Privacy policy

As of November 2026

This policy covers the Tabnado browser extension (section 2) and this website (section 3).

1. Controller

Martin Lux-Hoffmann
Blücherstr. 47
66386 St. Ingbert
Germany

2. The Tabnado extension

In short: Tabnado has no server. We never receive your tabs, your browsing activity or anything else from the extension. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking, and we don't sell or share data.

What the extension stores, and where

To work, Tabnado reads the title, web address and icon of your open tabs. It stores the following with Chrome's storage on your computer (chrome.storage.local):

Data	Content	Kept
Archive	title, web address and site of tabs you close with Tabnado, and when	30 days and at most 200 entries by default; you can change both in the settings
Saved tabs	name you chose, titles and web addresses of the tabs you saved	until you delete them
Reminders	title and web address of the tab, the time, and what happens to the tab until then	until the reminder is due and its notification is clicked or closed
Later groups	which tab group per window holds hidden tabs	while the group exists

Your settings (such as text size, theme and archive limits) are stored in chrome.storage.sync. If you use Chrome sync, Google syncs them between your devices under Google's privacy policy; they contain no tabs or web addresses.

All of this stays in your browser. Removing the extension deletes the local data on that device; synced settings may stay in your Google account.

This processing happens only on your device, to provide the functions you use. Where the GDPR applies, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

Site icons in the archive

The archive shows a small icon for each site. Since version 2.7.0 it takes these icons from Chrome's own icon cache on your computer, so no request leaves your browser. Earlier versions asked Google's icon service (www.google.com/s2/favicons) for the icon of each archived site's domain; Google then received the domain and the connection data every request carries, under its own privacy policy.

Notifications and tab groups

Reminders use Chrome's alarms and your operating system's notifications. Hidden tabs are moved into a tab group in your browser. Neither involves us.

Permissions

Tabnado asks Chrome for these permissions: tabs (to list, search, switch to and close tabs), tabGroups (group by site and the hidden “Later” group), storage (the data above), alarms and notifications (reminders), favicon (site icons from Chrome's icon cache) and sidePanel (to show Tabnado next to the page). It has no access to page content.

Chrome Web Store

Tabnado is installed and updated through the Chrome Web Store, which Google operates under its own responsibility and privacy policy. Google provides us with aggregated install statistics only.

Tabnado's use of information received from Chrome APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

3. This website

This site has no cookies, no analytics and no third-party content. Fonts are the ones already on your device.

Hosting (Cloudflare). The site's files are delivered by Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). On each visit Cloudflare processes the technically necessary connection data (IP address, time, requested address, browser identification) to deliver the page and protect it against attacks. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in delivering the website securely and quickly). Transfers to the US are based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, under which Cloudflare is certified. More at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

Email. If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to answer you. Emails to our addresses are forwarded by Cloudflare's email routing to our mailbox at Google (Gmail, provided by Google Ireland Ltd.; transfers to Google LLC in the USA are based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework). Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We delete the conversation when it is no longer needed.

4. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right of access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and to object (Art. 21). As the extension sends us nothing, we hold no data about you from it; data in your browser is under your control and is deleted with the extension.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. Responsible for us is the Unabhängiges Datenschutzzentrum Saarland (UDS), Fritz-Dobisch-Straße 12, 66111 Saarbrücken, Germany.

5. Changes

We update this policy when the extension, the website or the law changes. The current version is always at tabnado.app/privacy.