Huequill Privacy Policy

Effective: November 12, 2026. Publisher: Front Porch Puzzle Press ("we").

Huequill is a Google Docs™ add-on that finds the highlighted text in a document, groups and counts it by color, and exports it to a new document, a spreadsheet or a CSV file. It also lets you highlight text with labeled colors. It runs entirely inside Google Apps Script under your Google account. We do not operate a server for Huequill, have no user accounts, and never receive your document content.

Google user data Huequill accesses

Huequill requests four Google OAuth scopes and nothing else:

• The content of the document you open it in, and only that document (scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/documents.currentonly): its text and the highlight (background) color of each piece of text, its headings, tables, headers, footers, footnotes and tabs, the document's name, and the selection. Huequill cannot open, list or read any other document.
• Files that Huequill itself creates, and only those (scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file): when you click an export button, Huequill creates a new Google Docs™ document, Google Sheets™ spreadsheet or CSV file in your Google Drive™ containing the highlighted passages you chose to export. This scope does not let Huequill see, open or list any other file in your Drive.
• Permission to show its menu and sidebar inside Google Docs™ (scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/script.container.ui). This gives no access to data.
• Permission to make outside requests (scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/script.external_request), used for exactly two things: creating the export file through Google's own Drive API (www.googleapis.com), and checking a Huequill Pro license key with Gumroad (api.gumroad.com). The add-on's manifest allows no other address.

Huequill does not access your name, email address, profile, contacts, Gmail, Calendar or any other Google account data.

How Huequill uses Google user data

Huequill uses the document content above for one purpose only: to carry out the action you choose, at the moment you choose it. Specifically, it:

• reads the document's text and highlight colors when you click Scan, so the sidebar can list, group and count the highlighted passages;
• selects a passage in the document when you click it in the sidebar;
• applies or removes a highlight color on the text you selected, or (Pro) changes or removes one color everywhere in the document when you ask it to;
• writes the passages you chose to export into a new file in your own Google Drive™, or (Pro) adds a summary table to the end of the document;
• if you turn on "Link each passage back here", adds invisible bookmarks to the document so the exported passages can link to their place. "Remove the bookmarks Huequill added" deletes exactly those bookmarks.

It does not read your document in the background, does not keep a copy of its content, and does not use it for any other purpose: no advertising, no analytics, no profiling, no building of user databases, and no training or improving of AI or machine-learning models (generalized or otherwise).

How Google user data is stored

• Document content is not stored by Huequill anywhere outside your own Google account. It is processed in memory inside Google Apps Script and in your sidebar while you use it. Exported files are created in your own Google Drive™, owned by you, and Huequill never reads them again.
• Your highlighter labels (for example "Evidence = yellow") are kept in the document's own add-on properties, so they stay with that document. Your preferences, your saved set library (Pro) and your license key are kept in Apps Script user properties. Both are stored by Google in your own Google account; we have no access to them.
• Error reports. If an action fails, Google Apps Script records the error message (for example "Select some text first") in our project's Google Cloud™ error log so we can fix bugs. These messages never contain your document text, and Google deletes them automatically after its standard log retention period.

How Google user data is shared

We do not share, sell, rent, transfer or disclose Google user data to anyone. Huequill has no servers of ours to send it to. Export files go only to your own Google Drive™ through Google's Drive API. The only third party Huequill contacts is Gumroad (api.gumroad.com), and only to confirm a Pro license key when you activate it and at most once a day after; that request contains the license key and Huequill's product ID, never any document content or Google account data.

How we protect your data

• Least privilege. Huequill uses the narrowest Docs scope Google offers (documents.currentonly) and the narrowest Drive scope (drive.file), so it can reach only the document it is opened in and the export files it creates.
• No copies, no servers. All processing happens inside Google's Apps Script environment and your browser, under your own account. Your document content never reaches us.
• Encryption. Data moving between Google Docs™, Apps Script, the Drive API and Google's storage is protected by Google's infrastructure, which encrypts data in transit and at rest. The license check to Gumroad is sent only over HTTPS (TLS).
• No human access. No person at Front Porch Puzzle Press can view your documents, exports, labels or settings.
• Secure development. Huequill's code contains no third-party trackers or analytics libraries, loads no remote scripts, and is tested before each release.

Retention and deletion

Document content is never retained by us. Exported files are yours; delete them in Google Drive™ like any other file. Highlighter labels are removed when you delete them in the sidebar. Uninstalling Huequill from Extensions > Add-ons > Manage add-ons and removing its access at myaccount.google.com/permissions stops all access immediately. Because we hold no copy of your data, there is nothing on our side to delete; email us and we will walk you through clearing the few settings that stay in your own account.

Google API Services User Data Policy

Huequill's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google Workspace™ API data is not used to develop, improve or train generalized AI or machine-learning models.

Changes and contact

We will post any changes on this page with a new effective date. Questions: hello@frontporchpuzzlepress.com.

Google Docs™, Google Sheets™, Google Drive™ and Google Workspace™ are trademarks of Google LLC. Huequill is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.