Thanks for installing and using the WebSage extension by BrowserNative. This page outlines the privacy policy for using the WebSage extension, detailing how user data is collected, used, and protected.
OpenAI Use
WebSage extension optionally uses OpenAI platform for executing the prompts given by users. This requires sending the selected web page content and text snippet to the OpenAI servers. This service process this data according to its own privacy policies. You can access OpenAI’s privacy policy for more details.
Note that OpenAI is not used by default. It is used only when the users deliberately provide their OpenAI API key to enable this service.
We strongly suggest you to not use WebSage on web pages and text snippets containing your private or sensitive data like your bank website, email service etc.
Training AI Models on Your Data?
Here is an important information from OpenAI’s privacy policy document
Data submitted through the OpenAI API is not used to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering. Data submitted through non-API consumer services ChatGPT or DALL·E may be used to improve our models.
Hence, the data you submitted to OpenAI through this extension is not used for training their AI models.
Your API Keys and Saved Custom Prompts
Your OpenAI API key and custom prompts stored in our extension is saved using Chrome’s local storage API for extensions, and never uploaded or synced to any server. It is used to communicate with OpenAI only.
Google Gemini Nano Model
As explained here, Google’s Gemini Nano is an on-device LLM technology, which is currently an experimental feature in Google Chrome browser. You can read more about its features here.
No Usage Tracking
We don’t access any of your data including API key and custom prompts. We don’t track the extension usage or any other activity you perform with it.
If you have any questions or need further clarification regarding our privacy practices, please feel free to contact us at browsernative.apps@gmail.com. We are committed to ensuring your privacy and will respond to your inquiries promptly.