Retrospective History

Commitment to Privacy

We believe your browsing history and the content you read should remain private and under your control. This privacy policy explains how our extension handles your data and protects your privacy.

Data Collection and Storage

What the Extension Collects

The extension locally stores on your computer the following data from web pages you visit:

Page text content
Page URL
Page title
Page Favicon
Date and time of visit

How Data is Stored

All browsing data is stored locally on your device using Chrome's storage APIs
No browsing data is ever transmitted from your device to external servers

Data Retention

You control how long your data is stored through the extension's settings
You can choose to store pages indefinitely
You can delete stored data at any time through the extension's interface

Data Usage

Local Processing

All content indexing occurs locally on your device
All search queries are processed locally
No search terms or results are transmitted externally

No External Communications

The extension does not communicate with external servers
No analytics or telemetry data is collected by the extension
No usage statistics are gathered by the extension

User Control

Data Management

You have complete control over your data:

Choose which domains to index or ignore
Set a custom retention period
Delete individual pages from the index
Clear all stored data at any time

Permissions

The extension requires the following Google Chrome browser permissions:

storage: To store indexed content locally
tabs: To access page content for indexing and to display page indexing status for open pages
alarms: To periodically delete data that has aged past the retention period specified in the extension's Settings
favicon: To store the favicon image associated with each indexed page

Security Measures

Limited Scope

The extension only indexes text content
Form data, passwords, and sensitive input fields are not processed
The extension does not have access to incognito mode browsing (unless explicitly enabled by user in Google Chrome browser Settings)