Privacy policy
Privacy Policy
Reviewed October 14, 2026 · Policy version 0.12.4
This update describes optional saved passages and temporary reading context in Terms Agent version 0.12.4 for Chrome and Safari. The archived 0.12.2 policy continues to apply to versions 0.12.2 and 0.12.3, including Safari 0.12.3.
Terms Agent helps you find terms and understand their wording on your device. No account required.
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 in the open reader’s memory, are reused during that reader session, and are discarded when it closes, unless you explicitly save a passage as described below. Unread documents remain available as links.
Passages you choose to save
Ordinary reading and Explain selected text do not save policy wording. When you choose Save passage, Save selected text or Save displayed text, Terms Agent keeps that wording with its source page title, address and saved date in extension storage in your browser profile. Saving displayed text keeps the text shown in the source reading panel; the panel identifies when it shows a shortened source. The local Saved page opens only when you choose it. Saved passages remain available after the reader, tab or browser session closes, until you remove them. At most 50 passages of up to 250,000 characters each can be kept, within a 1,000,000-character total. Terms Agent does not upload or sync saved passages.
On the Saved page, Remove deletes an individual passage. Clear all deletes the saved collection after an inline confirmation. These actions delete saved passages from this browser profile only; they preserve settings, temporary reading context, older extension data and browser history.
Output you choose
Copy selected writes the passages you select, with their source attribution, to your clipboard. If clipboard access is unavailable, the Saved page offers text you can copy manually. Email selected passes the selected output to your configured email application through a mailto link. It does not set a recipient or send an email. Output that is too large for an email link can be copied instead.
Your operating system, clipboard tools and email application handle exported copies under their own settings and policies. Removing passages or clearing the saved collection in Terms Agent does not remove copies already exported elsewhere. Opening a saved source link is ordinary browser navigation to that website.
Preferences on your device
“Topics to 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. To support a source-page handoff, Terms Agent also temporarily keeps the source address, requested destination, verified destination when available, navigation status and timestamps. Navigation requests and this handoff context expire from use after five minutes and are removed when their tab or browser session ends. Unrelated navigation clears the handoff context.
To return you to the same place after viewing a source, Terms Agent temporarily keeps the document address, expanded topics, source indexes, open sections, scroll position and a limited keyboard-focus identifier in browser session storage. These reading positions contain no policy or selected text and are not uploaded or synced. Positions are scoped to each tab and document, limited to eight documents per tab, ignored after 30 minutes, and removed when their tab or browser session ends. This temporary metadata is separate from passages you explicitly save.
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.