Privacy Policy

1. Who this covers

This policy applies to the Arken Limit Monitor — Usage Meter for ChatGPT browser extension, published by ArkenApps. Its full source is public at github.com/arkenapps/ArkenLimitMonitor-ChatGPT.

It does not cover the separate Claude edition, which has its own policy, nor the arkenapps.com website, which has its own site privacy policy.

The extension is unofficial. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI.

2. Data we collect

None. The extension does not collect, transmit, sell, rent or share any personal information, usage information, or any other data with ArkenApps or with any third party. There is no backend service to send anything to.

Specifically, the extension does not collect any of the categories the Chrome Web Store asks about:

• Personally identifiable information — not collected
• Health information — not collected
• Financial and payment information — not collected
• Authentication information — not collected, not stored, not transmitted. See section 5 for exactly how the session token is handled in memory.
• Personal communications — not collected. The extension does not read your conversations.
• Location — not collected
• Web history — not collected
• User activity — not collected
• Website content — not collected

3. Consent, and withdrawing it

On first run the widget shows a consent panel and does nothing until you act on it. No usage request is made, and no token is read, until you press Allow automatic monitoring. Choosing Not now leaves the extension inert.

You can withdraw consent at any time. The settings gear contains Stop monitoring & delete local data, which stops all polling and clears everything the extension has stored in your browser. Uninstalling the extension has the same effect.

4. What the extension actually does

The extension runs only on chatgpt.com. Once you have given consent, it asks ChatGPT for your own usage figures — the kind of numbers ChatGPT’s own Usage page shows you — and renders them in an on-page widget. It polls on an interval you choose, minimum two minutes, and only while a ChatGPT tab is open.

It does not read, parse, store or transmit your conversations. It does not modify ChatGPT’s pages beyond adding its own widget. It does not run on any other website.

The figures shown can relate to Codex or other usage reported on ChatGPT’s Usage page, and are not necessarily ordinary conversation-message limits. The extension displays what the endpoints return; it does not interpret or re-label them.

5. How the access token is handled

This is the one part worth reading closely, because it is the difference between this edition and the Claude one.

ChatGPT’s usage endpoints require an authenticated request. To make one, the extension reads a short-lived session access token from the ChatGPT session endpoint that your own signed-in browser already has access to. That token is:

• Held in memory only, for the duration of the requests it is needed for. It is never written to extension storage, disk, or anywhere else.
• Never logged, exported or transmitted. It does not appear in the Copy debug info output, which is deliberately redacted.
• Restricted by an allowlist enforced in the code. The token is attached only to a small fixed set of read-only usage and reset-credit endpoints on chatgpt.com. Any other request path is refused by the extension itself, not merely avoided by convention.
• Never sent to ArkenApps. There is no ArkenApps server involved at any point, for this or anything else.

All requests made with it are read-only. The extension does not write, post, modify or delete anything in your ChatGPT account.

You can verify all of the above in the source — the allowlist and the token handling are in content.js, in plain unminified JavaScript.

6. What is stored on your device

The extension uses your browser’s local extension storage to remember:

• Whether you have given consent, and which version of the consent notice you saw
• Refresh interval and alert threshold
• Widget position and collapsed/expanded state
• Whether the credits panel and desktop notifications are switched on
• The last normalised usage percentages, reset times and credit balance, so the widget can show the last known figures if a refresh fails
• Which thresholds you have already been notified about, so you are not alerted twice

This data stays on your machine. It is never transmitted. Stop monitoring & delete local data clears it, and uninstalling the extension removes it.

7. Permissions and why they are needed

• storage — to save the preferences and last-known figures listed above, locally.
• notifications — to show a local desktop notification when your usage crosses a threshold you chose. Notifications are generated in your browser; no push service is involved. This can be turned off in settings.
• Host access to https://chatgpt.com/* — the widget can only read your usage from the site it is displayed on. No other website is accessed by this extension.

The extension requests no other permissions. It has no access to your tabs, your browsing history, your downloads, your clipboard, or any site other than chatgpt.com.

8. Third parties

The extension contains no third-party code, no analytics SDK, no advertising and no tracking pixels. All JavaScript and CSS is bundled in the package; nothing is loaded from a CDN or any remote source at runtime.

The widget contains links to our GitHub repository, to this privacy policy, and to a voluntary donation page. These are ordinary links — nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to click them, at which point the destination site’s own privacy policy applies.

9. Children

The extension is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.

10. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted at this URL with an updated date. If a future version were ever to change how the access token is handled, that change would be described here explicitly and would require your consent again.

11. Contact

Questions, concerns or reports can be raised as an issue on the public repository: github.com/arkenapps/ArkenLimitMonitor-ChatGPT/issues. For anything else, use the ArkenApps contact page.

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