Extension privacy

Effective 10 August 2026

What the extension does

The Competition Companion Assistant helps you review competition pages and fill ordinary contact details after you press a help button. It never submits an entry or fills CAPTCHA, payment, password, date-of-birth, consent, marketing or competition-answer fields.

Information stored on your device

If you save your contact details in the extension, Chrome keeps them in that Chrome profile on your device using local extension storage, not Chrome Sync. They can include your name, email address, telephone number and postal address. After you press a help button, the extension may place the relevant details into a competition form or show them for you to review and copy. Your saved extension profile is not sent to Competition Companion's servers.

Information read from pages

After you press a help button, the extension may read the current competition page, including a page shown inside Competition Companion, to find ordinary contact fields, a competition question or email instructions. It does not watch your browsing in the background and does not read unrelated tabs.

AI question assistance

If you ask for AI help, the detected question, up to 3,000 characters from its nearest form section, the competition reference and the page address without its query string are sent securely to Competition Companion. Competition Companion then sends the question and minimised context to Google Gemini solely to generate the requested answer. Nothing is sent to Google Gemini until you request AI help. Saved profile values, email addresses, telephone numbers, postcodes and long numbers are removed first. A factual answer may be stored and reused for the same competition to avoid repeating the request; creative answers are not shared between members.

Sharing, advertising and selling

Extension data is used only to provide the user-requested assistance. The minimised question context described above is shared with Google Gemini only when necessary to provide the AI feature. Extension data is not sold, used for personalised advertising or shared for marketing. Human access is limited to security, support requested by the user, legal obligations and aggregated operational data.

Permissions

• Current tab: to read and fill the page only after you press a help button.
• Storage: to keep your saved contact details in Chrome on your device.
• Windows: to open a simple competition window when a page cannot appear inside Competition Companion.
• Competition website access: to work on secure HTTPS forms from different promoters. Chrome asks you before this is switched on.

Your choices

You can edit the safe profile or select Delete saved profile in the extension, revoke website access in Chrome, or uninstall the extension. Account data held by the website can be exported or deleted from the signed-in profile page.

Contact

For privacy or extension-support enquiries, contact [email protected].