Privacy Policy

Refraktor and Refraktor Pro handle your data very differently — Refraktor is bring-your-own-key with no backend of ours involved, while Pro runs on a managed service. Each is covered in its own section below.

Refraktor

Refraktor is bring-your-own-key. Your Google Gemini API key is stored locally in your browser (chrome.storage) and is never sent anywhere but Google.

By default Refraktor has no standing access to your browsing: clicking its toolbar icon grants access to that one tab (the activeTab model), and nothing more. You can optionally turn on automatic scanning, which grants access to all sites so tools are discovered on every page — that is your choice, prompted when you enable it, and revocable anytime from the panel.

To operate, Refraktor sends the current page's registered WebMCP tool definitions and your chat messages to Google's Gemini API; tool calls run against the page you're on. It sends nothing to Refraktor's servers, runs no analytics or telemetry, and keeps no history off your machine. Uninstalling it, or clearing the key, removes everything it stored.

What we don't do

No accounts, no selling or sharing of data, no advertising trackers, no profiling. Refraktor Pro, our paid tier, works differently — its data handling is described in full below.

Refraktor Pro

Contact: computer@refraktor.tech

Refraktor Pro is a Chrome extension that discovers the WebMCP tools a web page exposes and invokes them on your behalf using managed AI models. This policy explains what we process and why. Our guiding principle: we do not store the content of your requests, the page's data, tool results, or voice transcripts.

What we process

• License key — stored locally in your browser and sent to our backend to verify an active subscription. On our servers it is stored only as a SHA-256 hash, never in plain text.
• Your request & page tools — when you ask something, your message plus the current page's WebMCP tool definitions and results are sent to our backend (api.refraktor.tech) and forwarded to the model you selected (Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google) to generate the next action. This content is not stored by Refraktor.
• Aggregate usage — for each request we record the model name, the number of tool calls, a success/error outcome, a timestamp, and your hashed license key. This contains no prompts, arguments, results, or transcripts.
• Payment & account — payments are handled by Stripe. We store your email and Stripe identifiers to manage your subscription and issue license keys. We never receive or store card numbers.
• Voice — voice input uses your browser's built-in speech recognition, which sends audio to Google for transcription. Refraktor does not receive or store audio; it works only with the resulting text, on your device, until you send it.

How we use it

• To run the single model turn you requested and return the result.
• To verify your subscription and issue or recover license keys.
• To protect the service (per-key rate limiting) and understand aggregate usage.

We do not sell or share your data, use it for advertising, or use it to assess creditworthiness. We do not use it for any purpose unrelated to running Refraktor Pro.

Service providers

We rely on these processors to operate the service:

• Anthropic, OpenAI, Google — model inference for the request you make.
• Google — browser speech recognition for voice input.
• Stripe — subscription payments and billing management.
• Resend — license-recovery emails.
• Vercel — hosting.
• Neon — our database (hashed keys + aggregate usage).

Retention

License and subscription records are kept while your subscription is active and as needed for billing/legal purposes. Aggregate usage logs are retained for operations. We do not retain your prompts, tool data, results, or voice transcripts.

Your choices

• Manage or cancel your subscription anytime via the billing portal at api.refraktor.tech/account.html.
• Request access to or deletion of your account data by emailing computer@refraktor.tech.
• Voice is optional — the extension is fully usable by typing.

This website

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Changes

We may update this policy; material changes will be reflected on this page.

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