AsAsked Privacy Policy

1. What AsAsked does

AsAsked creates a reviewable list of requirements from a user's request, checks a completed AI response against those requirements, shows evidence or structured check results, and can prepare a focused follow-up draft. It does not establish factual truth, safety, legality, medical or financial correctness, professional correctness, or overall answer quality.

2. Information handled on the device

To provide its user-facing features, AsAsked may process:

• submitted user messages and completed assistant responses visible in a supported ChatGPT conversation;
• ChatGPT conversation, message, and turn identifiers used to keep local ledgers and revisions separate;
• prompt and response snapshots, derived content hashes, extracted requirements, evidence excerpts, structured checks, verdicts, corrections, and prepared drafts;
• extension settings, including history, retention, and ChatGPT-enabled choices;
• request and response text deliberately pasted into the memory-only manual checker;
• response text deliberately selected for the one-time Use selection flow; and
• a structural troubleshooting report generated only when the user requests a download.

Sensitive information may appear inside a user's chat content. AsAsked does not ask for those categories as profile fields; it handles them only when they are part of the supported page content the user chooses to check.

3. How information is used

Information handled through browser permissions is used only to provide and improve AsAsked's disclosed purpose: tracing instructions, checking responses, restoring or exporting local history, preparing user-requested drafts, and diagnosing whether the supported page adapter can recognize the current page structure.

AsAsked does not use this information for advertising, retargeting, unrelated profiling, creditworthiness, lending, or sale.

4. Network transfers and third parties

Version 0.1.26 does not transmit conversation content, requirements, evidence, verdicts, drafts, settings, or structural reports to Vellumstead Labs or an additional AI provider. It downloads no remote executable code or visual assets.

The existing ChatGPT page and service process the user's conversation under the user's separate relationship with ChatGPT. Text a user chooses to submit after an AsAsked draft is inserted or copied is then handled by ChatGPT. AsAsked never submits that text itself.

5. Browser permissions

• Storage: saves settings and, while local history is enabled, on-device conversation ledgers in extension storage.
• Access to https://chatgpt.com/*: observes supported visible turns, places AsAsked controls beside completed responses, and inserts a draft into an empty active composer only after a user action.

AsAsked does not request all-sites access, browsing-history access, clipboard-read, downloads, tabs, cookies, authentication, or browser-sync storage permission.

6. Local history, retention, and deletion

Local conversation history is enabled by default. The default retention setting makes an entire saved conversation eligible for deletion after 30 days without an update. Users can instead choose 7 days, 90 days, or retention until manual deletion. Eligible conversations are removed when the extension background process next runs.

Turning history off prevents new traces from being retained for reload restoration; it does not erase traces already saved. Temporary data can remain in an open page to display the current check.

Delete all local data clears AsAsked conversation data, settings, local reset state, outstanding one-time selected-response transfers, and currently mounted AsAsked views. It does not delete ChatGPT conversations, downloaded exports, downloaded structural reports, or clipboard contents. Deletion resets settings to their defaults, including history enabled, so users who want session-only use should turn history off again before a future chat.

7. Manual checks, selection transfer, and diagnostics

Text pasted into the manual checker remains in that page's memory and is discarded when the page is refreshed or closed. A response selected on ChatGPT can be placed in a consume-once browser-session record for at most five minutes. The selected text is not placed in the URL or persistent history and is removed on first read.

A structural report is created only when the user selects Download structural report. It contains categorical page-structure counts, bounded timing and activity states, allowlisted health codes, and the AsAsked version. It excludes conversation text and hashes, evidence, drafts, page URLs and titles, selectors, DOM paths and attributes, screenshots, cookies, storage values, account identifiers, and raw exceptions. AsAsked does not upload the report.

8. Export and user access

Users can export saved AsAsked history as readable JSON. The export can contain saved turns, requirements, evaluations, corrections, and prepared drafts; it does not contain extension settings. Exported files and clipboard copies are outside AsAsked storage and must be deleted by the user separately.

9. Chrome Web Store Limited Use

AsAsked's use of information received through browser permissions is limited to providing and improving the extension's disclosed, user-facing single purpose. The information is not sold or transferred for personalized advertising, retargeting, unrelated profiling, creditworthiness, lending, or any purpose unrelated to the extension's features. In this version, it is not transferred to the developer or a third party.

10. Security and future changes

Keeping content local reduces exposure but does not make browser storage immune from device compromise, malicious software, other people with access to the browser profile, or vulnerabilities in Chrome or the host site. Users should protect their device and avoid placing unnecessary sensitive information in AI conversations.

Any future remote semantic-checking feature will remain off by default and will require a separate prominent disclosure and explicit choice explaining the minimum content sent, recipient, purpose, and retention. Material data-handling changes will be disclosed before the changed handling begins, and this policy's date will change.

11. Contact

Publisher: Vellumstead Labs LLC
Privacy and support contact: [email protected]