see it, and how to take it with you or delete it.
What we store
- Your account: name, email, a scrambled (hashed) password — or, if you sign in with Google, your Google account id. We never see your Google password.
- Your projects: the files you write and upload, their version history, comments and tracked changes.
- Your research library: the PDFs you add, their text (so you can search it), your notes, highlights and links.
- Assistant: your conversations with the writing assistant, and your Anthropic API key — encrypted, and never shown back to you or anyone else.
- Grammar dots: while you write, the text of your paragraphs (not the LaTeX code) is checked by a grammar checker that runs on our own server. It is not stored or sent anywhere else. You can turn this off in Settings → Editor.
- Settings and feedback: your editor preferences, and anything you send us with “Send feedback”.
- Technical records: sign-in sessions, when you last used CiteTeX, and short-lived server logs, to keep the service running and secure.
- Emails we send: a link to confirm your address when you sign up, and a reset link when you ask for one — through our email provider (Resend). We don't send newsletters or marketing.
- Compile statistics: for each compile, whether it worked, how long it took, the number of errors and which engine ran — never the document itself. We use them to find and fix what breaks, keep them 90 days, and delete them with your account.
Who can see it
Your projects are private until you share them. People you invite, or who open a share link you turned on, can see (and, if you allow, edit) that project and its history. Your library, notes, assistant conversations and API key are only ever yours. We look at stored data only when needed to run or fix the service, or when the law requires it.
The AI features (assistant, rewriting, search answers)
The AI included with CiteTeX runs on DeepSeek (DeepSeek V3), whose servers are in China. When you use an AI feature, the text you send and the parts of your project, papers or notes it reads are sent to DeepSeek to produce the answer, under DeepSeek’s privacy policy. Each account has a daily number of AI requests.
If you add your own Anthropic API key in Settings, the AI runs on Anthropic’s Claude models instead and that text goes to Anthropic, under Anthropic’s terms and privacy policy. Nothing is sent to either company unless you use an AI feature; searching papers without AI sends only your search words to the paper databases.
If you connect CiteTeX to Claude (Settings → Use in Claude), Claude can read and change your projects and read your library when you ask it to in a Claude chat; what it reads goes to Anthropic under your Claude account’s terms. You approve the connection on CiteTeX and can disconnect it there at any time.
Cookies and tracking
We use one cookie to keep you signed in (and a short-lived one during Google sign-in). No advertising, no third-party analytics, no tracking across websites.
Where it is kept
On our server and in its encrypted backups (kept for up to 30 days). Connections are encrypted (HTTPS). No system is perfectly secure; we keep software up to date, isolate the part that compiles documents, and limit who can access the server.
Your choices
- Take your data with you: Settings → Account → “Download all my data” gives you a zip of your projects, library and conversations.
- Delete your account: Settings → Account → “Delete account” removes your account, projects, library and conversations right away; backups age out within 30 days.
- Remove the API key at any time in Settings → AI assistant.
Changes and contact
If this notice changes in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app. Questions or requests: eyacejoom3@gmail.com.
Terms of use (short version)
- Your documents are yours. You give us only the permission needed to store, compile and show them to the people you share them with.
- Don’t use CiteTeX to break the law, to attack the service or other users, or to upload what you have no right to share.
- During the beta, things can break: keep your own copies of important work (use “Download all my data”).
- We may suspend accounts that abuse the service.