Bookmark Wall Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-08-30 · Product: Chrome extension “Bookmark Wall” (v1.2+)

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Bookmark Wall lets you browse and organize your Chrome bookmarks bar locally with tabs and a grid, shows frequently visited sites with optional pins, and can optionally scan bookmark links for expired pages when you choose “Clean expired bookmarks”. We respect your privacy. This extension does not collect, sell, or upload your bookmarks, browsing history, or pin list to developer-operated servers or third parties.

1. Data we access

• Bookmark data: Via the Chrome bookmarks permission, we access folders and links on the bookmarks bar (titles, URLs, hierarchy, and order) to display and search them in the extension, and to create, rename, edit, move, or delete them when you choose to. Scope is the bookmarks bar only (Other bookmarks are not included).
• Browsing history: Via the history permission, we read history in your Chrome profile to build the Frequents tab (sites visited in about the last 90 days, aggregated by site, ranked by visit count). If you enabled Chrome History sync, that profile history may include visits synced from your other devices. We do not upload history to our servers.
• Pinned list: Via the storage permission, we store on this device an ordered list of URLs (and titles) you pin, so pins persist across sessions.
• Site icons: Via the favicon permission, we load favicons for bookmarked and frequents sites to show on cards.
• Link reachability (optional): Only when you start “Clean expired bookmarks”, the extension may request bookmark URLs from this device to detect dead links (for example HTTP 404), and may briefly probe general connectivity. Those requests go to the sites themselves (or a public connectivity endpoint), not to developer servers. Results stay on your device until you confirm any deletions.

2. How data is used locally

• Read and display: We read the bookmarks bar and local history ranking, render tabs / groups / the grid (including Frequents and Pinned), and support global search.
• Local writes: When you take action, we may create folders, rename folders, edit bookmark titles/URLs, reorder items, or delete bookmarks (with a short undo window) on this device only. Pin / unpin updates only the local pin list in chrome.storage. Bookmark changes are written only to Chrome’s built-in bookmark storage and do not leave your computer via this extension.
• Clean expired bookmarks: After an optional on-device scan you initiate, you review results and confirm which bookmarks to delete. Scan outcomes are not uploaded.
• This extension does not send bookmark titles, URLs, history items, or pin data to developer-operated servers.
• This extension does not use analytics SDKs, ad SDKs, or third-party tracking scripts.
• A language preference may also be saved in the page’s local storage on your device only.

3. Permissions

• bookmarks: Read and modify the bookmarks bar to show tabs / groups / the grid, refresh when bookmarks change, and support create, rename, edit, drag-and-drop reorder, and delete actions you initiate.
• favicon: Load site favicons so cards are easier to recognize.
• history: Read browsing history on this profile to build the Frequents / most-visited list. Not uploaded to our servers.
• storage: Persist your pinned URL list locally across sessions. Not synced to developer servers.
• Host access (http://*/*, https://*/*): Used only for user-initiated dead-link checks and a brief connectivity probe. The proxy permission is not requested.

4. Data sharing

We do not sell or share your bookmark data, history-derived frequents data, or pin list with advertisers, data brokers, or other third parties. Optional link checks contact the bookmarked sites (and a public connectivity endpoint) from your device; that is not sharing with the developer.

5. Children’s privacy

This extension is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

6. Policy changes

If our privacy practices change, we will update this page and the effective date. For significant changes, please review the policy again.

7. Contact

For privacy questions, email the developer at hss012489@gmail.com.