Nova Guide and your data

Nova Guide is Nova’s browser extension. It guides you step by step in your assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Mistral) and in the tools you choose. Here is, simply, what it does with your data: almost nothing.

• It doesn’t read your conversations or your documents.
• It never sends anything for you.
• It is only active in the six assistants and in the tools you have checked.
• Nothing is sent to Nova, except your question, the name of the tool, and the language of the answer when you use “Ask Nova.”
• No ads, no audience measurement.

Where the extension is active

As soon as it’s installed, Nova Guide is active on the sites of six assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, and Mistral. Their addresses are listed below.

For other tools (Canva, Notion, Gamma, and others), it only turns on if you check them on the extension’s “My tools” page. Chrome then asks for your permission. You can withdraw it at any time: by unchecking the tool in “My tools,” or from Chrome’s settings.

The extension doesn’t act on any other site.

What the extension does

You start from what you want to do: “announce an event,” “summarize a contract.” A bubble sits next to the right button, one step at a time, and moves on when you click. At the prompt step, “Write it for me” writes the prompt in the message box. The extension never clicks “Send”: that is always your decision.

With “Ask Nova,” you write what you want to do and Nova answers with a walkthrough for the open tool.

The tour of the screen, in the six assistants, and the first three lessons of each tool are open to everyone. A Nova subscription opens every lesson, “Ask Nova,” and the walkthrough you start from Nova with the “Guide me step by step” button, which shows up in the tool.

What it looks at on the page

To place the bubble next to the right button, the extension finds the buttons of the interface: their label and their position. It never reads your conversations, the assistant’s answers, or your documents. Nothing it sees leaves your browser.

What it keeps, and where

Everything stays in your browser, on your computer:

• the step you are on;
• the walkthrough in progress (the title, the steps, and the prompt), for as long as you follow it;
• the lessons you have finished, and your streak;
• if you are logged in to Nova in this browser: a single piece of information, “subscriber” or “not a subscriber,” which the Nova site gives the extension so it can open every lesson. Not your name, your address, or your plan;
• the tools you have checked in “My tools,” and the tools in your Nova profile, which the Nova site gives the extension when you open it in this browser. These are tool names, nothing else;
• the extension’s language, French or English: the language of the Nova site when you open it in this browser, otherwise your browser’s language;
• the up-to-date list of tools and lessons.

This information is not sent to anyone, neither to Nova nor to a third party. It disappears when you remove the extension.

What is sent to Nova

Nothing, except when you use “Ask Nova.” Your question, the name of the open tool, and the language to answer in (French or English) are then sent to Nova’s service, along with your Nova session (which is what says you are logged in to your account), to write the walkthrough. Nothing else is sent: not the page, not your conversations, not your documents.

As with “Ask Nova” in the product, your question is sent to Anthropic (the maker of Claude) to write the answer. Anthropic states, in the terms of its offering for businesses, that it does not use these exchanges to train its models. Don’t write personal or confidential data in your questions: describe the task, not the case.

The rest is covered in Nova’s privacy policy.

What it downloads

The extension reads two public files from the Nova site: the list of tools and the list of lessons, in French or in English depending on its language. These requests contain no information about you.

Right after it’s installed, the extension opens its own “My tools” page, which shows where it is active and lets you check your tools. The tool logos on that page are loaded from the Nova site.

The permissions it asks for

• Storage: to keep, in your browser, what is listed above.
• Scripting: to show the guide in the tools you have checked.
• Active tab: to know, when you click the extension button, which tool is open in the tab you are looking at.
• Access to the sites of six assistants: chatgpt.com, claude.ai, gemini.google.com, www.perplexity.ai, chat.mistral.ai, and for Copilot its three addresses (copilot.microsoft.com, copilot.com, and copilot.cloud.microsoft), to show the guide there.
• Access to the Nova site: there, the extension signals that it is installed, receives the walkthrough you start, the “subscriber” or “not a subscriber” information, the tools in your profile, and the language you read the site in, and reads the list of tools and lessons.
• Optional access to the sites of the tools you check: Chrome asks you for it when you check a tool in “My tools.” Without your permission, the extension does nothing there. You can withdraw this permission whenever you want, from “My tools” or from Chrome’s settings.

Trademarks

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Mistral, and the other tools mentioned belong to their respective providers. Nova Guide is an independent extension: it is neither published nor endorsed by them.

Your rights and how to reach us

What the extension keeps stays in your browser: there is nothing to access, correct, or delete on our side. For your “Ask Nova” questions, your rights are described in Nova’s privacy policy. For any question: hello@novaforwork.com.

If a future version changes what is described here, this page will be updated before it is released.