Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 10, 2026

In short: Draw & Highlight has no server, no account, and no analytics. Everything you draw or highlight is written to chrome.storage.local on your own machine and is never transmitted anywhere.

What the extension stores

When you draw, highlight, or use the toolbar on a webpage, the extension saves the following to your browser's local extension storage (chrome.storage.local), keyed to that page's URL:

Your drawings (pen/highlighter strokes, shapes, arrows, text, stamps) as vector data
Your text highlights, stored as serialized DOM ranges so they can be reapplied on reload
A small page record used for the history list: URL, page title, a low-resolution thumbnail, and drawing/highlight counts

None of this data is encrypted beyond whatever protection Chrome's local storage already provides, because it never leaves the device it was created on.

What the extension does not do

No account, sign-in, or user identifier of any kind
No remote server — the extension does not make network requests to send your data anywhere
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or third-party SDKs
No advertising, and your data is never sold or shared
No cookies

Permissions and why they're needed

Permission	Purpose
`storage` / `unlimitedStorage`	Save your drawings, highlights, and history locally, with room for many annotated pages and thumbnails.
`activeTab` / `scripting`	Inject the drawing canvas and toolbar into the page you're currently viewing, and reapply saved highlights on reload.
`contextMenus`	Add the right-click "View annotation history" shortcut.
Host access (all sites)	Let you draw or highlight on any webpage you choose to use it on — the extension only activates where you interact with it.

Data deletion

You control your data completely:

Use "Clear this page" in the popup to remove annotations for the current page
Delete individual pages from the history view
Uninstalling the extension removes all of its stored data from your browser

Children's privacy

The extension does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children, because it does not collect information at all — everything stays local to the device.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "last updated" date above will change accordingly. Material changes (e.g. introducing any server-side feature) will also be reflected in the extension's Chrome Web Store listing and release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the extension's data handling can be sent to eddundeadd@gmail.com.