Your data, yours.

Page detection stays local.

Blurring runs entirely on your computer. The pages you visit, the values that get blurred, your rules and settings — none of it is sent to us. There is no analytics service, no telemetry, no error reporting tool. An activated license contains your purchase email.

If you buy Pro: the minimum billing needs.

When you subscribe we receive and store your email address, your purchase history (plan, amount, dates), and the license codes we issue you. Your card and payment details go to Dodo Payments directly and never touch our servers. A paid extension makes exactly one kind of network request: refreshing your own license code against our server — that request carries your signed code, including your purchase email. Like other web requests, the server also receives connection metadata such as your IP address. An extension without an activated code makes no requests at all.

Auto Blur keeps a settings in local and sync extension storage:

• Your preferences

  Whether Auto Blur is on or off, and your blur intensity. Stored in chrome.storage.sync, which Chrome syncs across your own signed-in devices only.

• Your always-show list

  When you click “always show this” on a covered value, we store a SHA-256 hash, a short display hint and scope information inchrome.storage.local. Hashes are not encryption; predictable values can be guessed.

• Your custom rules (Pro only)

  The regular expressions you add in settings. Stored inchrome.storage.sync. This includes regex text and optional host/path scope, but not detected matches.

• Manual masks, profiles and backups

  Saved masks include site/path and element or rectangle coordinates. Selected-text rules can contain the selected text itself. Local profiles and exported backups may contain these settings; keep backups private. License codes are excluded from exports.

• Your Pro code (if activated)

  The code itself, stored in chrome.storage.sync, so the extension can check on every page load that you still have access.

Browser sync may send sync settings and your license to your browser provider when enabled. We receive your license during refresh, but do not receive your blur rules or page content.

Auto Blur requests six browser permissions, and each one is there for a specific reason:

• "storage"

  So the extension can remember your settings and rules between browser restarts.

• "activeTab"

  For user-invoked controls on the current tab. Separately, content scripts have access to supported webpages across tabs so local protection can run there.

• "tabs"

  So a screen share or idle event can blur every open tab, and keyboard shortcuts reach the right one. Only tab identifiers for routing — no contents.

• "idle"

  So the optional “blur when I step away” trigger knows when you have been inactive. We learn idle/active — nothing else.

• "alarms"

  So a paid license can quietly refresh itself before it expires, instead of logging you out every month.

• "contextMenus"

  So “Blur selection” appears when you right-click selected text.

The extension also declares content-script access to all supported web URLs, including frames. Browser pages and other restricted surfaces are not accessible.

• We never see the pages you visit or the values Auto Blur hides — blurring is 100% on-device.
• We do not have logins or passwords — your license code is the whole story.
• We do not have analytics, telemetry, or usage metrics in the extension.
• We do not have error reporting tools like Sentry, Bugsnag, or Rollbar.
• We do not have advertising SDKs, tracking pixels, or cross-site trackers.
• We do not see or store your card number — payment details go directly to our payment processor.
• We do not sell or rent your email or purchase data. Service providers process it to deliver billing, licensing and email.

Detection does not use a remote service. Browser sync is provided by your browser vendor. The website and paid licensing use a small set of providers, each for one job:

Data stored by the extension stays in your browser until you delete it or uninstall Auto Blur. Purchase records are kept for as long as your subscription is active and afterwards for as long as tax and accounting rules require. The abuse-prevention issuance log is operational data we periodically clear. Feedback you submit lands in our email inbox and we keep it as long as we keep our other email — until we clean it out.

Everything the extension knows about you is inside your own browser — you can see it, export it, or wipe it by removing the extension. For the purchase data we do hold (your email, purchase history, issued codes), email us and we will export or delete it, subject to records we are legally required to keep. Deleting your data ends our ability to refresh your license.

Auto Blur is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, which by extension includes children.

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page. Material changes will be called out at install or on the next popup open, if possible.

Questions, concerns, or corrections? Email achleshavarshney@gmail.com or use the feedback form.