Privacy Policy

What This Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy explains how Paper Banana ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you access paperbanana.dev, create an account, upload references, generate academic figures, or use our AI academic drawing tools.

Information We Collect

We may collect account details such as your name, email address, login method, language preference, and billing status. When you use the generator, we may process prompts, uploaded reference images, generation settings, generated outputs, edit history, and feedback you provide. For payments, we store subscription and invoice records, but complete card data is handled by our payment processor. We also collect technical data such as IP address, browser, device, pages visited, error logs, and basic analytics events.

How We Use Information

We use your information to provide Paper Banana, generate academic visuals, save your history, manage credits and subscriptions, provide support, improve reliability, prevent abuse, send service notices, and comply with legal obligations. We may analyze aggregated usage patterns to improve templates, model routing, and user experience.

Sharing and Service Providers

We use trusted vendors for hosting, storage, analytics, email delivery, payment processing, and AI generation infrastructure. These providers process data only as needed to help us operate Paper Banana. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect users, or as part of a business transfer.

Generated Content and Research Data

Prompts, references, and generated academic visuals are treated as user project data. You are responsible for reviewing generated figures for accuracy before using them in papers, reports, lectures, grant proposals, or public materials.

Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards, including encrypted transport, access controls, backups, monitoring, and vendor security controls. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Data Retention

Account information is retained while your account is active. Billing records may be retained as required for tax and accounting compliance. Generated outputs and technical logs are retained for operational, support, and security needs, then deleted or anonymized according to our retention practices.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, or opt-out of certain processing. Contact us at hi@paperbanana.dev or through paperbanana.dev/contact. We may ask for information needed to verify your request.

International Transfers

Paper Banana may process data in the United States and other locations where our vendors operate. By using the service, you understand that your information may be transferred and processed outside your country.

Children

Paper Banana is not intended for users under 13 years old or the minimum digital consent age in your jurisdiction. If we learn that a child provided personal information, we will delete it and close the related account.

Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy as Paper Banana changes. Material changes may be announced by email or on the site. Continued use of the service means you accept the updated policy.

Contact

For privacy questions, email hi@paperbanana.dev with "Privacy" in the subject line or visit paperbanana.dev/contact.