At Innovate Beacon, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how the Value Sense Chrome Extension collects, uses, and protects your data when you use our service.

1. Information We Collect

Value Sense is designed to help you find price comparisons efficiently using AI. To perform its core function, we collect and process the following information:

Page Data (Active Tab): We only read the product details and pricing information on the specific tab where you explicitly activate the extension. We do not track your overall web browsing history or monitor tabs where the extension is not actively engaged.
No Personal Information: We do not collect, store, or transmit names, emails, login credentials, or any personally identifiable information (PII).

2. How We Use and Share Information

The information collected is used exclusively to provide the core functionality of the extension:

Third-Party APIs: To provide real-time AI-powered price analysis, selected product page text is securely transmitted to our third-party AI provider, the Groq API.
Exchange Rates: To accurately convert and compare global currencies, we may fetch live exchange rates from the open Exchange Rate API.
No Data Selling: We do not sell, rent, trade, or distribute your data to any outside parties for marketing or advertising purposes. Page text is processed in real-time to generate your response and discarded.

3. Data Storage

Value Sense uses your browser's local storage (via the storage permission) to save your preferences, settings, and cached comparison results to improve your user experience. This data remains on your local device and is NOT transmitted to our servers.

4. Your Consent and Rights

By using the Value Sense extension, you consent to the processing of the active tab's page content when you initiate a comparison search. Because all user-specific data is stored locally on your device, you have complete control over it. You can clear the extension's data by clearing your browser cache or uninstalling the extension at any time.

5. Contact Us

If you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at editor@innovatebeacon.com.