Privacy Policy for Remember My Trails

Remember My Trails ("the Extension") is a Chrome extension that helps users visualize and manage their browsing activity as a navigation tree. This Privacy Policy explains what information the Extension handles, why it is needed, where it is stored, and the choices available to users.

1. Summary

• The Extension handles browsing activity only to provide its user-facing history-tree, sequence, favorites, filtering, storage, and backup features.
• Extension data is stored locally on the user's device using Chrome's extension storage APIs.
• The Extension does not send browsing activity or other user data to the developer, a remote server, or cloud storage.
• The Extension does not use analytics, advertising SDKs, tracking technologies, or remote code.
• The developer does not sell, rent, share, or use user data for advertising, profiling, creditworthiness, or any purpose unrelated to the Extension's single purpose.
• Users may view, edit, export, import, or delete their locally stored data from the Extension's interface.

2. Information Handled by the Extension

The Extension may automatically process and store the following information when the user browses in Chrome:

2.1 Browsing activity

• URLs of visited pages;
• Page titles;
• Date and time of navigation or tab-switch events;
• The relationship between pages, such as the page from which another page or tab was opened;
• Visit counts and first/last visit timestamps generated by the Extension; and
• The current tab-to-tree-node relationship needed to reconstruct navigation paths.

The Extension excludes internal or restricted browser pages such as chrome://, edge://, about:, devtools://, and other extension pages from recording.

2.2 User-created Extension data

The Extension may also store information created through its interface, including:

• Custom titles assigned to tree nodes;
• Favorite colors applied to nodes;
• URLs added to the disabled list;
• Tree display and collapse state;
• Saved local data packages and user-defined package names; and
• Data that the user chooses to import from a JSON backup file or pasted JSON text.

2.3 Information not collected

The Extension does not collect or access:

• Names, email addresses, account credentials, passwords, authentication cookies, or payment information;
• The contents of web pages, form entries, keystrokes, messages, files other than JSON backup files the user explicitly selects for import, or screenshots;
• Precise location, device identifiers, or advertising identifiers;
• Cookies or general website local-storage data; or
• Analytics, diagnostics, crash reports, or telemetry sent to the developer.

The Extension does not require an account.

3. How Information Is Used

The information described above is used only to provide and improve the Extension's user-facing functionality, including:

• Building a visual tree based on navigation sources and tab relationships;
• Displaying a chronological sequence of navigation and tab-switch events;
• Searching, filtering, organizing, renaming, coloring, disabling, and deleting records;
• Reopening or focusing a page selected by the user;
• Displaying website favicons through Chrome's built-in favicon service;
• Saving and restoring local data packages; and
• Importing or exporting user-requested JSON backups.

Browsing activity is not used for advertising, marketing, user profiling, behavioral analysis, or any unrelated purpose.

4. Storage and Retention

4.1 Local storage

Persistent Extension data is stored in chrome.storage.local on the user's device. Temporary tab-to-node mappings are stored in chrome.storage.session so the Extension can preserve navigation relationships when its background service worker is suspended and restarted.

This data is not synchronized through a developer-operated service and is not uploaded to the cloud by the Extension.

4.2 Retention

Data remains on the user's device until one of the following occurs:

• The user deletes selected records or saved packages;
• The user clears current data from the Extension;
• The user imports a backup that replaces current data;
• Chrome or the operating system clears the Extension's storage; or
• The user uninstalls the Extension.

The chronological event sequence is limited to the most recent 3,000 entries. Older sequence entries are automatically removed when this limit is exceeded. Saved packages and tree records remain until the user deletes or replaces them, subject to Chrome's local storage limits.

4.3 Backups

When a user chooses to export or download data, the Extension creates JSON data locally and presents it to the user for copying or downloading. The user controls where exported files are stored and whether they are shared. The Extension does not automatically transmit exported files.

When a user imports JSON text or a JSON file, the Extension reads and validates that data locally before storing it in the Extension's local storage.

5. Data Sharing, Transfer, and Sale

The Extension does not transmit user data to the developer or to third parties. The developer does not sell, rent, disclose, or transfer browsing activity or other Extension data.

Because the Extension does not operate a backend service, the developer and the developer's personnel do not have access to or manually review users' locally stored browsing data.

Website icons are requested through Chrome's built-in favicon service using the Extension's internal _favicon URL. The Extension does not contact a developer-controlled favicon service.

6. Chrome Permissions

The Extension requests Chrome permissions only in connection with its browsing-history visualization and management features:

• tabs: Reads tab URLs, titles, tab identifiers, and opener relationships; detects tab creation, removal, and activation; and opens, focuses, or updates tabs when the user selects a saved page.
• webNavigation: Detects completed top-level navigations so the Extension can record visited pages and reconstruct navigation paths.
• storage: Stores the tree, event sequence, favorites and customizations, disabled URLs, saved packages, view state, and temporary tab mappings on the user's device.
• favicon: Displays website icons using Chrome's built-in favicon service.

The Extension does not request host permissions for access to all website content.

7. Security

The Extension minimizes data exposure by keeping its data within Chrome's extension storage on the user's device and by not transmitting that data to external services. Its interface escapes page titles and URLs before displaying them as HTML, and imported backup data is parsed and structurally validated before it replaces current Extension data.

No method of local storage is guaranteed to be completely secure. Users should protect access to their device and handle exported JSON backups carefully because those files may contain browsing URLs, page titles, timestamps, and user-created labels.

8. User Choices and Data Control

Users can:

• View and search stored records in the Extension;
• Rename, recolor, reorganize, disable, or delete records;
• Clear the chronological sequence or all current data;
• Delete saved local packages;
• Export data as JSON;
• Import a JSON backup; and
• Delete all Extension data by uninstalling the Extension.

The developer cannot remotely retrieve or delete locally stored data because the Extension does not send that data to the developer.

9. Children

The Extension is a general-purpose browsing organization tool and is not directed to children. The Extension does not knowingly collect personal information from children or transmit any user's information to the developer.

10. Chrome Web Store Limited Use Disclosure

The use of information received from Chrome APIs complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. In particular:

• Data is used only to provide or improve the Extension's single purpose and user-facing features;
• Data is not transferred to third parties except if required by applicable law, and the current Extension does not implement any such transfer mechanism;
• Data is not used or transferred for personalized advertising, retargeting, interest-based advertising, or other advertising purposes; and
• Humans are not permitted to read users' Extension data because the data is stored locally and is not made available to the developer.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated if the Extension's functionality, permissions, or data practices change. Any updated version will include a revised effective date. Material changes will be disclosed through an appropriate channel, such as the Extension's Chrome Web Store listing, release notes, or user interface.

12. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy or the Extension's privacy practices may be submitted through the developer support contact provided on the Remember My Trails Chrome Web Store listing.