About Focus Reader

Focus Reader is a Chrome extension that helps you read web pages in focused, step-by-step paragraph/section units.

• Break long articles into digestible chunks to keep momentum
• Highlight key sentences to reduce context switching
• Offer an AI Reading Guide only when you enable it and the content meets the criteria

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2025-12-20

This document explains how the Chrome extension Focus Reader (“the Extension”) handles personal data and uses page content.

1) What the Extension does

• Helps you read web documents step by step in paragraph/section units.
• Optionally provides an AI Reading Guide under certain conditions.

2) Data sent for the Page Reading Guide (when/what)

The Extension sends an AI request only when the optional Page Reading Guide (AI summary) feature is enabled and the current page has sufficient extracted main text (e.g., approximately 2,000+ characters).

The scope of data sent is:

• Extracted page text (partial): the minimum main text needed to generate the summary, with limits applied
  • Page Reading Guide (AI summary): up to about 10,000 characters (excess is truncated)
• Language info: browser language code and display language name (e.g., ko-KR, 한국어)

3) Where data goes (recipients)

The Page Reading Guide (AI summary) is processed through the following path:

• The Extension → our API (e.g., Vercel Serverless Function) → Anthropic (Claude) → our API → the Extension

4) Storage/retention (how long)

• AI requests/responses may be temporarily kept in memory (in-memory) only during the current page session. They are no longer retained when you:
  • refresh the page,
  • leave the page, or
  • disable the extension.
• The Extension does not permanently store AI responses (disk/cloud).

5) What we do not collect

• The Extension does not request your name, email, or account information.
• The Extension does not “always/send everything” from a page. Only limited extracted text needed for the enabled feature is sent under the conditions described above.

6) User choices (controls)

You can turn off the following in settings:

• Page Reading Guide (AI summary)

7) Contact

For privacy-related inquiries, please contact us at:

telostory@gmail.com