Privacy Policy

FAR Xplor is a browser extension and web platform operated by FAR CNCPT. The extension teaches you software on the real site you are using; the platform stores your account, your entitlements, and your verified progress.

Page content — only when you ask

When you send a message to the guide or ask it to verify a step, the extension collects a text summary of the page you are on (visible text and interactive elements, capped at 8,000 characters) along with the page URL. The page text is sent to our server and on to Anthropic's API to produce the answer; the URL is sent to our server only. Nothing is collected in the background, on page load, or while the guide is idle.

Learning progress

When a course step is checked, we store the course, lesson, step, the outcome, and a short note about how it was verified (up to 2,000 characters), attached to your account. This is what powers your progress dashboard and certificates.

Usage records

We record each AI request to enforce limits and show you what you have used: your account id, the feature, a timestamp, which model answered, how many tokens went in and came out, and the cost we calculate from those counts. The token counts are sizes, not content — we do not keep the text they measure. We also record when a rate limit is hit (the route involved, not the site you were on). When a member of our team changes your plan, trial, or usage limit, we log who made the change and what it was, so account changes are auditable.

Account and device

Your email, name, and profile image come from sign-in (handled by our authentication provider). Pairing a browser stores a hashed device token, its expiry, when it was last used, and the browser and operating system reported at the moment you paired — so that your device list reads “Chrome on Windows” rather than five identical rows, and you can tell which one to revoke. If a device is revoked we record when. That description is shown only to you and is never used to decide whether a request is allowed.

• Continuous browsing history — pages are only read when you invoke the guide.
• Keystrokes, passwords, or the contents of password fields.
• Screenshots, unless you explicitly capture and send one.
• Any data from pages while the extension is idle or the pill is hidden — and nothing is uploaded on a background timer.
• Cross-site advertising or tracking identifiers. We run no ad networks.

The extension published on the Chrome Web Store requests seven permissions: activeTab, scripting and tabs to place the guide on the page you are looking at; sidePanel for the chat panel; storage for your settings; alarms for scheduled housekeeping; and clipboardRead, used only when a lesson step asks you to paste something and only at that moment. Clipboard contents are never sent to us unless you put them in a message yourself.

Why access to all sites

The extension requests access to all websites because it teaches you the software you use, on the real site, and we cannot know in advance which sites those are — a list fixed at install would mean the product simply does not work on your tools. Access is not the same as activity: the guide reads a page only when you ask it to, nothing is collected on page load or on a timer, and hiding the pill keeps it off a page entirely.

What the published build does not contain

Some capabilities exist only in a separate developer build we distribute outside the Chrome Web Store, for people using this as a development tool. Debugger attachment, navigation monitoring, background documents, synthetic clicks and keystrokes, and the local connection that developer tooling uses are absent from the published extension — not disabled within it. Its manifest does not request those permissions and its code does not contain them, which is verified automatically before any build is submitted.

Anthropic — page context and your messages, to generate guide responses. Our authentication provider — identity and session. Our hosting and database providers — to run the service. We do not sell personal data, and we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers.

AI requests run on our platform credentials through your paired account, metered against your plan. Every request currently goes to a single model, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet; if we add a choice of models, the one that answered is already recorded with each request and remains visible to you. If we later offer a bring-your-own-key option, requests made with your own key go directly from your browser to that provider and this policy will be updated to say so.

We do not keep a copy of the page you were on as a record: the page context is used to answer your request and then discarded, leaving only the usage record. Two narrower traces do persist — the verification note saved with a completed step (described above, which can quote what the guide saw on the page), and transient copies in our server error logs if a request fails, which our hosting provider retains for a short period. Progress and usage records are kept for the life of your account. Device tokens expire after 30 days and can be revoked at any time from your dashboard. To delete your account and its associated records, email privacy@farcncpt.com and we will action it within 30 days.

• Hide the pill (Ctrl+Space) to keep the guide off a page entirely.
• Unpair a device to stop all platform requests from that browser.
• See a summary of what has been recorded on your usage and learning dashboards, and request a full export by email.
• Request deletion of your account and its records by email.

FAR Xplor is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Material changes will be reflected here with a new date, and shown in-product where they affect what is collected. Questions: privacy@farcncpt.com.