Last updated: July 2, 2026 · Plain English, because that's the whole point of this product.
When you use Brief Check, your DOCX/PDF file is read locally in your browser. The file itself is never transmitted to us. Only the extracted plain text is sent, over HTTPS, to be checked for citations.
Submitted text is processed in memory and discarded when the request completes. We do not log, store, index, or train anything on the content you check.
Three things, none of which contain your document's content: (1) a daily usage counter tied to your IP address (or API key) that resets every 24 hours and exists solely to enforce rate limits; (2) a short-lived cache of individual citation lookups (e.g., "410 U.S. 113 → Roe v. Wade") — these are public court records, not your text; (3) for Pro subscribers, your email address and Stripe customer reference so your subscription works. Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see your card number.
Citation checking is performed against CourtListener, the public court-records database operated by the nonprofit Free Law Project. On our token-based path, the text you submit is forwarded to CourtListener's citation-lookup API to extract and resolve citations, subject to their terms and privacy policy. If your text is too sensitive to share with a nonprofit court-records service, paste only the citations themselves rather than the full document — verification works either way.
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