Privacy Policy

What Daysift Indexes

Daysift uses a predefined allowlist of work apps — it only indexes pages from productivity tools, not your entire browsing history. This includes tools like:

• Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive
• Notion, Figma, Linear, Jira
• GitHub, GitLab, Confluence
• Slack, Asana, and similar productivity tools

What's NOT indexed: Personal browsing, social media, banking, shopping, email content, and any sites not on the work app list. You can customize this list in settings if needed.

Why Chrome Shows Permission Warnings

When you install Daysift, Chrome shows a warning that the extension can "read your browsing history." Here's what that actually means for Daysift:

What the permission allows

• Read page titles and URLs from your allowlisted work apps
• Store this data locally inside your browser so you can search it later

What Daysift does NOT do

• Access passwords or autofill data
• Read form inputs
• Track sites outside the predefined work app list
• Send your history to any server
• Run in the background when you're not using it

Note on page content: Daysift extracts keywords from work app pages to improve local search. This data stays on your device and is never sent anywhere. When you use AI search, only page titles are shared — not the extracted content.

The broad Chrome permission warning exists because Chrome doesn't distinguish between extensions that send data to servers and ones like Daysift that keep everything local. We need this permission to provide search functionality, but we've designed Daysift to be as privacy-respecting as possible.

What's Stored on Your Device

Data stored on your device never leaves your computer. Only you can access it — we cannot see, retrieve, or analyse it.

When Data Leaves Your Device

The key difference: Regular search with ⌘J never touches the network. AI search (via the "Ask AI" button) sends your query to Groq with Zero Data Retention. You're always in control of which one you use.

About AI Data Processing

Daysift uses a privacy-preserving AI architecture with two providers, chosen specifically for their data handling practices.

Why not OpenAI or Anthropic?

We evaluated multiple AI providers and rejected those with data retention policies:

• OpenAI: Retains API data for up to 30 days
• Anthropic (Claude): Retains API data for up to 30 days (7 days with opt-out)
• Groq: Zero Data Retention — nothing logged or stored

We chose Groq because "less retention" wasn't good enough. We wanted zero.

What is Groq?

Groq is an AI inference company (not to be confused with Elon Musk's "Grok" chatbot from xAI). Groq provides fast AI inference with a Zero Data Retention policy — your queries are processed and immediately discarded, never logged or stored. See Groq's Privacy Policy.

Two-tier architecture

Daysift uses two AI services for different purposes:

1. Classification (Cloudflare Workers AI)

When Daysift encounters a new page, it may use AI to classify whether it's a work tool. This runs on Cloudflare Workers AI (Llama 3.3 70B) and receives only:

• Hostname (e.g., "github.com")
• Generalised path pattern (e.g., "/*/*/issues/*" — not the actual URL)
• Title category (e.g., "code" — not the actual title)

Never sent: Full URLs, actual page titles, page content, or any identifying information.

2. Search & Summarisation (Groq)

When you use "Ask AI", your query is processed by Groq (GPT-OSS 120B model). This includes:

• Your question (the text you type)
• Relevant page titles from your local search results
• Domain names of those pages

Never sent: Page content, your notes, your pins, or browsing history beyond relevant results.

Zero Data Retention

Groq's Zero Data Retention means:

• Your queries are not logged
• Your queries are not stored
• Your queries are not used for training
• Data exists only for the duration of processing, then vanishes

We have explicitly enabled Zero Data Retention in our Groq account settings. See Groq's Privacy Policy for details.

Your consent and withdrawal

First use: When you first use AI search, you'll be asked to consent. AI features won't work until you accept.

Withdrawal: You can revoke your consent at any time in the extension's Settings → AI Search. After revoking, you'll need to consent again to use AI features.

After uninstall: If you uninstall Daysift, your local data is deleted immediately. With Groq's Zero Data Retention, there's nothing retained on their end either.

What We DON'T Collect

• No accounts or login
• No email addresses (unless you contact us)
• No analytics or tracking
• No passwords or form data
• No cloud storage of your data
• No data leaves your device (except AI queries processed with Zero Data Retention when you explicitly use AI search)

Your Control

• See your data: It's on your device — open browser dev tools
• Delete everything: Uninstall the extension
• AI queries: Not stored by us or Groq (Zero Data Retention)

Third-Party Services (Data Processors)

When you use certain features, your data may be processed by these third-party services:

We have Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) in place with our processors. Cloudflare's DPA is incorporated by reference in their Customer DPA. Groq's terms are available at groq.com/terms-of-use.

Note: Groq is an AI inference company, not to be confused with "Grok" (xAI's chatbot).

Security

Your data lives in your browser's local storage. We can't access it. External transmissions (AI queries) use HTTPS encryption.

GDPR & Data Protection

For users in the UK and EU, here's how data protection roles work with Daysift:

Local data (most of Daysift)

Since Daysift stores your data locally on your device and we cannot access it, traditional data controller/processor roles don't apply to this data. You control your own data.

When you use AI features

When you use "Ask AI," your query is processed by Groq with Zero Data Retention. In this case:

• Daysift acts as a data controller (we decide to use Groq and Cloudflare for AI features)
• Cloudflare acts as a data processor for classification (anonymised metadata only)
• Groq acts as a data processor for search/summarisation (Zero Data Retention — nothing stored)

Groq processes data in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

When you make a payment

Payment processing is handled by Lemon Squeezy, who acts as an independent data controller for payment data. See their Privacy Policy.

International data transfers

When you use AI features, your data may be transferred outside the UK/EU:

• Cloudflare: May process data in various locations globally. Covered by their DPA which includes Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA).
• Groq: Processes data in the United States with Zero Data Retention — data is processed ephemerally and never stored. See Groq's Privacy Policy.

These transfer mechanisms ensure your data receives adequate protection when processed outside the UK/EU, as required by data protection law. With Groq's Zero Data Retention, data exists only for the duration of processing.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access: Your local data is already accessible to you in your browser
• Deletion: Uninstall the extension to delete all local data
• Portability: Your data is stored in your browser and can be exported via developer tools
• Object: Don't use AI features if you don't want data processed by Groq
• Withdraw consent: Revoke AI consent anytime in Settings → AI Search

For questions about data protection, email hello@daysift.com.

Changes

We'll update this page if anything changes. Major changes will be noted in the extension update notes.

Contact

Questions? Email us at hello@daysift.com