PrivacyLens

Instant plain-language privacy policy summaries.

Stop agreeing to things you haven't read. Privacy policies are written by lawyers, for lawyers. The average policy runs 4,000 words — longer than most short stories — and is deliberately dense enough that most people click "I Agree" without reading a single sentence. PrivacyLens changes that. What PrivacyLens does: PrivacyLens automatically detects privacy policies on any webpage you visit and offers to analyze them instantly. One click, and our AI breaks down exactly what a company is doing with your data — in plain English, in seconds. No more legalese. No more guessing. Just clear, honest answers about what you're agreeing to. What you get 🔍 Instant detection — PrivacyLens quietly watches for privacy policy links as you browse. When it finds one, a small, unobtrusive prompt appears asking if you'd like to analyze it. No interruptions unless you want them. 💯 Understandable Grading — Get a comprehensive letter grade showing you how trustworthy the privacy policy seems, just like in school! Assess the risk of giving your information to a site in just one glance. ✅ Green flags — Things the policy gets right. Companies that limit data collection, don't sell your information, offer easy deletion, or give you meaningful control over your data. 🚩 Red flags — The things companies hope you won't notice. Data sold to third parties, indefinite retention periods, vague language around law enforcement sharing, or the right to change terms without notice. 📊 Confidence rating — Not all policies are created equal. Some are clear and specific; others are deliberately vague. PrivacyLens tells you how confident it is in its analysis so you always know how much to trust the summary. 📋 Plain-English summary — A concise overview of the policy's key points written the way a friend who happens to be a lawyer would explain it to you — honest, direct, and jargon-free. 💾 Smart caching — Already analyzed a site? PrivacyLens remembers. If the policy hasn't changed since your last visit, you get the cached result instantly with no extra API call. If it has changed, PrivacyLens automatically re-analyzes and flags that the policy was updated. Why it matters The average person encounters dozens of privacy policies every year. Studies consistently show that reading every policy you encounter would take hundreds of hours annually — time nobody actually has. So people click agree. Every time. For everything. That's not informed consent. It's learned helplessness. PrivacyLens doesn't ask you to read everything. It reads it for you, flags what matters, and lets you make an actual decision in under a minute. Whether you're signing up for a new service, shopping online, or just curious about what a site knows about you — PrivacyLens gives you the information you need to decide whether you're comfortable proceeding. How it works When you click Analyze on a detected privacy policy, PrivacyLens extracts the policy text from the page and sends it to our secure backend for analysis. Our AI — powered by Google's Gemini — reads the full policy and returns a structured breakdown covering data collection practices, third-party sharing, retention policies, user rights, and more. The result is stored against the site's domain so future visits are instant. Your analysis history is tied to domains only — no account required, no personal profile, no tracking of which sites you visit beyond what you explicitly choose to analyze. Privacy by design We built a privacy tool, so we took privacy seriously in how we built it: No account required — ever No browsing history collected Only analyzes pages you explicitly choose Domain names and policy text only — nothing else leaves your browser Summaries cached by domain, not by user No advertising, no data brokering, no third-party analytics We don't make money by selling what we know about you. We couldn't — we don't know anything about you. Permissions explained PrivacyLens requests only the permissions it genuinely needs: Read the active tab — to detect privacy policy links on the current page and extract policy text when you click Analyze Storage — to cache analysis results locally so repeat visits are instant Scripting — to scan page content for privacy policy links We do not request access to your browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, or any other sensitive browser data. Who is this for? PrivacyLens is for anyone who uses the internet — which is everyone. But it's especially useful if you: Sign up for new services regularly and want to know what you're agreeing to Work in a role where data privacy matters (legal, compliance, security, journalism) Are a parent helping a younger family member understand what apps and sites collect Simply care about where your personal data ends up and want a fast, reliable way to check Free to use PrivacyLens is free. If it saves you from agreeing to something you wouldn't have agreed to if you'd had the time to read it — that's the whole point. PrivacyLens uses AI to summarize privacy policies and highlight potential concerns. Summaries are provided for informational purposes and should not be considered legal advice. Always consult the original policy or a legal professional for decisions with significant legal or financial implications. By: Sai Giridhar Chitturi