Sheet Maker
Privacy Policy
Effective date: 22 October 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Sheet Maker (gsheets.chiragarora.in), operated by Chirag Arora ("we", "us"), handles information when you use the app. Sheet Maker lets you sign in with your Google account and create, list, rename, share and delete spreadsheets in your own Google Drive.
1. Information we access
When you choose "Sign in with Google", you are asked to grant the following permissions. We request only what the app needs to work.
| Google permission (scope) | Data accessed | Why we need it |
|---|---|---|
openid, email, profile | Your name, email address and profile picture | To show which Google account you are signed in with. |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file | Only the Google Sheets files that Sheet Maker creates for you: their names, links, creation dates and sharing settings | To create spreadsheets, show your list of sheets, rename them, turn "anyone with the link can view" on or off, and move them to trash when you ask. |
Sheet Maker cannot see, open or modify any other file in your Google Drive, and it does not read the contents of your spreadsheets.
2. How we use the information
- Solely to provide the features you use on the page: creating and managing your spreadsheets and showing your signed-in account.
- We do not use Google user data for advertising, profiling, analytics, or to train any AI or machine-learning models.
- We do not sell, rent or transfer Google user data to anyone.
3. How the information is processed and stored
- Sheet Maker runs entirely in your web browser. Your browser communicates directly with Google's APIs over HTTPS. We do not operate a database or backend server that receives your Google data, and we do not keep copies of it.
- The Google access token issued at sign-in is kept in the page's memory and in the browser tab's session storage, so refreshing the page keeps you signed in. It expires after about one hour and is removed when you close the tab or sign out.
- Your browser's local storage remembers that you have signed in before and the email address you used, so the next sign-in can skip Google's consent screen and account chooser. You can remove this by signing out or by clearing site data in your browser.
- The spreadsheets you create are stored in your own Google Drive and are subject to Google's Privacy Policy.
- The website is hosted on Vercel, which may keep standard server logs (such as IP address, browser type and time of request) for security and operations, under Vercel's Privacy Policy. These logs do not include your Google data.
- PDF editor: PDF files and images you open in the PDF editor are processed entirely inside your browser and are never uploaded to us. They leave your device only if you click Save to Drive, which uploads the edited PDF to your own Google Drive using the
drive.filepermission described above. Signatures you draw or type are kept only in the page's memory and are discarded when you close the tab. The editor loads its open-source libraries (pdf.js, pdf-lib, JSZip from cdnjs, and Tesseract.js with its language data from jsDelivr), which receive standard request information such as your IP address. - Reading text (OCR): the free text-recognition engine runs on your device and uploads nothing. If you choose Claude AI handwriting recognition, an image of each page you select is sent through our server to Anthropic's Claude API to be transcribed, and the text is returned to your browser. We do not store the images or the text. Your Google sign-in token is checked with Google to confirm you are allowed to use this feature; it is not stored. Anthropic processes the images under its Commercial Terms and Privacy Policy; API data is not used to train its models.
4. Sharing and disclosure
We do not share Google user data with third parties. The only party that receives it is Google itself, when your browser calls Google's APIs on your behalf. If you choose "Share link" on a sheet, Google makes that sheet viewable by anyone who has its link; you can undo this at any time with "Unshare".
5. Data retention and deletion
- Because we store no Google user data, there is nothing for us to retain or delete on our side.
- You can revoke Sheet Maker's access at any time by clicking Sign out in the app, or at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
- Sheets you created remain in your Google Drive until you delete them, either with the app's Delete button (moves them to Drive trash) or directly in Google Drive.
6. Security
All communication happens over HTTPS. The app uses Google's official sign-in (Google Identity Services) and never sees or stores your Google password. Access is limited to the narrow drive.file permission described above.
7. Google API Services User Data Policy
Sheet Maker's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
8. Children
Sheet Maker is not directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your country), and we do not knowingly collect their information.
9. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update it on this page and revise the effective date above. Significant changes affecting how Google user data is used will be shown in the app before they take effect.
10. Contact
For questions or requests about this policy, email chiragarora018@gmail.com.