ArcSolve Distill Support and Permissions Notice
Effective Date: May 13, 2026
ArcSolve Distill reads webpages, PDFs, and YouTube content and connects them to ArcSolve documents and AI features. Because the pages a user views may contain personal information, confidential information, paid materials, or private account data, the scope of processing must be reviewed before executing any feature.
1. What This Extension Does
ArcSolve Distill performs the following actions when requested by the user.
- Checks the page state and resource metadata of the current tab
- Reads webpage body content, selected regions, links, and metadata for images, video, and audio
- Captures part of the currently visible screen and copies it to the clipboard
- Detects, views, extracts, uploads, and summarizes PDFs
- Reads YouTube transcripts
- Connects to ArcSolve document creation, saving, AI summarization, and chat
2. Why Site Access Is Required
The materials a user wishes to process are not limited to specific domains. Because users may handle a wide variety of sources such as research papers, blogs, documentation sites, study materials, PDFs, YouTube, and internal tools, the Chrome manifest requires the <all_urls> host permission.
This permission is not a permission to read every page for advertising or tracking purposes. ArcSolve Distill uses it to provide current-tab synchronization and the user-initiated clipping, summarization, saving, PDF, YouTube, and URL-parsing features.
3. When Content Is Read
| Situation | Scope of Reading |
|---|---|
| Side panel opened | Current tab URL, title, content type, and resource metadata |
| Copy / Summarize / Add to ArcSolve | Page body, links, and structured text |
| Selection clipping | The element or region selected by the user |
| Rectangle capture | The image area within the visible region of the currently active tab selected by the user |
| PDF processing | PDF URL, PDF file, or extracted text |
| YouTube processing | Video URL, video identifier, and transcript text |
| ArcSolve web app URL parsing | The URL requested by an allowed ArcSolve origin and the contents of the corresponding page |
4. Purpose of Each Permission
| Permission | Purpose | Limitation |
|---|---|---|
<all_urls> host permission | Processing pages, PDFs, YouTube, and requested URLs on arbitrary domains | Used within the scope of feature execution |
activeTab | Capture and user-requested actions on the currently active tab | Used for current-tab-centric tasks |
identity | ArcSolve sign-in based on Chrome Identity | Limited to the ArcSolve authentication flow |
storage | Storing settings, sessions, OAuth tokens, PDF viewer sessions, and summary caches | Cleared upon sign-out, session termination, or extension removal |
sidePanel | Displaying the ArcSolve Distill side panel | Provides the user interface |
clipboardWrite | Copying user-requested text and images | Limited to clipboard write operations |
scripting | Guaranteed content script injection, iframe resource scanning, and PDF.js loader injection | Used for page processing and PDF viewer integration |
webNavigation | Tracking tab/frame loads, SPA navigations, and document freshness | Used to refresh current page analysis |
5. Caution Regarding Sensitive Data
Please be especially careful before executing features on the following pages.
- Internal documents, customer information, contracts, accounting materials, and HR materials
- Research materials, course materials, and paid content visible only after sign-in
- Pages containing medical, legal, or financial data, identification numbers, account numbers, addresses, or contact information
- Unpublished paper drafts, patent materials, and confidential experimental data
- Content for which automated extraction or redistribution is restricted by the website’s terms of use
If you execute Copy, Summarize, Add to ArcSolve, Upload PDF, or AI Chat on a page containing personal or confidential information, that data may be transmitted to ArcSolve services or to the configured AI provider.
6. Caution When Using PDF, YouTube, and Capture
- Original PDFs may be loaded directly from the source site, and if a PDF requires sign-in, browser authentication credentials may be sent along with requests to the source site.
- Executing PDF upload, summarization, or saving may transmit the PDF file or the extracted text to ArcSolve services.
- The readable scope of YouTube transcripts varies depending on the video and the availability of subtitles.
- Rectangle capture and selection copy place the user-selected region into the clipboard. Because the clipboard can be pasted into other apps, please verify the paste destination and sharing path.
7. External Connections and Security Boundaries
The origins permitted to request URL processing from ArcSolve Distill from a webpage are limited by the extension manifest. In production, the web-origin match is https://arcsolve.ai/*; in staging package builds, the match is https://staging.arcsolve.ai/*; in development, localhost may be included. The same-publisher Agent extension ID registered in the manifest may also invoke the Distill parser.
Hazardous URLs such as internal-network addresses, localhost, or URLs containing user credentials are blocked by the parsing policy. However, when content of a page that the user has direct access to view is processed, that content may be transmitted to ArcSolve depending on the feature the user executes.
8. User Controls and Safe Usage
- On sensitive pages, first restrict the site access permission or disable the extension.
- Verify the content to be processed before pressing the clipping, summarization, or upload buttons.
- Delete documents stored in your account from ArcSolve once they are no longer needed.
- Sign out of ArcSolve after use on shared computers.
- Do not submit or distribute AI outputs as-is; always cross-check them against the original source.
- When the extension is disabled or removed, content scripts will no longer be loaded into pages.
9. Related Documents
Contact: [email protected]
10. Chrome Web Store Reviewer Summary
This English summary is provided for Chrome Web Store review convenience. The Korean text above is the authoritative notice.
- ArcSolve Distill requests
<all_urls>because users can clip, parse, summarize, and save content from arbitrary webpages, PDFs, YouTube pages, and requested links. - The extension uses
activeTab,identity,storage,sidePanel,clipboardWrite,scripting, andwebNavigationfor user-facing document intake and clipping features. - Web-origin external requests are limited by the package manifest: production permits
https://arcsolve.ai/*, staging package builds permithttps://staging.arcsolve.ai/*, and development may includelocalhost. Registered same-publisher Agent extension IDs may also invoke the parser. - Website access is not used for personalized advertising, hidden tracking, or unrelated background crawling.
- Data may be sent to ArcSolve services and configured AI providers only when the user requests document creation, storage, summarization, clipping, parsing, or AI responses.