Privacy Policy

Last updated 14 October 2026

Oru is a Chrome extension that helps you manage your own LinkedIn conversations and network. It is made and run by Justin Hociung ("Jey"), who is responsible for your data. This page explains what Oru collects, how it collects it, what it is used for, where it is stored, who it is shared with, how long it is kept, and how you delete it.

What Oru collects

• Your account: your email address and name, from Google sign in or from the email and password you sign up with (the password is stored only as a secure hash by our sign in provider, never by the extension), and the ID of the LinkedIn account you use Oru with.
• Your goals and settings: what you use LinkedIn for, who you want to reach, what you offer, the instructions you give Oru, and your preferences.
• Your LinkedIn messages: the list of your conversations with the people in them (name, headline, photo) and their latest message, and the full text of a conversation when Oru reads it to summarize it or to write a draft.
• What Oru writes and learns: conversation summaries and next steps, the drafts and invite notes Oru writes, the changes you make to them, and what Oru learns from that: your writing style, your answers to common questions, and which approaches get replies.
• Your network and invites: the invites you send through Oru (who, when, and the note), who accepted them, who asked to connect with you, and the public profile details (name, headline, about, experience, location) of people whose profile or search card you view with Oru.
• Your voice, only when you use it: when you talk to Oru instead of typing, the recording is sent once to be written out and is not stored.
• Your subscription: your plan, its status and dates. Card details are handled by Stripe and never reach Oru.
• Usage counts: how many AI reads and drafts you use each day, to apply the daily limits.

Oru does not collect your browsing history, your location, or anything from websites other than LinkedIn, and it does not use advertising or analytics trackers.

How Oru collects it

• From you: what you type or say in Oru, and your sign in.
• From LinkedIn pages you open while signed in: Oru reads your own inbox, invitations, connections, and the profiles and search results on your screen. Reading is read only: it never marks a message as read, never tells anyone you saw their message, and never sends anything by itself.
• From Stripe: the status of your subscription.

How Oru uses it

Only to run Oru for you: build your daily list, show where each conversation stands, write drafts and invite notes in your voice for you to review and send, learn what works for you, keep your data in step across your computers, apply limits, handle your subscription, and answer you when you ask for help. Oru never sends a message or an invite for you. Oru does not sell your data, does not use it for advertising, does not use it to train AI models, and does not use it to decide creditworthiness or for lending.

Where it is stored and how it is protected

Your data is kept in your browser (in the extension's own storage) and in your private Oru account, in a database in the European Union, so it follows you to any computer you sign in on. Every record is tied to your account and access rules keep it private to you. All data travels encrypted (HTTPS). Oru's keys for its service providers live only on Oru's server, never in the extension. The developer can see your email, plan and usage counts to run the service and help you; not your messages.

Who it is shared with

Oru shares data only with these service providers, only for what they do for Oru:

• Supabase: hosts Oru's database, sign in and server (European Union). Stores your account and Oru data.
• Google: sign in, if you choose "Continue with Google" (your name, email and profile picture).
• Stripe: payments and your subscription (your email and plan; Stripe collects your card details itself).
• OpenAI: runs the AI. The conversation, profile details and instructions needed are sent to summarize a conversation, write a draft or a note, plan a search, and write out your voice recordings.
• Groq and Replicate: run some of the AI models and the voice to text when OpenAI is not used, with the same data, for the same purposes.
• Cloudflare: hosts this website. It does not receive your Oru data.

The AI providers process what Oru sends only to answer that request, under their own terms, which may include keeping it for a short time to prevent abuse. Oru shares nothing with anyone else, unless the law requires it, or as part of a sale or merger of Oru, in which case this policy keeps applying to your data.

Other people's data

Your conversations and the profiles you view contain other people's names and words. Oru processes them only on your behalf, to help you with your own conversations, keeps them in your private account, and never contacts those people or shares their data with anyone outside the providers above.

How long it is kept

As long as your account exists. Voice recordings are not kept at all. When you delete your account, everything Oru keeps about you is deleted; copies in routine backups disappear as the backups roll over. Stripe keeps payment records for as long as tax law requires.

Deleting your data

In Oru, open Settings, then Account, then Delete. Your account and everything Oru keeps about you are deleted, and your subscription is cancelled. Signing out also clears everything Oru keeps in your browser. Removing the extension clears the browser copy too.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data at any time, and to object to or limit how it is used. If you are in the EU or the UK, you have the rights the GDPR gives you, including the right to complain to your data protection authority. Oru processes your data to provide the service you signed up for, and, for the people in your conversations, on the basis of your legitimate interest in managing your own LinkedIn relationships.

Children

Oru is not meant for anyone under 16 and does not knowingly collect their data.

Chrome Web Store

Oru's use of the data it receives complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date.

Contact

Questions or requests about your data: support@oru.best, or message Jey on LinkedIn.