Privacy policy
Tabkin is a Chrome extension that puts your open tabs into Chrome's own tab groups, according to rules you write. It runs entirely inside your browser.
What it reads
To decide which group a tab belongs in, the extension reads, for tabs in ordinary browser windows:
- the tab's URL (reduced to host and path — no query string is used),
- the tab's title, as Chrome reports it,
- the tab's window, group and pinned state, and
- the time the tab was last accessed, used only to count tabs you have not opened for a while.
It reads this through Chrome's tabs and tabGroups APIs. It does not read page content: there is no content script, and the extension requests no host permissions, so it cannot see anything inside a page.
What it stores, and where
- Your rules and settings are stored with
chrome.storage.sync. If you are signed into Chrome, Chrome may sync them to your other Chrome installations — that is Chrome's sync, under your Google account, not a service of ours. - Which groups you have folded shut is stored with
chrome.storage.sessionand disappears when you close the browser. - Tabs you moved by hand, so they are left alone, are remembered in session storage for as long as those tabs are open.
That is all. There is no account, no identifier, and no profile of you.
What is never sent anywhere
Tabkin downloads a list of well-known sites; it never sends your tabs, addresses, titles or counts anywhere.
That download is the only network request the extension makes, and it is a request for a file, not a report about you. Once a week it asks https://www.gettabkin.com/sites.json for the list that lets it suggest groups such as Dev, Mail or News; the request contains nothing but the address of that file. It carries no identifier, no page you have visited and no count of anything. Matching your tabs against the list happens entirely inside your browser. A copy of the list ships inside the extension, so if the download never succeeds nothing is lost and nothing is said about it.
Otherwise: no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising, and no third-party code or library in the package. Your browsing data never leaves your computer, and the developer never receives it.
Sale and sharing of data
We do not sell your data. We do not share it, transfer it to third parties, or use it for any purpose other than the single purpose of grouping your tabs on your own machine — including not using it for creditworthiness or lending.
Removing your data
Uninstalling the extension removes its stored rules and settings from Chrome. You can also clear rules yourself in the extension's settings.
Contact
Questions about this policy: [email protected].