Effective May 27, 2026

Privacy Policy

FirstPass helps you discover, save, and read research papers from arXiv. This policy explains the basic data handling for the app and this website.

Information Stored On Your Device

FirstPass stores saved papers, reading history, folders, reader state, and preferences on your device. This lets the app remember your library and reading setup.

Requests To Paper Services

Search, feed, and related-paper requests may be sent to the configured paper service to return results. Paper metadata, abstracts, and PDFs shown in FirstPass may come from arXiv. Citation counts and citation links, when available, may come from OpenAlex.

Third-Party Content

Papers, abstracts, PDFs, citation metadata, and linked pages remain subject to the privacy practices and terms of the services that provide them.

No Sale Of Personal Information

FirstPass does not sell personal information. If the data practices change, this policy will be updated before those changes are applied.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to support@getfirstpass.app.