Privacy Policy — Excellent Self-Integration

This policy covers the Excellent Self-Integration browser extension for Chrome, published by Excellent Software, LLC (“Excellent,” “we,” “us”). It is separate from the privacy policy for the excellent.so website.

What this extension does (single purpose)

Excellent Self-Integration is a bridge that lets your own local Excellent application act through the browser you’re already signed into, and send the result only back to your local app. It does this for two things you start yourself:

• Connecting a tool (default). When you click Connect for a tool in the Excellent app, the extension opens that provider’s settings page in your browser — where you’re already signed in — reads the API key shown on that page, and hands it to your local app so it can finish the integration. To surface the key it may click a “Reveal” / “Show key” control on that page; it never clicks destructive controls (delete, revoke, regenerate, and the like).
• Distribution monitor (optional, off until you turn it on). If you enable the monitor in the Excellent app and grant the optional Watched sites permission (Reddit / X), the extension opens the public search pages for your keywords in your logged-in session, reads the public result rows (post titles, links, and snippets — the same listing anyone browsing those sites would see), and returns them to your local app, which scores them for engagement openings. It reads only public listing rows — never your private messages, never credentials — and writes or clicks nothing.

In both cases the extension only acts on a job your local app issued because of something you did, and the result goes nowhere but your own machine.

What data is handled, and where it goes

• API keys / tokens you choose to connect. Only when you initiate a connection, the extension reads the API key from the provider page you’re viewing and transmits it solely to your own local Excellent application at the address you configured (default http://localhost:3000, i.e. your own computer / loopback). The key is not stored by the extension and is not sent to Excellent Software, LLC, to any server we operate, or to any third party.
• Public thread listings (only if you enable the monitor). When you run the distribution monitor and have granted the optional Watched-sites permission, the extension reads the public result rows on the Reddit / X search pages for your keywords (post title, link, snippet, timestamp) and transmits them solely to your own local Excellent application. This content is read only in memory on your machine, never stored by the extension, and never sent to Excellent Software, LLC or any third party. The monitor is off by default and never reads private messages or any non-public content.
• A pairing token. Generated by your local Excellent app and pasted into the extension once. It is stored locally via chrome.storage.local and used only to authenticate the extension to your local app. It is not transmitted anywhere else.
• The local app URL you configure, stored locally in chrome.storage.local.

What we do not collect

We do not collect, transmit, sell, or share: browsing history, personal information, analytics, telemetry, location, or any data sent to Excellent Software, LLC or third parties. The only page content the extension ever reads is (a) the single API key on a provider page you ask it to connect, and (b) the public search-result rows on a Watched site when you run the monitor — both read only in memory on your machine and sent only to your local app. The extension contains no analytics or tracking code and makes no network requests except to the local Excellent app URL you configure.

To locate the key, the extension reads visible text from the provider’s key page (input fields and code/key elements) only in memory on your own machine. That page content is never stored and never transmitted — only the single matched key value is sent to your local app. Likewise, the monitor reads the public search page you direct it to — checking for a login or block wall and extracting the public result rows — and returns only those rows to your local app, never your private messages or credentials. Both flows are consistent with the Chrome Web Store Limited Use requirements.

Data retention

The extension retains only the pairing token and the configured app URL, in your browser’s local extension storage, until you remove them or uninstall the extension. API keys are transient — read on demand, sent to your local app, and not persisted by the extension.

Permissions and why they’re needed

• Host access to specific provider domains (e.g. Stripe, Supabase, PostHog, Plausible, Greenhouse, Ashby) — optional, granted in the popup, to open and read the API-key page when you connect that provider.
• Host access to Watched sites (Reddit, X / Twitter) — optional and separate, granted under “Watched sites” in the popup, used only by the distribution monitor to read the public search pages for your keywords. Off until you both enable the monitor and grant this; kept apart from provider access so connecting a tool never implies reading social sites.
• Host access to localhost / 127.0.0.1 (always on, granted at install) — to communicate with your local Excellent app (the only server the extension talks to).
• scripting — to read the API-key value from the provider page you asked to connect.
• storage — to remember the pairing token and app URL.
• alarms — to keep the connection to your local app alive reliably.
• sidePanel — to show a persistent in-browser panel (connection status, the Watched-sites grant, and a live feed of jobs you started). A UI surface only; it accesses no additional data.

Compliance

Use of information received from this extension adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data is used solely to provide the single user-facing feature described above and is never transferred to us or third parties.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We’ll revise the “Last updated” date above, and material changes will be reflected here.

Contact

Excellent Software, LLC
Email: hello@excellent.so
Web: excellent.so

Learn more about the extension on the Excellent Self-Integration page.