Privacy
Privacy Policy
1. Overview
Privacy Compliance Checker is a Chrome extension that scans the page you're currently viewing for GDPR compliance signals and shows you the results. This policy describes exactly what the extension does with data — not what a generic browser extension might do, what this one actually does, as of the version number above.
If a future version changes any of this, the version number and effective date at the top of this page will change too.
2. What we don't collect
We do not operate any server that this extension reports back to. Concretely, that means:
- No analytics or telemetry of any kind — we don't know how many people use this extension, which sites they scan, or what the results were.
- The content of pages you scan, the URLs you visit, and your scan results never leave your device.
- We don't build a profile of you, sell data, or share data with advertisers. There isn't a database on our end for your data to be in.
3. What a scan reads, and where it stays
When you click "Scan this page," the extension reads, entirely within your browser:
- The page's HTML, scripts, and links (to find consent banners, forms, trackers, embeds, and similar).
- Cookies for that site — including HttpOnly cookies, which normal page scripts can never see, via Chrome's cookies API — to check for tracking identifiers and their expiration.
- localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexedDB for that site, to check for tracking identifiers and, in a bounded sample, plaintext personal data.
- Which hostnames and request paths the tab has talked to since the page loaded, recorded in memory by the extension's background process, to flag likely non-EU vendors and cross-reference consent signals.
- In one specific check, the extension fetches the scanned site's own service worker script (a same-origin request to that site, not to us) to look for references to known tracking domains in its source.
All of this is processed locally and shown to you in the popup and the PDF report. None of it is transmitted to us or to any third party. As of this version, the extension makes no network requests to any server we operate or any external analytics/DNS service during a scan.
4. What's stored on your device
The extension keeps two things in Chrome's local extension storage, which stays on your device and is never synced or transmitted:
- Scan count — how many free scans you've used, so the extension knows when to show the upgrade option.
- Your last scan result — kept temporarily so the "Download PDF report" button can open it in a new tab.
Uninstalling the extension deletes both immediately, since Chrome removes an extension's local storage along with the extension itself.
5. Permissions we use
| Permission | What it's for |
|---|---|
activeTab | Identify the tab you clicked "Scan" on. Only granted for that click — not standing access to every tab. |
scripting | Run the scan inside that tab, once, when you ask for it. |
storage | Save the two local items described in Section 4. |
cookies | Read cookie names and real expiration dates — including HttpOnly cookies — for the site you're scanning. |
webRequest | Passively note which hosts/paths the current tab contacts, kept in memory and cleared on navigation. |
| Host permission: all sites | The whole point of the extension is scanning whatever site you choose — this lets the scan run wherever you click it, rather than a fixed list of domains. |
6. Payments
The first 5 scans are free. If you choose to upgrade past that, payment is handled entirely by ExtensionPay, a third-party service built for Chrome extension payments, using Stripe for checkout. When you upgrade, ExtensionPay and Stripe collect your email address and payment details directly — we never see or store your card details, and this extension only ever receives a yes/no "has this person paid" answer back from ExtensionPay.
See ExtensionPay's own privacy policy for how they handle payment data.
7. Children's privacy
This extension is a developer/compliance tool and isn't directed at children. We don't knowingly collect data from children, and per Section 2, we don't knowingly collect data from anyone.
8. Retention & deletion
Since nothing is sent to us, there's nothing on our end to delete. On your device, the two items in Section 4 are overwritten by each new scan and removed entirely when you uninstall the extension. Cookies, storage, and network data read during a scan are read live each time — the extension doesn't keep its own copy of a site's cookies or storage between scans.
9. Changes to this policy
If what the extension does with data changes, this page will be updated and the version/date at the top will reflect that. We won't silently expand what's collected without updating this page first.
10. Contact
Questions about this policy or the extension: inquixitelabs@gmail.com
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