Privacy Policy
Tabreel — Privacy Policy
Tabreel is a local-only screen recorder. It records the browser tab you choose, polishes the result with auto-zoom and cursor effects, and exports the video — entirely on your own computer.
Tabreel does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal data. It makes no network requests of its own: no analytics, no telemetry, no remote code, no servers, and no uploads. There is no account to create and no backend behind the extension.
Information Tabreel 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.
- Recordings: the video and audio of the tab you choose to record, plus your microphone if you enable it. Recording data and metadata are stored locally in your browser (IndexedDB) until you export or delete them.
- Interaction signals while recording: normalized pointer, click, and scroll positions (coordinates in a 0–1 range) on the tab being recorded, used to generate auto-zoom and click-ripple effects. These are sent only to the extension’s own offscreen document and never include page content, text, form data, URLs, or keystrokes.
- Settings and session state: your recording preferences (chrome.storage.local) and transient in-progress recording state (chrome.storage.session).
What Tabreel never collects
- No personal or contact information, and no account.
- No browsing history, page content, form inputs, passwords, or keystrokes.
- No analytics, tracking, advertising identifiers, or usage telemetry.
- No location data.
Permissions and why they are used
- tabCapture — captures the video/audio of the tab you select; the core recording function, used only when you start a recording.
- offscreen — runs the recorder and audio mixing in an offscreen document (a Manifest V3 service worker cannot hold a long-lived recording stream).
- storage — saves your settings and transient recording-session state on your device.
- downloads — saves the exported MP4/WebM file to disk through a normal Save dialog when you export.
- activeTab — reads the active tab’s URL on your gesture (clicking Record or pressing the shortcut) only to block un-recordable pages such as chrome:// and the Web Store before capture.
- Content script on all sites — a lightweight tracker records normalized pointer/click positions and renders the 3-2-1 countdown on the tab you record. It runs on all sites because you may record any tab, but it collects nothing unless a recording is active and never reads page content.
- Microphone (requested at runtime) — only if you enable mic recording, via the standard browser permission prompt; mic audio is mixed into your local recording and never uploaded.
Exported files
Exported videos are saved to the location you choose. Each export carries a small local provenance tag (a random identifier plus Tabreel attribution) embedded inside the file, and an always-on Tabreel watermark in the video. This information stays inside your local file and is not transmitted anywhere.
Data retention and deletion
Recordings remain in your browser’s local storage until you export them, delete them, or clear the extension’s data. Uninstalling Tabreel removes its locally stored recordings and settings. Because nothing is uploaded, there is no server-side copy for us to retain or delete.
Children’s privacy
Tabreel is a general-purpose recording 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.