SnapGlade — Privacy Policy

Information SnapGlade handles (and where it stays)

Everything below is processed and stored locally on your device. None of it is sent to us or any third party unless you turn on Google Drive backup.

• Screenshots and screen recordings you capture: stored in your browser’s IndexedDB. They leave your device only if you enable Drive backup.
• Editor projects (layers, annotations, styling): stored in IndexedDB; backed up only if you enable Drive.
• Preferences, brand kit, saved styles, and templates: stored in chrome.storage, and synced only through your browser’s own account sync if you have it enabled.
• Optional diagnostics/error log: kept in local storage, and off unless you turn it on.
• Google Drive auth token (only if you connect Drive): held by the browser’s identity system and used solely to reach this extension’s own app-private Drive folder.

Page content access

To take a screenshot or recording, SnapGlade reads the content of the tab you choose to capture, only at the moment you start a capture. Captured image and video data is processed in your browser and stored locally. It is never transmitted to the developer.

On-device sensitive-content detection (faces, and — where your browser supports the Shape Detection API — emails, card, and phone numbers) runs entirely in your browser to help you redact. No image data is sent anywhere for this.

Optional Google Drive backup

Google Drive backup is off by default and only activates when you click “Connect Google Drive” on the options page.

• It uses the drive.appdata scope, which can only read and write a hidden, application-private folder that belongs to this extension inside your own Google Drive. It cannot see, read, or modify any of your other Drive files.
• When enabled, the extension uploads your saved projects (the editable document plus the screenshot image bytes) to that hidden folder so your work can follow you across your own devices.
• This data resides in your own Google Drive account. The developer has no access to it and operates no server in between.
• You can disconnect at any time from the options page, which revokes the token, and you can delete the app-data folder from your Google account whenever you like.
• SnapGlade’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

What SnapGlade never does

• It does not collect or transmit personal information to the developer.
• It does not use analytics, telemetry, tracking, or advertising.
• It does not sell or share your data with third parties.
• It does not use your data to train any model.

Permissions and why they are used

• scripting — injects the capture and page-prep logic (scroll and stitch a full page, hide sticky banners, pick a region or element) into the tab you capture.
• tabCapture — records the visible tab to video or GIF when you start a recording.
• Host access to all sites — screenshots and batch capture must work on any page you visit; captured page data is never sent off-device.
• downloads — saves exported images, PDFs, and recordings to your computer.
• clipboardWrite — copies a captured or edited image to your clipboard.
• storage — saves your projects, captures, settings, brand kit, and templates locally.
• contextMenus — adds the right-click “capture” entries.
• offscreen — runs the recording/GIF encoder in an offscreen document (a Manifest V3 service worker cannot hold the media pipeline).
• identity + oauth2 — used only if you connect Google Drive backup, with the drive.appdata scope that reaches only this extension’s own hidden Drive folder.

Data retention and deletion

Captures, projects, and settings remain in your browser’s local storage until you delete them, clear the extension’s data, or uninstall SnapGlade. If you enabled Drive backup, you can remove the app-data folder from your Google account at any time. Because nothing is uploaded to us, there is no server-side copy for the developer to retain or delete.

Children’s privacy

SnapGlade is a general-purpose productivity tool, is not directed at children, and collects no personal data from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new “Last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email vilaslmagare@gmail.com.