Privacy policy
We don't collect your browsing.
Last updated 2 September 2026
ScreenYourScreen has no server, no account system and no analytics. Every page it reads, scores and remembers stays in your own browser's storage, on your own machine.
The one exception is the feedback form: if you type a message and press Send, that message reaches us. Nothing else ever does.
What the extension processes, and where
To score a page against the goals you typed in, the extension works with:
- The URL and title of the tab you're looking at, canonicalized — query strings and fragments stripped — before being stored.
- A short summary of the page: its title, meta description and headings. It does not read page bodies, form fields, passwords or cookies.
- How long you spent there, and whether you were actually at the machine, using Chrome's idle signal.
- The goals you write, plus any domain rules or overrides you set.
All of it is processed on your device and written to your browser's local extension storage. None of it is transmitted anywhere.
Classification runs on your machine
Pages that our domain rules and your own overrides can't resolve are classified by Gemini Nano, the model built into Chrome, through the on-device Prompt API. The page summary is handed to a model running locally on your computer. It is not sent to Google, to us, or to anyone else. When the model isn't available, the extension falls back to local heuristics and keeps working.
Gemini Nano ships with Chrome and is managed by the browser, not by us — Chrome handles its download and updates, and we only ask it questions. Google documents how that works in Chrome's built-in AI guide.
How long things are kept
Detail is deliberately short-lived; the long history is aggregate. All of it lives in your browser profile, not with us.
- Per-visit records — URL, title, timestamps — are kept 7 days.
- Daily rollups (minutes and scores per day, no URLs) and the intervention log are kept 1 year.
- Removing the extension from
chrome://extensionsdeletes all of it, immediately and permanently.
We can't delete this data on request, because we never have it. We also can't recover it — there is no backup.
The feedback form
The extension's options page has a feedback form. It sends nothing until
you write something and press Send. When you do, that submission goes to
an endpoint we run at screenyourscreen.com/api/feedback and
is appended to a private spreadsheet that only we can read.
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| message | What you wrote. Sent as you typed it. |
| type | Whether you tagged it a bug, an idea, or something else. |
| Optional. Blank unless you fill it in — only needed if you want a reply. | |
| version | The extension version, so we can tell which build you're on. |
| diagnostics | Optional, off unless you tick the box: whether Gemini Nano is available, plus your browser's user-agent string. |
| request metadata | Your IP address and user-agent, which arrive with any web request and which we keep alongside the message to spot abuse of the endpoint. |
Your goals, your browsing history and your scores are not attached to a feedback submission. We use what you send only to answer you and to fix the thing you told us about. It is not sold, not shared, and not used for advertising. Write to hello@screenyourscreen.com and we'll delete a submission on request.
What we don't do
We don't run analytics or crash reporting. We don't embed third-party SDKs, trackers or advertising. Even the fonts the extension displays are bundled inside the package rather than fetched from a font CDN — specifically so that rendering a page can't leak which pages you visit.
If you contact us through GitHub instead, you're subject to GitHub's privacy policy, and whatever you write there is public.
Children
ScreenYourScreen isn't directed at children under 13, and collects no data from anyone.
Chrome Web Store limited use
Our use of information received from Chrome APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Data obtained through Chrome permissions is used only to provide the attention-measurement features described in the store listing. It is not sold, not transferred to third parties, not used for advertising or creditworthiness, and not read by humans.
Changes to this policy
If a future version adds any further network communication — an opt-in sync backend, say — this page will be updated in the same release that introduces it, the Chrome Web Store disclosures will be updated to match, and the feature will be off unless you turn it on.
Don't take our word for it
The full source is published under the GPL-3.0 at
github.com/screenyourscreen/extension.
Searching it for fetch, XMLHttpRequest or
WebSocket turns up exactly one network call — the feedback
form described above. Chrome's own DevTools network panel will show you
the same thing while the extension runs.
Contact
hello@screenyourscreen.com, or the issue tracker.