Privacy policy

Effective date: November 3, 2026

This policy explains what HumDocs ("we", "our", "us") collects when you use the HumDocs extension, this website and your account (together, the "Service"), why, who helps us run it, and what you can do about it.

The short version

1. The browser extension

What stays on your computer. The extension keeps these in your browser's extension storage, on your computer only: the text in the popup (so it is still there next time, until you clear it or uninstall); your settings; your license key and when it was last checked; the random number made when it was installed, and when your trial started and ends; how far the last run in a Doc got, so it can be continued after a reload; what the cue card is showing, and when each part or slide started in your last run-through of a script or deck (for the pace coach); runs you queued or scheduled, and your last 30 runs (with their text, so you can use one again); you can clear the history in the extension; and small notes such as whether you have seen the keep-awake notice or updated from a version that had the Pro features free. Files you import (.txt or .docx) are read on your computer and never uploaded. Uninstalling the extension deletes all of it.

Voice follow (the microphone). Voice follow is off until you turn it on in the cue card or the extension's Present screen. While it is on, the cue card listens through your microphone (Chrome asks you first, and shows that the microphone is in use) and uses Chrome's own speech recognition, set to work on your computer only: Chrome downloads its language model for that once, and the sound and the words it hears are not sent anywhere, not to us, not to Google, not to anyone. If this computer's Chrome cannot recognise speech without a server, voice follow says so and does not listen. The words are used only to find your place in the cue card while it is open, and are not saved. Turning voice follow off, or closing the cue card, stops the listening.

What goes to Google. The extension types into the Google Doc or Google Slides presentation you pick, the same as if you typed it yourself. Google saves it in your Google account under Google's own privacy policy. To show a deck's own speaker notes on the cue card, the extension asks Google, from your browser, for the deck's PowerPoint export, the same file as File > Download; it reads the notes from it on your computer and keeps nothing else from it. The extension runs on docs.google.com (Google Docs and Slides). With Pro's Type on any website, it also runs on another page, only after you click its icon on that page, and types only into the text box you chose there (never a password or card field). What it types then goes to that website, under that website's own privacy policy.

What comes to us for licensing. Only what licensing needs. If you enter a license key, the extension sends the key to our license server to check it, together with a random number it made when it was installed (it names no person and no computer; it lets us count, and limit, how many installs use a key). This happens when you press Activate, then about once every 30 days (or daily while a key is not active). The free trial starts only when you press Start on the extension's first screen (or in its Settings); until then nothing is sent. From version 2.3.9, pressing Start opens our trial page, where you sign in to your HumDocs account, and the trial is that account's: we keep which account had the free trial, with its start and end dates, so each account has one. Installing the extension again and signing in with the same account gets that same trial back (once it has ended, it stays ended). Either way the extension sends the random number it made when it was installed (the same one described above), and we keep a scrambled form of it with the trial's dates, so asking again from the same copy of the extension gets the same dates back. If the extension was updated from a version before 2.3.0, starting the trial also sends the version it was updated from (it once made the trial longer); that version is not kept. If you redeem a friends code (in the extension's Settings, or on our redeem page while signed in), the code is sent to our server, and from the extension so is the same random install number, so we can make your key and give you the same one back if you redeem it again; we keep a scrambled form of that number with the key. A wrong code records a scrambled form of your network's IP address for up to a day, so codes cannot be guessed. Free runs are not counted and send nothing to our server. Like any web request these also carry your IP address and basic browser details. When you start the trial, we record a scrambled form of your network's IP address (a one-way keyed hash from which the address cannot be read back) and keep it for up to 90 days, so a trial cannot be restarted endlessly from one network. Otherwise the address is used only briefly, to slow down repeated guessing. Nothing else is sent for licensing: not your text, not your documents, not your browsing.

Anonymous usage counts. The extension also sends anonymous counts of events like installs and runs, with no identifiers, so we can see basic numbers such as how many installs go on to a first run, a trial or a purchase. Each count says only which event happened (installed, updated, first run, a run started, finished or stopped, a Get Pro or Get a License click, a trial started), which plan the extension is on (free, trial, Pro, or what an earlier version kept) and the extension's version number. It carries no install number, no text, nothing about your documents and nothing about you, and it is sent in the background without holding anything up. We add it to that day's total and keep only the daily totals. We do not store or log your IP address with them; like any web request, a count reaches our server provider (Supabase) with your IP address, which its own logs may keep for a short time.

Chrome Web Store. The HumDocs extension's use of the data it handles complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. It is used only to provide the extension's features, never sold, never used for advertising, and never used to decide anyone's creditworthiness.

2. The website and your account

3. Cookies and similar storage

This website sets no cookies. If you sign in, your browser stores a sign-in token in local storage so you stay signed in, until you sign out or delete your account, and a one-time value while a sign-in is being completed. Both are needed for sign-in to work, so we do not ask for consent for them. Stripe sets its own cookies on its checkout pages; see Stripe's privacy policy. Our pages load fonts from Google Fonts and the sign-in code library from esm.sh, so your browser contacts those services, which receive your IP address.

4. Why we use your information

We do not use your information for advertising, and we make no automated decisions about you.

5. Who we share it with

Only these providers, and only to run the Service:

We do not sell or share personal information, as California law uses those words.

6. How long we keep it

7. Deleting your account

"Delete my account" on your account page removes your account and sign-in details straight away. Your license records stay, detached from the deleted account, so the key keeps working and can be added to a new account. If you want those records erased too, email us: we will delete everything the law does not require us to keep, and the key will stop working.

8. Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us for a copy of your data, or ask us to correct, delete or export it. Email support@humdocs.com. We answer within 30 days and will not treat you differently for asking. In the EU, the UK and similar places you can also object to or restrict some processing, and complain to your local data protection authority. In California you have the right to know, delete and correct your personal information.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. We do not track you across other websites, so there is no tracking for these signals to turn off. We treat them as a request not to sell or share, which we never do anyway.

9. Children

The Service is not directed to children under 13 (or a higher age where local law requires), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has an account, email us and we will delete it.

10. International transfers

Our providers may process data in countries other than your own, mainly the United States. Where the law requires it, transfers are protected by our providers' standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards.

11. Security

We use access controls, encryption in transit and the security features of our providers. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise that nothing will ever go wrong. If a breach affects your data, we will tell you as the law requires.

12. Chrome Web Store and Google data

The use of information by the HumDocs extension follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Our use of information received from Google sign-in follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements: we use your Google name, email address and picture only to create and show your account, never for advertising.

13. Responsible use

If we see signs of use the Terms do not allow, we may review the account and purchase records we hold (we never have your text or your documents) and act under our Terms.

14. Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. For important changes we will tell account holders by email before they take effect.

15. Contact

HumDocs is run by Nihit Kaul, California, United States, who is responsible for the information described in this policy. Privacy questions and requests: support@humdocs.com.