YOUR TEXT, EXPLAINED
Privacy, in plain terms.
What is sent, what is retained, and what stays in this browser. Different parts of the check have different data needs.
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The paper you submit
Pasted text and extracted document text are sent to our server to run the selected check. Scans are not used to train the detector. Do not submit material you are not entitled to share.
Background jobs and retention
A scan can continue after you leave the page. Processing a background job requires temporary server-side data. Completed job results are retained for 24 hours so a saved job can be resumed. This is separate from the browser history described below.
Citation database queries
Citation checks look up titles and reference details in Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and Open Library. Those services receive the lookup information needed to search for a matching work. The front end does not send your paper directly to those services.
This browser’s recent history
Recent scans are stored locally in this browser as a short excerpt, a result summary and scan metadata. The local history does not contain your full paper and does not sync between devices. Clear it from Recent scans when you no longer need it.
Operational logs
Application logging records the check mode and counts, rather than the full submitted text. That logging rule does not mean that a running background job or its retained result contains no text.
Your account
A verified email opens your account session. The website and extension use the same account word allowance. Signing out ends the website session; extension access can be revoked separately in your account.
Abuse prevention
To keep the service available for everyone, we limit how often scans, sign-in links, and contact form submissions can be requested from the same address. For these limits we store only a one-way hash of your IP address, never the address itself; the hash is kept separately from your scans, account, and inquiries, and may appear truncated in operational logs.
Business contact form
If you send us a business inquiry through the contact form, we collect the details you enter — your name, work email, organization type, estimated number of users, and your message. We store a copy in our database so your inquiry is not lost if email delivery fails, and email it to our support mailbox so we can follow up. We use these details only to reply to your inquiry. The message passes through our email delivery provider on its way to our mailbox and stays there until we delete it. We do not add your address to a mailing list.
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