TabPodsPrivacy policy
Last updated: 29 September 2026
In short: the TabPods extension keeps your pods and their logins inside your browser. We have no servers, so none of it ever reaches us.
TabPods is free and sends nothing anywhere. There are no analytics, ads or trackers, in the extension or on this website.
Who we are
TabPods, the browser extension and the website tabpods.com, is made by Simone Perna, who is the data controller for the little data described below. Contact: smnprn.dev@gmail.com.
What the extension stores, and where
Everything below is stored by the browser, on your computer, in the extension's own storage or in the sites' own storage. It is never sent to us.
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Your pods: name, color, creation date | To show and organize your pods |
| Each pod's cookies, including sign-in sessions, for the sites you use in that pod | To keep you signed in to each account separately |
| What sites store in your browser (local storage, IndexedDB, Cache Storage), kept under names specific to each pod | To keep the pods apart inside the page too |
| "Always open in a pod" rules (a site name and its pod) | To open those sites in the right pod |
| Which pod each open tab is in, the last pod you used, and whether the welcome page was shown | To keep tabs in their pod, for the keyboard shortcut, and to show the welcome page only once |
| The date you started using TabPods and the version you had | To recognize early users if a paid upgrade comes: they keep what they have |
| A short diagnostics log (for example "service worker evicted: example.com"), kept only while the browser is open | Shown under "Diagnostics" in the TabPods button, to help with bug reports; gone when the browser closes. It leaves your browser only if you copy it and send it to us yourself |
You are in control of this data: "Log out of everything" deletes a pod's cookies, deleting a pod deletes everything about it, and uninstalling TabPods deletes all of it. Because it never reaches us, we can't see, use, export or delete it for you.
What leaves your browser
Cookies go only where they belong
A pod's cookies are sent only to the websites that set them, exactly as the browser would do without TabPods. TabPods changes the requests of pod tabs only; your regular tabs are left alone.
Nothing else leaves your browser. If a paid Pro upgrade comes, this policy will say what it involves before it goes on sale.
The Pro waitlist
If you leave your email on tabpods.com/pro, we use it for one thing: to tell you when TabPods Pro is ready. The list is kept by Buttondown, our newsletter service, which sends a message to confirm your address first. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link, and you can also ask us to remove you. Buttondown is based in the United States; its handling of your data is described in Buttondown's privacy policy. We don't track opens or clicks. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
The feedback form, email and bug reports
If you use the form on tabpods.com/feedback, what you write in it (the type of feedback, your message, and, if you add them, your email address and the diagnostics) is sent to us as an email and isn't stored anywhere else by us. The TabPods version and the browser are filled in for you when you open the form from the extension; you can change or delete them. The diagnostics are never sent unless you paste them into the form yourself.
To stop floods of messages, the site counts how many messages each connection sends in a minute; your IP address is used for that count only and isn't kept. The form is run by Cloudflare, which hosts this website (see below).
If you email us, or give your address in the form, we use your address and message only to answer you and to improve TabPods, and delete them when they are no longer needed for that. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in answering you and fixing what you report.
Bug reports and feature requests can also go to a public GitHub repository, smnprn/tabpods-feedback. Anything you write there is public and handled under GitHub's privacy statement. Please don't post cookies, passwords or other private data in an issue.
This website
tabpods.com uses no cookies, no analytics and no scripts or fonts from anyone else. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as your IP address to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse, as described in Cloudflare's privacy policy. We don't keep visitor logs.
Installing from the stores
When you install TabPods from the Chrome Web Store or Microsoft Edge Add-ons, Google or Microsoft process data about the installation under their own privacy policies. They give us aggregate numbers only, such as how many people installed the extension.
What we don't do
- We don't sell, rent or share your data.
- We don't use it for advertising, profiling or creditworthiness.
- We don't run analytics or tracking, in the extension or on this website.
- The extension doesn't load code from the internet: everything it runs ships in the package you install.
TabPods' use of information received through the browser's extension APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Your rights
Under the GDPR and similar laws you can ask us to access, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you (in practice: the messages you send us by email or through the feedback form, and your address on the Pro waitlist), to restrict or object to its use, and to receive it in a portable format. Write to smnprn.dev@gmail.com. You can also complain to a data protection authority, such as the Italian Garante per la protezione dei dati personali or the one where you live.
For data held by Buttondown, Cloudflare, GitHub, Google or Microsoft, you can also contact them directly.
Children
TabPods isn't meant for children under 16, and we don't knowingly receive their data.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update it here and change the date at the top. If a change affects what the extension sends out, the extension's update notes will say so too.