Section Manager is published by Comunicare Pty Ltd (ABN 26 624 780 007), of Suite 2, 314 Norton Street, Leichhardt NSW 2040, Australia ("we", "us"). These terms cover your use of the Section Manager Google Docs add-on and this website. By installing or using the add-on you accept them. If you are agreeing for an organisation, you confirm you have authority to do so.

We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use Section Manager in accordance with these terms.

The add-on has a free tier and a paid tier. The free tier is permanent and requires no payment. The paid tier ("Pro") is licensed per seat: one seat covers one person, who may use it on more than one device, but a seat may not be shared between people. Activating a licence key on a new installation claims a seat; when all the seats on a licence are claimed, further activations are refused.

You agree not to:

• reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to extract the source code, except where that right cannot lawfully be excluded;
• use the add-on to process material you have no right to handle;
• interact with the add-on by automated means in a way that degrades the service for others;
• resell or white-label the add-on without a written agreement with us.

The add-on operates on the Google Docs document you have it open in, using the permissions you grant at install. It requests documents.currentonly, which is limited to the active document, together with the permissions needed to show its own sidebar and manage its auto-open trigger.

You remain responsible for your documents and for whether it is appropriate to use the add-on with their content, including where they contain confidential, personal or regulated information.

Our handling of information received through Google APIs is described in the privacy policy and adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Section Manager depends on Google Docs and Google Workspace, operated by Google LLC and outside our control. Changes Google makes to those services may affect the add-on.

The add-on is free to install. The free tier includes everything described on the pricing page as free, permanently. On the free plan, deletes, History restores and reorders are each limited to five per Google account per day, resetting at midnight in the account holder’s own timezone, and no more than three templates may be saved at one time.

Pro is charged per seat per month in US dollars at the prices shown on the pricing page. Any GST or VAT is calculated and shown at checkout based on where you are. We may change prices for future billing periods on reasonable notice; your current period is not repriced.

Payment is taken by Stripe, and card details go to Stripe directly. Neither this website nor the add-on collects or stores card or bank details at any point.

A subscription continues until you cancel it, and cancelling stops the next renewal rather than ending the current period. When a subscription ends, the add-on returns to the free behaviour — nothing in your documents is removed, altered or locked, because everything it creates was only ever in your own document and account.

If something is not working and we cannot fix it, write to us and we will refund you. Nothing here limits any rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or equivalent legislation where you live.

We aim to keep the add-on working, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted operation. We may carry out maintenance, release updates, or change features. Support is provided by email on a best-effort basis while the add-on is free, with a target of one business day.

We own the add-on, this website, and all associated software, branding and documentation. These terms grant you a licence to use the add-on, not ownership of it.

You own your documents and their content. Nothing here transfers any right in your content to us.

Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Workspace are trademarks of Google LLC. Section Manager is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google LLC.

To the extent permitted by law, the add-on is provided "as is" and we exclude all implied warranties. We do not warrant that it will be error-free or fit your particular requirements.

Section Manager deletes and rewrites content in your documents. Deleting, restoring and reordering a section all work by capturing its content, removing it, and rebuilding it in place. Deleted sections are retained in History so they can be restored, but History is capped, images are not preserved through deletion and restoration, and table formatting may not rebuild exactly. You are responsible for keeping your own backups and for reviewing changes before relying on a document. Google Docs version history remains available independently of the add-on.

To the extent permitted by law, our total liability in connection with these terms is limited to AUD $100, or the amount you have paid us for the add-on in the preceding 12 months, whichever is greater. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profits, or loss or corruption of data.

Where the Australian Consumer Law applies and our liability cannot be excluded, our liability is limited, at our option, to resupplying the service or paying the cost of having it resupplied. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded.

You may uninstall the add-on at any time, which revokes its access to your documents. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these terms or if required by law.

We may update these terms. Material changes will be notified in the add-on or by email where we have an address for you. Continuing to use the add-on after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales.

Questions: [email protected]

Comunicare Pty Ltd (ABN 26 624 780 007) publishes Section Manager. We are bound by the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Section Manager's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

The permissions it requests

• documents.currentonly — read and modify only the Google Docs document the add-on is currently open in. This does not grant access to any other file in your Google Drive, and the add-on cannot list, search or open your other documents.
• script.container.ui — display the add-on's own sidebar inside the document.
• script.scriptapp — create and remove the trigger that lets the sidebar open automatically when you open a document. You can turn this off in the add-on's settings.
• script.external_request — make outbound HTTPS requests. Used for a single endpoint: our own licence server, to check or activate a Pro licence key, to claim or release a seat, and to read or write organisation-wide settings on a Pro licence. It is never used to send document content, and on the free tier it is never used at all.

The add-on does not request the general Google Drive permission, and it deliberately avoids any function that would require it.

What we do not do

• We do not transmit your document content anywhere. Our licence server never receives any part of your documents, and there is no database of them.
• We do not read your documents. No person at Comunicare Pty Ltd can see them through the add-on.
• We do not use Google user data for advertising, and we do not sell it.
• We do not use Google user data to develop, improve or train machine learning models.
• We do not create accounts. The add-on never reads your Google account’s email address; the only way we hold an email is if you type one into the optional label field when activating a licence, or write to us.

With one exception — the licence record described below — everything the add-on saves is held by Google, inside your own account, using Apps Script's Properties Service:

• Document properties — the index of sections in that document; the History of sections you have deleted from it (including their text and formatting so they can be restored); any custom tag types you have defined for that document and which tag each section carries; and whether automatic numbering is on and how deep it goes. All of this is stored with the document itself, which is why a colleague who opens the same file sees the same tags.
• User properties — your own preferences and your own content: whether the sidebar opens automatically, dark mode, any custom heading and button colours, compact view, sort order, your chosen History depth, which sections you have collapsed, whether you have seen the latest update note and whether you have completed the guided tour; plus your saved section templates, which is why they are available to you in every document and are not visible to anyone else who opens the same file.

None of this reaches us. Deleting the document deletes its stored sections, tags and History along with it; uninstalling the add-on revokes its access.

Licence checks — the one thing that does leave your account

If you buy Pro, the add-on talks to our licence server so it knows whether your key is valid. This happens when you activate a key, and again each time the sidebar opens. Each request contains:

• The licence key you were issued.
• An installation identifier — a random value the add-on generates for itself the first time it needs one. It is not derived from your name, your email or your Google account, and it tells us only that two requests came from the same installation. It is what stops one key being shared across unlimited accounts.
• An optional label — whatever you type into the "your name or email" box when activating. It is never verified, never required, and exists only so you or whoever manages your team's seats can tell one seat from another later. If you type an email address here, we hold that email address.

On a Pro licence covering more than one seat, the same record is what lets whoever manages the licence see which seats are in use, under the labels their holders typed, and release a seat when someone leaves.

Organisation settings — the other thing we hold

Pro licences can define settings once and have every seat inherit them: the organisation's tag types and the defaults new documents start from. Because those have to reach seats that have never met each other, they are stored on our licence server against your licence rather than in any one document.

They contain what an administrator typed into the settings panel — tag names and preference values. They do not contain document content, document names, heading text, or any list of which documents your organisation has. If you never buy Pro, none of this exists for you.

No document content, document name, heading text or Google account identifier is included in these requests. If the licence server cannot be reached, the add-on carries on with whatever status it already had rather than locking you out.

If you use the contact form or email us, we receive your name, email address and whatever you write. We use it to answer you, and for nothing else. We do not add you to a mailing list.

This website has no user accounts and takes no payments. Pro subscriptions are bought through Stripe’s own hosted checkout — your card details go to Stripe, never to us, and never through this site or the add-on.

We do not sell personal information and we do not disclose it for anyone's marketing. The only third parties involved are:

• Google — the platform the add-on runs on and where its data is stored.
• Our email provider — for correspondence you send us.
• Stripe — payment processing for Pro subscriptions. Stripe receives your payment and billing details directly; we receive confirmation that a subscription exists, not your card details.

We may disclose information where required by law.

Your document content never reaches our infrastructure at all, so it is protected by Google's own security rather than ours. The licence records we do hold — keys, installation identifiers and any optional labels — sit in the Apps Script project that serves them, reachable only with a shared secret that is not present in the add-on’s published code. For the correspondence we do hold, we use access controls and the principle of least privilege. If a data breach were likely to cause serious harm, we would notify affected people and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as required by the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.

• Section index, tags, templates, History and preferences — held in your Google account for as long as you keep the document or the add-on. History is bounded twice over: by a count you set (40 on the free tier, 5 to 200 on Pro) and by the storage Google allots each document for add-on data, roughly 500 KB shared with the section index. Whichever limit is reached first, the largest and oldest entries are removed automatically to make room.
• Licence records, including seat labels — for as long as the licence exists, and for up to 12 months after it ends so that a renewal or a billing query can be answered. Ask us and we will delete a lapsed record sooner.
• Organisation settings — until the licence ends or you clear them, then deleted with the licence record.
• Support correspondence — up to 24 months.

You can ask us to access, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you — in practice, your correspondence, since that is all we have. You can revoke the add-on's access at any time through your Google account's third-party access settings, or by uninstalling it.

To make a request, email [email protected]. We respond within 30 days. If you are unhappy with how we handle a privacy matter, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

This site sets no cookies and runs no analytics or tracking. The add-on sets no cookies and does not track usage.

Section Manager is intended for adults working with documents. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

We will post changes to this policy on this page and update the date above. Privacy enquiries: [email protected], or write to Comunicare Pty Ltd, Suite 2, 314 Norton Street, Leichhardt NSW 2040, Australia.