Privacy notice

Copilot Readiness Scanner. Last updated 30 August 2026.

The short version

Your workbook never leaves your machine. The add-in makes no network requests of its own, has no accounts, and collects no analytics. The pages are served through Cloudflare, whose bot protection may set a cookie and runs a script of its own; that is described below, and it never sees anything from your workbook.

What the add-in reads

To score a sheet it reads the used range of the active worksheet: cell values, value types, number formats, merged areas, table definitions, hidden rows and columns, sheet and table names, and the workbook's calculation mode. All of it is read into memory in the task pane, analysed there, and discarded when the pane closes.

None of it is transmitted anywhere. There is no server behind this add-in to transmit it to.

What it writes

The scanner does not modify your workbook. The fixes, where you apply them, change only the cells described in the finding you acted on, and take a restore point first so the change can be reversed.

What is stored on your device

One entry in browser local storage, holding your licence entitlement and a randomly generated install identifier. The identifier is a random value; it is not derived from you, your machine, or your Microsoft account, and it is not sent anywhere. Clearing your browser storage, or Office's cache, deletes it.

Restore points for applied fixes are held in the workbook's own settings, inside the workbook file, on your machine.

Third parties

No analytics provider, no error-reporting service, no advertising. The add-in's files are served from appgarden.co.uk, which is hosted on Cloudflare. Cloudflare records ordinary web access logs — IP address, time, file requested — as any web server does, and applies its standard bot protection, which adds a small script of its own to each page it serves. That script is Cloudflare's, not ours; it looks at how the page was requested in order to tell automated traffic from people.

It cannot see your workbook. Nothing running in the pane has access to Excel except the add-in itself, and the add-in still sends nothing anywhere. What Cloudflare learns is that somebody loaded a page, which is what any website's host knows.

Microsoft delivers the add-in and hosts Office itself, and its own privacy terms apply to that. Nothing here changes them.

If that changes

A licence server is planned, so that paid features can be verified across your devices. When it exists it will receive the install identifier and your licence key — never workbook content. This notice will be updated before that ships, and the date at the top will change.

Your rights and contact

Because no personal data is collected or held, there is nothing to export or erase on request beyond the local storage entry you can clear yourself. If you believe otherwise, or want to ask about any of this, email support@appgarden.co.uk.