What the extension does with your text

The ScanForAI browser extension is a thin client: it holds no detection logic and sends nothing anywhere until you ask it to scan or clean up a piece of text.

What is sent, and when

  • Only on your action. Text goes to api.scanforai.com only when you press Scan/Clean up or use the right-click menu on a selection. The extension never reads pages in the background and has no access to your browsing.
  • Only the text you chose. No URLs, no page contents beyond your selection, no identifiers beyond what any HTTPS request carries.

What is stored

  • On our servers: nothing, for anonymous use. Anonymous scans and clean-ups are processed and discarded — the same promise as the website.
  • In your browser: your optional API key, kept in local extension storage only, never synced, removable any time in the extension settings.
  • If you use your own API key, scans follow your account’s settings — saved to your private history only if your account saves them.

What it never does

  • No analytics, no tracking, no ads — the extension contains no telemetry of any kind.
  • No selling or sharing of data. Your text is used to produce your result, nothing else.
  • No remote code. Everything that runs ships inside the extension package.

Questions? See the full ScanForAI privacy policy or write to us — the extension follows the same rules as the site.

AI detection is not 100% accurate. Formal, technical, or non-native human writing can score high; edited AI can score low. Never use a result as the sole basis for a decision about a person.