Chrome Extension Privacy & Data Disclosure
Effective date: November 5, 2026
This page explains exactly what the SweepTakers Chrome extension reads, stores, and sends, and why. It adds detail to our Privacy Policy, which also applies.
The extension has a single purpose: fill sweepstakes entry forms with your saved profile, which you review and submit yourself, and track your entries.
What the extension tells you before it does anything
The first time you use the extension, it shows the disclosure below and does not collect or send anything until you choose "I agree". When we change the disclosure, the extension shows the new version and autofill stays off until you agree to it.
Before you turn on SweepTakers autofill
Here's exactly what this extension does with your data:
- When you ask it to fill a form on a sweepstakes entry page (with its toolbar button, right-click menu or keyboard shortcut, or by opening a sweepstakes from the SweepTakers website on a site you allowed), it reads that page's form fields and fills them with the profile you saved: name, email, phone, mailing address, date of birth and, if you add them, gender, social media handles and education or vehicle details. Your profile comes from your SweepTakers account, or stays only in this browser if you choose local-only mode.
- It never submits for you. You review every field and click the sweepstakes' own Submit button yourself. It ticks a box only when you click its “I agree” button after a fill, and then only the boxes it lists. It's built to list only required Official Rules, terms, privacy, eligibility and age boxes (an age box only when the date of birth in your profile meets that age) and to leave marketing, newsletter, text-message and other opt-ins and any box it isn't sure about, but it can't read every form correctly. Before you click, check each box it lists and the rest of the form; before you submit, untick anything you don't agree to. What you submit is your decision. It never types a signature, and never touches CAPTCHAs, Submit buttons, passwords or payment fields.
- To recognize forms, it may send SweepTakers and our AI service provider the website's domain name and, for each field it can't match itself, the field's label or nearby text, name, ID, type, autocomplete hint, placeholder, accessibility label, whether it's required, its length limit and its option texts. These are the page's own text: before sending them, it removes the saved details that could identify you, such as your name, email, phone number and address, where it finds them. Your saved profile, what's in the form's fields and the page's path are never sent for this; your details are filled in on your device.
- Entry tracker: when you submit a form it filled, or click “Mark as entered”, it saves the page's address (without any query string), its title and the time to your SweepTakers account, so you can track your entries. It does not record other websites you visit.
- We don't sell your data or use it for advertising. Connections to SweepTakers are encrypted, and our service providers encrypt the data they store for us. What this extension keeps on your computer is in Chrome's extension storage and is not separately encrypted. You can delete your data anytime. Extension privacy · Privacy Policy
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When the extension reads a page
The extension reads a page only when you ask it to fill, in one of these ways:
- you click the SweepTakers button in Chrome's toolbar;
- you press the extension's keyboard shortcut;
- you choose the SweepTakers fill option from Chrome's right-click menu; or
- you open a sweepstakes from our website. In that case the extension fills the page only if you have already allowed it access to that website; otherwise it waits for you to click its toolbar button.
On that page, it reads the entry form's fields (their labels, names, types, and options) to work out which of your saved details belongs in each field, and it notes the page's address and title so it can log your entry. It does not read pages you have not asked it to fill, other tabs, or your browsing history.
Your saved profile can also hold optional extended details (whether you are a student or a parent or guardian of one, the student's level of study, school name and expected graduation year, and a vehicle's make, model and year). The extension uses them only in fields that ask for them, such as the ones on scholarship and car giveaway forms, and never for anything else. They are kept and removed with the rest of your profile, in your account or, in local-only mode, only in this browser.
Before filling, the extension checks that autofill is allowed. It fills only while you are signed in to the extension, have Pro, and have accepted our current Terms of Service and confirmed that you are 18 or older. If you haven't accepted the current Terms, it shows "Accept the updated Terms on the SweepTakers website to keep using autofill" with a link to the page where you can accept them. It will not fill the entry page of a sweepstakes that we have marked as requiring manual entry, however you opened it, or any website on our list of sites where autofill is turned off (for example, because the owner asked). It shows you the link to the Official Rules and warns you if your entry tracker shows you have already entered as often as the sweepstakes allows.
What the extension never does
- It never submits a form, clicks Submit or Next, presses Enter, or moves a multi-step form forward.
- It never ticks a checkbox on its own. It ticks boxes only when you click its "I agree" button after a fill, and then only the boxes it lists (see "The "I agree" button" below). It is built to list only required Official Rules, terms, privacy, eligibility and age boxes, and to leave marketing, newsletter, promotional, contact, data-sharing and text-message (SMS) consent boxes and any other opt-in, but it can't read every form correctly, so check each box it lists. It never types your name as a signature or to accept the Official Rules or terms (for example "Type your full name to sign"), never fills a field that is only there to accept, consent or certify (for example "Type YES to agree"), and never answers an age gate (for example a "Confirm your age" menu with "I am 18 or older" and "I am under 18"). It highlights them for you instead. The only age boxes it ever ticks are boxes it lists for its "I agree" button, as "The "I agree" button" below describes. It does fill your email address, phone number, street address or date of birth when the caption next to that field mentions consent or an age check (for example "By providing your number you consent to receive texts" or "Verify your age: date of birth"), so read those captions before you submit.
- It never touches CAPTCHAs or verification challenges, and never fills password, payment, file-upload, or one-time-code fields.
- It never records your browsing history (only the entry pages described below), injects ads, or changes pages beyond filling the form fields you asked it to fill, ticking the boxes it listed when you click its "I agree" button, and highlighting the steps you need to complete yourself.
- It never sends your saved profile or any value typed into a form to our AI service provider. What it does send to recognize a form is how the page describes the fields it can't match, after removing the saved details that could identify you where it finds them (see "What the extension sends to us" below).
The "I agree" button
After the extension fills a form, the panel it shows at the top of the page may offer a button such as "Check all required boxes (I agree)". It appears only when the form has at least one box the button would tick.
- What it ticks. Only the boxes it lists, and only when you click. It is built to list only checkboxes inside the form it just filled that the form marks as required and that are agreements: accepting the sponsor's Official Rules, terms or privacy policy, and confirming that you are eligible (for example "I am a legal resident of …" or "I have read and agree to the Official Rules") or old enough (for example "I am at least 21" or "I am of legal drinking age"). Before you click, the panel lists what each box it will tick says: its caption and, for a box captioned only "I agree" or "Yes", the question it answers and any note under it. The page may say more about a box than the panel shows (see "It can get a form wrong." below), so read the text around each box too. The panel shortens very long text (to about 300 characters), so read the boxes on the form as well.
- Age boxes. It is built to tick an age box only when the date of birth in your autofill profile shows that you are at least that age today. If you haven't saved a date of birth, if it can't tell which age the box asks about, or if you are younger, it leaves the box for you and the panel says why. It can miss an age a box asks about, for example when the age is written in a way it doesn't recognize or, for a box such as "I am eligible to enter", is stated only at the top of the form, outside it or in the Official Rules, and then lists and ticks that box like any other agreement, without checking your date of birth, so check that every listed box is true for you. It compares the dates on your device; your date of birth is not sent anywhere for this.
- What it leaves for you. It is built to leave marketing, newsletter, promotional or partner boxes, "updates" or "offers" boxes, consent to be contacted or to have your information shared (for example "to be contacted by a local dealer" or "share my information with partners"), text-message (SMS) or phone consent, and any other opt-in, even when the box also says "agree" or names the Official Rules; a box that is one of several answers to one question (for example a "Yes" box next to a "No" box, or the boxes under "Which applies to you?" or "Select all that apply"); any box the form doesn't mark as required or that it isn't sure about; and anything outside the form it filled. The button never picks an option in a radio group or a drop-down menu, never touches CAPTCHAs or verification challenges, never types a signature, and never clicks Submit or Next.
- It can get a form wrong. It can't read every form correctly. For example, it can miss that an Official Rules box also signs you up for text messages when that notice sits under the phone field, sits just outside the form or is in a language it doesn't read; it can tick a box such as "I accept all of the terms above" that also covers an opt-in (and some pages then tick other boxes too); and where one form covers the whole page, it can list a box from a newsletter sign-up elsewhere on the page. So before you click, check each listed box, the text around it and the rest of the form, and before you submit, untick anything you don't agree to. What you submit is your decision.
- Only when you click. It ticks nothing on its own. Your click is your own agreement to the sponsor's Official Rules and your own confirmation of each listed statement (see Section 4 of our Terms of Service), so read them first and don't click if any of them isn't true for you. Afterwards the panel says how many boxes it ticked and outlines them, as it outlines the fields it filled (unless you have turned off "Highlight filled fields" in the extension's options); you still review the form, untick anything you don't agree to, complete any verification and click Submit yourself. "Undo fill" also unticks the boxes the button ticked, except any you have changed yourself since.
What stays in your browser
The extension keeps some data in Chrome's own extension storage on your computer:
| What | Where it is kept | When it is removed |
|---|---|---|
| The extension's own sign-in session, including the token that keeps it signed in (separate from your website session) | Chrome's local extension storage on this computer. It stays there when you quit Chrome, so the extension stays signed in | When you sign out of the extension (from its popup or from our website), or remove the extension |
| Your agreement to the disclosure above (with its date) and your extension settings | Chrome's local extension storage | When you turn autofill off in the extension's settings (agreement only), or remove the extension |
| Your autofill profile in local-only mode | Chrome's local extension storage on this computer only. It is never sent to us | When you delete it in the extension's settings, or remove the extension |
| The websites and sweepstakes for which you confirmed you read the Official Rules: each website's hostname or sweepstakes ID and when you confirmed (the 500 most recent of each) | Chrome's local extension storage | When you remove the extension |
| A cached copy of your autofill profile from your account, your plan, the version of our Terms you accepted (once you have accepted the current version and confirmed you are 18 or older; or, if our server has told the extension that your acceptance is out of date, the version it refused), the form templates our team prepares, form-recognition results, the list of websites where autofill is turned off, and the entry pages of sweepstakes that require manual entry | Chrome's session storage. Each item is kept for 10 minutes to 24 hours, then fetched again | When you sign out (except the two lists, which contain no personal information), or when you quit Chrome |
| For each tab the extension fills or opens from our website: which sweepstakes it was opened for, that website's domain, and which parts of the page it filled; and the addresses of entries logged in the last two minutes, so the same entry is not logged twice | Chrome's session storage | When you close the tab (tab details), or when you quit Chrome |
Chrome's session storage is held in memory and cleared when Chrome closes (and when the extension is updated). Web pages, other extensions, and the extension's own form filler running inside web pages cannot read the extension's storage. The extension does not encrypt what it keeps in Chrome's extension storage.
Switching to local-only mode. In local-only mode, the profile kept in the extension is never sent to us, and the extension fills forms only from it. If a copy of your profile is saved in your SweepTakers account when you switch, the extension offers to delete that copy ("Delete my cloud copy") or keep it ("Keep it"). Deleting it removes it from our servers, including any default answers saved with it. A copy you keep stays in your account until you delete it in Dashboard > Profile or delete your account.
What the extension sends to us
| What | When | What it contains | What it never contains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sign-in | When you sign in from the extension's popup, or connect the extension from our website | Your email address and password, sent over an encrypted connection to our authentication provider; or a single-use sign-in code issued by our website | Your website session. The extension creates its own |
| Entry log | When you submit a form that the extension filled, or click "Mark as entered" after it filled one | The sweepstakes (if you opened it from our website), the page's address with any query string and fragment removed, the page title, the time, and that the entry was logged by the extension | Anything you typed into the form |
| Form template lookup | When the extension fills a page | The website's hostname, to fetch the form templates our team prepares for it | The page's path or query string, your profile, or anything typed into the form |
| Form template use | When a fill uses one of the form templates our team prepares | The template's ID. We record that you used it that day, so we can count how often each template is used, and delete that record within 3 days | Anything about the page, your profile, or anything typed into the form |
| Deleting your cloud copy | Only when you choose "Delete my cloud copy" after switching to local-only mode | A request to delete the autofill profile saved in your account | The profile kept in the extension |
| Entry-limit check | Before the extension fills a sweepstakes you opened from our website | The sweepstakes ID and your browser's time-zone name, so we can tell whether your entry tracker shows you have used up its entry limit. We don't store them | Your profile, the page's address, or anything typed into the form |
| Field recognition request (Pro only) | When the extension cannot recognize some of a form's fields by itself | The website's hostname, and for each of those fields its label (or nearby text on the page), name, ID, type, autocomplete hint, placeholder text, accessibility label, whether it is required, its length limit, and its drop-down option texts: the page's own text, from which the extension first removes the saved details that could identify you where it finds them (below) | Your saved profile, any value typed into the form, and the page's path or query string |
Because a field's label, nearby text and options are the page's own text, they can include details the page itself shows, such as "Welcome back, Jane Doe" above a question, a menu listing your address, or a later step of a form repeating what was filled in on the first. Before it sends a field recognition request, the extension removes from that text, on your computer, the saved details that could identify you: your name (first, last and full), email, phone number in any common format, street address, city, ZIP or postal code, date of birth in the usual layouts, school name, and social media handles and profile links, as well as any email address and any long number, whoever's they are. It leaves your state, country and gender and, if you saved them, your student-or-parent answer, level of study, graduation year, and vehicle make, model and year, which many people share and which the form's own menus list, and saved values shorter than 3 characters. If it can't load your profile to check the text, it sends nothing. It can miss a detail the page writes differently from your profile (for example "J. Doe" for Jane Doe), or something you typed earlier that the page shows again and that isn't in your profile. It never reads what you type into a rich-text answer box as a field's description.
Our server answers field recognition requests only for Pro members who have accepted our current Terms of Service and confirmed that they are 18 or older. It does not store them: it forwards them to Anthropic, our AI service provider, which tells us which kind of detail belongs in each field. We count how many requests each account makes per day to enforce fair-use limits; those counts are deleted after about 30 days. The extension then fills your details on your own device.
What the extension receives from us
- whether your account has Pro;
- the version of our Terms of Service you accepted, when you accepted it, and when you confirmed that you are 18 or older, so it can check that you have accepted the current Terms;
- your autofill profile saved in your account (not in local-only mode), and, when you switch to local-only mode, whether a copy of it is saved in your account;
- the form templates our team prepares, the list of websites where autofill is turned off, and the entry pages of sweepstakes that require manual entry, which contain no personal information; and
- details about a sweepstakes you open (its Official Rules link, its entry frequency, and whether autofill is allowed) and when you last entered it.
How our website talks to the extension
Only our website at https://sweeptakers.com can send messages to the extension. It can ask whether the extension is installed and signed in, sign the extension in with a single-use code, sign it out, ask it to open a sweepstakes, and tell it that your profile changed. The extension never accepts a web address or profile data from a web page: to open a sweepstakes, it looks up the official entry page itself. Other websites cannot communicate with the extension.
Permissions and why we need them
| Permission | Why the extension needs it |
|---|---|
| activeTab | To read and fill the page you are on, only after you click the toolbar button, use the keyboard shortcut, or choose the right-click menu item. Access ends when you leave the page or close the tab. |
| scripting | To place the form filler on that page after you ask it to fill, so it can type your saved details into the form. |
| storage | To keep your settings, the extension's own sign-in, your Official Rules confirmations, short-lived caches and, in local-only mode, your autofill profile in your browser. |
| contextMenus | To add the SweepTakers fill option to the menu you get when you right-click a page. |
| Optional site access | Some entry forms are embedded in a brand's page from a giveaway platform. With your permission, the extension can access specific websites so it can fill those embedded forms, or fill a sweepstakes you open from our website without an extra click. Chrome asks you first, and you can remove this access at any time in Chrome's extension settings. |
Security
Everything the extension sends to us travels over encrypted (HTTPS) connections, and our service providers encrypt the data they store for us. What the extension keeps on your computer is in Chrome's extension storage and is not separately encrypted, so anyone who can use your computer account may be able to read it. The cached copy of your profile from your account lives only in Chrome's in-memory session storage. The extension's sign-in session is kept in Chrome's local extension storage, which only the extension itself can read: web pages and the form filler it places on them cannot. The extension checks that every message from a web page comes from our own website before it acts on it.
Your controls
- Sign out of the extension from its popup. This removes its sign-in session and its cached copy of your profile.
- Turn on local-only mode to keep your autofill profile only on your computer. If a copy is saved in your account, the extension offers to delete it.
- Delete your autofill profile from your account in Dashboard > Profile.
- Remove optional site access in Chrome's extension settings at any time.
- Remove the extension from Chrome. This deletes everything it stored in your browser.
- Delete entries or your account in your dashboard. See the Privacy Policy for your rights and how to use them.
Limited Use
The SweepTakers Chrome extension's use of information it collects adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We use extension data only to provide and improve autofill and entry tracking. We do not sell it, use it for advertising, or allow humans to read it except with your consent, for security, or as required by law.
In particular, we do not transfer extension data to anyone except as needed to provide or improve the extension's single purpose (for example, to our service providers listed in the Privacy Policy), to comply with the law, to protect against malware, spam, fraud, or abuse, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. We never use it for personalized advertising, never sell it to data brokers or others, and never use it to determine creditworthiness or for lending.
Questions
Email support@evolve-group-llc.com or see our Contact page.