Privacy Policy

1. What this extension does

Cut the Crap rewrites the prose on a webpage — either compressing bloated, jargon-heavy text down to the plain point ("decrapify"), or inflating a plain statement into corporate waffle ("crapify"). That's its one job. It runs only on sites you explicitly turn on; every site starts on "Normal" (off).

2. What the extension handles

Page text. On a site you've enabled, the extension reads the visible prose on the page and sends it to the AI provider you configured, so it can be rewritten. That text is kept in memory only — it is never written to disk and never sent to us. Page URLs are never sent or stored either; the extension identifies a page load with a random, throwaway session id, not the URL.

Your API key. Your provider API key is stored locally in your browser (storage.local) and is sent only to that provider's own API — never to us.

Settings and per-site state. Your chosen provider/model and the list of hostnames you've enabled are stored locally in your browser, so your preferences persist between sessions.

Usage stats. The popup shows lifetime totals — words cut, words piled on, pages processed — stored locally as plain numbers. These never leave your device.

3. What we don't do

• We don't operate a server, so we never receive your page text, URLs, or API key.
• No analytics, tracking, or advertising of any kind.
• We don't sell or share data — there's no data of yours on our end to sell or share.
• No blanket "read and change all your data on all websites" permission. Access to a site is requested individually, only when you turn that site on.

4. Third-party AI providers

When you enable a site, its page text and your API key are sent directly from your browser to the AI provider you selected in Settings — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or MiniMax. That transmission is between your browser and the provider; we are not a party to it. Each provider's handling of that data is governed by their own privacy policy:

• OpenAI Privacy Policy
• Anthropic Privacy Policy
• Google Gemini API Additional Terms of Service
• MiniMax API Privacy Policy

5. Permissions, in plain language

• Storage — to save your settings, API key, per-site on/off list, and usage stats locally.
• Active Tab — to read the current tab's hostname when you open the popup, so the extension knows which site's setting to show/change.
• Scripting — to inject the rewriter into a tab, but only after you've enabled that site.
• Per-site host access (optional) — requested one origin at a time, only on the click that turns a site on. The extension is never granted access to "all sites" as a block.

6. Data storage & retention

Everything the extension stores — settings, API key, per-site state, stats — lives only in your browser's local storage on your device; none of it syncs to any account of ours or anyone else's. The in-memory cache of rewritten text is cleared automatically when the browser or the extension's background process restarts. Removing the extension, or clearing its storage from your browser, deletes all of it.

7. Security

Your API key is stored using your browser's built-in local storage. Keep your device and browser profile secure, since anyone with access to them could access data stored there — the same as for any other browser extension or website login.

8. Children's privacy

Cut the Crap is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them — in fact, we don't collect data from anyone, per the sections above.

9. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "last updated" date at the top of this page will change with it.