The short version
Only when you ask.Gaden reads or acts on a tab when you give it a task in the side panel. It does not watch your browsing in the background.
Only where you allow.Before reading or touching a site for the first time, Gaden asks you to allow that site. You can revoke it from the panel at any time.
Never sensitive sites.Banks, payment services, crypto, government, health portals and password managers are blocked in code. You cannot turn that off.
Not sold, not ads.We do not sell your data, use it for advertising, or let our AI providers train on it.
What Gaden reads, and when
When you send a task in the panel (for example "audit this landing page" or "put this list in Excel"), Gaden may use the following from the tab you are on, or from tabs it opens for that task:
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| The page address and title | To know which page you mean and to keep a record of what was done. |
| Page content: visible text, tables, links, form fields and the list of clickable elements | To answer about the page, extract lists, fill a form you asked it to fill, or navigate. |
| The data the site loads for that page (its own API responses, for example the rows of a table) | To read a web app's lists exactly instead of reading the screen. Only responses from the same site, only while a task runs, never cookies, passwords or credentials, and never on LinkedIn or social networks. |
| Screenshots of the tab | To see layouts, charts and maps, and to draw the numbered marks of an audit. |
| Files you attach in the panel (images, PDFs, spreadsheets and text files) | To read them, to build what they describe (for example a sequence or a form) in the site you allowed, or to upload one to a form when you approve it. |
| Your messages to Gaden | That is the task. |
| Your voice, while you are talking to Gaden | Only after you press the "Say it" shortcut or start a live call, and only while the microphone is on: to turn what you say into text or to have a spoken conversation. The audio is not stored. |
| The link of a meeting you send Gaden to | So the Gaden notetaker can join that Zoom, Google Meet or Teams call. It joins only the meetings you send it to and introduces itself as an AI teammate. |
| Your browser's time zone | So dates and your agenda are right. |
Gaden reads none of this until you send a task, and nothing from a site you have not allowed.
What it never does
No passwords or payment details.Gaden never types into password, card, bank, SSN or verification-code fields, and never reads password managers.
No blocked sites.Banks, payment and crypto services, government and health portals, and Google or Microsoft account security pages are always off-limits.
No posting on social media.On LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X and Threads, Gaden only reads and takes screenshots, at a human pace. It never connects, likes, comments, follows, messages or posts.
Nothing important without your yes.Sending, submitting, paying, deleting, publishing or saving on a site waits for you to approve it in the panel, even if the AI did not ask.
No background tracking.It does not collect your browsing history or read tabs you did not involve in a task.
No selling or advertising.Your data is not sold, rented, or used to show you or anyone else ads.
Where your data goes
What Gaden reads for a task is sent, encrypted in transit, to:
- Gaden's servers on Google Cloud / Firebase (United States), which run the task, your Gaden account and its records.
- Our AI providers, to generate Gaden's answers and actions: OpenAI for text, reasoning, web search and calculations, and Google for Gaden's live voice. They process it under API terms that do not allow them to train their models on it.
It is shared with no one else, except where the law requires it or to protect the service from abuse. Inside your Gaden organization, what you do in Chrome belongs to you: other members of your team cannot read your conversations with Gaden. The organization's owner can see them, as in the rest of Gaden.
What is kept, and for how long
- An activity log of each task in your Gaden organization: your message, the pages involved, the actions taken and short summaries of their results. It exists so you can see exactly what Gaden did in your browser.
- The conversation, saved to your Gaden memory, so you can find it later from the Gaden app or your phone.
- Files Gaden made for you (Excel, PDF, images) and audits you chose to save as client reports.
- The working state of an open task, so a multi-step task can continue.
- What Gaden heard, only when you approved "Listen" on a tab: the transcript stays in the conversation. The audio itself is sent once to be transcribed and is not stored.
- Meeting notes, only for meetings you sent the Gaden notetaker to: the transcript by speaker, the summary and the next steps, in your Gaden account.
- Your playbooks (saved tasks: the name, the instructions, the start address, the schedule and a short summary of the last run), in your own Gaden account, visible only to you. Delete one anytime from the Playbooks list.
These are kept while your Gaden account is active and are deleted when you ask us to delete them or your account (see Contact). Screenshots and page content sent for a step are used for that task and are not kept as a separate archive, except inside audits you save.
What stays in your Chrome
The extension stores in Chrome's local extension storage, on your computer:
- The connection to your Gaden account (a session token, your organization and this device's id). No password is ever typed into or stored by the extension.
- The sites you allowed.
- The history of the Browser tab conversations (up to 60), including the screenshots shown in them, so you can reopen them. PDFs are kept by name only.
Removing the extension deletes all of it from your computer.
Your controls
- Stop is always visible while Gaden works, and every 100 actions in a row Gaden asks you before it continues.
- Revoke a site from the bar at the top of the panel.
- Scheduled playbooks never approve anything on their own. Nobody is there to say yes, so any step that needs your approval (a site you have not allowed, sending, submitting, a question) is skipped and listed in the run's summary. The only thing you can pre-approve for a playbook is saving and filling on its start site.
- Approve all saves on a site for one task: an option you choose when Gaden asks. It covers saving and filling on that site until the task ends, never sending, paying, deleting, publishing or launching.
- Disconnect in the panel signs the extension out and removes it from your Gaden account.
- Linked devices in Gaden (Open on phone) lists the extension. Remove cuts its access within seconds, and Sign out everywhere signs out every device at once.
- Delete your data: write to us (see Contact) and we delete your Chrome activity, conversations and files.
Why each permission
| Permission | What it is used for |
|---|---|
sidePanel | The Gaden panel next to the page. |
<all_urls>, scripting, activeTab | Reading and acting on the page you ask about. Still limited to sites you allow, and never on blocked sites. |
tabs, webNavigation | Knowing which tab you are on, opening and switching tabs for a task, and finding the embedded frames inside a page (checkout, booking or form widgets) so Gaden can read them. |
debugger | Real mouse and keyboard input for sites that ignore simulated clicks, and reading the data responses of the allowed page (never cookies or credentials). Chrome shows a bar while it is in use; it ends with the task, and closing the bar turns it off. |
downloads | Saving the Excel, PDF and image files Gaden makes for you. |
tabCapture | Listening to a video, webinar or demo in the current tab when you ask and approve it: its audio is turned into text. Chrome shows that it is capturing, you keep hearing it, and the audio is never stored. |
offscreen | Recording your voice for the "Say it" command after you press the shortcut, and playing Gaden's voice during a live call. It runs only while you are talking to Gaden; the audio is turned into text and is never stored. |
alarms | Starting the playbooks you scheduled, at the time you chose, checking for tasks you sent to Chrome from the Gaden app, and checking the status of your Gaden notetaker meetings. It reads no page and sends nothing by itself. |
notifications | Telling you when your Gaden notetaker joined a meeting, needs to be admitted, or finished with notes ready, and when a scheduled playbook finished. |
storage, unlimitedStorage | The connection, your allowed sites and the panel's conversation history, on your computer. The history includes screenshots, which need more room than Chrome's default quota. |
Limited Use
The use of information received from Gaden for Chrome adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Specifically: we use the data only to provide the features you use in the extension and in Gaden; we do not transfer it except as described above; we do not use or transfer it for advertising, for credit decisions, or to sell it; and no person reads it unless you ask us to (for support), it is needed for security or abuse, or the law requires it.
Contact
Questions, or a request to see or delete your data: cgsinfo@clagamglobal.com. We answer within 30 days.
Gaden's general terms and privacy practices also apply to your Gaden account. If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will say so in Gaden before it applies.