GenieCommand Helper: privacy
The Helper lets Genie do a job you asked for inside your own browser, in one tab you can watch. Some websites, like many banks, turn away cloud browsers. In your own browser they already know you, so the job can be done.
- Install it once and it's ready right away. Turn it off any time from its icon; it stays off until you turn it back on.
- It reads and acts only in the one tab it opens for your job. An orange bar in that tab shows each step, with a Stop button.
- You, or your browser's own password manager, fill in passwords and card numbers. Genie never types them.
- Payments go only after your own tap.
What the Helper can see and do
Only in the tab it opened for a job you asked for in GenieCommand, and only while that job runs:
- Open the website the job needs, and move between its pages.
- Read the words, links, buttons and boxes on that page, so Genie can decide the next step.
- Click, scroll, choose from a list and type into ordinary boxes (a date, a search, an account nickname).
- Notice when you tap a button in that tab, so Genie can wait for you when a step is yours.
What it never does
- Read or touch the pages in your other tabs, your bookmarks, your browsing history or your downloads. Your other tabs are left alone: nothing in them is read or noted.
- Read your cookies or your saved passwords. It has no permission to.
- Type into password, one-time-code or card boxes, or show us what is in them. It only notes whether such a box is filled.
- Click anything on a page where a card number is filled in. Paying is your tap.
- Take screenshots of your screen or your tab.
- Read or act on a page that came from your home or office network (a router, a printer, a file server). It leaves such a page at once.
- Run code downloaded from the internet. Everything it runs ships inside the extension.
- Sell your data, or use it for ads.
What is sent to GenieCommand, and why
While a job runs, the Helper sends GenieCommand what it reads in the job's tab: the page's address (the values after ? and #, and long code-like parts of the page path such as a sign-in link's key, are swapped for placeholders; the website name and the rest of the path are sent as they are), its title, its visible words, and its buttons and boxes. That is how Genie works out the next step and gives you your answer.
- What you type yourself into a box is not sent: Genie sees only that the box is filled, and that text is also hidden where the same page shows it again.
- Values from password boxes are hidden, also when a site puts them in the page's address.
- An AI model reads those page words to choose the next step, as with every Genie job. We pass it only what the job needs.
- The pages Genie read for your answer are kept with that chat, so it can answer your follow-up questions without opening the site again. They are deleted with your account, or when you ask us.
- Each job uses its own one-time key that works for that one job only. It stops working within a minute after the job ends.
What stays in your browser
- Whether you turned it off (it is on unless you do).
- The jobs running right now and their placeholders. These are cleared when the job ends or the browser closes.
- While a job runs, for the job's own tab only: the website names that tab reached and whether each answered from a private network address (for example your router), so the Helper keeps away from those; and the names (never the contents) of password boxes when a form is sent in that tab, so their values stay hidden. None of this is sent to us, and it is cleared when the browser closes.
Why it asks for these permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Read and change your data on app.geniecommand.com and practice.geniecommand.com (our test site) | Lets GenieCommand's own page know the Helper is installed and on, and hand it a job. |
| Read and change your data on all websites (your browser asks once, when you add the Helper) | Your job can be on any website: your bank, a utility, a supplier's portal. The Helper still reads and acts only in the one tab it opens for your job, while that job runs. Its two small checks (where a page came from, and the names of password boxes when a form is sent) also run only in that tab, and stay in your browser. |
| Scripting | Reads the job's page and shows the orange step bar with Stop. |
| Storage, alarms | Remember whether you turned it off, and keep a running job going. |
| Web requests (read only) | Checks a page came from the public internet, not your home or office network. |
| Block requests (job tab only) | Stops the job's tab from loading GenieCommand itself, where you are signed in. |
You are in control
- Stop a job: tap Stop on the orange bar, or close the tab.
- Turn it off: click the Helper's icon (the puzzle piece, then GenieCommand Helper) and switch it Off. It stops any job at once and stays off, also after the browser restarts, until you turn it back on there.
- Take back website access: in your browser's extensions page, open GenieCommand Helper, then Site access. Without it, the Helper does no jobs.
- Remove it: open
chrome://extensions(Edge:edge://extensions) and click Remove under GenieCommand Helper. Everything it kept in your browser goes with it. - Delete what Genie kept: delete your GenieCommand account, or email hello@geniecommand.com.
Questions
Email hello@geniecommand.com.