Privacy Policy — AI Page Summarizer

This extension sends data off your device

AI Page Summarizer is the only extension in this collection that transmits data to a third party. When you click Summarize, the text of the page you are viewing (up to 12,000 characters) is sent over HTTPS to OpenAI, together with your own OpenAI API key, so that OpenAI can generate the summary. Nothing is sent until you click that button, and nothing is sent to the developer. Details are in Third-party services below.

What this extension does

AI Page Summarizer reads the text of the page in your active tab and asks OpenAI's API to produce a summary, a bulleted list of key points, or a plain-language "explain it simply" version. You supply your own OpenAI API key; there is no account, no server, and no subscription operated by the developer.

Data the extension collects and stores

Two things are saved locally in your browser, using chrome.storage.local:

Your OpenAI API key — the key you paste into the settings panel. See the warning about how it is stored, below.
Your model preference — which OpenAI model you selected (for example gpt-4o-mini).

Data that is handled but not stored:

The page text extracted when you click Summarize. It is read into memory, sent to OpenAI, and discarded. It is never written to storage.
The page title and word count, shown under the result for context. Not stored.
The summary itself. It is displayed in the popup and disappears when the popup closes. It is never written to storage.

How your API key is stored

Your OpenAI API key is stored unencrypted, in plain text, in chrome.storage.local. Chrome protects that storage area from web pages and from other extensions, but it is not encrypted at rest, and anyone with access to your computer profile could read it. Treat it the way you would treat any other secret on your machine: use a key with limited spending, and revoke it from your OpenAI dashboard if your device is lost or shared.

What is NOT collected

No browsing history, and no record of which pages you visit or summarize.
No personal identifiers — no name, email address, or account.
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising, or tracking of any kind.
No data is sent to the developer or to any server the developer controls. There is no developer-operated backend at all.
No page is read in the background. The extension only reads a page at the moment you press the Summarize button, and only the tab you are actively looking at.

Where your data is stored

Locally, in your browser profile, via chrome.storage.local. This area is not synced to your Google account. If you use the extension on two computers, you must enter your API key on each one separately.

Permissions and why each one is needed

Permission	Why it is needed
`activeTab`	Gives temporary access to the single tab you are looking at, and only at the moment you click the extension's button. This is what allows the extension to read the article you want summarized without having standing access to every site you visit.
`scripting`	Runs a small text-extraction function inside that tab. The function grabs the readable body text (preferring the `<article>` or `<main>` region and stripping navigation, headers, footers and scripts) and hands it back to the popup. It runs once per summarize click and does nothing else.
`storage`	Saves your API key and model preference on your device so you do not have to re-enter them every time.
`https://api.openai.com/*` (host permission)	Allows the extension to make requests to exactly one address: `https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions`. This is the only network destination the extension can reach. It cannot contact any other server.

Third-party services: OpenAI

When you press Summarize, the extension makes a single HTTPS POST request to https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions. That request contains:

The extracted text of the current page, truncated to the first 12,000 characters. If the page contains personal, confidential or sensitive information, that text is part of what is sent — so do not summarize pages you are not comfortable sending to OpenAI (for example webmail, banking pages, medical portals, or internal company documents).
A short instruction telling the model which style of summary you asked for.
The model name you selected, and generation settings (temperature and a maximum response length).
Your OpenAI API key, sent in the HTTP Authorization header as a Bearer token. This is how OpenAI authenticates and bills the request — against your own OpenAI account, not the developer's.

The page URL is not sent, and neither is any identifier for you beyond your own API key.

Once the request reaches OpenAI, that data is governed by OpenAI's terms, not by this policy. Please read:

No other third party receives any data. There are no other network requests of any kind.

Data retention and how to delete your data

Remove your API key: open the extension, open the settings panel, clear the API key field, and press Save. You should also revoke the key itself from your OpenAI account dashboard if you no longer want it to work anywhere.
Delete everything: uninstalling the extension causes Chrome to permanently delete its entire chrome.storage.local area, including your API key and model preference. Nothing is left behind, because nothing was ever stored anywhere else.
Page text and summaries are never retained by the extension at all. For how long OpenAI retains an API request, see OpenAI's own policies linked above.

Children's privacy

This extension is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children. It requires an OpenAI API key, which OpenAI itself does not issue to children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page and the "Last updated" date at the top will change. Material changes — in particular any change to what is sent off the device — will be reflected here before the corresponding extension update is published.

Contact

Questions, concerns or data requests: aqahramonov2007@gmail.com

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