Privacy Policy

Last updated: 17 October 2026

What Safe View stores on your device

Safe View keeps the following in your browser's local extension storage. None of it is sent to us.

• Your blocklist and whitelist, including any websites and keywords you add.
• Your daily activity, such as time on sites, blocked attempts, and clean-day streaks, kept for up to 365 days.
• The answers you gave during setup, including your reasons and triggers.
• Trigger check-ins you record on the blocked page.
• Your accountability partner's name, phone and email, if you add them. This is used only to build a message that you send yourself.
• A random identifier used for anonymous usage counts, and your analytics choice.

What we never collect

• The websites you visit or their addresses.
• Your blocklist or whitelist entries.
• The keywords you add, or the words that trigger a block, except one case: when you mark a block as wrong, we receive which of Safe View’s own built-in words caused it (see below).
• Your setup answers, reasons, or trigger check-ins.
• Anything you type on a web page.
• Your name, email address, or account details. Safe View has no accounts.

Anonymous usage counts

To improve Safe View, we collect anonymous usage counts. These include which screens and features are used, coarse counts such as streak ranges, and one “active” count per day so we know how many installs are still in use. The events use fixed categories, not free text, so they cannot contain a website address or anything you typed.

Wrong-block reports. If Safe View blocks a page that isn’t adult content and you choose “Not adult content? Allow this page”, the page is allowed on your device and we receive which of Safe View’s own built-in words caused the block, so we can fix it for everyone. We never receive the page, the site or anything else about it. A word that isn’t on Safe View’s built-in list is sent as “other”.

Usage counts are on by default. You can turn them off at any time in Settings in the dashboard. Turning them off stops all usage events from being sent. The setup screen explains this before you choose.

Usage counts are sent to PostHog, a product analytics service, and are associated with a random identifier, not with your identity. We don't attempt to identify you.

Uninstall survey

When you remove Safe View, your browser opens a short page on our website asking why. The page sends something only if you had anonymous usage counts turned on. In that case it records that Safe View was removed, with the extension version, your browser and a rough install age (for example “7–29 days”), and, if you answer, the reason you picked from a fixed list. There’s no free-text box. It goes to PostHog with a one-time random identifier, isn’t linked to your usage counts, and the page sets no cookies. If you had usage counts turned off, the page sends nothing.

Your lists, streaks and setup answers were stored only in your browser, so removing the extension deletes them. We never had a copy.

Permissions

• Read and change data on all websites: needed to check each page against your rules and to block adult content before it loads.
• Storage: to save your lists, activity, and settings on your device.
• Idle state: to pause time tracking when you step away from your computer.
• Alarms: for one hourly check that sends at most one anonymous “active” count per day, only when usage counts are on.

Safe View uses these permissions only for the purposes above.

Accountability partner messages

The Reach out tool opens a message in your own messaging or email app with a short, non-sensitive note filled in. You review and send it yourself. Safe View does not send messages on your behalf.

Children

Safe View is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Safe View handles data, we will update this page and the date above. Any change that adds new kinds of data will be shown in the extension's setup or settings before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to the developer through the Chrome Web Store listing for Safe View.