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Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 14, 2026

Keeping Tabs is built to keep your browsing life organized without ever taking it off your computer. This policy explains what data the extension can access, how that data is used, and the one strictly optional case in which anything leaves your browser.

Keeping Tabs requests a small set of browser permissions to do its job. Here is why each one is needed:

  • Tabs & Windows: used to read the titles and addresses of your open tabs when you choose to save them into a group, and to reopen those tabs and windows when you restore one. Keeping Tabs only looks at your tabs when you ask it to act on them.
  • Tab Groups: lets Keeping Tabs work with Chrome’s native tab groups, so a saved collection can mirror the groups you already have on screen.
  • Storage: the chrome.storage.local API holds every group, folder, and setting you create. This data lives on your own machine, inside Chrome’s isolated extension storage.
  • Downloads: used only when you export a backup of your collections — the file is written straight from your browser to your computer. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.

All of your saved tab groups, folders, and settings are stored locally on your own computer. Keeping Tabs has no accounts, no sign-in, and no backend servers holding your data — we never see your browsing history or your collections. Backups you export are plain files on your disk, and importing them happens entirely inside your browser.

Keeping Tabs includes an optional usage-analytics setting that is switched off by default. Nothing is ever sent unless you explicitly turn it on in the extension’s settings.

If you do opt in, the extension sends anonymous usage events to Google Analytics so we can understand which features are helpful — things like “a group was saved” or “a folder was created”, along with simple counts, the extension version, and your operating system type. These events are tied to a random, anonymous identifier generated inside your browser. They never include the addresses, titles, or contents of your tabs, groups, or folders, and they are never linked to your identity.

You can switch analytics off at any time in settings, and the change takes effect immediately.

Keeping Tabs does not sell, trade, or share your data with anyone. The only third-party service involved is Google Analytics, and only if you have opted in as described above — and even then it receives nothing about the pages you visit or save. As with any web request, Google receives standard request metadata (such as your IP address) when an event is delivered; we do not use or store that information.

Because your data is stored locally, there is no central server of collections to breach. Your saved tabs are as secure as your own computer and your browser’s isolated extension storage.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, with the date above updated to match.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can reach out via the official Chrome Web Store support channel for Keeping Tabs.