What happens when you click the FinePrint button

When FinePrint detects a legal document on a page — a privacy policy, terms of service, EULA, or cookie policy — it sends the document text to our AI analysis pipeline. Here's exactly what happens.

Step 1: Detection

FinePrint's content script analyzes every page you visit for signals that indicate a legal document: page structure, headings, word frequency, and URL patterns. Detection happens in milliseconds and entirely within your browser — no text is sent anywhere until you click the FinePrint button.

Step 2: AI summarization

When you trigger an analysis, the document text is sent to OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini model via FinePrint's secure backend. The model is instructed to:

• Produce a concise plain-English summary of the document's key points

• Identify clauses that may be concerning or unusual for the average user

• Rate each flagged clause by severity: high, medium, or low

• Quote the relevant clause text verbatim

Step 3: Results

The summary and flagged clauses appear in the FinePrint panel in seconds. Each flag includes a severity badge, a plain-English explanation, and the exact clause from the document so you can verify it yourself.

Privacy by design

FinePrint does not store the full text of documents you analyze. We record the URL and the AI-generated output so you can access your history later. OpenAI processes documents under API terms that prohibit using API inputs for model training.