Privacy Policy — Tab Debt Manager

Summary

Tab Debt Manager needs to see your tabs' addresses and titles in order to decide which ones have gone stale and to be able to reopen them later. All of that stays inside your browser — the extension makes no network requests and has no server.

What this extension does

Tab Debt Manager watches how recently each of your open tabs was used, flags the ones you have stopped touching, and can archive them — closing the tab while keeping a record so you can restore it with one click. You control the staleness threshold, per-category rules, keyword rules that protect tabs from ever being archived, and an allowlist.

Data the extension collects and stores

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

Tab activity timestamps — for each open tab, when it was last activated or loaded. These are keyed by Chrome's internal tab ID, not by address, and the entry is deleted the moment you close that tab.
Tab visit counts — how many times each open tab has been switched to, used for the optional "frequently used tabs get more slack" scoring. Also keyed by tab ID and deleted when the tab closes.
Archived tabs — when a tab is archived, its URL, page title, favicon address and the time it was archived are saved so the tab can be listed and reopened. This is the only place page addresses are written to storage, and only for tabs you (or your rules) archived.
Your settings — staleness threshold, whether auto-archive is on, your allowlist, your category rules and their domain lists, your keyword rules, tab-group and frequency-scoring preferences, and any URLs you marked "keep alive". Some of these contain addresses because you typed them in as rules.

What is NOT collected

No page content. The extension has no host permissions and no content scripts. It never runs code inside a web page and cannot read text, forms, passwords, or anything else on a site. It only sees the metadata Chrome exposes about a tab: its address, title, favicon and group.
No long-term browsing history. Addresses of tabs that are simply open — and never archived — are not written to storage; only an ID and a timestamp are.
No personal identifiers, name, email address, or account.
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising, or tracking.
No network requests whatsoever. The extension's code contains no calls that contact any server. Your tab data is never uploaded, and cannot be.

One honest technical note about favicons

The popup shows each archived tab's favicon by pointing at that site's own icon address. As with any image on any web page, your browser may fetch that icon from the site it came from, usually from cache. That is a normal image load performed by Chrome, it carries no information about you beyond a request for an icon, and no data from the extension is included in it. The extension itself initiates no requests.

Where your data is stored

In chrome.storage.local, inside your own Chrome profile on your own device. Not synced to your Google account, so each computer has its own archive and settings.

Permissions and why each one is needed

Permission	Why it is needed
`tabs`	This is the core of the extension. It allows reading the address and title of your open tabs — needed to apply your category and keyword rules, to show you which tabs are stale, to close a tab when it is archived, and to reopen it at the right address when you restore it. Note that `tabs` grants access to tab addresses and titles only; it does not grant access to the contents of those pages.
`storage`	Saves your archive, your rules and your settings on the device so they survive Chrome restarts, and keeps activity timestamps alive while Chrome suspends the extension in the background.
`alarms`	Runs the staleness check on a periodic timer (roughly every 15 minutes). Chrome shuts down idle extensions, so a timer is the only way to keep the check running.
`tabGroups`	Reads whether a tab belongs to a named Chrome tab group, so that tabs you have deliberately organised into a group can be protected from being archived. It is used to check group membership and title only — the extension does not create, rename or delete your groups.

Third-party sharing

None. Your tabs, archive, and rules are never sold, shared, transmitted, or disclosed to anyone, including the developer.

Data retention and how to delete your data

Activity data self-cleans: when you close a tab, its timestamp and visit count are deleted, and entries for tabs that no longer exist are pruned automatically at startup.
Remove an archived tab: restore it or delete it from the archive list; the stored record goes away.
Clear the whole archive: use the clear-archive control on the options page to remove every archived record at once.
Delete everything: uninstalling the extension causes Chrome to permanently delete its storage area, including the archive, all rules and all activity data. Restore anything you still want before uninstalling — archived tabs exist only in that storage.

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.

Changes to this policy

Any change will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date.

Contact

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

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