Privacy policy

What the extension stores

• Your prompts (each shortcut and its text) are kept in Chrome's extension storage on your computer. They aren't sent anywhere unless you use Google Drive backup.
• If you connect Google Drive, the extension also remembers the ID of your backup file so it can find it again.
• The list of sites you add yourself.
• The starter packs come with the extension. Adding one copies its prompts into your own list; nothing is downloaded.

Everything is removed from your computer when you uninstall the extension. Chrome's own sync doesn't copy these prompts to your other devices.

No server, no analytics

We don't operate any server for this extension. It doesn't use analytics, ads or tracking, and we never receive your prompts, what you type, or your chats. Nothing is sold or shared. This website has no analytics or tracking either. It's hosted on GitHub Pages, which may log visitors' IP addresses for security (see GitHub's privacy statement).

Google Drive backup (optional)

If you click Connect to Google Drive, Chrome shows Google's own sign-in and permission screen. The extension never sees your Google password.

• It asks for the drive.file permission, which only covers files the extension creates itself. It can't see or change anything else in your Drive.
• It uses that access for one thing: your own backup file, ai-prompt-assistant-prompts.json in My Drive. The file holds your prompts and the list of sites you added, and no other data. It creates, reads and updates that file when you click Upload to Drive or Download from Drive.
• To show you where the backup is, the settings page reads the file's name, folder, size, last-updated time and owner account.
• Your browser talks to Google Drive directly. Nothing passes through us.

Disconnect removes the extension's access. You can also remove it any time in your Google Account settings. The backup file stays in your Drive until you delete it.

AI Prompt Assistant's use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

What the extension asks Chrome for

• Access to the built-in AI chat sites listed on the home page, granted when you install. It runs only on those sites, plus the ones you add yourself.
• Storage, to keep your prompts and settings in your browser.
• Active tab (activeTab): when you click the toolbar button, it can see the address of the tab you're on, so the popup can say whether the extension is on there and offer Turn on for this site. It gets nothing from other tabs, and nothing until you click.
• Scripting, to start the extension on sites you add yourself, after you allow them.
• Optional access to other sites: nothing is granted when you install. Chrome asks you each time you add a site, for that one site only.
• Identity, so Chrome can handle the Google sign-in for the optional Drive backup.

Where the extension runs

The extension runs on the built-in AI chat sites and on sites you add. There it watches the message box for // so it can show your prompts, and it inserts the prompt you pick. It doesn't record, store or send what you type or the chat's replies.

Sites you add yourself

• When you add a site in Your sites, Chrome asks you to allow access to that one site. The extension gets access only if you choose Allow, and only to that site. A domain entered without https://, such as chat.example.com, covers both chat.example.com and www.chat.example.com.
• Turn on for this site only fills in the address on the settings page. Nothing is added until you click Add site and allow it in Chrome.
• If you use Google Drive backup, your list of added sites is saved in the backup file too. Sites that arrive on another browser stay inactive there until you click Allow on that browser; syncing never turns a site on by itself.
• Sites you add can see the prompts you use there. See what a chat site can see.
• Removing the site stops the extension running there and gives back its access. You can also remove access from Chrome's extension menu.

What a chat site can see

A prompt you insert becomes ordinary text in that site's message box, just like text you type. The site can read it, and it's sent to the site when you send your message. This applies to every site the extension runs on, including the ones you add. Only add sites you trust with your prompts.

The // menu itself is drawn in a separate frame that belongs to the extension, not to the chat site. The site can't read or search the shortcuts and prompt previews listed in it; it only gets the prompt you insert. The menu also reacts only to your own typing and clicks, so a page can't open it or pick a prompt for you.

Ko-fi support window

If you click Support, a window shows a preview of our Ko-fi page (ko-fi.com/kengblog). Only then does your browser contact Ko-fi, without telling it which page you came from, and the preview is removed when you close the window. Your prompts are never sent to Ko-fi. Ko-fi handles the preview, and the page Open Ko-fi opens, under its own privacy policy.

Feedback

If you send feedback through our feedback form (a Google Form), we receive what you write in it. We use it only to answer you and improve the extension.

Changes to this policy

If what the extension stores or accesses changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Use the feedback form.