Privacy Policy

GPTandME

Last updated: 2026-07-13

Local data handling

This extension handles usage data locally in your browser so it can count prompts and show usage statistics. It does not transmit, sell, or share user data. It does not send data to any server and does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking services.

Data storage

All usage data is stored locally on your device using the Chrome Storage API. This includes prompt counts, daily/weekly/monthly totals, per-service counts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok, model-count summaries when available, hourly/session statistics, non-sensitive diagnostics such as the last counted time/source and last supported host, and local preferences such as the in-page counter setting. To prevent duplicate counting, GPTandME keeps two bounded local deduplication sets: up to 500 opaque provider event identifiers for 24 hours, and up to 500 short-lived supported-host/tab keys for two seconds. Expired entries are pruned during maintenance or the next write, and reset controls clear them. No data leaves your browser unless you manually download a JSON backup or CSV usage file from the popup.

Prompt content

On supported chat services, the extension may inspect outgoing request data locally to distinguish a new user send from an automatic retry and to read an opaque request identifier or model label when available. Only non-content metadata is emitted to the extension. The extension does not store prompt text or a page's full URL path, and it does not send prompt text anywhere.

Extension surfaces

Version 1.4.0 exposes local usage information through the extension badge, the extension popup, and an optional in-page widget/counter on supported chat hosts. The popup shows today's and all-time prompt counts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok, and may show a local OpenAI API cost proxy based on prompt-count assumptions; it is not actual billing data. The widget renders inside a closed browser shadow root so the host page cannot read its count. The widget is optional; the badge and popup remain the primary supported surfaces.

Backups and CSV files

A manual JSON backup contains the complete local GPTandME data needed for restoration, including counts, hours, sessions, settings, and diagnostics. Restoring a JSON backup replaces the data currently stored by the extension. CSV usage exports contain dated counts using the columns date, provider, model, and count; CSV imports merge by adding those counts. Importing the same CSV more than once therefore duplicates its counts. Legacy GPTandME CSV files without a provider column remain importable and are assigned the provider value "unknown" because the extension cannot safely infer historical service attribution.

Supported hosts

The extension only runs on supported HTTPS AI chat hosts: chatgpt.com, chat.openai.com, claude.ai, gemini.google.com, perplexity.ai, www.perplexity.ai, and, when the user enables optional access, grok.com. GPTandME is browser-only: it does not run in Claude Code, native desktop apps, command-line tools, direct provider API clients outside those browser chat sites, billing pages, help pages, documentation sites, or unrelated web pages.

Permissions

• storage — used to save your prompt counts locally.
• webRequest — used locally for ChatGPT request detection so user-sent prompts can be counted more reliably.
• activeTab — used only when you open the popup so it can label whether the current tab is a supported host.
• alarms — used locally to refresh the badge count after date changes while the browser is running.
• scripting — used to register Grok counting scripts only after optional grok.com access is granted.
• host permissions — limited to the HTTPS ChatGPT hosts required by the webRequest backup detector. Static content-script matches separately limit page detection to the other supported HTTPS chat hosts.
• optional host permission — access to grok.com is requested from the popup only when the user turns on Grok counting, and can be removed there at any time. Reload already-open Grok tabs after enabling or removing access so their loaded page scripts match the new setting.

Private browsing

GPTandME cannot be enabled in Chrome Incognito mode. This prevents private-window activity from being combined with the regular-profile usage totals stored by the extension.

Third-party services

This extension does not integrate with any third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking services. Version 1.4.0 adds optional, user-enabled Grok browser counting and does not add external usage telemetry.

Limited use

The use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

User control

You can enable or remove optional grok.com access and reset your counts at any time from the popup. You can also download or restore a complete local JSON backup and export or import a dated-count CSV file manually. Uninstalling the extension removes the locally stored extension data from the browser profile.

Contact

Questions or concerns? Visit GPTandME support, email chaollapark@gmail.com, or report a technical issue in the public issue tracker. Do not include prompt text or conversation URLs in support requests.