Privacy policy

What the extension sends, and when

Only when you ask it to save something: you click Save in its popup, press its keyboard shortcut, or choose “Save link to RecapOne” on a link. Then it sends to RecapOne’s server, over HTTPS, signed in as you:

• the page’s address (URL) and title;
• the page’s content as your browser shows it (its HTML, without scripts, styles and hidden parts), so pages you are signed in to save as you see them. For “Save link”, only the link’s address is sent and our server fetches the page;
• any tags you type into the popup or the highlight toolbar.

When you open the popup it also asks our server whether the current page is already in your library, which sends that page’s address.

Highlighting on the page

The extension runs on the pages you visit so it can offer its highlight toolbar when you select text, and show your highlights again on pages you saved. To know which pages those are, it keeps the list of your saved pages’ addresses on your device (downloaded from your library when you sign in, refreshed at most every ten minutes). It asks our server for a page’s highlights only when that page is in the list.

When you highlight, it sends the passage you selected with up to 64 characters of text on either side, the colour and any note; if the page is not in your library yet, it saves the page first, as described above. On pages you have not saved and do not highlight, it sends nothing.

Kindle highlights (only if you turn them on)

If you choose “Enable Kindle sync” in the popup, Chrome asks you to let the extension read Amazon’s Kindle notebook page (read.amazon.com and its regional versions). From then on, every 6 hours while you are signed in to RecapOne, and whenever you click Sync now, it opens that page in a background tab with the Amazon sign-in already in your browser, reads each book’s title, author and Amazon book number (ASIN) and its highlights and notes (text, colour, location), sends them to RecapOne’s server, and closes the tab.

It never reads or sends your Amazon password, orders or anything else on Amazon. To re-read only the books that changed, it keeps on your device, per book, the number of highlights and the date Amazon last showed. Turn off Kindle sync in the popup to stop, and remove the permission in Chrome’s extension settings to revoke access.

What it never does

• It does not send the address or content of pages you have not chosen to save or highlight (apart from your Kindle notebook, once you turn Kindle sync on), and keeps no browsing history.
• It has no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third-party scripts.
• It does not sell or share your data with anyone.

Signing in

You sign in with your RecapOne email and password, or a code we email you. The extension keeps the resulting session token in your browser’s extension storage so you stay signed in; signing out deletes it. Your password is sent only to our sign-in service and never stored by the extension.

Where your data lives

Saved pages, tags and highlights are stored in your RecapOne account (hosted on Supabase and Render) and are visible only to you. Deleting a document in RecapOne deletes it from our database and storage; deleting your account deletes everything in it.

Contact

Questions about this policy: use the support contact on the RecapOne Chrome Web Store listing.