citeback-privacy

Citeback Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 15, 2026

Publisher: Louis Liberty LLC

Contact: thelouisliberty@gmail.com

Citeback is a Chrome extension that saves text you copy on webpages so you can search it and copy it again. This policy explains what it handles and what it does not.

Summary

• Everything Citeback saves stays on your device, in your browser’s local extension storage.
• Citeback does not send your data to us or to anyone else.
• There is no account, no sync, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking.

What Citeback stores on your device

When you copy or cut text on a webpage, Citeback saves:

• the copied text;
• the page title and the page address (URL) where you copied it;
• the time you copied it;
• your settings, and a record of when the last capture happened (used for the capture check and the toolbar badge).

By default the saved page address leaves out everything after a “?” or “#”, which can contain tokens or personal details. The one exception is a short list of well-known search and video pages (for example Google, Bing and YouTube search results and video pages), where the search terms or video ID are kept so the saved link opens the same page. Everything else after the “?” on those pages is dropped. If you turn on “Save the full page address” in Settings, the full address is saved. Usernames and passwords written inside an address are never saved.

What Citeback does not capture

• Text in password fields, and in fields marked as card numbers or one-time codes.
• Anything you copy outside the browser, images, or files.
• Anything while capture is paused.
• Activity in Incognito windows (Citeback does not run there unless you allow it in Chrome’s extension settings).

Where data goes

Nowhere. Citeback makes no network requests and has no server. Your clips are stored in chrome.storage.local in your browser profile. They are not encrypted, so anyone with access to your browser profile or computer may be able to read them. Deleting a clip, using “Clear all” or “Clear history”, or uninstalling the extension removes the data from your browser.

Why Citeback needs access to webpages

Citeback requests permission to run on all websites only so it can detect when you copy text and read the page title and address. It uses the storage permission to save your clips and settings locally. It does not use the permission for anything else, and it does not read pages in any other way.

Sharing and selling data

We do not collect, share, sell, or transfer your data. Because the data never leaves your device, we cannot access it.

Children

Citeback is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated effective date. Any change that involves collecting or transmitting data would also be described in the extension’s Chrome Web Store listing.

Contact

Questions: thelouisliberty@gmail.com