Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Recito Reader ("Recito", "we", "us", "our"), including our website, applications, and related services. By creating an account or using the service, you agree to these Terms.

1. The Service

Recito Reader is a modern research and reference management platform for students, researchers, and writers. The service lets you discover papers across a broad network of open scholarly databases, including Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CORE, Europe PMC, Unpaywall, Elsevier, and CrossRef, that collectively index over 300 million unique academic works, import and organize your collection, annotate and take notes, track reading progress, and generate citations in 15+ formats. Recito also provides optional tools to locate open-access versions of academic papers by querying these publicly available academic databases on your behalf.

2. Accounts and Eligibility

• You must provide accurate account information and keep it updated.
• You are responsible for all activity under your account and for protecting your login credentials.
• You must be at least 13 years old to use the service, or have verifiable parental or guardian consent where required by local law.

3. Subscription Plans and Billing

Paid subscriptions unlock cloud sync and plan-based storage. Current plan storage limits are shown in your account settings; plans are subject to change with notice. Billing and payment processing is handled by Creem (creem.io), which acts as the Merchant of Record for all transactions. By subscribing, you authorize recurring charges according to your selected plan until you cancel. All receipts and billing correspondence are issued by Creem on behalf of Recito Reader.

4. Trials, Renewals, and Cancellations

• New accounts are eligible for a 14‑day free trial unless otherwise stated at signup. Trials begin on account activation.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless cancelled before the renewal date.
• You can cancel your subscription at any time from within Recito Reader by navigating to Settings → Billing and selecting Manage Subscription. This will redirect you to the Creem Customer Portal where you can cancel immediately.
• If you cancel a paid subscription, you will retain access to paid features until the end of your current billing period. Cancellation prevents future renewals but does not trigger immediate account closure.

5. Refunds

Recito provides a generous 14‑day free trial so you can fully evaluate the service before paying. Because of this trial period, our refund policy is as follows:

• 24‑hour accidental purchase window: If you subscribe by mistake, you may request a full refund within 24 hours of the initial charge by contacting support@recitoreader.com. Refund requests made within this window will be processed promptly.
• After 24 hours: Because the 14‑day free trial provides ample time to evaluate the service, payments are generally non-refundable after the 24‑hour window, unless required by applicable consumer protection law or there is a verified billing error on our part.
• How to request a refund: Contact us at support@recitoreader.com with your account email and a brief description of the issue. We will respond to all refund inquiries within 3 business days.

6. Your Content and Ownership

You retain full ownership of the content you create in Recito Reader, including notes, annotations, highlights, tags, and metadata. You grant us the limited technical right to host, store, process, and transmit your content solely as necessary to operate and provide the service to you. We do not sell your content, use it to train AI or machine-learning models, or share it with third parties except as required to deliver the service (for example, storing files in cloud storage infrastructure).

7. PDF Storage, Copyright, and Third-Party Content

Your responsibility for uploaded papers

Recito provides cloud storage for your research library. You represent and warrant that for each paper you upload to Recito cloud storage, you have the legal right to store and access that copy, whether because the paper is open access, you hold an institutional licence, you purchased a copy, or you otherwise comply with applicable copyright law. We do not review uploaded content for copyright compliance and are not responsible for your compliance obligations.

Paper discovery, retrieval, and open-access search

Recito's discovery engine and import features query a broad network of open scholarly databases, including Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CORE, Europe PMC, Unpaywall, Elsevier, and CrossRef, collectively indexing over 300 million unique academic works, to locate metadata, open-access PDF versions, and citation information. Results reflect publicly declared open-access status at the time of the query; Recito makes no warranty that retrieved papers are correctly classified as open access. You are responsible for confirming you have appropriate access before downloading and retaining any paper.

Web snapshot feature

As a last-resort fallback, our service may generate a PDF snapshot of a publisher's publicly accessible landing page on your behalf (a "Web Snapshot"). A Web Snapshot creates a formatted copy of content you could view directly in a browser. You are responsible for ensuring your use of Web Snapshots complies with the terms of service of the relevant publisher and applicable copyright law. Recito does not store Web Snapshots on its servers beyond the single delivery to your browser session.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Upload, store, or distribute content that infringes copyright, patent, trademark, or other intellectual property rights of third parties.
• Use PDF retrieval features to circumvent paywalls or access content to which you have no legal right.
• Use any output of the service, including papers, annotations, or citations, for training, fine-tuning, or creating machine-learning or artificial intelligence models.
• Upload malicious code, attempt unauthorized access, or interfere with service operations or security.
• Use bots, scrapers, or automated methods that place unreasonable load on the service or that abuse API rate limits on your behalf.
• Use the service to distribute unlawful or harmful material.
• Attempt to bypass account authentication, subscription access controls, or per-plan storage limits.

9. Browser Extension (Recito Companion)

The optional Recito Companion browser extension operates locally in your browser and assists with downloading papers from websites you navigate to. The extension acts entirely on your behalf and under your control. You are responsible for ensuring that any download you initiate through the extension complies with the terms of service of the visited website and applicable law. The extension does not transmit your browsing history or page contents to Recito's servers.

• The extension is provided as-is and requires a valid Recito Reader account to function.
• The extension is currently available as a manual install (developer mode). Chrome Web Store availability is coming soon.
• The extension contains no tracking, analytics, or third-party scripts. It communicates solely with Recito's own servers for paper storage.
• You may uninstall the extension at any time from your browser's extension management page without affecting your Recito account or library.

10. Storage Quotas

Cloud storage is subject to per-plan limits. If you exceed your plan storage limit, new uploads will be refused until you free space or upgrade. We will attempt to notify you before your quota is exceeded. We do not automatically delete your existing files when you exceed a limit. Plan downgrades or subscription expiry may restrict your ability to add new files but will not immediately delete existing files; cloud-stored files are retained for 30 days after subscription expiry, after which they may be deleted without further notice. Recito does not provide a data-loss guarantee for cloud storage. You should maintain your own local copies of important research materials.

11. Browser Features and Compatibility

• Local library folder sync depends on browser file system permissions and is currently supported in Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc).
• Text-to-speech functionality uses browser speech synthesis APIs and performs best in Microsoft Edge with its enhanced neural voices.
• Offline functionality relies on your browser's IndexedDB storage. Clearing browser site data will remove all locally cached library content.

12. Intellectual Property

Recito Reader software, design, branding, and documentation are our intellectual property and are protected by applicable law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service for lawful personal or academic use in accordance with these Terms.

13. DMCA and Copyright Takedown

Recito respects copyright and complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and equivalent copyright laws where applicable. If you believe that content stored in Recito's infrastructure infringes your copyright, please send a written notice to support@recitoreader.com including:

• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed.
• Identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location in the service.
• Your contact information (name, address, phone, email).
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorised.
• A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorised to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

We will respond to valid takedown requests promptly. Repeated infringement may result in account termination.

14. Third-Party Services and Accuracy

The service queries a broad network of publicly accessible academic databases and data services to retrieve paper metadata, open-access PDF links, and citation information. We do not control the accuracy, completeness, or availability of data provided by these third-party services. Citation metadata, open-access status, and PDF links returned may be incomplete or incorrect. You are responsible for verifying citations and source material for your own academic or professional work.

15. Service Changes and Availability

We may add, modify, suspend, or remove features or plans over time. We aim for high reliability but cannot guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. We will provide reasonable advance notice of material feature removals or plan changes that affect active subscribers.

16. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or pose security, legal, or operational risk. You may delete your account at any time via your account settings. On account deletion, cloud account data is removed in accordance with our Privacy Policy and retention windows.

17. Disclaimers

The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis to the extent permitted by law. We make no warranties, express or implied, regarding fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted access, accuracy of third-party metadata, or successful retrieval of any particular paper.

18. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Recito Reader is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, data, or research time. Our total aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the fees you paid to us in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

19. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Recito Reader and its operators harmless from any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including legal fees) arising from your content, your use of the service in violation of these Terms, or your infringement of any third-party rights.

20. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of Bangladesh. You and Recito agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Dhaka, Bangladesh for disputes arising from these Terms. Notwithstanding the foregoing, mandatory consumer protection laws in your country of residence may apply regardless of this choice of law. Nothing in these Terms is intended to override or exclude rights you have under local mandatory law, including EU consumer rights under applicable EU directives.

21. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, we will provide notice by posting in the app, by email, or both, at least 14 days before the changes take effect for existing subscribers. Continued use of the service after the effective date of changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to:

Email: support@recitoreader.com