Effective date: 27 June 2026
Product: CHORDS Email Checker Chrome extension
Publisher: Industrial Linguistics
Contact: [email protected]
Summary
CHORDS Email Checker helps a user review a Gmail draft before sending or forwarding data. It checks whether the draft includes Caveat, Handling, Owner, Refresh/as-at, Definition, and Source context.
The extension processes the current draft in the user's browser. It does not send draft contents, subject lines, links, attachment names, recipients, or generated CHORDS text to an Industrial Linguistics server.
Information handled by the extension
When the user runs a check, the extension reads the active Gmail compose or reply window. This may include:
- draft subject
- draft body text
- visible links in the draft
- visible attachment file names
The extension does not inspect attachment contents, hidden Gmail content, inbox history, sent mail, contacts, calendars, cookies, passwords, or authentication tokens.
How the information is used
The draft information is used only to provide the CHORDS check requested by the user and to generate an editable CHORDS footer. The extension does not use email contents for advertising, profiling, analytics, model training by Industrial Linguistics, or any unrelated purpose.
Chrome, Gmail, and Google's services
The extension runs inside the user's existing Chrome and Gmail environment. Gmail already stores and processes the user's draft as part of Google's service. When Chrome's built-in language model is available, CHORDS Email Checker asks that browser-provided model to analyse the draft locally in Chrome. Google services and Chrome features remain governed by Google's own terms and privacy policies.
Industrial Linguistics does not operate a separate server that receives the draft for CHORDS checking.
Storage and retention
Email draft content is not written to persistent storage by this extension. The latest check result may exist temporarily in extension memory so the modal or side panel can display it. That in-memory result is discarded when the extension runtime is closed or refreshed.
The extension may store user preferences in Chrome storage, such as whether to show the CHORDS button, whether to prefer the side panel, and preferred footer wording. These preferences do not include draft contents.
Sharing and transfer
Industrial Linguistics does not receive or share the user's draft content. The extension does not sell user data and does not transfer user data to advertisers, analytics providers, data brokers, or other third parties.
If the user chooses to contact support, the user decides what information to include. Users should avoid sending sensitive email contents in support requests unless they intentionally choose to do so.
Human access
Industrial Linguistics personnel cannot read Gmail drafts through this extension. No human at Industrial Linguistics reviews draft content unless the user explicitly sends that content for support or another purpose.
Security
The extension requests only the permissions needed to provide its user-facing Gmail draft check. It uses Gmail page access to read the active compose draft and insert user-approved footer text, Chrome storage for preferences, and the Chrome Side Panel API for the companion interface.
The extension does not include remote logging of draft content, a developer-operated CHORDS API, or a remote language-model fallback.
Chrome Web Store Limited Use disclosure
CHORDS Email Checker's use of personal or sensitive user data is limited to the single user-facing purpose of checking a user-selected Gmail draft for CHORDS context and helping the user insert an editable CHORDS footer.
The extension does not transfer user data to Industrial Linguistics or third parties except as part of the user's existing Chrome and Gmail environment. It does not use or transfer user data for advertising, retargeting, interest-based advertising, creditworthiness, lending, or unrelated analytics. Humans do not read user data through the extension except when a user explicitly provides information to Industrial Linguistics for support.
Changes
This policy may be updated when the extension changes. Material changes will be reflected by updating this page and the effective date.