Privacy Policy

Last updated: 14 August 2026

Waffle-Assist (“the Extension”) is a Chrome extension that adds a searchable Suite Bar, toolbar popup, right-click launcher, and optional new-tab home to supported Microsoft 365 pages. This policy explains what data is involved and how it is handled.

What the Extension does

Waffle-Assist injects a Suite Bar onto supported Microsoft 365 pages, can replace the stock waffle launcher with its own searchable launcher, can open a toolbar popup, and can add a Waffle Assist item to Chrome’s right-click menu (nested Pinned, Most used, and Admin Centers submenus, plus All apps and Options). It can also show a tenant-branded new-tab page. It reads the current site so it can match the bar’s colour to your tenant’s theme, and it keeps track of which apps you pin, add, and open so it can show your most-used apps automatically. Everything runs locally in your browser — there is no separate Waffle-Assist account or sign-in.

Data we collect

The Extension does not collect personal data on a remote server operated by Waffle-Assist. It does not include analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDKs that transmit data to third parties.

In your browser, the Extension stores:

• Your Suite Bar settings — pinned apps, custom apps you’ve added (name, URL, and colour), Admin Centers visibility, SharePoint tenant prefix, which sites show the bar, display mode, colour preferences, and new-tab banner/background settings — in the extension’s local chrome.storage.
• If you upload a banner image for the new-tab page, that image is stored locally in chrome.storage.local so it can be rendered on your own device.
• A cached display name for the optional new-tab greeting, derived from the Microsoft 365 shell on pages you already use and stored locally only.
• App usage counts, used to work out your “most used” apps. These are mirrored into a waffle_assist_top_apps cookie on the Microsoft 365 site you’re using, so the Suite Bar can read them on that page. This cookie only stores the current top app IDs — never sign-in details, messages, files, page content, or usage counts — and you can clear it at any time from the Extension’s options page.

Microsoft 365 content itself remains in your Microsoft 365 tenant and is subject to your organization’s Microsoft policies; Waffle-Assist only reads what is needed to render the launcher surfaces described above.

Permissions

• storage — save your pinned apps, custom apps, appearance settings, usage history, cached greeting name, and optional local banner image.
• cookies — read and clear the waffle_assist_top_apps usage cookie described above.
• contextMenus — add the Waffle Assist right-click launcher on supported pages and on the extension icon.
• Host access and content scripts on supported Microsoft 365 pages — required to display the Suite Bar, detect the current page colour, and support tenant-aware links on hosts such as SharePoint, Office, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Admin, Security, Purview, Entra, Azure Portal, Dynamics, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Viva Engage, and Clipchamp.

Data sharing

Waffle-Assist does not sell user data and does not transfer it to third parties for advertising or unrelated purposes. Nothing the Extension stores leaves your browser.

Chrome Web Store Limited Use

The use of information received from Google APIs and Chrome extension APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy , including the Limited Use requirements.

Children

The Extension is intended for workplace use with Microsoft 365 and SharePoint Online and is not directed at children.

Changes

We may update this policy when the Extension’s behavior changes. The “Last updated” date at the top will be revised when that happens.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@waffle-assist.com