Assist — Privacy Policy
Effective date: 2026-05-06

WHAT ASSIST DOES
Assist is a browser extension that intercepts the prompt you are about to send on chatgpt.com, claude.ai, and gemini.google.com, evaluates it against a bundled university AI-use policy set, and shows an in-page
toast so you can confirm, revise, or cancel the send.

DATA STORED ON YOUR DEVICE
The following are stored only in browser.storage.local on your device.
They are never transmitted anywhere by Assist:
• your preferences (global mode, per-policy overrides, paused hosts);
• a rolling cap-1000 intervention log containing timestamps, the
matched policy IDs, and the chosen outcome — never prompt text.

DATA SENT OFF YOUR DEVICE
When the build was packaged with the publishing institution's keys and
you have not turned the conscience layer off in Settings, each send on a
supported site triggers up to two outbound requests:

1. POST https://iaas.appliedai.studio/check
   Body: the prompt you are about to send, plus a short window of
   recent conversation context from the same thread (up to four prior
   user turns capped at 500 characters each, and the most recent
   assistant turn capped at 800 characters; longer turns are
   head/tail-truncated). Used solely to decide whether to intervene.
2. POST https://api.anthropic.com/... (only if step 1 flags a concern)
   Body: the prompt and the inhibitor's findings. The prior-turn
   conversation context is NOT forwarded to this endpoint. Used solely
   to draft the explanation and alternatives shown in the toast.
   Anthropic's API terms apply; Anthropic does not use API content for
   model training.

If the build was not packaged with keys, or you have turned the
conscience layer off, neither request is made and prompts pass through
the extension untouched.

WHAT ASSIST DOES NOT DO
• No accounts, no logins, no analytics SDK.
• No telemetry pipeline back to the publishing institution.
• No remote code loading; all JavaScript is bundled at build time.
• Prompt text is never written to the local intervention log.
• API keys are embedded at build time by the publishing institution;
Assist never asks you for one.

CONTACT
Questions: devstores@appliedai.studio