Privacy Policy — Lockscroll

Summary

Lockscroll counts how long you spend on eight named social sites and interrupts you when you pass your own budget. It records a number of seconds per site per day — not what you looked at. Everything stays on your device and no network request is ever made.

What this extension does

You set a daily time budget for each of the supported social sites. Lockscroll times how long one of those sites is open and active in the foreground, nudges you when you have been scrolling for a while, and shows a full-screen interrupt when you go over budget. It also tracks a streak of days you stayed under budget.

Sites it applies to

Lockscroll is limited to exactly eight domains and has no access to anything else on the web:

tiktok.com
instagram.com
twitter.com and x.com
reddit.com
youtube.com
linkedin.com
facebook.com

On every other website — your bank, your email, your work tools — the extension is not present at all. It cannot run, read, or see anything there.

Data the extension collects and stores

All of the following is stored in chrome.storage.local on your device:

Daily usage counters, one entry per site per calendar day, containing three numbers: seconds spent, how many times you opened the site, and how many times you were interrupted. A site is identified only by a short internal id such as reddit.
Your settings — the per-site budget in minutes, the interrupt mode (gentle, firm or brutal), the nudge delay, the pause length, the late-night hour after which budgets are halved, and the on/off switch.
Your streak — current count of consecutive under-budget days, the date it was last updated, and your best streak.

What is NOT collected

No page content. The content script only draws the overlay and reports whether the tab is currently visible. It does not read posts, videos, comments, direct messages, profiles, or anything else on the page.
No URLs and no browsing history. Individual page addresses are never recorded. The stored data cannot tell you which video was watched or which profile was viewed — only that "reddit" accumulated a certain number of seconds on a given day.
No account, login, name, email address, or personal identifier.
No keystrokes, form input, cookies, or session tokens from any site.
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising, or tracking.
No network requests whatsoever. There is no backend, no account sync, and no code that contacts a server. Your usage data cannot leave the device through this extension.

Where your data is stored

In chrome.storage.local, inside your own Chrome profile on your own device. It is not synced to your Google account today, so each computer keeps its own budgets, usage and streak.

Permissions and why each one is needed

Permission	Why it is needed
`tabs`	Lets the extension notice when you switch tabs, when a tab navigates, and when a tab closes, so the timer can start and stop against the right site. Without it the extension would keep counting a site you left open in a background tab while you were working elsewhere.
`storage`	Saves your budgets, settings, daily counters and streak on the device so they persist across restarts and across the day.
`alarms`	Drives the periodic tick that adds elapsed time to the current site's counter and updates your streak. Chrome suspends idle extensions, so a timer is the only reliable way to keep a clock running.
Eight named social domains (host permissions + content scripts)	Allows the interrupt overlay to be shown on top of those specific sites, and lets the extension know when one of them is the visible foreground tab. The permission is written out site by site rather than as "all websites" precisely so the extension has no reach beyond the eight sites it is designed to limit.

Third-party sharing

None. Your usage data is never sold, shared, transmitted, or disclosed to anyone, including the developer. Notably, the social platforms themselves receive nothing from this extension — it does not report to them, and it does not log in or act on your behalf.

Data retention and how to delete your data

Usage counters are written per calendar day and are kept on the device so you can see your history and streak.
Change or reset settings at any time from the popup or the options page.
Delete everything: uninstalling the extension causes Chrome to permanently delete its storage area, including every daily counter, all budgets and your streak. You can also clear the extension's storage from Chrome's own site-data controls.

Children's privacy

This extension is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. It has no accounts and transmits nothing. If a parent or guardian installs it on a child's browser, all data remains on that device.

Changes to this policy

Any change will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. If a future version ever adds an account or cross-device sync, this policy will be updated to describe it before that version ships.

Contact

Questions, concerns or data requests: aqahramonov2007@gmail.com

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