Last updated: August 8, 2026
When you create an account, we collect your email address, username, and display name. When you submit reviews, we collect the review content, ratings, bias votes, accuracy votes, and associated metadata. We also collect usage data such as pages visited, features used, and device information through standard analytics.
We use your information to operate and improve Web Jury, display your reviews and ratings publicly (associated with your username), calculate aggregate trust scores, bias ratings, and accuracy metrics, detect and prevent abuse or manipulation of our rating systems, and communicate with you about your account and platform updates.
Reviews, ratings, bias votes, accuracy votes, and your username are public by default. This is core to Web Jury's mission of transparency. Your email address is never displayed publicly.
We do not sell your personal information. We may share aggregated, anonymized data (such as overall trust scores and bias distributions) publicly and with partners. We may share information when required by law or to protect the safety of our users and platform.
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit and at rest, secure authentication, and regular security audits. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
We use essential cookies for authentication and session management. We may use analytics cookies to understand how users interact with our platform. You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings.
You can access, update, or delete your account information at any time through your account settings. You can request a copy of your data or request deletion by contacting us at privacy@web-jury.com. Note that deleting your account will remove your profile but reviews may remain in anonymized form for the integrity of aggregate scores.
The Web Jury browser extension shows trust scores for pages you visit. To do that, it sends a reduced form of the page's address to our servers and gets the score back. This section describes exactly what leaves your browser, because for an extension that is the whole privacy question.
What is sent:when you visit a supported site (for example YouTube, X, or Reddit), when you hover over a link to one for about half a second, or when you explicitly ask for a score from the toolbar popup, the keyboard shortcut, or the right-click menu, the extension sends that page's address to our API. Before anything is sent, the address is stripped down to the smallest form that still identifies the page: login credentials embedded in URLs, fragments (the part after #), and tracking or session query parameters are removed — the only query parameter kept is one that identifies the content itself, such as a YouTube video id. Lookups are anonymous: the extension has no account system and attaches no identity to them.
What is never sent:addresses on private, internal, loopback, or intranet hosts (for example localhost, 192.168.x.x, or a company wiki) never leave your machine. Search-results pages are never sent, because their address contains what you typed into the search box. Non-web pages (browser settings pages, file:// URLs) are never sent. If you use the optional "run on all websites" setting, badges appear on more sites and those page addresses are looked up under exactly the same minimisation and blocking rules — that setting is off until you turn it on.
What a lookup creates:if a public page we have never seen before is looked up, our server may create a review page (an "entity") for it, so the crowd can rate it. That record contains the reduced public address and public metadata about the page — never anything about you or your browser.
Anonymous ratings: if you submit a quick rating from the extension without an account, we store the vote with a hashed form of your IP address, used only to limit repeat voting and detect manipulation.
What stays on your device:your settings, the history of pages you have checked, your watch list, cached scores, and any private page annotations live in your browser's local extension storage. None of it is uploaded, and uninstalling the extension deletes it.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@web-jury.com.