BookmarkPanels

Privacy Policy for BookmarkPanels

Last Updated: September 2026

BookmarkPanels (“we”, “our”, or “the extension”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our data handling practices.

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1. Zero Personal Data Collection

BookmarkPanels does not collect, store, track, sell, or transmit any personally identifiable information (PII), browsing history, search queries, or analytics.

2. Local Data Storage Architecture

All data managed by BookmarkPanels is stored strictly on your local computer:

• Bookmarks & Categories: Kept locally using Chrome’s native chrome.storage.local API and synchronized with your local Chrome bookmarks via chrome.bookmarks.
• User Preferences: Your aesthetic settings (brightness, blur, light/dark theme, panel coordinates) are stored only in your local browser storage.
• No Remote Servers: We do not operate external database servers, analytics platforms, or cloud sync servers.

3. Third-Party Icon (Favicon) Retrieval

To display site icons (favicons) next to saved bookmarks, the extension fetches icon images by querying domain hostnames using public favicon endpoints:

• Google Public Favicon Service (https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=...)
• DuckDuckGo Icon Service (https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/...) as a fallback

Privacy Safeguard: Only the base domain hostname (e.g., github.com) is queried. Full URLs, URL paths, query parameters, auth tokens, personal identifiers, and browsing activity are never included in these icon requests.

4. Permissions Used

BookmarkPanels requests only the minimal permissions required for its functionality:

• bookmarks: Required to display, organize, create, edit, and categorize bookmarks.
• storage: Required to save custom categories, layout coordinates, themes, and aesthetic preferences locally on your device.
• contextMenus: Allows right-clicking any page and choosing “Add to BookmarkPanels”.
• activeTab: Used only when clicking the extension icon or adding the active page to your bookmarks.
• Host Access (<all_urls>): Required to allow the customizable glassmorphic sidebar and floating bookmark panels to be toggled on web pages you browse via keyboard shortcut (Alt+B) or the edge tab. No webpage content is monitored, harvested, or transmitted.

5. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please open an issue on the official GitHub repository.

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