Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 2026
What we process
CiteCheck verifies citations you paste or upload against public academic libraries (Crossref, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, arXiv, bioRxiv/medRxiv, and OpenLibrary). Anonymous checks aren't stored: the reference text is used only to return your result, and any uploaded document is processed in memory (including text recognition on scanned pages) and discarded. When you're signed in, your checks are saved to your history by default so you can revisit them — see “Your check history” below.
Accounts
If you create an account, we store your email address and plan to manage access and billing. We use Supabase for authentication and Stripe for payments; we never see or store your full card details.
Your check history
While you're signed in, each check you run is saved — the citations you submitted and their verdicts — to “My check history” so you can re-open past reports. We keep this for the life of your account. You can delete any single check, clear your whole history, or export it (JSON or CSV) at any time from your account, and deleting your account erases all of it. The original uploaded document is never stored — only the extracted citations and their results.
Third parties
Citation lookups are sent to the academic libraries listed above to find matching records and, for a flagged citation, to suggest real replacement sources. Optional AI assistance, when enabled, sends the flagged citation to our model provider to generate a plain-English explanation of the verdict. We do not use your content to train models.
Your rights
You can export or delete your data at any time: manage and export your check history from your account, and use Delete account to erase everything — your history and profile are removed and any active subscription is cancelled first. Questions: support@citecheck.app.