VenueLens Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9 October 2026

VenueLens is a browser extension that shows the rank of a paper's journal or conference on Google Scholar, dblp, PubMed and arXiv. It has no account and no server of its own, and it does not collect, sell or share personal data.

What stays on your computer

The ranking data (CCF, ICORE, OpenAlex, NLM) is built into the extension. Your settings, any lists you import, and saved lookup results are stored only in your browser on your computer. Uninstalling VenueLens deletes them.

The one thing that is sent: online lookup

Google Scholar often shows a venue name cut short (for example "2021 IEEE/CVF …"). To identify it, VenueLens can look up that paper on Crossref, a public database of scholarly publications. For such a paper it sends Crossref:

• the paper's title, year and first author's surname as shown on the page, or the paper's DOI;
• VenueLens's own contact address, as Crossref asks API users to identify their tool.

Nothing about you is sent: no account, no browsing history, no search terms, no identifiers. Crossref, like any website, receives your IP address with the request; see Crossref's privacy policy. Results are kept on your computer for up to 90 days so the same paper is not looked up again.

You can turn online lookup off at any time in VenueLens's settings. VenueLens then sends nothing at all.

What VenueLens does not do

• No analytics, tracking, advertising or telemetry.
• It runs only on Google Scholar, dblp, PubMed and arXiv pages, and reads only the paper listings there.
• It does not sell or transfer data to anyone, and does not use data for any purpose other than showing venue ranks.

Reporting a wrong match

The "Report a wrong match" link opens your own email program with a pre-filled message (the page address, the venue as shown and the paper title), which you can edit. Nothing is sent unless you choose to send that email.

Contact

Quietbit Labs · chizkiyahuohayon@gmail.com

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VenueLens 隐私政策

最后更新：2026 年 10 月 9 日

VenueLens 是一个浏览器插件，在 Google Scholar、dblp、PubMed 和 arXiv 上显示论文所发表期刊或会议的等级。它没有账号，也没有自己的服务器，不收集、不出售、不分享任何个人数据。

只保存在你电脑上的内容

等级数据（CCF、ICORE、OpenAlex、NLM）内置在插件里。你的设置、导入的目录和查询结果只保存在你电脑的浏览器中。卸载 VenueLens 会一并删除。

唯一会发出的内容：联网补全

Google Scholar 经常把出处名称截断（例如“2021 IEEE/CVF …”）。为了识别出处，VenueLens 可以在 Crossref（公开的学术出版物数据库）上查询这篇论文，发送的内容是：

• 页面上显示的论文标题、年份和第一作者的姓，或者论文的 DOI；
• VenueLens 自己的联系邮箱（Crossref 要求接口使用者注明工具的联系方式）。

不会发送任何关于你的信息：没有账号、浏览记录、搜索词或任何标识符。和访问任何网站一样，Crossref 会收到请求的 IP 地址，详见 Crossref 的隐私政策。查询结果在你的电脑上保存最多 90 天，避免重复查询同一篇论文。

你可以随时在 VenueLens 设置中关闭联网补全，关闭后插件不会发送任何内容。

VenueLens 不做的事

• 没有统计、跟踪、广告或遥测。
• 只在 Google Scholar、dblp、PubMed 和 arXiv 页面上运行，只读取页面上的论文列表。
• 不向任何人出售或转让数据，也不把数据用于显示出处等级以外的任何用途。

报告识别错误

“报告识别错误”链接会打开你自己的邮件程序，并预填页面地址、页面上显示的出处和论文标题，你可以修改。只有你自己点发送，才会发出邮件。

联系方式

Quietbit Labs · chizkiyahuohayon@gmail.com