Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 September 2026

Commuter is a Chrome extension that shows transit routes, connections, and travel time from your home to your work — or to a job listing you’re viewing. This page explains what data Commuter accesses, stores, and sends, and why.

What Commuter accesses

• Your saved addresses and API keys, which you enter in Settings. These are used to request a transit route and, if you choose, to ask AI to find a workplace location.
• Job listing pages on supported boards (including LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Reed, Totaljobs, Monster, and CV-Library). On those sites, Commuter looks for a workplace address in structured job data (and, on LinkedIn, in visible page text) so it can show the commute to that job.
• Page text, only if you click “Use AI”. If no address can be found automatically, Commuter may offer to send a short excerpt of the posting to Anthropic. That only happens after you click the button — it is never sent in the background.

What Commuter stores

Commuter stores the following on your device using Chrome’s storage API. None of this is sent to any server we control:

• Your Google Maps API key
• Your Anthropic API key, if you choose to add one
• Your home address
• Your work address, if you add one
• A short-lived, in-session record of a detected job on the current tab (title, company, and address, or unresolved page text), cleared when the tab is closed or reloaded

Settings are stored with Chrome sync so they can follow your signed-in Chrome profile. Job detections stay in session storage only.

What Commuter sends, and to whom

Commuter does not operate its own backend. Requests go only to services you configure, and only as needed to show a route:

• Google Maps Directions API (maps.googleapis.com) — when you open the popup to see a commute, Commuter sends your origin and destination (home, work, or a detected job address) with your API key to fetch transit directions. The same origin and destination may be loaded in a Maps embed so you can see the route.
• Anthropic API (api.anthropic.com) — only if you have added an Anthropic key and you click “Use AI” on a job page where no address was found. Commuter then sends a truncated excerpt of the posting (up to 6,000 characters) so the model can look for a workplace location. Your browsing history is not sent.
• Google Maps (in the browser) — if you click through to open the full directions, Chrome navigates to Google Maps with the same origin and destination.

Commuter does not sell, share, or use your data for advertising, and does not track your browsing activity.

Permissions

• storage — lets Commuter save your settings and the in-session job detection described above.
• Access to maps.googleapis.com — lets Commuter fetch transit directions and show a map embed with your own Google Maps API key.
• Access to api.anthropic.com — lets Commuter call Anthropic only when you click “Use AI”.
• Content scripts on supported job sites — let Commuter read workplace details from a listing so the popup can show that commute.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be raised via the Commuter GitHub repository.