Privacy policy.

Last updated: 31 October 2026. Smart Tab Saver is developed by JavocSoft. Questions about this policy or your information can be sent to smarttabsaver@gmail.com.

Information in the extension

The extension stores saved pages, session titles, notes, reminders, browsing history, preferences, Quick Access pins, usage statistics and some recovery information in your browser. Reminders are shown with the browser's own notifications; local recovery points are copies of your open web pages, kept in your browser only. Your browser's storage is used for these local features. The extension accesses browser bookmarks only if you grant the optional bookmarks permission. It can create or delete a bookmark when you ask it to; bookmarks remain in your browser.

Some settings, including your account token and AI provider keys if supplied, are stored using Chrome's synced extension storage. Whether those settings move between devices depends on your browser's sync settings.

Optional Smart Tab Saver account sync

If you activate account synchronization, Smart Tab Saver uses your email address and account token to identify your account. Saved Sessions and Pocket entries, including their page titles and URLs, can be uploaded to the Smart Tab Saver synchronization service and downloaded on another installation. Notes you add to named sessions and reminders you set on saved pages are included in that synchronization, so a reminder can appear in each browser where you use your account. When a saved session contains Chrome tab groups, their names and colors are included so the groups can be recreated when restored. Browser bookmarks, extension history, Quick Access pins, local trash and window recovery points are not included in that upload. Before an upload replaces your synchronized sessions, the service may keep a compressed copy of the previous ones so you can restore them from Recovery in the extension. Each account keeps at most 20 copies, and copies are deleted after 30 days.

Synchronization is optional. You can use the extension's local organization features without creating an account. The extension also provides session export and import for a local backup; that backup does not include your account credentials, AI keys, browser bookmarks or browsing history.

Sharing a session

Copy links keeps the session in your browser and places its name, page titles and URLs on your clipboard; it does not copy the session note. To create a public web page, you must have an activated account and choose the pages to share. Before a page is created, the sharing preview shows the session note if present. Including it on the public page requires you to select an unchecked choice. We store a separate copy of that session's name and chosen page titles and URLs, any note you chose to include, the account that created it, its creation date, and an expiry date if you choose one. We do not publish your account email, sync token, browsing history, bookmarks, or AI keys. Creating a shared page does not turn on account synchronization or product email.

Anyone with the shared link can see its contents, including the optional note, full URLs and any information they contain. The extension shows the note and pages before you publish. You choose when a page expires, from one day to five years, or choose no expiry; the default is 30 days. A page without an expiry stays available until you remove it or your account is disabled. From Shared pages in the extension, you can add, replace, or remove the note on a page you already shared, change its expiry (which starts a new period), or remove the entire page. These note changes are visible immediately to anyone with the link and do not alter the note in your saved session. The link stops working if the page expires, is removed, or the account is disabled. Changes to your original session or its note do not automatically change an existing shared page. Its chosen page links stay fixed. Older shared pages keep their previous contents unless you explicitly add a note from Shared pages. Your active shared-page list is available only after account authentication. The QR on a shared page is generated in the visitor's browser from that page's direct URL; we do not send it to a QR or URL-shortening service. We do not include public shared pages in search-engine indexing. If you open a shared page with the extension installed, the page asks the extension, inside your browser, whether it can save shared pages; this check is not sent to us. If you choose Save to Smart Tab Saver, the extension downloads only that page's public contents so you can review them and save them in your browser.

Optional AI features

On computers that support it, AI features can use the model built into Chrome, which runs on your computer; with it, nothing is sent to us or to an AI provider. You can instead configure your own key for OpenAI, Perplexity or Anthropic (Claude). If you use AI features with a key, your questions and relevant saved titles, URLs or history are sent directly from your browser to the provider you select, never to us. Requests do not ask the provider to search the web, and Perplexity requests ask it not to keep the response for later retrieval. Testing a key sends a short test message. The provider processes requests under its own privacy terms. The extension stores the key in browser synced storage so it can be used for your requests. Each AI feature can be turned off in Settings; a feature that is off sends nothing.

Obsidian, other apps and reading saved pages

Sending a session or a page to Obsidian hands it to the Obsidian app on your computer through an obsidian:// link, after your browser asks for permission; nothing is sent to us. Exporting everything to Obsidian writes notes only into the folder you choose with your browser's folder picker, or into a ZIP file you download.

When exporting, you can optionally let the extension read your saved pages to describe them better. It then requests those pages directly from their websites, without your cookies or a referrer, and reads only the start of each page (its title, description, type, author and date). Those websites receive an ordinary request from your browser, including your IP address, as when you open a page. Pages on your local network are never requested. What is read stays in your browser for up to 60 days and is not uploaded to us. If you also use AI with your own key, the session names and notes, page titles, sites and these short descriptions are sent to the provider you selected, never the full content of the pages.

If you set up Joplin, Raindrop.io or Readwise Reader in Settings › Integrations, the extension sends only what you choose to send (page titles and URLs, session names and, for Joplin, the notes it writes) directly from your browser to that service with the token you supply, under that service's own privacy terms; nothing passes through us. Joplin runs on your own computer. If you set up a webhook, the extension sends the titles and URLs of pages you save, and your reminders when they are due, to the address you enter. If you turn on reading list sync, the extension asks for Chrome's reading list permission, adds unread reading list pages to your Pocket and new Pocket pages to the reading list, and never deletes anything on either side. Tokens and the webhook address are kept in Chrome's synced extension storage, like AI keys, and each integration can be turned off in Settings.

Website and contact

When you visit this website, the hosting service can process technical request information such as your IP address, browser details and the page requested. If you submit feedback, we process your rating and optional comment to improve Smart Tab Saver. If you have an account, the extension sends your account token so the service can link the feedback to your account; the administration page then shows your account email. Without an account, you may provide an optional contact email so we can reply and, if you choose website sharing, send confirmation and withdrawal links. That email does not create an account or subscribe you to product updates. Account activation and recovery pages use browser sessions. The public pages do not load an analytics script.

You may separately allow JavocSoft to show your written feedback on this website. The choice is off by default. If you choose it, we record the time and notice version, your public name or nickname, and a private confirmation and withdrawal token. People without an activated account must confirm their contact email before we can consider their comment. Authorized staff select each comment manually; permission does not guarantee publication. Only the selected comment and public name or nickname appear on the website, never your email or account details. Feedback submitted before this choice was offered is not eligible. The confirmation email includes a link to withdraw permission at any time; withdrawal removes a published comment from the website and does not delete the private feedback you sent us. You can also contact us to request removal.

Product updates by email

Product news is optional. After activating your account, you can explicitly choose “Receive updates” in the extension's Account and cloud settings. We use your account email address only to send occasional Smart Tab Saver feature and product news, never third-party advertising. This choice is separate from creating an account, synchronization, feedback, and service emails such as activation and token recovery. Existing newsletter flags without a recorded choice are not treated as consent.

You can stop these emails at any time in the same settings or with the unsubscribe link in every update. For choices made in settings, we record the date, source, and notice version, including withdrawal, so we can respect and demonstrate the choice. Resend processes delivery and email-link unsubscribe requests. The extension's account settings also check Resend's delivery preference; after using an email-link unsubscribe, you can explicitly choose to resume updates there. Withdrawing does not affect your account, saved sessions, or essential service emails. For access, deletion, or questions about these records, contact us below.

Our private administration page lets authorized staff review account status and feedback, record whether a suggestion is pending, accepted, processed, rejected or a comment requiring no action, note the extension version in which it was processed, and keep an internal review note. We do not use this page to read locally stored browser history or bookmarks.

The website links to other services, including the Chrome Web Store, JavocSoft's portfolio and Ko-fi. If you follow one of those links, that service's own privacy terms apply.

Your choices and requests

• You can use core features without account sync or AI, and turn off each AI feature separately.
• You can decline or revoke the optional bookmarks and reading list permissions in your browser; turning reading list sync off in Settings also gives that permission back.
• You can turn each integration (Obsidian, Logseq, Joplin, Raindrop.io, Readwise Reader, reading list and webhook) on or off in Settings › Integrations.
• You can manage locally saved information in the extension or remove its browser data through your browser.
• You can remove a shared session page from Shared pages in the extension; its link then stops working.
• You can opt in to or stop product updates in Account and cloud settings, or unsubscribe using the link in an update email.
• For questions about account information, access or removal, email smarttabsaver@gmail.com.

Security and changes

We use reasonable safeguards for information handled by the service, but no internet transmission or electronic storage method can be guaranteed completely secure. We may update this policy when the product or its data handling changes. The date at the top of this page will show the latest published revision.