Carmen Monitor

Checks websites, messages and links for risk, and shows their risk level.

Carmen Monitor checks websites, messages and links for risk, and shows their risk level. Everything below serves that one purpose. Carmen Monitor works with a Backgrounder account. Each answer shows a risk level (Low, Medium or High risk) and how sure Carmen is, so you can spot a fake delivery notice, a dangerous link or someone pretending to be your bank before you act on it. HOW IT WORKS • Website checks: the address of the page you open is checked automatically. You can turn this off. Well-known safe sites, sites you choose not to check, browser pages and local addresses are never checked. • Messages: on the social and messaging sites Carmen supports, you can check any message yourself (right-click it and choose Carmen, or press Scan). You can also choose sources whose posts and messages are checked automatically, only with your consent. • Email: Gmail and Outlook are checked only when you ask. Right-click an email in the list and choose Scan this email, or select several and choose Scan selected. • Ask Carmen: right-click a link, an image, selected text or a page and choose Carmen. Or use the side panel to type or paste something, add a photo or a file, scan the page, or check the site you are on. • Magic Mouse (optional): hold the pointer over something on a web page to check it. • Site blocking (optional, off by default): blocks sites you have already checked that Carmen rated High risk (Chrome and Edge). • Alerts: a notification when a check comes back Medium or High risk, with a sound for High risk. You can switch each type off, except a High risk answer Carmen is very sure of. YOUR DATA • Website checks send only the page address, never the page content. • Messages you ask about, and messages from the feeds and chats you select, can have personal details removed on your device (best effort) before they are sent to the Carmen service (Backgrounder's, by default). Our servers hide personal details before the main analysis. • When you ask Carmen to check a Gmail email, the whole email is sent as Gmail holds it, for that check only, so Carmen can confirm who really sent it. • Results kept on this device are encrypted and deleted after your chosen retention period. • Diagnostic records are optional and off by default. • No advertising, no selling of data, and no third-party analytics or tracking code. • Access to all websites is optional. Carmen asks for it only when you turn on a feature that needs it, and you can revoke it at any time. Privacy policy: https://backgrounder.com/privacy (Addendum B covers the browser extension).