Privacy Policy — E-ink Tab

Last updated: July 17, 2026

E-ink Tab is a Chrome new-tab replacement extension. This policy explains what data the extension accesses, where it goes, and what it does not do. The short version: E-ink Tab does not collect, transmit, sell, or share your personal data with the developer or any third party. All of your settings, notes, and cached content stay on your own device.

1. Data the extension stores locally

E-ink Tab uses Chrome's built-in storage API to save your preferences and content directly in your browser profile. None of this data is sent to the developer.

What	Where it's stored	Purpose
App settings (theme, layout, widget toggles, search engine choice, weather city, top-sites count, etc.)	chrome.storage.sync (syncs across your signed-in Chrome browsers)	Remember your preferences
Sticky notes you write	chrome.storage.local	Keep your notes available on this device
Weather forecast cache	chrome.storage.local	Avoid re-fetching weather data on every new tab
News headlines cache	chrome.storage.local	Avoid re-fetching news feeds too frequently
Radio station lists and player state (selected station, country, volume)	chrome.storage.local	Remember your radio preferences and reduce repeat lookups

This data never leaves your browser except where noted in Section 2 (e.g. sending a city name to a weather API to get a forecast). It is not readable by the developer, is not uploaded to any server the developer controls, and is removed automatically if you uninstall the extension or clear its storage.

2. Data sent to third-party services

Some widgets need to fetch live public data. These requests are made directly from your browser to the relevant service — the extension has no server of its own, and the developer never sees this traffic.

Widget	Service contacted	What's sent
Weather	Open-Meteo (geocoding and forecast APIs)	The city name you type, used to look up coordinates and pull a forecast. No account, device ID, or precise GPS location is sent — E-ink Tab does not use browser geolocation.
Search suggestions	Your chosen search engine's suggestion endpoint (e.g. Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Baidu, Ecosia, Brave, Startpage)	The text you type in the search box, so it can return autocomplete suggestions — the same way it would if you typed into that engine's own search bar.
News	Public RSS feeds (e.g. BBC, NYT, DW, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR, Sky News, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, Wired, Hacker News, ESPN)	A standard request for the feed's public RSS/XML content. No personal data is attached.
Radio	Radio-Browser API (community radio directory)	A standard request for station lists/streams. No personal data is attached.
Top sites favicons	N/A — resolved locally via Chrome's built-in favicon/topSites APIs	Nothing is sent externally; favicons are retrieved from Chrome's local cache.

These outbound requests are standard, unauthenticated HTTP(S) requests for public data — the same kind your browser makes any time you visit a website. They are not paired with any identifying information by the extension.

3. Browser permissions and why they're needed

• storage — save your settings, notes, and caches locally, as described above.
• topSites — show your most-visited sites as quick-access tiles on the new tab page. This data stays local and is only used to render the tiles.
• favicon — display the small site icons next to your top sites, using Chrome's local favicon cache rather than fetching icons from external servers.
• Host permissions (weather, search-suggestion, news, and radio endpoints) — allow the extension to fetch forecasts, autocomplete suggestions, headlines, and station data directly from those public services.

4. What E-ink Tab does not do

• It does not use any analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting SDKs.
• It does not use browser geolocation, IP-based location lookup, or any form of tracking.
• It does not collect browsing history beyond the top-sites list Chrome already exposes locally for the new-tab tile display.
• It does not create user accounts, and it does not require you to sign in.
• It does not sell, rent, or share your data with advertisers or other third parties.
• It does not run any server infrastructure operated by the developer — there is nothing for the developer to store or access.

5. Data retention and deletion

All settings, notes, and cached data live in your local Chrome profile. You can clear them at any time by:

• Deleting individual notes or resetting settings from within the extension, or
• Removing the extension from Chrome, which deletes its locally stored data, or
• Clearing your Chrome browsing/site data for the extension via chrome://settings.

6. Children's privacy

E-ink Tab does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children, because it does not collect personal information at all.

7. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this same URL with a revised "Last updated" date. Continued use of the extension after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

8. Contact

Questions about this policy or the extension's data practices can be raised via the GitHub repository's issue tracker.