Privacy

1. What stays on your device

In the reader, your document, every question thread, and the cache of definitions you have already looked up are held in your browser's localStorage. None of it is uploaded, and there is no account holding a copy. Clearing your browser storage deletes it, and nobody — including us — can recover it.

In the extension, your access token and your level/language preferences are held in chrome.storage.local.

2. What is sent when you ask a question

Only when you actually ask. At that moment the following goes to answertab.fluximpact.org/api/v1/credits/query/: the phrase you selected, a window of the surrounding document (up to about 6,000 characters, centred on your selection), your question, the earlier turns of that one thread, and your chosen level and language.

It is forwarded to Anthropic (Claude Haiku), and the reply is streamed back to you. It is not written to our database. What the database records for the request is a row saying one read was spent, whether it was a definition or a follow-up, and when — not what you asked or what came back.

3. The exceptions, stated plainly

Error logs. If a call to the AI provider fails, the server writes the exception to its error log. We do not log your question deliberately, but a provider error can quote part of the request back in its message, so fragments of a failed request can end up in that log. It is not read routinely and is not retained deliberately.

Your access token is the whole credential. There is no password behind it, so treat it like one. It is sent in the body of a request rather than in a URL, which keeps it out of the web server's access log — an earlier version of this page had to disclose the opposite, and the endpoint was changed rather than the disclosure kept.

Anthropic. Your question and the document window are processed by Anthropic under their privacy policy. Do not put anything through this tool that you are not willing to send to a third-party model provider.

4. What the account holds

An email address, a balance of reads, an access token, and the ledger of reads spent and refunded. That is the whole record. There is no password, no profile, no reading history, and no browsing history.

5. The extension

The extension's content script runs on the pages you visit, which is what makes selecting a phrase work anywhere. It does not read the page when it loads, does not run in embedded frames, and sends nothing anywhere until you select text and ask. The only host it is permitted to contact is answertab.fluximpact.org.

6. Cookies and tracking

No analytics, no advertising pixels, no third-party scripts, and no tracking cookies. The site sets a Django session cookie, used for the preview gate on the marketing pages and for CSRF protection on forms.

7. Contact messages

If you write through the contact form, your name, email, subject and message are stored in the database and read by a person. They are not forwarded to any third party.

8. Deletion

Ask through the contact form and the account and its ledger will be deleted. Anything held in your browser you can delete yourself by clearing site data — it was never anywhere else.

9. Children

AnswerTab is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly hold personal information from them.

10. Changes

Material changes will be reflected here with a new date at the top. This page was last rewritten because the previous version described a product that had been retired, which is the failure mode worth guarding against.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy go through the contact form, which is checked. AnswerTab is a Flux (FluxImpact) project.