Only you and anyone you explicitly invite. qed staff may access them for operational purposes (e.g., ensuring it was uploaded properly) or quality assurance (e.g., assessing our Critical Thinking AI performance). Our AI providers are contractually barred from training their own foundation models on your data.

qed will never publish, republish, or assert authorship over your unpublished work, nor interfere with any journal copyright you later choose. You retain full ownership of all manuscripts and data. You grant qed a revocable, non‑exclusive worldwide license solely to (i) generate feedback/reports, (ii) optionally train and evaluate qed’s own models, and (iii) create anonymised, aggregated analytics.

No. qed is a private, pre‑submission tool. Reports stay inside your account unless you download or share them, so journal “originality” rules and copyright transfer agreements are unaffected (If a journal has a unique policy, we recommend checking its guidelines, just as you would with any lab notebook or pre‑print).

We strive to maintain industry standard data protection and security tools. We are extremely careful in how we use unpublished data in training. Your manuscript can indirectly affect our model parameters, but you are always in control of how your work gets published to the world.

Deleting a manuscript immediately ends qed’s licence to use it. All files are purged from live systems and scheduled for permanent erasure from encrypted backups within ≤ 30 days. Any model parameters already learned or anonymized stats remain because they cannot technically be rolled back, but they contain no identifiable text.

We log basic usage metrics (clicks, dwell‑time, ratings, etc.) to improve features, monitor security, and produce fully anonymised product‑analytics that may be shared or licensed. We never sell or share raw manuscripts, personal identifiers, or deleted content for marketing or any other purpose.