Privacy Policy

1. What Legal Citation Checker does

Legal Citation Checker is a Chrome extension that reads the visible text of web pages you visit, extracts legal citation strings (e.g., "384 U.S. 436" or "42 U.S.C. § 1983"), and sends those citation strings to public legal databases for verification.

The extension then displays verification results — whether a case is good law, overturned, or a statute has been amended — in a sidebar panel within your browser.

2. What data is transmitted

When a citation is detected, the following is transmitted:

• Citation text only (e.g., "384 U.S. 436") — not the surrounding page text, not the URL, not your identity
• Sent to: CourtListener API (Free Law Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) for case law lookups
• Sent to: Cornell LII API (Cornell Law School) for statute lookups
• Sent to: eCFR API (U.S. Government Publishing Office) for regulation lookups

These are free public APIs operated by reputable legal institutions and the US government. Their respective privacy policies govern how they handle API requests. Legal Citation Checker does not add any identifying information to these requests.

3. What we (AIBridges) collect

AIBridges collects nothing. We do not operate any server that processes, stores, or logs requests from Legal Citation Checker. The extension communicates directly from your browser to the third-party APIs listed above — AIBridges is not an intermediary.

We do not collect:

• Page text, URLs, or browsing history
• The citations you look up
• Names, email addresses, or any personally identifiable information
• Usage analytics or click events

4. Local storage

The extension may store your sidebar preferences (open/closed, column order) in chrome.storage.local. This data remains entirely on your device and is never transmitted anywhere.

5. Permissions

Legal Citation Checker requests the following Chrome permissions:

• activeTab — to read the text of the current tab for citation extraction
• storage — to save your UI preferences locally
• sidePanel — to show results in Chrome's sidebar
• host_permissions for public APIs — to make verification requests to CourtListener, Cornell LII, and eCFR

6. Third-party API privacy policies

For information on how the verification API providers handle request data, refer to their own policies:

• CourtListener / Free Law Project: free.law/privacy
• Cornell LII: law.cornell.edu/privacy
• eCFR / GPO: gpo.gov privacy policy

7. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a meaningful way, the effective date will be updated and a note will appear in the Chrome Web Store listing. Continued use of the extension constitutes acceptance.

8. Contact

Questions about privacy? We'll answer promptly.