YouSpot Browser Extension Privacy Policy

Updated: September 2026

This page reproduces the browser-extension portion of the YouSpot Privacy Policy on its own, so it can be read without the rest. The text is identical; the full policy also covers the YouSpot website and the optional Google connection.

YouSpot publishes a browser extension for Google Chrome. This section describes everything the extension collects, why it collects it, where that data is kept, how long we keep it, and every party it is shared with. It applies in addition to the YouSpot Privacy Policy; where the two differ, this section governs data handled by the extension.

Its Single Purpose

The extension exists to do one thing: let you save a page you are looking at into your own YouSpot Second Brain, and show you what you have already saved. Every permission it requests and every piece of data described below serves that purpose. It is not an advertising, tracking, or analytics product; it does not follow you around the web; and it does not alter the pages you visit.

What It Collects, and When

The address and title of the tab you are on. Read only while you have the YouSpot side panel open, so the panel can show you the current page and tell you what kind of thing it is — a person, a company, a link. The address and title are sent to YouSpot to make that determination. The text of the page is not sent for this.
The contents of a page you choose to save. When, and only when, you press Save, the extension reads the page in the active tab and sends to YouSpot its address, title, main article text, a structured summary of that text, and any note you typed. That becomes an item in your Second Brain. Until you press Save, nothing on the page is read or transmitted.
Pages captured automatically, if you switch that on. The extension offers an auto-capture switch for individual sites we support (today, LinkedIn). It is off by default, it is presented to you per site, and switching it on is what grants the extension the ability to read that site. While it is on, the profiles and posts you scroll past on that site are saved to your Second Brain as though you had pressed Save on each — for a profile, the publicly displayed name, headline, location, and profile address; for a post, the author, the text, and the engagement counts. Switching it off takes effect immediately and withdraws the extension's access to that site. It never applies to any site other than the one you switched it on for.
Your YouSpot sign-in. A YouSpot access token, the email address on your account, and the address of your avatar image, so that you stay signed in between browser sessions.
A record that a feature was used. The extension tells YouSpot when a sign-in or a save happens, and how many items a batch contained, so we can support you and see which features get used. These records identify your account, not the pages you visited.

What It Does Not Collect

It does not collect your browsing history and does not report the pages you visit. A page you do not save, on a site where you have not switched on auto-capture, is never read and never leaves your computer.
It does not read passwords, form fields, keystrokes, clipboard contents, cookies, or payment details.
It does not run on browser system pages, on other extensions' pages, or on the Chrome Web Store.
It does not modify, inject content into, or change the appearance of the pages you visit.
It does not collect health, financial, location, or personal-communications data.

Where It Is Stored

On your own computer, in the browser's extension storage: your access token, your email address and avatar address, your per-site auto-capture switches, and any captures still waiting to be sent. A capture leaves that queue as soon as it is delivered. Uninstalling the extension deletes all of it.
On YouSpot's servers, in your account: the items you saved, held in the same infrastructure as the rest of your Second Brain and visible only to you and to the YouSpot personnel who need access to operate and support the service. Traffic between the extension and YouSpot is encrypted in transit using TLS.

Who It Is Shared With

We do not sell or rent data collected by the extension. We do not transfer it for advertising, for building profiles for third parties, for credit assessment or lending, or for any purpose unrelated to the extension's single purpose. We do not use it to develop, improve, or train generalized artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

It is shared only with the service providers that operate YouSpot on our behalf, each of which is named — along with the data it touches — in the subprocessor list at /terms#subprocessors. For a saved page, those are: our application hosting and database providers (DigitalOcean and Supabase), which run the service and store the item; our AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Mem0), which receive the item's text in order to summarize it, index it for search, and answer the questions you ask about it; and, for a saved LinkedIn profile or company page, our enrichment provider (Fiber), which receives that profile or company address. Beyond those providers, we disclose it only in the circumstances described under Disclosure of Your Information.

Limited Use

YouSpot's collection and use of information through the extension adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Retention and Removal

We keep a saved item for as long as it is in your Second Brain. You can delete any item at any time, and doing so removes it.

Uninstalling the extension from your browser's extensions page erases everything it stored on your computer, including your access token, and ends all collection. Deleting your YouSpot account at /user/settings/account removes the saved items themselves. You may also ask us to delete them at any time by writing to privacy@youspot.com.

Questions

To ask about this policy or to request deletion of data collected by the extension, write to privacy@youspot.com.