Privacy Policy
Anicite is built so that your data physically cannot leave your device. This policy explains exactly what the extension does and doesn't do.
Last updated: February 7, 2026
100% local storage
Your data never leaves your device. Everything is stored in chrome storage. No servers involved.
Minimal network use
No analytics, no telemetry. Only fetches site favicons from Google for display purposes.
Delete anytime
Clear all your data in one click from settings, or uninstall the extension. Your data disappears instantly.
No account required
No sign-up, no email, no personal information collected. Install and go.
What Anicite collects
Anicite records browsing activity to help you understand your habits. This includes:
• Website hostnames and paths you visit (e.g. github.com/notifications) — query strings and URL fragments are never stored
• Active time spent on each site, measured by tab focus and visibility
• Interaction counts: clicks, scroll distance, and tab switches
• Timestamps: aggregated into daily and hourly rollups
Long URL paths are truncated to 180 characters. Incognito browsing is never tracked.
How data is stored
All data is stored locally on your device using Chrome's built-in chrome.storage.local API. There is no external database, no cloud storage, and no server-side component.
Data is organized as per-day rollups, per-hour rollups, and lifetime totals. You can export everything as JSON or CSV at any time from the extension settings.
What Anicite does NOT collect
• No search queries or form inputs
• No URL query parameters or hash fragments
• No page content, screenshots, or DOM data
• No personal information (name, email, location)
• No incognito or private browsing activity
• No data from excluded sites
Third-party services
Anicite uses one external service:
• Google Favicon API — to display website icons in the extension UI. When you visit a site, we fetch its favicon from Google's public service (google.com/s2/favicons). This request includes only the domain name, no other browsing data. Favicons are cached locally for 7 days to minimize requests.
Your browsing data itself is never sent anywhere. Anicite has no servers, no analytics, and no advertising. We couldn't access your browsing history even if we wanted to.
Permissions explained
Anicite requests two Chrome permissions:
• storage — to save your browsing data locally on your device
• host permissions (http/https) — to run the content script that measures time, clicks, and scroll on the pages you visit
These are the minimum permissions required for the extension to function.
Your controls
You are always in control of your data:
• Pause tracking at any time from the popup or settings
• Exclude specific sites so they are never tracked
• Choose data granularity — host-only or path-level
• Export your data as JSON or CSV with a date range
• Delete all data with a single action in settings
• Uninstall the extension to remove everything permanently
Open source
Anicite is fully open source under the MIT license. You can inspect every line of code to verify these claims yourself.
Changes to this policy
If we ever update this privacy policy, changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date. Given the local-only architecture, we do not anticipate significant changes.
Contact
If you have questions about this privacy policy or Anicite in general, you can reach us via:
• GitHub: https://github.com/CarboxyDev/anicite
• Website: carboxy.dev