Privacy Policy for Simple Grayscale

Effective Date: 11/11/2024

This Privacy Policy explains how your data is handled by the Simple Grayscale. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled securely and responsibly.

1. Information We Collect

Simple Grayscale does not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) from users. The extension is designed to run locally on your browser and does not gather or store any data about your browsing history, personal details, or interactions with websites.
However, the extension does interact with the following:
- Active Tab: When you click the extension icon, it applies a grayscale filter to the currently active webpage (the page you are viewing). The extension only interacts with the page you are currently visiting and does not store or send any data to external servers.
- Host Permissions: The extension requests permission to interact with pages on specific domains, but this permission is only used to apply the grayscale filter to those pages. The extension does not collect, transmit, or store any information from those web pages.

2. How the Extension Works

- The Simple Grayscale modifies the appearance of the current page by applying a grayscale filter to the page's content. This action happens only on the active tab, and once the filter is applied, no data is stored or sent anywhere.
- No Data Collection: The extension does not collect, track, or store any personal data such as browsing history, search queries, or any other form of personally identifiable information. It solely modifies the visual appearance of the page as requested by the user.

3. Permissions Required

To function properly, the extension requires the following permissions:
- "activeTab": This allows the extension to modify the content of the currently active tab when the user clicks on the extension icon.
- "host_permissions": The extension requests permission to interact with all web pages (via ``), but this is only used to apply the grayscale filter to the content on those pages. No information is collected from these pages.

These permissions are required to ensure the extension works as intended, but no personal information is collected or shared with third parties.

4. Data Security

We do not collect any personal information or store any data from your browsing activity. The extension works entirely within your browser and does not communicate with any external servers. No data is transmitted, stored, or shared with us or any third parties.

5. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes to the way we collect or handle data, we will update this policy and notify users through an update in the Chrome Web Store listing or within the extension itself.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or the Simple Grayscale, please contact us at: tommykprotoia@gmail.com ---

Notes:

- No Data Collection: Since your extension does not collect any data beyond applying a grayscale filter to the active tab, the privacy policy reflects that no personal information is gathered.
- Transparency: It’s important to clearly mention that the extension doesn’t track users, doesn’t send data to external servers, and doesn’t store browsing information. This builds user trust.
- Host Permissions: While you request permission for host access (``), you clarify that the extension only uses this permission to apply the filter and not for collecting or transmitting data.

If the extension evolves to include more functionality (like network requests, data storage, or analytics), you would need to update the policy to reflect these changes.