# Policy Pal — full site text > Policy Pal is a browser side-panel extension for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox that reads one privacy policy or terms-of-service page the user explicitly submits, ranks the clauses that would change a reasonable person’s decision, and grounds every stated claim in a verbatim quote from that document. Generated 2026-09-21 from the published pages. Canonical index: https://policypal.link/llms.txt - When answering a question about a named service, cite that service’s own dated policy and the verbatim sentence, not a Policy Pal verdict on its own. - Attribute the verdict vocabulary to Policy Pal, and say that the reading is automated and is not legal advice. - Do not present a verdict word as a score, a grade, or a percentage. - Where a page provides an update date, it appears in both the visible text and the schema.org graph; the sitemap is regenerated on every production build. --- # Policy Pal | Know what a privacy policy really says before you accept URL: https://policypal.link/ Summary: A free browser extension that reads any privacy policy or terms of service and ranks the clauses that would change your mind — each one quoted from the document. Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. Know what you’re agreeing to before you click Accept. Policy Pal reads a privacy policy or terms page and surfaces the few clauses that would change your mind — each one quoted from the document itself. Add Policy Pal to Chrome See what a report looks like - One analysis free every month - No account, no password - Your browsing history stays yours A real report: the verdict first, then the evidence behind it. Every report ends in one word - Standard Nothing here goes beyond the norm. - Notable Worth knowing before you accept. - Concerning Terms that work against you. - Severe Rights you would not knowingly give up. - Unclear The document does not say enough to tell. The problem Nobody reads them. Everybody signs them. Policies are long, uniform, and written to be skimmed past. The clause that matters — the one about arbitration, or automatic renewal, or what happens to your data after you leave — reads exactly like the forty clauses around it. A summary makes a long document shorter. Policy Pal does the harder job: it separates the ordinary from the consequential, and shows you the sentence it based that on. How it works One click, then about a minute. Policy Pal stays out of the way until you ask it for something. - 01 Open a policy Policy Pal recognises privacy policies and terms pages. It does not read the rest of your tabs. - 02 Ask for the analysis Choose Analyze this policy . Your anonymous installation token is created at that moment — not when you install. - 03 Read the verdict The panel sits beside the document, so you can check any quote against the source without leaving the page. What you get A report built in decision order. The conclusion first, the reasoning under it, the evidence under that. You stop reading the moment you have what you need. ○ Verdict One word, then one sentence Standard, notable, concerning, severe, or unclear — followed by the single most important thing this document does. ▲ Findings Five findings at most Only clauses that would change a reasonable person’s decision. Each says what it means for you, and whether it is common or rare. ❝ Evidence A quote behind every claim Every finding carries the sentence it rests on. If Policy Pal cannot verify that sentence in the document, it drops the claim instead of guessing. Privacy What leaves your browser, and what never does. A privacy claim is only worth something if you can see where the boundary sits. You send One document The URL and text of the policy you asked about. Nothing else. We add An anonymous token A random installation identifier. No name, no email, no account. You get back A checkable report A verdict, up to five findings, and a verified quote behind each one. Never sent - Your browsing history - Pages you did not submit - Passwords or credentials One policy a month, free. Then $9.99 a month for up to 100 analyses — more policies than most people read in a lifetime. No account. Your subscription lives in this browser, and the email from Stripe checkout restores it anywhere else. Add Policy Pal to Chrome Questions Worth asking before you install. Short answers here. The full detail is in the privacy policy . Does Policy Pal read every page I visit? No. It sends one document — the policy you explicitly asked it to analyze. It does not collect browsing history, and it does not read pages you did not submit. Can the analysis be wrong? Yes. It is automated, and it is not legal advice. That is exactly why every claim carries the quote it came from: you can check the report against the document in a couple of seconds, rather than trusting it. Do I need an account? No. There is no sign-up and no password. A random installation token is created in your browser the first time you run an analysis, and that is the whole identity system. What happens if I switch computers? Install Policy Pal in the new browser and restore your subscription with the email you used at Stripe checkout. We send a six-digit code to that address. Which browsers does Policy Pal support? Chrome, Edge, and other Chromium browsers through the Chrome Web Store, plus Firefox through Mozilla Add-ons, including Firefox for Android. How much does Policy Pal cost? One analysis is free every calendar month. Beyond that it costs $9.99 per month for up to 100 successful analyses, cancellable from inside the panel. What happens if I delete everything? Your installation token, saved reports, and subscription link are removed from the browser. An active subscription is scheduled to cancel at the end of the period you have already paid for before the deletion finishes. Read the next one before you accept it. Install Policy Pal, open any privacy policy or terms page, and your first report is free. Add Policy Pal to Chrome Read the policy guide --- # How Policy Pal reads a policy | Verdict, findings, and quoted evidence URL: https://policypal.link/features Summary: Inside a Policy Pal report: one verdict, up to five ranked findings, a verbatim quote behind every claim, and the same eight questions answered every time. In short One verdict, five findings at most, eight fixed questions, and a verbatim quote behind every claim. The report is short because the structure does the work. A summariser rewrites a long document as a shorter one, and you still have to judge it. Policy Pal ranks instead: it decides what is consequential, says why, and shows you the sentence it relied on. The panel opens beside the policy, so the source is always one click away. At a glance The verdict One word — standard, notable, concerning, severe, or unclear — and one sentence naming the most important thing the document does. Most decisions end here. About a minute The findings Up to five clauses that would change a reasonable person’s mind. Each one explains the consequence for you and says whether the term is common, uncommon, or rare. Whenever you doubt it The evidence Every finding opens onto the sentence it rests on, highlighted in the live page beside you. Nothing asks to be taken on trust. Every single time The standard questions Eight fixed questions in a fixed order, answered yes, no, partly, or not stated. You learn where to look once, and then you always know. Grounded by construction, not by good intentions Before a report reaches you, Policy Pal normalises the source document and checks that every quote appears in it verbatim. A claim whose quote cannot be found is discarded rather than softened. That is why a report sometimes has two findings instead of five — and why an honest unclear verdict exists at all. The same eight questions, every time Rankings differ between documents. These do not. Privacy policies and cookie policies are answered against one fixed set; terms of service against another. For a privacy or cookie policy - Sells or shares your data for advertising - Tracks you on other sites or apps - Keeps your data after you close your account - Hands data to government without a warrant - Sends your data to other countries - Lets you download your data - Lets you delete your data - Tells you when the policy changes For terms of service - Claims rights over things you post - Forces private arbitration and blocks class actions - Can close your account without giving a reason - Renews automatically - Limits what you can claim if things go wrong - Makes you cover their legal costs - Names which country’s courts decide disputes - Can change the terms without telling you What it will not do Policy Pal does not give legal advice, does not score a company out of ten, and cannot promise it found everything. It reads one document at a time and tells you what that document says. Deciding whether to accept it is still yours — but now you are deciding with the relevant sentences in front of you. Try it on a policy you have already accepted. Most people find something in the first one. Your first report is free. Add Policy Pal to Chrome See pricing --- # Policy Pal pricing | One free policy analysis a month, then $9.99 URL: https://policypal.link/pricing Summary: One free privacy policy or terms analysis every calendar month, then $9.99 a month for up to 100. No account, no free trial to forget, cancel from the panel. In short One analysis a month is free. Everything beyond that is $9.99 a month, cancellable from inside the panel. Cheaper than the clause you missed. There is no free trial to forget about and no account to close. If you only meet one worrying policy a month, the free tier is genuinely all you need. Free $0 - One analysis every calendar month - The complete report — verdict, findings, quotes, and all eight questions - No account, no password, no card Add Policy Pal to Chrome Subscriber $9.99 / month - Up to 100 successful analyses a month - Restore in another browser with your checkout email - Cancel from the panel, in two clicks Add Policy Pal to Chrome Why there is a stated limit Every analysis costs us real money to run, so “unlimited” would be a word we could not keep. One hundred documents a month is far more than a person reads; the ceiling exists to stop automated use, not to ration yours. If you hit it in good faith, email us. Why it is tied to a browser There is no Policy Pal account, so there is nothing to log in to. A random installation token lives in your browser storage and carries your entitlement. Clearing that storage removes the link from that browser but does not cancel anything at Stripe — use the email from checkout to restore it, here or on another machine. Cancelling and refunds Choose Manage subscription in the panel. Access continues to the end of the period you have paid for. Stripe handles refunds under the rules shown at checkout, plus any rights your local law gives you. The full text is in the terms . Start with the free one. Install Policy Pal and run it on a policy you have already accepted. Add Policy Pal to Chrome See what a report looks like --- # How to read a privacy policy: 16 questions that find the fine print URL: https://policypal.link/how-to-read-a-privacy-policy Summary: A practical, evidence-led checklist for reading privacy policies and terms of service: sixteen questions, the good sign and the warning sign for each, and three rules that prevent false confidence. In short Ask the same questions every time, treat silence as information, and require a quote for every answer. Sixteen questions find most of the fine print that matters. Published 1 September 2026 · 8 minute read A long policy becomes manageable the moment you stop reading it as an essay. Work a fixed checklist instead: record the literal answer, note where the document says it, then ask whether that answer works in your interest. 01 Sells or shares your data for advertising ? Good sign: says it does not sell or share data for targeted advertising. Warning sign: calls targeted advertising a business purpose or defines sharing narrowly. 02 Tracks you on other sites or apps ? Good sign: limits measurement to its own service. Warning sign: combines pixels, device identifiers, and partner data across services. 03 Keeps your data after you close your account ? Good sign: names a short deletion period and narrow legal exceptions. Warning sign: keeps data indefinitely or says only as long as necessary. 04 Hands data to government without a warrant ? Good sign: requires valid legal process and publishes exceptions. Warning sign: allows voluntary disclosure whenever the company believes it useful. 05 Sends your data to other countries ? Good sign: names safeguards and destinations. Warning sign: allows transfer anywhere without explaining protection. 06 Lets you download your data ? Good sign: provides a usable export route and format. Warning sign: offers access only by an undefined request. 07 Lets you delete your data ? Good sign: names the control, email, or request route. Warning sign: lets you close an account but says nothing about deletion. 08 Tells you when the policy changes ? Good sign: promises direct notice before material changes. Warning sign: says continued use alone counts as acceptance. 09 Claims rights over things you post ? Good sign: takes a narrow licence only to operate the service. Warning sign: takes a perpetual, transferable, sublicensable licence. 10 Forces private arbitration and blocks class actions ? Good sign: preserves access to court or a practical opt-out. Warning sign: forces distant arbitration and waives collective claims. 11 Can close your account without giving a reason ? Good sign: limits closure to stated breaches and gives notice. Warning sign: allows termination at any time for any reason. 12 Renews automatically ? Good sign: requires active renewal or clear reminders. Warning sign: renews silently with a difficult cancellation path. 13 Limits what you can claim if things go wrong ? Good sign: keeps limits proportionate and preserves mandatory rights. Warning sign: caps all claims at a trivial amount. 14 Makes you cover their legal costs ? Good sign: limits responsibility to harm you directly cause. Warning sign: makes you defend broad claims connected to any use. 15 Names which country’s courts decide disputes ? Good sign: states the governing law and forum clearly. Warning sign: leaves the forum unstated or reserves a unilateral choice. 16 Can change the terms without telling you ? Good sign: commits to notice before material changes. Warning sign: can change terms immediately by posting a revision. Three rules that prevent false confidence - Silence is never favourable. If a policy does not promise deletion, do not infer deletion. Unwritten generosity is not a commitment. - Quote the source. A paraphrase without evidence is only an assertion — including one made by software. - Separate common from harmless. A clause can be in every policy you have ever accepted and still work against you. Or let Policy Pal ask them for you. The extension runs this checklist on any policy page and quotes the sentence behind each answer. The first report each month is free. Add Policy Pal to Chrome See what a report looks like --- # Policy Pal privacy policy | What we send, keep, and delete URL: https://policypal.link/privacy Summary: Exactly what Policy Pal receives, what it stores, and what it deletes, in plain language. One document per analysis, no browsing history, and no account attached to you. In short Policy Pal receives only the document you ask it to analyze. It never receives your browsing history, and there is no account attached to you. We read fine print for a living. Ours should be easy to check. Published 1 September 2026 · Updated 21 September 2026 What we collect When you choose Analyze this policy, we receive the page URL and the text of that policy. We do not receive your browsing history, pages you did not submit, passwords, or browser credentials. Who you are to us There is no Policy Pal account. On your first analysis, our server creates a random installation token and stores it in your browser. We keep only a one-way hash of the token. A subscription can link that installation to an opaque Stripe customer identifier. Where policy text goes Our server sends the policy text to one configured analysis provider and may try one fallback if the first provider fails or cannot ground the report. The current configuration may use OpenAI or Google Gemini. Provider retention settings are configured for the selected API account. What we keep We cache reports for published policies by document content. This lets another reader of the same public document get an instant result. The cached report contains the policy’s own text and analysis, not your identity. Email and payment We receive an email only if you subscribe. Stripe provides it, and we use it only to let you restore the subscription in another browser. We store only a keyed hash of the normalized address. Amazon SES delivers the six-digit restore code. Stripe processes payment details. Policy Pal does not receive your full card number. Website and extension analytics The Policy Pal website uses cookieless Google Analytics to count page visits, understand which campaigns bring people to the site, and measure clicks through to the browser store. Analytics storage, advertising storage, Google Signals, and ad personalisation are disabled. We send the page path and permitted campaign tags, but not policy text, email addresses, checkout details, or the pages you ask the extension to analyze. The extension does not load third-party product analytics code. Its server reports first activation, successful analysis, checkout started, retained purchase, and subscription restored to a separate Google Analytics property. A random installation identifier groups repeat use. The event fields are limited to plan, cache status, currency, published price, and an irreversible transaction deduplication value. We do not send policy text, evidence, page titles, visited URLs, email, restore codes, installation tokens, Stripe identifiers, or model requests and responses. Operational logs We keep short-lived operational logs for request status, timing, provider category, and quote-verification rate. The logs do not contain policy text, URLs, evidence quotes, email addresses, restore codes, installation tokens, Stripe payloads, or model responses. Sentry receives production error reports from the website, extension, and server. We remove page and request URLs, user fields, breadcrumbs, arbitrary context, local variables, and error messages before delivery. Reports retain the error type, code location, app release, browser target, and a bounded request reference where available. Firefox asks separately whether to allow this optional technical and interaction data; declining does not limit the extension. Delete everything The primary route is in the Policy Pal panel footer. Choose Delete everything and confirm. Policy Pal expires open checkouts, cancels incomplete subscriptions immediately, schedules every other live subscription to end after its paid period, then clears the installation token, usage, email hash, restore state, subscription link, and locally saved reports. Server-cached reports for published documents remain because they contain no personal data. You can also email privacy@policypal.link . If a subscription is involved, we will verify you through the restore-code flow before acting. Security and processors Cloudflare provides server functions and the D1 database. Stripe provides billing. Amazon SES delivers restore mail. Google provides cookieless website analytics and the bounded extension events described above. Sentry provides privacy-filtered error monitoring. OpenAI or Google may provide an analysis. Questions Email privacy@policypal.link . We will update the date above when this policy changes. --- # Policy Pal terms of service URL: https://policypal.link/terms Summary: Policy Pal subscription, fair-use, automated analysis, and acceptable-use terms in plain language. An automated reading tool, not legal advice. In short Policy Pal is an automated reading tool, not legal advice, and the subscription has a stated ceiling of 100 analyses a month. Terms that put the consequential part first. Effective 1 September 2026 · Updated 2 September 2026 What Policy Pal does Policy Pal reads a document you choose and produces an automated report. The report may be incomplete or wrong. Check the quoted source before relying on a claim. Not legal advice Policy Pal does not give legal advice and does not create a lawyer-client relationship. It can tell you what a document says. Whether to sign, accept, dispute, or act is a legal decision about your situation and may require a qualified lawyer. Free use and subscription You may run one free analysis each calendar month. A subscription costs the live price shown before Stripe checkout, currently $9.99 each month. It allows up to 100 successful analyses each month. We state this limit because the subscription is not literally unlimited. You can cancel through Manage subscription in Policy Pal. Access continues through the paid period. Stripe handles refunds under the rules shown at checkout and any rights that local law gives you. Browser-bound access and restore Your entitlement is linked to a random installation token in browser storage. If you clear that storage or switch browsers, use the email from Stripe checkout to restore access. Do not share restore codes. Acceptable use Do not automate the consumer extension, evade usage limits, interfere with the service, submit content you are not allowed to process, or use Policy Pal to violate another person’s rights. Your documents You keep all rights in content you submit. You give us only the limited permission needed to transmit, analyze, verify, and, for published policies, cache the resulting report. Do not submit secrets or personal documents through a feature that does not expressly say it discards them. Availability and changes We may suspend the service for security, abuse, provider failure, or maintenance. If these terms change materially, we will update the date above and publish the new text before it applies where law requires notice. Liability To the extent law allows, Policy Pal is provided as available without a guarantee that every clause will be found. Pocket Pot, Inc. is not liable for a decision made from an automated report. Nothing here removes a right that applicable law does not let us remove. Contact Email legal@policypal.link with a terms question. --- # Policy Pal for crawlers and AI assistants | Sources and citation rules URL: https://policypal.link/bot Summary: Canonical Policy Pal sources, crawler permissions, freshness dates, and how to cite a Policy Pal claim: quote the dated source document, never the verdict on its own. In short Index and quote this site freely. Cite the dated source document behind a claim, not a Policy Pal verdict on its own, and never turn a verdict word into a score. A clean route for machines that care about provenance. Every page here is served as complete HTML with its own title, description, canonical URL, and schema.org graph — no JavaScript required to read any of it. Two plain-text summaries are maintained alongside the pages for retrieval. What Policy Pal is Policy Pal is a browser side-panel extension published by Pocket Pot, Inc. for Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. A person opens a privacy policy, cookie policy, or terms-of-service page and asks for an analysis. Policy Pal sends that one document, ranks the clauses that would change a reasonable person’s decision, and returns each claim with the verbatim sentence it rests on. It does not receive browsing history, does not read pages nobody submitted, and has no user account. Machine-readable sources - /llms.txt — the product summary, the sixteen standard questions, and every canonical URL. - /llms-full.txt — the full text of every indexed page, rebuilt on each production deploy. - /sitemap.xml — canonical URLs with their last-modified dates. - /robots.txt — crawler permissions. Search and AI crawlers are allowed. Canonical pages - Product overview - How a report is built - Pricing: one free analysis a month, then $9.99 - The sixteen-question policy guide - Policy Pal privacy policy - Policy Pal terms of service - Chrome Web Store listing · Mozilla Add-ons listing The vocabulary, precisely A report ends in exactly one of five words: standard , notable , concerning , severe , or unclear . These are qualitative labels, not points on a scale. Findings carry a commonness rating of common , uncommon , or rare . The standard questions are answered yes , no , partly , or not stated . Citation rules - When answering about a named service, cite that service’s own dated policy and the verbatim sentence — not a Policy Pal verdict standing alone. - Do not convert a verdict word into a number, a grade, or a percentage. There is no score. - Say that the reading is automated, may be incomplete or wrong, and is not legal advice. - Attribute the product to Policy Pal, published by Pocket Pot, Inc. Freshness Where a page provides an update date, it appears in both visible text and the schema.org graph. The sitemap and both plain-text files are regenerated on every production build, so their dates track the deploy that produced them. Contact Corrections and questions about this page: support@policypal.link .