Privacy

BibProfile stores nothing about you or your file. This page says what does leave your browser, and to whom.

Who we are

BibProfile is published by Florian David, a private individual. Contact: [email protected].

What BibProfile stores

Nothing about you or your file: no account, no cookies, no local storage, no analytics. Your .bib file is read and processed in your browser and is never uploaded.

What leaves your browser, and to whom

To check your references, some of their details are sent to independent services, each with its own privacy policy:

• Crossref (api.crossref.org): reference titles, first authors, years and identifiers such as DOIs, to find each reference and check for retractions. Crossref’s privacy policy.
• OpenAlex: the same details, to fetch the matching records — through our proxy api.bibprofile.com on the free shared pool, or directly to api.openalex.org when you use your own OpenAlex key. OpenAlex’s privacy policy.
• Google: a reference’s title, only when you click “search Google Scholar”. Google’s privacy policy.

These services also see your IP address, as any website you connect to does.

Our host: Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. (USA) serves this site and runs our proxy. As our processor, it handles technical data such as your IP address to deliver and protect the service, including per-IP rate limiting of the shared pool. Transfers to the United States are covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and by the standard contractual clauses in Cloudflare’s data processing addendum. We keep no logs of our own beyond Cloudflare’s standard, short-lived operational data. Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

To share the free pool fairly, our proxy counts title searches per connection and per day. It keeps only a one-way hash of your IP address mixed with a secret that changes every day — never the address itself — and deletes it after about a day.

Your own OpenAlex key

If you add one, it is kept in memory for this session only, sent only to OpenAlex and never to our proxy. Reloading the page clears it.

E-mails you send us

Messages to [email protected] are used only to answer you, and deleted after two years at most.

Legal basis

Our legitimate interest in providing and securing a free tool (GDPR, Article 6(1)(f)).

Your rights

You can ask for access to, rectification or erasure of your data, or object to its processing, by writing to [email protected]. You can also complain to the CNIL, the French data protection authority (cnil.fr).

Last updated: 13 October 2026.