Privacy Policy — Tabease

01 Summary

Tabease is a Chrome extension that visualises your browser tabs as a mindmap. Everything the extension builds — your tab tree, hibernation state, favourites, notes, and workspaces — is created and stored entirely on your own device, inside your browser's local storage.

Tabease does not operate a data-collection server, does not run analytics or tracking scripts inside the extension, and does not sell, rent, or share your data with anyone — because it never has your data in the first place.

02 What the extension does with your data

When you use Tabease, the extension reads information that is already visible to your browser — such as a tab's URL, title, and favicon — purely to draw the mindmap and let you navigate it. This information:

Is stored using the Chrome storage API, on your own device.
Is never sent to a Tabease-operated server, because no such server exists.
Is never transmitted to advertising networks, analytics providers, or any other third party.
Is only ever read by the extension to render your own canvas, back to you.

If you use the "Ask My Map" feature or session export, those actions run locally against the data already stored on your device and produce a file or view that stays under your control.

03 Permissions we request & why

Chrome requires extensions to declare the permissions they use. Tabease requests only what is needed to build and manage your tab mindmap:

Permission	Why Tabease needs it
`tabs`	To read tab titles, URLs, and relationships (which tab opened which) so the mindmap can be drawn and kept in sync.
`storage`	To save your mindmap, hibernation state, favourites, and settings locally on your device.
`activeTab`	To act on the tab you're currently viewing when you use a toolbar action.

None of these permissions are used to collect data for Tabease's benefit — they exist solely so the extension can perform the function you installed it for, on your own machine.

04 Cross-device sync

Pro plan cross-device sync uses Chrome's own built-in storage.sync mechanism, tied to your Google account, rather than any server Tabease operates. That means your synced tab-tree data travels through Google's Chrome Sync infrastructure — the same system Chrome already uses to sync your bookmarks and settings — under your own Google account and Google's own privacy controls. Tabease itself never receives, stores, or has access to this data at any point.

You can review or disable Chrome Sync at any time from chrome://settings/syncSetup in your browser.

05 The tabease.app website

This website (tabease.app) is separate from the extension and hosted on Cloudflare Pages. The only personal information collected here is the email address you voluntarily provide through our "Inform Me of Updates" sign-up form, which is processed by our email provider, Buttondown, solely to send you product updates.

We do not use advertising cookies or third-party trackers on this website. You can unsubscribe from emails at any time using the link included in every message we send.

06 No selling, no ads, no tracking

Tabease does not sell or rent personal data. Tabease does not use your data to serve advertising. Tabease does not build behavioural profiles of you or your browsing for any third party. There is nothing to sell, share, or leak — because Tabease was designed from the outset to keep your data on your device.

07 Your rights under GDPR & other privacy laws

Tabease is designed to meet European privacy standards (GDPR) and similar frameworks by default, through data minimisation: the extension simply does not collect personal data that would need to be accessed, corrected, or deleted on request.

For the one piece of personal data we do process — your email address, if you choose to subscribe to updates — you have the right to:

Access the data we hold about you.
Rectify inaccurate data.
Erase your data ("right to be forgotten") — or simply unsubscribe.
Withdraw consent at any time, with no effect on the lawfulness of prior processing.
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

The legal basis for processing your email address is your explicit consent, given when you submit the sign-up form. To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details below.

08 Children's privacy

Tabease is not directed at children under 16 and does not knowingly collect personal data from children. As the extension collects no personal data by design, this risk is inherently minimal.

09 Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes — for example, if a future feature introduces server-side processing — we will update this page and revise the "Last updated" date above before that feature ships. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

10 Contact

Questions about this policy or your data? Reach out at hello@tabease.app — we read every message.

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