Free & open-source Chrome extension
Read the fine print before you click “I agree.”
Caveatly scans a site’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy with AI, flags the clauses that matter, and grades the whole thing A–F — in a few seconds.
Caveatly
- ConcernShares data with ad partnersPersonal data may be passed to advertising and analytics companies.
- ConcernBroad license to your contentYou grant a worldwide, royalty-free license to what you upload.
- CautionTerms can change without noticeContinued use counts as accepting future changes.
How it works
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Finds the legal pages
On any site, Caveatly locates the Terms and Privacy links — HTML or PDF — or notices when you’re already reading one.
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Reads every clause
The policy text goes to Google Gemini with your key. It returns plain-English flags, each with a clause reference and a verbatim quote.
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Grades what it found
Each flag is sorted into three tiers and the report is graded A–F. Nothing hidden behind jargon.
Reasonable, user-friendly terms — like letting you delete your data at any time.
Worth knowing — like auto-renewing subscriptions or tracking cookies on by default.
Read before agreeing — like selling your data or waiving your right to sue.
Private by design
No account, no tracking. The extension sends policy text to Google Gemini using a key you control, plus one anonymous daily usage ping you can switch off.
- Your key stays local. Stored in
chrome.storage.local, never synced or sent anywhere except Gemini. - Only policy text goes to Gemini. Caveatly sends the Terms and Privacy pages it found, not your browsing history.
- Anonymous usage stats. A daily ping with a random install ID and version numbers, nothing about you. Turn it off in Settings.
- Cookie guard. Clicks “necessary only” or “reject all” on common consent banners.
- Global Privacy Control. Sends the
Sec-GPC: 1signal to sites you visit. - Tracking-parameter stripping. Optionally removes
utm_*,gclid,fbclid, and similar tracking parameters. - Open source. Every line is on GitHub for you to check.
Install in two minutes
Caveatly isn’t on the Chrome Web Store yet, so you load it yourself.
- Download
caveatly.zipand unzip it. - Open
chrome://extensionsand turn on Developer mode (top right). - Click Load unpacked and pick the unzipped
caveatlyfolder. - Get a free API key from Google AI Studio, then paste it into Caveatly → Settings.
Prefer to build from source? git clone the repo, run npm install && npm run build, and load dist/.