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Truth about Grammerly Extension

As a blogger I use Grammerly free chrome extension for while but today when I scrolling down on the social media. I found one article that related to grammerly privacy policy. After read that article I found 'Free products are biggest scams on the internet'.

 Whenever we signup on any website or software. We just tick the terms & condition and privacy policy page without reading it. This immaturity is biggest strength of this type of companies.They take advantage on it

Lets Comes to the topic,In grammerly privacy policy they said that they will collect everything you type on the browser often share it with third parties websites. This proves that free products are just data mining software.I just copy pasted the privacy policy of Grammerly Below, take couple of minute to read it

Privacy policy

Information collection

Apart from the basic information like username, email etc. One of the most alerting information they collect is User Content. From their privacy policy,

User Content. This consists of all text, documents, or other content or information uploaded, entered, or otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of the Services and/or Software.

User Content is defined in our Terms of Service as all text, documents, or other content or information uploaded, entered, or otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of Grammarly’s Services and/or Software. This would include, for example, text you write while using a Grammarly product, such as the browser extension or the mobile keyboard.

 

How long is Personal Data retained?

You can remove your Personal Data from Grammarly at any time by deleting your account as described above. However, we may keep some of your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for our legitimate business interests, including fraud detection and prevention and to comply with our legal obligations including tax, legal reporting, and auditing obligations.

 

Does Grammarly share my Information?

We only disclose Personal Data to third parties when:

1. We use service providers who assist us in meeting business operations needs, including hosting, delivering, and improving our Services. We also use service providers for specific services and functions, including email communication, customer support services, and analytics. These service providers may only access, process, or store Personal Data pursuant to our instructions and to perform their duties to us.
2. We have your explicit consent to share your Personal Data.
3. We believe it is necessary to investigate potential violations of the Terms of Service, to enforce those Terms of Service, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or potential threats against persons, property, or the systems on which we operate our Site, Software, and/or Services.
4. We determine that the access, preservation, or disclosure of your Personal Data is required by law to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Grammarly and users of our Site, Software, and/or Services, or to respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including national security or law enforcement requests.
5. We need to do so in connection with a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization, sale of some or all of our assets or stock, public offering of securities, or steps in consideration of such activities (e.g., due diligence). In these cases some or all of your Personal Data may be shared with or transferred to another entity, subject to this Privacy Policy.

 

Where is my Information stored?

Information submitted to Grammarly will be transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States. When you use the Software on your computing device, User Content you save will be stored locally on that device and synced with our servers. If you post or transfer any Information to or through our Site, Software, and/or Services, you are agreeing to such Information, including Personal Data and User Content, being hosted and accessed in the United States.

How can I delete my Personal Data from Grammarly?

You can remove your Personal Data from Grammarly at any time by logging into your account, accessing the Settings page, and then deleting your account. More details can be found here. Please note that, for security reasons, Grammarly Premium users will first be instructed to cancel their subscriptions before they can delete their Grammarlyacoount