Privacy and Data Use Policy for Excitation

2. Research and model development

Excitation uses extension information for analytics and research and to develop or improve AI and machine-learning capabilities. While the extension is active, collected interaction and interface information may include content visible on the page. Excitation does not create a video recording of your screen.

Model-development uses

Information gathered through the Services, even when it incidentally contains personal information, may be used to develop, train, test, evaluate, and enhance models built by Excitation or run on our behalf by third-party AI processors. The information may support general model improvement, and information or a dataset derived from it may be provided to a third party.

Model-training and product-improvement use can be declined at any time in the extension settings. Excitation opens a notice on installation and again when an updated release begins collecting data, allowing you to review and change that preference.

Treatment of raw page material

Active-tab information can include names, email addresses, or sensitive matters such as finance or health information. Password fields are removed at capture; remaining information can be stored in the form collected in access-controlled systems in the United States. Access is restricted, and we do not otherwise scrub or de-identify it before it is stored or viewed. Related server logs may also record information, while some preferences remain in the browser.

Outside processors and automated output

Selected AI requests pass through outside AI providers under no-retention and no-training conditions. Those providers retain request information only for the processing necessary to respond and do not use it to train their own systems.

An automated system produces AI output and may affect how Excitation behaves or displays information. The output can contain mistakes, is not professional advice, and is not used to make a decision about you with legal or similarly significant effect.

3. Information supplied or generated

Information submitted deliberately

Excitation receives preferences and settings that you configure and any material you send directly, such as the contents of a support inquiry.

You do not need an account to use Excitation. We do not acquire information about you from public sources or third parties; collection occurs through your use of the extension. Information about someone else is implicated only when that individual interacts directly with you.

Information generated by the browser session

The extension records how the Services are used, including interaction patterns, interface activity on an enabled tab, and technical facts about the device, browser, and network. Those facts can include browser type, operating system, device identifier, language, time zone, and an IP address that indicates approximate location.

When Excitation is enabled on the current tab, information appearing on the page may be collected to operate and improve the Services. Page material can incidentally reveal personal or sensitive information. Password entries are redacted when capture occurs.

An optional or enhanced feature may require additional information. Except for password-field redaction at collection, captured page information is not routinely de-identified.

4. Preferences and individual requests

Extension-level preferences

You can turn off data collection and training or product-improvement uses in the in-product settings whenever you wish. Because certain features require that processing, opting out can limit their operation.

Requests grounded in applicable law

Applicable privacy law may allow you to access, delete, correct, or transfer your personal information; oppose or restrict processing; withdraw consent if consent is the legal basis; or complain to a data-protection authority.

Requests from you or your authorized agent should be emailed to [email protected]. We can seek information reasonably necessary to verify identity or authority. We respond to the extent feasible, recognizing practical limits that may apply to security records, backups, or model-development data. A denial can be appealed by using the same address. Excitation will not discriminate against you because you exercised a privacy right.

5. Additional processing purposes

Beyond the AI uses described above, information may be processed to:

• provide, maintain, and support Excitation and optional functionality;
• analyze performance, conduct research, improve the product, troubleshoot, and remedy faults;
• sell, share, license, or otherwise supply personal information or derived datasets to third parties, including for AI and machine-learning work, if no opt-out applies;
• communicate updates, Service information, and event announcements;
• detect, stop, or examine suspected fraud, abuse, security issues, or Terms of Service violations;
• comply with law and protect the privacy, safety, rights, and property of Excitation, users, and others; and
• apply the Terms of Service and other agreements.

We do not use personal information for targeted advertising or for cross-context behavioral advertising.

6. Disclosure recipients

Vendors acting for Excitation. Providers of hosting, cloud services, analytics, customer support, safety, communications, payments, compliance, and other technical functions receive only the information needed for their assigned work and must follow our instructions and legal requirements.

Corporate events. Information may be reviewed by advisers and prospective purchasers or transferred to a successor in connection with a merger, sale, reorganization, bankruptcy, or a similar change.

Legal and protective disclosures. We may provide information to a government body or another party when we believe doing so is needed to satisfy law, support a valid investigation, protect a person, right, or asset, counter fraud or a security threat, enforce terms, or defend our legal interests.

Companies under common control. Affiliates, parents, or subsidiaries may receive information and are required to treat it consistently with this policy.

External destinations. A third-party site, app, or platform you access through an integration or link handles the information it receives under its own policy and terms. A link or connection is not necessarily an endorsement or partnership.

Sharing you request. We disclose information where you give express permission or use a Service feature that is intended to share it.

Data recipients and intermediaries. When you have not opted out, personal information or derived datasets may be disclosed, licensed, or otherwise made available to third parties or intermediaries, which can include data brokers, for AI, machine-learning, or similar development. We do not disclose personal information to an advertising network for targeted advertising.

7. Retention

Excitation applies a fixed two-year retention period from collection to every major category of personal information. Activity and interaction records, usage information, training material, AI prompts and outputs, backups, archives, and derivative information follow the same schedule. A longer period may apply when necessary to meet legal duties, resolve a dispute, or enforce an agreement. Uninstalling the extension stops later collection, but it does not delete information already subject to the schedule.

8. Storage location, transfers, and safeguards

Content may be handled on the device or in our cloud systems, depending on what is needed for the Services. AI functionality can send an input through our inference gateway or a third-party provider.

Information is stored and processed in the United States. Our vendors and recipients may also process it in the United States or other countries. Where required for an international transfer, Excitation uses an appropriate safeguard such as standard contractual clauses. Users cannot choose or limit the storage region.

Excitation maintains administrative, organizational, and technical measures designed to protect personal information. Information is encrypted during transmission and held in access-controlled systems; access is restricted to authenticated users and is logged for systems containing personal information. We maintain incident-response procedures and issue notices when a security-incident notice is legally required. Nevertheless, no electronic storage or transfer is guaranteed to be completely secure.

9. California and other comprehensive state laws

A California resident can request the categories and particular items of personal information Excitation collected, the types of sources, our business reason for collection, and the categories of third parties receiving it. Deletion and correction can also be requested, subject to exceptions in law.

Excitation does not use or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. Personal information, or a dataset derived from it, may be sold, shared, or licensed to third parties for AI or machine-learning development. Opt-out requests can be made through extension settings, through Global Privacy Control or another recognized preference signal, or at [email protected]. If we commence a sale or sharing practice, a conspicuous opt-out method will be offered and requests through each of those channels will be honored.

Sensitive personal information that appears on a viewed page may be collected incidentally. You may request that its use be confined to purposes permitted by the CPRA. Excitation does not discriminate for use of CPRA rights and does not disclose personal information to another party for that party’s direct marketing under Shine the Light.

Send a verifiable consumer request to [email protected]. An authorized agent may submit it for you. Excitation responds within 45 days and, after notice, may use a further 45 days where permitted. A denial can be appealed at the same address.

State laws outside California

Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and other states may grant comparable rights to access, delete, correct, or receive a copy of information, and to opt out of specified processing such as profiling. Contact [email protected]; we will respond under the law applicable to your residence. The same email accepts requests to opt out of profiling used in furtherance of a decision with legal or similarly significant consequences.

10. Active-tab and regulated-data laws

Residents of Illinois, Texas, Washington, and other states that regulate electronic activity, biometric identifiers, or on-screen collection should understand that Excitation collects interaction information from an active browser tab while enabled. If you use the extension in a workplace, professional, or regulated environment and the tab contains health, financial, employment, or other regulated data, ensuring lawful use is your responsibility. Questions may be sent to [email protected].

11. SDKs, local storage, and tracking

The extension relies on a software development kit to provide features and gather usage and interaction information. It also saves preferences in browser local storage. These mechanisms are functional and, where relevant, support analytics. Excitation does not employ advertising technology or third-party advertising trackers. Consent to collection is handled through the install or update notice and in-product settings, so no separate cookie banner is used. The settings allow collection to be turned off at any time.

12. Controller status, age limit, and amendments

Controller status. Excitation is the business and controller for information gathered through the extension and decides the purposes and means of processing. It provides the extension directly to users rather than acting as a processor or service provider for a business customer. Excitation operates primarily in the United States for users around the world.

Children. The Services are intended only for people 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from a person under 18 and remove it if such collection comes to our attention.

Amendments. We may change this policy. Installation, and any update that adds a data practice, opens a notice so you can review the change and modify settings. A material amendment is posted with an updated effective date. Excitation reviews the policy no less than annually and whenever a new practice begins. General privacy questions may be sent to [email protected].