Hyper Spec privacy policy

Effective date: November 7, 2026

Hyper Spec is published by Madhav Nair. Contact: mad7droid@gmail.com.

What the extension does

Hyper Spec lets you select elements on a website, capture visual evidence, add review notes, and export a spec report. It does not automatically send information to Claude, another AI service, or the publisher.

Information handled on your device

When you explicitly select an element or capture a page, the extension processes the page URL and title, selected element text and identifiers, accessible labels, component hints, computed visual styles, dimensions, viewport details, and a screenshot of the visible page. Screenshots and selected page content may contain personal or sensitive information visible on that page. The extension also stores the session name, findings, comments, priorities, timestamps, unfinished notes, and appearance preference that you provide or choose.

The extension uses this information only to provide its element capture, annotation, recovery, and export features. It does not continuously record your browsing history, inspect pages in the background, collect passwords from form fields, or record keystrokes across websites. Information visible in a screenshot or selected page content can nevertheless include sensitive information, so choose what you capture carefully.

Storage and retention

Review information is stored in Chrome extension storage on your device. One current review and one previous review can be retained for recovery. Starting another new session replaces the older previous review. A draft is retained until it is saved, discarded, or replaced. The appearance preference is also cached in extension-page local storage. Temporary browser-window identifiers are kept in session storage to support the floating window.

Deleting a finding removes it from the current review; an undo copy may remain in the open review window until replaced or closed, and a copy may exist in the previous review. To remove all extension-held data, uninstall the extension through Chrome's extension settings. Exported files and copies you have shared are separate and must be removed separately by you. No review data is synced by the extension to other devices or to the publisher.

Sharing and network activity

The extension does not transmit captured page content, screenshots, notes, or reports to the publisher or any third party. It has no analytics, advertising, tracking, remote scripts, or automatic AI API calls. It does not sell user data.

Exports are downloaded locally only when you choose to export. If you then upload a report or screenshot to Claude or another recipient, that sharing is your action and the recipient's privacy terms apply. Opening the public privacy-policy page uses your browser and the hosting provider's normal services; that provider may process ordinary website request metadata under its own privacy terms. The extension itself sends no review data to that page.

If you contact the support email, the publisher receives the email address, message, and attachments you send and uses them to respond to your request. Do not email sensitive screenshots or credentials. Support correspondence is separate from the extension's local review storage.

Permissions

Website access and scripting let the extension inspect elements and capture the visible viewport when you use its capture controls, including after navigating to another page. A small packaged listener lets the S and P keyboard shortcuts work on pages while the review panel is open; it reads no page content and records nothing. Storage permissions retain your reviews and screenshots locally. The side-panel permission hosts the review interface. Browser-window APIs provide the optional draggable review window. Broad website access is not used for background browsing collection.

Limited use

The use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. User data is used only for the disclosed capture and annotation functionality and is not used for advertising, creditworthiness, lending eligibility, or unrelated profiling.

Changes and contact

This policy will be updated if the extension's data practices change. For privacy or support questions, contact Madhav Nair at mad7droid@gmail.com.