Tab Minimalist — Privacy Policy

The short version

Tab Minimalist collects no personal data and sends nothing to any server. There is no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, and no remote code. Everything the extension stores stays inside your own browser and is deleted when you uninstall.

What the extension stores (locally only)

To do its job, Tab Minimalist saves the following using your browser's chrome.storage, on your device only:

• Settings — your idle-time threshold, close mode (Ask first / YOLO), and your list of excluded hosts.
• Closed-tab archive — the URL, page title, and close time of tabs it has closed, so you can restore them. Capped at 5,000 entries.
• Tab activity timestamps — when each open tab was last active, used to measure idle time. Held in session storage and cleared when the browser restarts.

This information never leaves your browser. It is not sent to the developer or to any third party.

Permissions and why they're needed

• tabs — to read tab URLs and titles in order to measure idle time and close expired tabs.
• storage — to save your settings and the archive locally.
• alarms — to run the periodic idle-tab check.

The extension requests no host permissions and makes no network requests.

Data sharing

None. No data is collected, transmitted, sold, or shared.

Retaining and deleting your data

You can clear the archive at any time from the extension's archive page (delete individual entries or “Clear all”). Uninstalling the extension removes all of its stored data from your browser.

Children's privacy

Tab Minimalist is a general-purpose utility and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new “last updated” date.

Contact

Questions? Open an issue at github.com/GuyDev1/tab-minimalist.