Last updated: 2026-05-17

Privacy Policy

This policy describes how the CFA L1 AI Prep Chrome extension and the marketing site cfa-l1-prep.com ("the service") collect, store, and use your information.

The short version

• Your study journal lives on your device, in chrome.storage.local. We do not upload journal entries to our servers.
• Question text you paste into the AI explainer is processed transiently and never persisted in our database.
• We collect only the email + optional exam-date you give us on the waitlist, plus standard request metadata (IP-derived country, referrer, UTM parameters).
• We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing.

What we store

On your device (Chrome extension)

• Your manual journal entries: LOS code, topic, difficulty, your answer, the correct answer, your three reflection notes, time per question.
• Your study sessions: start/end timestamp, source platform tag, running counters.
• Your settings.

We never read this data from your device. Uninstalling the extension or clearing local storage permanently deletes it. There is no cloud sync in v1 of the extension; if/when we add it, it will be opt-in.

On our servers (when you submit the waitlist)

• Email address
• Selected target exam window (if you chose one)
• Referrer URL (where you arrived from)
• UTM parameters from the URL
• Country derived from your IP address (we do not store the raw IP)
• Timestamp of signup

When you use the AI explainer (v0.5+)

Question text you paste is forwarded to an LLM provider (OpenRouter routing across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models) to produce an explanation. We do not persist the question text in our database. Per LLM-provider policies, providers may retain inference logs for up to 30 days for abuse review; we have requested zero-retention agreements where available.

What we don't do

• We don't read your browsing activity. The extension has no tabs permission and no <all_urls> host permission.
• We don't read your credentials on any prep platform.
• We don't reproduce or store copyrighted prep-platform question text.
• We don't sell your data.

Data deletion

Email privacy@cfa-l1-prep.com to remove your waitlist entry or any account data. Local journal data is removed by uninstalling the extension.

Children

The service is intended for adult CFA candidates and is not directed at anyone under 18.

Changes

We'll post material changes here with a new "Last updated" date.

Disclaimer

CFA Institute does not endorse, promote, or warrant the accuracy or quality of this product. CFA® and Chartered Financial Analyst® are registered trademarks owned by CFA Institute.