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Last updated: August 9, 2026

This explains what Pocket Search collects, how AI processes your research, and the choices you have. For the agreement itself, see the Terms of Service.

What Pocket Search is

Pocket Search is a deep-research tool. Ask a hard question and it works the way a careful researcher would: it searches the open web, reads the primary sources itself, weighs claims against each other, and writes a cited brief you can trace back to where each fact came from. It keeps researching until the answer is genuinely ready, not until the first plausible sentence, and it shows its work so you can judge it.

A research system does the searching, reading, and writing, with a language model at its core. That is what makes it fast and thorough: it can read dozens of sources in a single pass and surface conflicts you might not have found. Like any research, a brief can be incomplete, outdated, or wrong, so verify what matters before you rely on it.

How AI processing works

When you ask a question, we send it, along with the web pages the search finds, to the third-party language-model provider that powers the model you're using. That provider processes your question and those sources to draft the brief. This means your question and the content of the pages it reads leave our server and reach that provider as part of normal operation. We don't control what a provider retains on its side; their handling is governed by their own terms.

What we collect

How long we keep things

Your conversations and reports are stored in your browser. Server-side retention depends on the features you use:

Temporary file attachments

When file uploads are available and you choose to attach a PDF, Markdown, plain-text or image file (JPEG/PNG), we store it temporarily on our server. PDFs and text files are extracted to text, and the original is removed after extraction. An image is kept as-is for its temporary window. Attachments are available to new research requests for 7 days from upload; a run already using one may retain it for up to two hours longer. Adding files or asking follow-up questions does not extend an older file's deadline. Cleanup runs automatically while the service is running. You can also delete temporary files from attachment management. Scanned PDFs aren't OCR'd, so an image-only PDF yields no readable text.

Before research, an attached image is converted once into a written description by a vision model. The description, not the image pixels, is what the harmful-content screen checks and what the research run reads; the image bytes are sent to that vision provider only for this step. The generated description stays in your chat history (and may sync with your reports) after the image itself is deleted at the end of its window. Relevant excerpts and image descriptions are sent to our AI providers. Web-assisted research may send document-derived search terms to external search services; this is not an offline or documents-only mode. Provider retention follows their own terms. Filenames and quotations in generated answers remain in your chat history and may sync with your reports. Deleting a file stops further access but cannot recall text already read by a model or quoted in an answer.

What we share, and the Limited Use commitment

Your data is shared only where needed to run the service: with the language-model provider that drafts your brief, and with the search providers that find sources. We commit to the following limits:

Security

Traffic to and from Pocket Search uses encrypted connections (HTTPS / WSS), with TLS terminated at the network edge. No security measure is perfect, but we keep the surface small: minimal data, short retention, and no trackers.

Your choices

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. If we do, continuing to use Pocket Search means you accept the revised policy.

See also the Terms of Service. Questions? Reach us at [email protected].