Privacy policy: WordFokus Ghost Mode

In short

WordFokus Ghost Mode does not read, copy, store or send what you write. To sign you in and check your free trial or Pro plan, it sends your email address to WordFokus. It has no ads and no analytics tools. The only usage figure WordFokus keeps is, for signed-in users, on how many days the extension checked their plan.

What the extension does on your pages

It runs only on Google Docs documents (docs.google.com) and in Word on the web's editor (word-edit.officeapps.live.com). There it draws Ghost mode, the control bar, dark mode for Docs and the word counter. For the counter it reads only the number of words that Google Docs' word count box or Word's status bar shows, never the text itself.

What is kept in your browser

Your settings are kept in Chrome's storage for extensions and follow your Chrome sign-in (Chrome sync): Ghost mode on or off, the lines kept in view, dark mode, the bar's size and place, the word counter and your word target. For today only, it also keeps the word count each document had when you first opened it today, listed by the document's ID from its web address, to count the words you write today. Your sign-in (your email address and a sign-in session) is kept only on this computer. Signing out in the menu deletes it. On this computer only, it also counts on how many days you opened a document with it and how many focus rounds you finished, and which short notes beside the bar it has shown, so that it shows them rarely. These counts are never sent. It also notes, on this computer only, on which day it last found each part of the Docs or Word page it needs, so that a change by Google or Microsoft can be found and fixed; this is never sent.

What is sent to WordFokus

When you sign in, your email address goes to the WordFokus sign-in service (run on Supabase), which emails you a 6-digit code. After that, the extension asks the same service whether you are in your free trial or have WordFokus Pro: when you sign in, when you open the menu (at most about once an hour) and once a day in the background. Each time it checks your plan, WordFokus notes the date and counts on how many different days your account was checked. To count your 14-day trial, which starts the first time you open a document, WordFokus keeps your email address and the date your trial started. To know whether you have Pro, it looks up your email address in the WordFokus customer list, the same one our Google Docs add-on uses, and in the list of people who bought the Chrome extension.

If you tick "Send me welcome emails and tips", WordFokus keeps that answer with your email address, and only then may it send you welcome emails. If you do not tick it, no welcome emails are sent.

When you remove the extension, Chrome opens a short, optional form (made with Formaloo) that asks why. It collects only what you type.

If you choose Continue with Google, Google tells WordFokus your email address; that is all we receive.

Payments

When you open a checkout from the menu, Lemon Squeezy's checkout page opens with your email address filled in. Lemon Squeezy handles the payment, under its own privacy policy.

If you buy the WordFokus Chrome extension, WordFokus keeps your email address and the order number to know you have paid.

What we never do

No ads. No analytics tools or tracking in the extension: nothing you write and no document name or address is ever sent. We do not sell your data. No code is downloaded: everything the extension runs comes in its package.

This website

These pages are hosted by Swipe Pages, which counts visits to the pages it hosts. That is the website, not the extension: the extension itself has no tracking.

Links to other sites

The extension's menu and these pages link to YouTube, X, TikTok, our support form (made with Formaloo) and Lemon Squeezy. Those sites have their own privacy policies.

Keeping and deleting your data

Sign out in the menu to delete your sign-in from this computer. To have your email address and trial date deleted from WordFokus, email privacy@wordfokus.com.

Children

WordFokus Ghost Mode is not meant for children under 13.

Changes to this page

When this page changes, we update the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy: privacy@wordfokus.com. Anything else: our support page.