Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 8, 2026 · Sort Paragraphs

This Privacy Policy explains how Sort Paragraphs, a Google Workspace™ Editor add-on, handles your information — and, just as importantly, how little of it the add-on ever touches. Please read it before installing or using the add-on. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use it.

Our principles

• This policy is meant to be read by a person, not a lawyer.
• The add-on collects and stores as little as is technically possible — in practice, nothing beyond the preferences you choose.
• Your document content stays inside your own Google account. It is never sent to the developer or to anyone else.

What Sort Paragraphs is

Sort Paragraphs is a Google Docs Editor add-on that sorts the paragraphs and lists you select into alphabetical order. It runs entirely inside Google's own Apps Script environment and only ever acts on the document you currently have open.

Permissions we request

• documents.currentonly — View and manage documents that this application has been installed in. Sort Paragraphs only ever reads and edits the single Google Doc you have open when you run it — it cannot see or reach any other file in your Drive.
• script.container.ui — Display sidebars and dialogs inside Google Docs. Used to show the Sort Paragraphs menu item and options panel.

The add-on cannot see or reach any other file in your Drive, your other documents, your email, or any Google service beyond the permissions listed above.

Information we collect

Information you provide directly. None. Sort Paragraphs has no accounts, sign-ups, logins, or contact forms. It never asks for your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, payment information, or any other personal detail.

Information collected automatically. None. The add-on sets no cookies and uses no tracking pixels, web beacons, or similar technologies. It does not log your IP address, device or browser details, location, or how you use the add-on.

Information from third parties. None. The developer does not buy, receive, or combine any information about you from data brokers, advertisers, social networks, or any other outside source.

The only content the add-on ever reads is the document you have open when you run it, and only for as long as it takes to carry out the action you asked for.

How we use your information

When you run a sort, your selected text is read and reordered entirely within Google's Apps Script environment, for the sole purpose of returning it to the document in sorted order. No document content is transmitted to the developer or to any third party, and the add-on does not use any external servers.

The preferences you set are used only to remember your own choices between sessions. Nothing is used for advertising, profiling, credit or lending decisions, or any purpose other than providing the feature you requested.

What we store

• The on/off state of the four sort options (Ignore English articles, Sort by last name, Keep first line, Case-sensitive), saved in your Google user properties so your preferences carry over between sessions.
• Nothing else. The text you sort is never stored, logged, or transmitted anywhere — it is read from the document, reordered, and written back, all within Google's Apps Script environment.

When we share or disclose your information

Sort Paragraphs does not share, sell, rent, transfer, or disclose your Google user data — including your document content and the preferences you save — to anyone. There are no service providers, business partners, affiliated companies, advertisers, analytics providers, or data brokers involved, and your data would not change hands in any sale or merger, because the developer never receives or holds it in the first place. Everything happens inside Google's Apps Script environment, so there is simply nothing for the developer to hand to a third party. The only conceivable exception is a valid legal order — but as the developer keeps no copy of your data, there is nothing to produce.

Compliance with Google's Limited Use requirements

Sort Paragraphs's use of information received from Google Workspace™ scopes will adhere to the Google User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

In particular, Sort Paragraphs does not use any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model or service — whether the developer's own or a third party's — and it does not transfer, sell, or use Google Workspace user data, whether raw, aggregated, or derived, to create, train, or improve any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model. The add-on only carries out the specific editing action you ask for, on the file you have open, and no document content ever leaves Google's environment.

Legal basis for processing (EEA / UK)

To the limited extent any data is processed at all — namely the preferences you choose to save — the legal basis is your consent, given when you install the add-on and set those options, and the performance of the feature you requested. The add-on processes no other personal data, so no other legal basis applies.

Analytics

The add-on contains no analytics. It does not use Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics service to observe how you use it.

How your data is protected

Your document content is processed only inside Google's own Apps Script environment, over encrypted (HTTPS/TLS) connections, and is never sent to the developer or to any external server. Access is limited to the single document you have open at the moment you run Sort Paragraphs, and no copy of your content is kept once the operation finishes. Because your content never leaves Google's infrastructure, Sort Paragraphs is designed to keep data exposure to a minimum. No method of electronic processing can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure, but the add-on stores and transmits no document content outside Google.

Data retention and deletion

Sort Paragraphs does not retain the content of your documents — text is read, edited in place, and released as soon as the operation completes. The only data the add-on saves is your own preferences (such as the options or style you choose), stored through Google's Apps Script Properties Service — kept either with the specific document or with your Google account, and never on any developer server. You can remove this data at any time by uninstalling the add-on from Extensions → Add-ons → Manage add-ons; any settings saved with a document can also be cleared from within that document. Because the developer keeps no copy of your data, there is nothing on the developer's side to request deletion of.

Your choices and rights

Because the developer holds none of your data, there is nothing on the developer's side to access, correct, export, or delete. Your document content always stays under your control in your own Google account. You can remove the only data the add-on saves — your preferences — at any time by uninstalling it, as described above. If you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region with data-protection rights, those rights apply to any personal data a company holds about you; since the developer holds none, please still feel free to contact us with any question.

International data transfers

The add-on does not transfer your information across borders, because it does not collect or store it outside Google's own infrastructure. All processing takes place within Google's Apps Script environment, under your Google account.

Children

Sort Paragraphs is a productivity tool intended for general and business use. It is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area), and it does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Third-party links and services

The add-on itself contains no third-party links, plug-ins, social-media widgets, or advertisements. Our website may link to the Google Workspace™ Marketplace or other Google pages; those are governed by Google's own privacy policy, not this one.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the update will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email [email protected].