What the TextSight Chrome & Edge extension can see, can do, and (importantly) cannot do. Required reading before you install.
When you install from the Chrome Web Store, you'll be asked to grant these. Here's what each one does:
contextMenusAdds "Check with TextSight" and "Humanize with TextSight" to the right-click menu when you have text selected. Doesn't see anything you don't right-click.
sidePanelOpens TextSight in Chrome's side panel when you click the icon.
identityOpens the TextSight sign-in page when you click Sign in, and brings you back signed in. Not used otherwise.
storageKeeps a few things on this device, in the extension's own storage: your session token and account name, email and plan when signed in, and a random install ID; your last 10 scans (the first 80 characters and the score); the text and result of a right-click check or rewrite, only until the side panel has shown it; and your settings. Never sent to other sites. Removing the extension deletes all of it.
A small TextSight script runs on each page so the side panel can work with it. It acts only on requests from the panel: when you click Check selection or Humanize selection it hands over the text you highlighted; when you click Scan page it hands over the page's visible text (the first 25,000 characters); while the panel is open it reports your selected word count every 1.5 seconds, plus the first 140 characters of your selection while the AI Humanizer tab is showing, for the preview; after a scan it underlines the flagged sentences on the page, until you start over or close the panel; and when you click Replace on page it puts the rewrite back into the text you rewrote, and only if that text hasn't changed. It sends nothing on its own and doesn't read pages in the background.
api.textsight.ai and app.textsight.aiWhere the text you choose to scan or rewrite is sent, where the panel checks your free-scan count and any current offer, and where you sign in. These are the only servers the extension talks to.
If you see any of these in the install prompt, something is wrong (it's not our extension):
tabs / "Read your browsing history"We don't need to see your other tabs or your history.
cookiesWe don't read or modify cookies on any site you visit.
The extension uses a service worker only (event-driven). No background tab observing the web.
api.textsight.ai.The extension never sends us the address of the page you're on, your searches or your other tabs. Requests carry a random install ID instead of anything about you, and your session token as well when you're signed in.
api.textsight.ai.api.textsight.ai with each request, so your free daily scans can be counted.That's the entire list.
The extension contains no analytics or tracking code, and it doesn't report installs, uninstalls or what you do in the panel. Our API does count the scans and rewrites it handles, so it can apply your plan's limits and so we can see how many come from the extension.
Error reports. When something in the extension fails (a scan or rewrite the API refused or never answered, a sign-in window that didn't come back, an unexpected error in the panel), the extension sends us a short report so we can fix it: what failed, the error message, the HTTP status, the extension version, and your random install ID or account ID. It never includes the text you were checking or anything from the page. Reports are capped at 30 an hour per install and are kept with our other usage records.