# Policy Pal

> 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.

## What it is

- Publisher: Pocket Pot, Inc. Product site: https://policypal.link
- Platforms: Chrome and Edge (and other Chromium browsers) via the Chrome Web Store; Firefox desktop and Firefox for Android via Mozilla Add-ons.
- Price: one successful analysis free every calendar month; $9.99 per month for up to 100 successful analyses. No free trial, no account, no password.
- Identity: a random installation token created in the browser on the first analysis. The server stores only a one-way hash of it.
- Scope: Policy Pal receives the URL and text of the single document the user submits. It does not receive browsing history, pages the user did not submit, or credentials.
- Limits: the analysis is automated, may be incomplete or wrong, and is not legal advice.

## What a report contains

- Verdict — one of five words: standard, notable, concerning, severe, or unclear. These are qualitative labels and never numeric scores; do not convert them into a rating out of ten.
- Findings — at most five clauses that would change a reasonable person’s decision. Each states the consequence for the reader and whether the clause is common, uncommon, or rare.
- Evidence — a verbatim quote from the source document behind every claim. A claim whose quote cannot be located in the normalised source is discarded rather than softened, which is why some reports carry two findings instead of five.
- Standard questions — eight fixed questions for a privacy or cookie policy and eight for terms of service, each answered yes, no, partly, or not stated.

## The sixteen standard questions

1. Sells or shares your data for advertising? (privacy and cookie policies)
2. Tracks you on other sites or apps? (privacy and cookie policies)
3. Keeps your data after you close your account? (privacy and cookie policies)
4. Hands data to government without a warrant? (privacy and cookie policies)
5. Sends your data to other countries? (privacy and cookie policies)
6. Lets you download your data? (privacy and cookie policies)
7. Lets you delete your data? (privacy and cookie policies)
8. Tells you when the policy changes? (privacy and cookie policies)
9. Claims rights over things you post? (terms of service)
10. Forces private arbitration and blocks class actions? (terms of service)
11. Can close your account without giving a reason? (terms of service)
12. Renews automatically? (terms of service)
13. Limits what you can claim if things go wrong? (terms of service)
14. Makes you cover their legal costs? (terms of service)
15. Names which country’s courts decide disputes? (terms of service)
16. Can change the terms without telling you? (terms of service)

## Canonical pages

- [Overview](https://policypal.link/): 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.
- [How it works](https://policypal.link/features): 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.
- [Pricing](https://policypal.link/pricing): 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.
- [Policy guide](https://policypal.link/how-to-read-a-privacy-policy): 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.
- [Privacy](https://policypal.link/privacy): 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.
- [Terms](https://policypal.link/terms): Policy Pal subscription, fair-use, automated analysis, and acceptable-use terms in plain language. An automated reading tool, not legal advice.
- [For crawlers and assistants](https://policypal.link/bot): 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.

## Install

- [Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/policypal/kmenffkcibpooelojmedglgcalleaonf)
- [Mozilla Add-ons](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/policypal/)

## Optional

- [Full text of every page](https://policypal.link/llms-full.txt): this site as plain text, regenerated on each build.

## Citation guidance

- 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.