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ChatBrief Privacy Policy

ChatBrief is designed to process selected text locally in the browser.

Data Handling

• ChatBrief only processes text the user explicitly selects.
• Selected text is not stored.
• Selected text is not transmitted to external servers.
• Selected text is not synced across devices.
• Browsing history is not collected.
• Analytics are not collected.
• Tracking is not used.
• No account, login, API key, backend, or cloud storage is used.

Summarisation

ChatBrief uses local summarisation only:

1. Chrome’s built-in Summarizer API, when available on the user’s Chrome installation and device.
2. A lightweight local extractive summariser fallback when Chrome’s built-in summarisation is unavailable.

No external AI API, account, API key, backend, or cloud storage is used.

Permissions

ChatBrief requests:

• contextMenus
• activeTab
• scripting

These permissions are used only to support the user-initiated right-click summary workflow.

Limited Use Statement

ChatBrief’s use of information is limited to its single purpose: summarising text explicitly selected by the user. ChatBrief does not sell, transfer, or use selected text for advertising, analytics, tracking, or any unrelated purpose.

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