Privacy policy
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Siftit is a browser extension that hides ads and pop-ups, shows recipes as just the recipe, and summarizes long pages. This page explains what Siftit does with your information. In short: most of what Siftit does stays in your browser, we send page text to our server only when you ask for an AI result, and we do not store it or sell it.
What stays in your browser
- Hiding ads, cookie banners, and pop-ups.
- Showing a recipe when the page publishes its recipe in a structured form that Siftit can read.
- The clean-text view.
- Your settings and license key, kept in your browser's extension storage.
What is sent to our server
When you ask for key points, or Siftit needs AI to find a recipe on a page, the extension sends us:
- the page's address (URL) and title,
- the readable text of the page, up to about 20,000 characters,
- your reading style choice (Explain Like I'm 10, Executive 30-Second Brief, or Deep Analysis),
- a random install ID that Siftit creates in your browser, and your license key if you have one.
If you use the Ask about this page chat, we also receive the question you type and your last few messages in that conversation, so that follow-up questions make sense. The chat history lives only in the open page; it is not saved in your browser or on our server and disappears when you close or reload the page.
PDFs and web email
PDFs. Siftit reads a PDF's text inside your browser, with code that is part of the extension. The file itself is never uploaded; like any page, only its text is sent to us when you ask for key points or ask a question about it.
Web email. Reading webmail (Gmail, Outlook, iCloud Mail, Yahoo Mail and similar) is off by default. If you turn on “Read my web email” in the Siftit popup, then only when you press Siftit on a message you have open, we receive that message's sender, subject and text (not the web address of the message) so the AI can summarize it or answer your questions. Siftit never opens on its own in your inbox, never reads your list of messages, and sends nothing until you ask. The text is handled exactly like page text: passed to Anthropic to produce the answer, and not stored by us.
Siftit does not send anything, in summaries or in chat, for pages containing a password field. It does not read or send your browsing history, and it only sends page text when you open Siftit on a page and an AI result is requested.
We pass the page text (and, in chat, your question) to our AI provider, Anthropic, to produce the summary, recipe, or answer, and return the result to you. We do not save the page text, your questions, or the results. Anthropic handles that data under its commercial terms and privacy policy. At the time of writing, Anthropic states that it automatically deletes inputs and outputs from its backend within 30 days, and that it does not use inputs and outputs from its commercial products to train its models by default. Anthropic may keep content longer if it is flagged as a violation of its usage policy, or where the law requires it. See privacy.claude.com for Anthropic's current terms.
What we store
- Daily usage counts, tied to your install ID and to a scrambled (hashed) form of your network address, so we can apply daily limits and stop abuse. We delete these after about seven days. We do not store your raw IP address in our database.
- For Siftit Plus subscribers: your email address, your license key, and your Stripe customer and subscription IDs. We keep these while your subscription is active and for [PERIOD] afterwards for support and accounting.
Our hosting provider ([HOST NAME]) may keep standard server logs that include IP addresses for a short period. We do not use them to build profiles.
Payments
Subscriptions are processed by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach our server. Stripe's privacy policy applies to that information.
We use your email address to send your license key and to answer your messages. We do not send marketing email unless you ask us to. We send these emails through Resend, an email delivery service, which receives your email address and the message so that it can deliver it.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.
- We do not use page text to train AI models, and we do not allow humans to read it except where needed to investigate abuse or fix a fault.
- We do not use your information for anything unrelated to providing Siftit.
Your choices
You can turn off automatic ad hiding and automatic recipe opening in the Siftit popup. You can remove the extension at any time, which deletes its local data. To cancel a subscription, use Manage subscription in the popup. To ask for a copy or deletion of the information we hold about you, email [YOUR EMAIL].
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will update the date above and, for significant changes, tell you in the extension.
Contact
[YOUR NAME OR COMPANY], [YOUR EMAIL], [ADDRESS IF REQUIRED WHERE YOU OPERATE].