Effective Date: June 16, 2025
At Word Counter Prime, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how our Chrome Extension ("Word Counter Prime" or "the Extension") handles your data. We believe in transparency, and it's important for you to understand how your information is accessed and used.
1. What Information We Access and Process
The Word Counter Prime Extension's core functionality relies on accessing specific user data to provide its service:
User-Selected Text (Website Content): When you use the "Count Words" context menu option, the Extension accesses the text you have actively highlighted and selected on a webpage. This is the only type of content data the Extension interacts with.
We do NOT collect, access, or process any of the following:
Personally identifiable information (such as your name, email address, physical address, or identification numbers).
Health information.
Financial and payment information.
Authentication information (e.g., passwords or credentials).
Personal communications (e.g., emails, chat messages, beyond the user-selected text itself).
Location data (e.g., IP address, GPS coordinates).
Web history (a list of web pages you have visited).
User activity beyond the explicit action of selecting text and clicking the context menu item (e.g., network monitoring, general click/scroll/keystroke logging).
Images, sounds, videos, or hyperlinks (unless these are part of the text string explicitly selected by the user, in which case only their text representation is processed).
2. How We Use and Process Your Information
The information accessed by Word Counter Prime is used solely for the purpose of providing you with text analysis:
Local Processing: All text analysis (calculating word count, character count, sentence count, paragraph count, estimated reading time, and other statistical metrics) occurs entirely locally on your device within your browser. None of the selected text or its analysis results are sent to any external servers, databases, or third parties.
Temporary Storage: For the brief duration required to transfer data between the Extension's background service worker (which performs the analysis) and the popup interface (which displays the results), the selected text and its analysis results are temporarily held in your browser's local storage. This data is immediately cleared from storage once the popup has successfully displayed the information to you. It is never stored persistently.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
Word Counter Prime does NOT share, sell, rent, or transmit your selected text or any analysis results to any third parties, external servers, or databases. Your data remains private to your browser and is handled exclusively on your local machine.
4. Data Retention
As explained above, all user-selected text and its analysis results are processed temporarily in your browser's memory and local storage. This data is not retained or stored persistently after the popup closes or after the results are displayed.
5. Data Security
Since all data processing occurs locally within your browser and no user data is transmitted to external servers, the risk of unauthorized access or data breaches is fundamentally minimized. Your data is protected by your browser's built-in security mechanisms.
6. Third-Party Services
Word Counter Prime utilizes third-party services for essential visual assets that enhance the user interface:
Google Fonts: The Extension loads font styles from fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com (Google Fonts). This is used for consistent typography.
Material Symbols Icons: The Extension loads icon assets from fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Material+Symbols+Outlined (Google Material Symbols). This is used for displaying various icons within the popup.
These services are used purely for aesthetic and functional display purposes. They do not track your browsing activity or the text you select, and only serve the necessary visual assets to your browser.
7. Children's Privacy
Word Counter Prime is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13. As we do not collect any personally identifiable information from any users, we remain compliant with children's privacy regulations.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy within the Chrome Web Store listing for the Word Counter Prime Extension. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: karthikselvarjn at gmail dot com