Chrome extension privacy notice
MentionedOn Citation Workspace
Effective September 17, 2026 · Extension version 1.2.0
Research observed AI citations, prioritize evidence-backed fixes, prepare original content, and compare later answers with saved baselines.
Data access
After you click Capture this tab, the extension uses Chrome’s temporary active-tab permission to read the current page. It does not collect background browsing activity.
- On ChatGPT: rendered question-and-answer text, links inside the answers, the conversation URL, and the capture date. You review and select the answers before saving. Unloaded turns and links in unopened source drawers may not be captured.
- On other pages: the page URL, title, public metadata, JSON-LD, visible headings, word count, and counts of lists and tables. Page structure is saved when you click capture; the full page body is not retained.
- You can also enter brand facts, competitors, questions, answers and citation URLs yourself, or import a workspace JSON file you choose.
The page collector does not read cookies, browsing history or form values. If you choose Connect, Chrome requests optional access only to https://mentioned-on.com. The extension locates or opens a MentionedOn tab and makes first-party account requests using its existing signed-in session. It does not read or store your password, cookies or session tokens.
Processing & retention
Saved records are stored in this Chrome profile using chrome.storage.local, not Chrome Sync. Saved conversation text and URLs may contain personal or confidential information; review before saving or exporting. A workspace holds up to 200 answers and 100 reference pages, plus 50 local baselines. Closing the panel keeps saved records; unsaved capture previews are discarded.
Remove an answer or reference page individually, or use Workspace & privacy → Clear workspace → Delete local data to delete the local collection. Uninstalling the extension also removes its local storage. Exported JSON and Markdown files remain on your computer until you delete them. Clearing local data or uninstalling does not delete records saved to your MentionedOn account. Manage those records in MentionedOn or contact support. Disconnect removes the optional site access and clears account results from the panel; it keeps local evidence and does not sign you out of the website.
Sharing
Capture analysis, local recommendations and brief creation run locally. There is no extension telemetry, advertising, remote code or background collection. Connected research reads saved brand, question, scan and citation records from MentionedOn. A competitor-domain filter searches that account history; it is not a complete index of AI conversations or market demand.
Before saving an opportunity, you review the question, selected answer text, conversation URL, citation links, capture date, supplied brand facts and reference headings that will be sent to MentionedOn. Selected account-scan references are resolved within your own account. Other local conversations are not uploaded. Track question and Record change send the question and, for a change, your summary and optional page URL to your account.
Generate draft and Run new scan explicitly request MentionedOn’s existing server-side AI services and use your plan allowances. Those services and their model providers process the submitted context under MentionedOn’s product privacy policy. Drafts are saved for review; the extension does not publish them. It does not measure conversions or claim that an edit caused a visibility change.
Export and copy actions place data in a file or clipboard at your request. Opening source links or ChatGPT makes ordinary browser navigation requests; no saved evidence is attached to those links. Pasting a brief into an assistant is a separate action governed by that service’s policy.
Permissions
- activeTab gives temporary access to the page after you invoke the extension.
- scripting runs the on-click page collector and, after optional permission, first-party requests inside the signed-in MentionedOn tab.
- sidePanel keeps the workspace beside the page you are researching.
- storage retains the evidence and comparison settings locally.
No host access is requested at installation. Optional access to https://mentioned-on.com/* is requested only when you choose Connect and can be revoked with Disconnect or Chrome’s extension settings.