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Risk Overview
Moderate Risk
4.4
/10
Document Analysis
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Conversational AI
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Knowledge Assistant
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Top Risks
Explicit sharing of PDF content (inputs and outputs) with Anthropic and OpenAI with no training prohibition stated; targeted advertising data collection and use (personalized ads, remarketing); browser extension, Zotero plugin, and ChatGPT plugin create agentic access to document libraries; no security certifications; unclear retention for PDF vector/text data.
Mitigations
Do not upload confidential or pre-publication research papers. Use only for publicly available papers. Disable personalized advertising in account settings if available. EU/UK users can exercise GDPR access and deletion rights. For institutional use, request enterprise agreement with explicit no-training and no-advertising-use provisions.
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Highest Risk Categories
The highest-scoring risk categories identified in this assessment.
Training Use
Privacy policy (Jan 30, 2025) states AI products are powered by Anthropic and OpenAI. User 'input, output, and personal information will be shared with and processed by these AI Service Providers.' No explicit statement that uploaded PDFs are never used for training. Anthropic and OpenAI API terms default to not training on commercial API inputs, but AskYourPDF's own policy does not make this commitment. Moderate training risk.
5
/10
3rd-Party Sharing
Privacy policy explicitly states: 'your input, output, and personal information will be shared with and processed by these AI Service Providers (Anthropic and OpenAI).' Also uses Google Analytics, third-party cookies for targeted advertising, personalized advertising delivery, and remarketing. Collects geolocation data. Higher sharing score than most in batch due to explicit advertising data use and broad third-party AI sharing.
5
/10
Data Retention
Retains data 'for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy' — tied to account lifetime. No fixed deletion period post-account-closure beyond 'when we have no ongoing legitimate business need.' Backup archive copies may persist longer. Standard but unspecific retention. User can request account deletion.
5
/10
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Updated July 2026 • AI-assisted research • Reviewed by Verax • Report an issue
Reference Documentation
Official documentation and policies referenced as part of this assessment.
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Privacy Policy
https://askyourpdf.com/privacy