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Terms of Service

These terms cover your use of the Privacy Shield browser extension and the Privacy Shield Supporter subscription. Privacy Shield is made by Arif Karim in Australia ("we", "us"). By installing the extension you agree to them.

What Privacy Shield does

When a web page asks for your phone number, Privacy Shield reads that site's public privacy policy and shows a rating (red, yellow, green, or "couldn't check") describing whether your details may be sold or shared with companies that will contact you.

Ratings are guidance, not advice

• Ratings are produced automatically, with AI, from the text of each site's privacy policy. They can be wrong or out of date, and sites can change their policies or practices at any time.
• A rating describes what a site's policy says, not what the site actually does. It isn't legal advice, and it's no guarantee that you won't be contacted.
• You decide whether to give a site your details. Always read a site's own privacy policy if anything matters to you.

Free plan and Privacy Shield Supporter

• Free: ratings for every site that has already been checked.
• Supporter: US$1.50 a month or US$12 a year, including any sales tax or VAT. Supporters also get checks of sites that no one has checked yet; those ratings are then shared with everyone.
• Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. Payments are processed by Link, Stripe's checkout, which acts as the seller of record.
• Your subscription is tied to a licence key. Keep it safe — you'll need it if you reinstall the extension.

Cancelling and refunds

• Cancel any time from the link in your payment receipt email, or at link.com. Your support stays active until the end of the period you've paid for. There are no cancellation fees.
• If it isn't working for you, email us within 14 days of a charge and we'll refund it in full.
• Nothing in these terms limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law or other consumer protection laws that apply to you.

Fair use

Don't use Privacy Shield to overload our service, get around the free plan's limits, or share licence keys publicly. We may limit or suspend access that's clearly abusive, and we'll refund any unused paid period if we do.

Changes

We may update the extension, these terms, or Supporter pricing. If a change affects what you pay, we'll tell you before it applies to your next renewal, and you can cancel before then.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, Privacy Shield is provided "as is", and we're not liable for decisions you make based on a rating, or for what third-party websites do with your information. If we're found liable for anything to do with your subscription, our liability is limited to what you paid us in the previous 12 months.

Contact

Questions can be sent to arifjubairulkarim@gmail.com. See also our privacy policy.