Privacy Monitor is a GoVerify Systems product.
Privacy Policy — Privacy Monitor
A clear public policy for a local-first browser extension that keeps observed privacy signals on the user's device.
Overview
Privacy Monitor is a local-first browser extension for privacy visibility. It helps users understand observed privacy signals from websites, including cookies, third-party domains, known tracker categories, risk explanations and comparison reports.
Privacy Monitor stores observed privacy signals locally in the browser, including site domains, cookie counts, cookie attributes visible to the extension, third-party request domains, tracker category matches, baseline comparisons and risk levels.
Privacy Monitor does not transmit, sell, share, upload or externally process this data. There is no backend, no account system and no external analytics in v0.2.0.
What Privacy Monitor does
Privacy Monitor observes privacy-related signals for websites you visit and presents them in plain English. It can show cookie counts and visible cookie attributes, third-party domains contacted by a site, known tracker category matches, simple Low / Medium / High risk levels, recommended actions, site comparisons and before/after baselines.
What data is processed locally
- Website domains observed while monitoring is enabled
- Cookie counts
- Cookie attributes visible to the extension, such as session/persistent status, secure, httpOnly, SameSite and expiry date where available
- Third-party request domains
- Known tracker category matches from the bundled local tracker list
- Infrastructure and unclassified third-party domain categories
- Risk levels and risk explanations
- User-created baseline comparisons
- Pause/resume monitoring setting
- Local export data generated by the user
What Privacy Monitor does not do
Privacy Monitor does not decrypt HTTPS traffic and does not inspect encrypted message contents or payload bodies.
- Upload browsing data
- Send observed site data to a backend
- Require an account
- Use external analytics
- Sell or share browsing data
- Block trackers in v0.2.0
- Claim that a High risk label means a site is malicious
- Show exactly what personal data was sent inside encrypted traffic
Where data is stored
Observed privacy signals are stored locally in the browser using extension local storage. This data remains on the user's device unless the user exports it or clears it.
Exports
Privacy Monitor can export local JSON or CSV reports from browser storage. Exports are generated in the browser. They are not uploaded by Privacy Monitor.
Users are responsible for where they save or share exported files after download.
Permissions
Privacy Monitor uses browser permissions to provide local privacy visibility:
| Permission | Why it is used |
|---|---|
| storage | Stores observed site metrics, settings, baselines and dashboard data locally in the browser. |
| activeTab | Identifies the active tab and website context after the user opens the popup. |
| webRequest | Observes request domains contacted by websites. Privacy Monitor records domains and categories only; it does not decrypt HTTPS traffic or inspect encrypted payload contents. |
| cookies | Inspects cookies visible to the extension so users can see cookie counts and cookie attributes. |
| <all_urls> | Allows Privacy Monitor to observe HTTP and HTTPS website request domains and visible cookies across websites. Data stays local and is not uploaded. |
Privacy Monitor does not request blocking permissions and does not modify network requests.
Data deletion
Users can clear all locally stored Privacy Monitor data from the dashboard. Users can also clear data for a selected site only.
Uninstalling the extension may also remove extension-local data according to browser behavior.
No sale or sharing of data
Privacy Monitor does not sell, share, transmit, upload or externally process browsing data or observed privacy signals.
Contact
For privacy questions or support, contact:
[email protected]