Tab Organizer – Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 17, 2026

What data does this extension access?

Tab Organizer reads the title and URL of your open browser tabs in order to display them in the popup, group them by task category, and detect stale tabs you haven't visited recently.

What data is stored, and where?

Everything is stored locally on your device. Nothing is uploaded, transmitted, or shared with any server.

• Saved sessions (named groups of tabs you saved manually) — stored in chrome.storage.local. Stays on this device.
• Your settings — custom grouping rules, custom categories, theme, stale-tab threshold, pixel-buddy selection, and per-site blocklist — stored in chrome.storage.sync. Chrome may sync this between your own browsers if you're signed into a Google account with sync enabled. Tab Organizer itself never sees that sync traffic — Google handles it.
• Per-tab last-access timestamps, used to compute the stale-tab badge — stored in chrome.storage.session. This is in-memory only and disappears when you close Chrome.

Page-content access

Tab Organizer injects a small visual overlay (the optional "pixel buddies") onto web pages you visit. The overlay does not read, modify, or transmit any content from the page — it only draws decorative sprites in the corner. You can disable it on any site via Settings → Pixel buddies blocklist.

Is any data collected or sent to a server?

No. Tab Organizer has no backend. It makes no network requests to the developer or any third party. All logic runs entirely inside your browser.

Does this extension use cookies, analytics, or tracking?

No. There are no cookies, no analytics, no telemetry, and no tracking of any kind.

Third-party services

This extension does not use any third-party services, APIs, or SDKs.

Permissions explained

• tabs — read tab titles and URLs to display, search, and group them.
• tabGroups — create and color Chrome's native tab groups.
• storage — save your sessions, rules, and settings locally (see above).
• alarms — run a periodic background check to keep the stale-tab badge up to date.
• Host access to <all_urls> — required to render the optional pixel-buddies overlay on the pages you visit. No page content is read or sent anywhere.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date.

Contact

Questions? Open an issue at github.com/zachmtz08/tab-organizer.