Privacy policy
What we collect, what we publish, and exactly what the browser extension sends. We do not sell your personal information.
Last updated: October 9, 20261. Information We Collect
When you create an account, we collect your email address, username, and display name. When you rate someone, we collect your rating and any words you add, lean votes, accuracy votes, trait votes, any controversy you raise or mark, and associated metadata. We also collect limited usage data — pages visited and a few product events — but only if you turn analytics on; section 6 lists exactly what those events contain.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to operate and improve Internet Standing, display your ratings publicly (associated with your username), calculate aggregate Standings, trait readings, lean ratings, and accuracy metrics, detect and prevent abuse or manipulation of our rating systems, and communicate with you about your account and platform updates.
3. Public Information
Ratings (with any words you add), lean votes, accuracy votes, and your username are public by default. This is core to Internet Standing's mission of transparency. Your email address is never displayed publicly.
4. Data Sharing
We do not sell your personal information. We may share aggregated, anonymized data (such as Standings and lean distributions) publicly and with partners. We may share information when required by law or to protect the safety of our users and platform.
5. Data Security
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.
7. Error monitoring
We use Sentryto find out when something breaks. Unlike analytics it is not triggered by normal use: a report is created only when a page or a request actually fails. Keeping the service working is a legitimate interest, so this runs without a consent prompt — which is only defensible because of what it deliberately does not collect.
A report contains: the address of the page or the method and path of the failing request, an error message and stack trace, browser and operating-system version, and a timestamp.
A report deliberately excludes:your IP address, cookies, request bodies, and query strings. That last one matters: a search address contains what you typed, so it is stripped before anything is sent. We do not use Sentry's session replay, which would record what you do on the page.
8. Your Rights
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. To object to a rating or to any other content on the site, use the grievance route at /grievance, which has published deadlines. Note that deleting your account will remove your profile but ratings may remain in anonymized form for the integrity of aggregate Standings.
9. The Browser Extension
The Internet Standing browser extension shows the Standing of the creators, channels and pages you visit. To do that, it sends a reduced form of the page's address to our servers and gets the Standing 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 Standing 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 record for it, so the public 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 Standings, and any private page annotations live in your browser's local extension storage. None of it is uploaded, and uninstalling the extension deletes it.
10. Changes to This Policy
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.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@web-jury.com.