Privacy Policy

Reading a page

When you open Terms Agent on a page, it reads the page text, address, headings, and policy links to find documents and explain matching passages. The site card shows the website and document being read. Analysis uses phrase matching on your device. Policy text and explanations are not uploaded or synced, sent to an AI service, or used by Terms Agent to train AI models. This version does not save decisions or create receipts.

When you open the reader, it also requests up to three directly linked HTML policies from the same origin, without cookies or referrers. These requests have page-size and time limits and do not follow redirects or crawl further links. The website receives ordinary network information, including your IP address. Linked policy text and results stay only in the open reader’s memory, are reused during that reader session, and are discarded when it closes. Unread documents remain available as links.

Preferences on your device

“Show first” in Welcome and Settings lets you pin topics so matching explanations appear first. Payments and renewals, Who gets your data, and AI training start selected when no topic preferences have been saved. You can unpin any or all of them. Existing saved selections are preserved.

Pins only change the order of explanations. Selecting a topic, including AI training, does not give a website consent or change how it uses your data. Topic changes are saved on this device and are not shared with websites or synced between devices.

Your optional cookie-notice preference stays in your browser. Safari follows your system appearance; Chrome also stores appearance preferences locally. Completing Welcome saves the completion time and extension version locally. These settings remain until changed or the extension’s local data is removed.

Temporary reading context

Policy addresses, document titles, related links, reading status, language, and known policy dates are kept temporarily in browser session storage to support navigation. These policy lists contain no policy text, expire from use after 24 hours, and are removed when their tab or browser session ends. Pending navigation requests expire from use after five minutes and are also removed when the tab or session ends.

Optional cookie-notice hiding

You can enable “Hide cookie notices” in Welcome or Settings. This feature is off by default. Your browser asks for access to HTTP and HTTPS websites so Terms Agent can detect and hide common notices locally while you browse. It does not transmit banner content or browsing history, accept or reject cookies, or block advertisements or tracking.

Turning the feature off stops notice hiding and restores notices it hid on open pages. Website permission remains granted until you remove it in your browser’s extension settings. Revoking that permission also stops notice hiding.

Connections and information use

The reader does not contact a Terms Agent server or fetch provider declarations. It has no account sign-in, analytics, or telemetry. Opening a policy, the Privacy Policy, or a support link navigates your browser to that website, which receives ordinary network information, including your IP address, under its own practices. Information you choose to send through support is handled through that support service.

We use information to provide the features described here. We do not sell it or use it for advertising or unrelated profiling. Our use of Chrome API data follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including Limited Use requirements.

Your control

You can change pinned topics in Welcome or Settings and change notice hiding in Settings. Chrome also provides appearance controls; Safari follows the system appearance. Data saved by older versions, including decisions, source excerpts, and remembered website choices, stays in your browser but is no longer used by the reader. If present, you can delete old decisions and remembered choices together under “Data from older versions” in Settings. Your current topic, appearance, and cookie-notice preferences are kept. Removing the extension clears its local data according to your browser’s behaviour.

Questions or older accounts?

Contact termsagent@gmail.com for support or privacy questions. If you used an earlier account-enabled version, deleting local data does not erase previously synced server data; contact support to request deletion.

We’ll update this policy when our data practices change.

Previous account-enabled policy