TabTrophies Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 17, 2026

Summary

TabTrophies works entirely locally on your device. This build has no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no remote code, no account system, and no server endpoint that receives your browsing data. The extension processes activity only to provide its progress, statistics, and achievement features.

What the extension processes

TabTrophies processes activity signals that are needed to calculate progress and unlock achievements. These signals include tab counts and tab switches; page domains and visits; active browsing time; scrolling distance; navigation patterns; media-play time; zoom events; copy-event counts; and the number of characters typed into text fields on web pages.

For clarity, TabTrophies counts typed characters but never records the actual text you type. It also counts copy events but never records or reads the copied content. These measurements are used as numeric activity totals, not to build a record of the content you view, write, or copy.

Where data is stored

Everything TabTrophies retains is stored on your device in Chrome's local extension storage. This includes your progress, settings, aggregate statistics, achievements, and recent activity information. Nothing is uploaded or transmitted to Backwoods Development.

Permissions

Chrome requires extensions to disclose the browser permissions they use. TabTrophies uses the following permissions only to provide its local tracking and achievement features:

Tabs and webNavigation

The tabs and webNavigation permissions allow TabTrophies to detect tab and navigation events. Tracking those events is the extension's core mechanic and is necessary to calculate tab switches, visits, domains, and navigation-based achievements.

Idle

The idle permission lets TabTrophies recognize when your device is inactive so that time away from the computer is not incorrectly counted as active browsing time.

Notifications and alarms

The notifications and alarms permissions support achievement unlock notices and time-based checks. Alarms let the extension perform local timing tasks at appropriate intervals, and notifications let it tell you when an achievement has been earned.

Storage

The storage permission allows TabTrophies to retain your progress, settings, statistics, recent activity, and unlocked achievements in Chrome's local extension storage between browsing sessions.

Controls

You can pause tracking at any time from the TabTrophies popup or dashboard. While tracking is paused, the extension stops adding new activity to your progress.

Privacy Mode hides domain names from the recent-activity log while continuing to maintain aggregate counts used for statistics and achievements. This gives you a less detailed activity view without discarding overall progress.

You can export your progress to a local JSON file that remains under your control. You can also reset all TabTrophies data from Settings. Uninstalling the extension removes its locally stored extension data according to Chrome's normal behavior.

Network access

This build of TabTrophies does not send collected metrics anywhere. It does not load remote JavaScript, connect to an account or telemetry service, or use artificial intelligence services. Its tracking, calculations, storage, and achievement logic run locally within the extension.

Changes to this policy

This policy will be updated if a future version of TabTrophies adds synchronization, user accounts, telemetry, cloud backup, advertising, or any other form of remote processing. An updated policy will explain what changed, what data is involved, why it is processed, and what controls are available before those practices are represented by this policy.