Litestack is a tool that helps organisations optimise their tech stacks. We let your IT administrator see which Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications are being used so that your organisation can cut unused licenses, identify security vulnerabilities, and find tools that are better suited to its needs.
Litestack was designed with privacy in mind and is not meant to track the employees’ work. We only collect a minimum amount of data strictly for the purposes cited above, and aim to be fully transparent regarding how the extension works on your computer and how we use your data.
The source code of the extension is available here: https://github.com/LitestackHQ/litestack-chrome/tree/main.
This document aims to answer any questions you may have. Should you have any concerns that aren’t covered here, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
The Litestack Chrome Extension works in the background. It looks at the domains that are being visited and will ping the Litestack servers about once per day per domain whenever it detects that you’re using a SaaS tool that is in our database of ~52,000 SaaS. Your administrator can then easily find out which tools are the most used, and optimise the organisation’s tech stack.
Litestack will generate events only for the SaaS-related domains that are listed below. All visits to domains that are not on this list will be promptly ignored and will not generate a “visit” event sent to our servers.
We aim to limit the amount of data sent to our servers as much as possible. Thus, if you keep Google Chrome open throughout the day, only about one “visit” event per domain per day will be sent to the Litestack servers.
We only track SaaS-related domains to generate “visit” events for the Litestack servers about once per day per domain.
When a “Visit” event is generated, the following data is transmitted to our servers:
The “owner” of the organisation can invite you to your organisation’s Litestack Dashboard by visiting the “Team” page (https://dashboard.litestack.ai/team). Usually, this person should either be your Google Workspace Administrator, or a member of the financial team.
Once invited, you’ll be able to visualise all the data that Litestack has on the organisation and its employees.
Your administrator may also request to export or delete this data by heading over to the Account page (https://dashboard.litestack.ai/account)
When installing Litestack, the following permissions and site access are being requested: