Privacy Policy
Applies to the Snipwise browser extension, version 1.0.3. Last updated .
The short version: Snipwise has no server, no account system and no analytics. Your screenshots are created, annotated and exported entirely on your own machine, and no part of them is ever sent anywhere.
What we never do
- Collect, transmit or store your screenshots
- Require an account, an email address or a sign-in
- Run analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or A/B tests
- Load third-party scripts, fonts, pixels or embeds
- Read, log or transmit your browsing history
- Sell, share or disclose data to anyone — there is none to disclose
What stays on your device
Two things are written to your browser's local storage, and both stay there:
- Your editor preferences — theme, last-used tool, stroke size and colour.
- The capture currently being edited, held only until you export or close the editor tab.
Neither is synced, backed up or readable by anyone but you. Removing the extension removes both.
Permissions, and why each one exists
These are the six entries in the extension's manifest.json. Chrome shows them at install time; this is what each is actually for.
- activeTab
- read the tab you explicitly capture, only when you click
- scripting
- draw the crop overlay and drive the full-page scroll
- tabs
- open the annotation editor in a new tab
- storage
- remember your editor theme and stroke settings
- unlimitedStorage
- hold a full-page capture that exceeds the default quota
- downloads
- save the finished PNG or PDF to your disk
There is no host permission for any remote origin, which is the part worth checking: an extension cannot send your data to a server it has no permission to contact.
How to verify this yourself
A privacy policy is a promise, and promises are worth less than evidence. Two ways to check ours in under a minute: open DevTools, switch to the Network tab and capture a page — you will see no outbound request. Or read the source, which is MIT-licensed, unminified and small enough to get through in one sitting.
This website
snipwise.nexylius.com is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and embeds nothing from a third party — the fonts are served from this domain rather than from Google. Standard web-server access logs record requests, as they do on any site.
Changes and contact
If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it and the previous version stays in the site's Git history. Questions or corrections belong in an issue on the repository.