The short version:
- Only the values of the columns you tick are sent, not their headers, together with your category names, their descriptions and your question if you wrote one. Only rows that need an AI answer are sent. Blank rows, repeated rows and rows that already have a result are handled inside Excel and never leave it.
- Not sent: the other columns (so no amounts or dates unless you tick them), the columns you copy back from your category list (such as the account number, which is filled in inside Excel), other sheets, file names, or the file itself.
- We do not store your cell data, your categories or your question. Our categorizing service at ai-api.pythonandvba.com passes the text to the AI model, returns the answer to Excel, and keeps no copy. Our logs hold counts and status codes, never cell or category text.
- Your data is not used to train AI models.
- The AI model (Jev) is run by TypeSafe AI through Cloudflare. Content logging is turned off at Cloudflare’s AI gateway; Cloudflare keeps only request metadata such as the time, token counts and cost. TypeSafe keeps data as long as reasonably necessary under its own privacy policy, so do not send a list you are not allowed to share with a service provider.
- On your device, in the local Office add-in storage: your install id, license keys, last known credit balance, settings (threshold, where results go, the review highlight, Allow Other, the theme) and your last setup for each workbook. In the workbook itself: a workbook id, the last category list you typed, and a list of the result blocks the add-in wrote, so it can find and clear them later. These workbook settings travel with the file. No analytics, no cookies, no advertising.
The full document is the AI Categorizer privacy policy; the terms of use are here.