Privacy Policy

webref (https://webref.ai) provides web research for AI coding agents. It is operated by Plain Labs LLC. This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.

Account information. When you create an account, we collect your email address, display name, and authentication details. If you sign in with Google or GitHub, we receive basic profile information from that provider.

Billing information. Subscriptions and purchases are processed by Stripe, our payment provider. Stripe collects payment details directly. webref stores billing identifiers such as your Stripe customer ID, subscription status, and purchase history needed to grant credits and manage access.

Usage and research data. When you run research, we process and store your queries, URLs, research results, source trail, and related request metadata. This data powers your research history, receipts, usage accounting, and service operation.

Technical data. We collect standard server logs, session data, and operational telemetry needed to secure and operate the service.

We use your information to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve webref
• Authenticate you and manage your account
• Process subscriptions, credits, and billing state
• Show usage history and dashboard analytics
• Detect abuse, fraud, and security issues
• Respond to support requests

We use trusted third parties to operate webref, including payment processing (Stripe), LLM inference providers, web search and retrieval infrastructure, email delivery, and observability tools. These providers process data only as needed to perform services on our behalf.

When you run research, your queries and referenced URLs may be processed by third-party search, retrieval, and AI providers solely to generate your results. Do not submit sensitive personal information you do not want processed by those providers.

You are responsible for ensuring your use of webref complies with applicable law and the terms of sites you ask webref to read. webref is intended for legitimate developer research workflows.

We retain account and billing records for as long as your account is active and as needed to meet legal, tax, and operational obligations. Research receipts are private by default and remain available to your account until you delete them. If you publish a receipt, anyone with its unlisted share link can view it until you unpublish or delete it. You can delete individual receipts or your account from the dashboard. Deletion removes the corresponding webref data subject to limited retention required for billing records, fraud prevention, backups, or legal compliance.

API keys are encrypted at rest. We use industry-standard safeguards to protect the service, but no online system is perfectly secure.

You can update your display name, delete research receipts, manage billing through Stripe's customer portal, and delete your account from settings. For other requests, contact us at [email protected].

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

Plain Labs LLC — privacy questions: [email protected]