Last updated: June 22, 2026

Summary

Tab Pulse stores all of its data locally, on your device, using Chrome's built-in chrome.storage.local API. Tab Pulse does not operate any server, does not transmit your browsing data anywhere, and does not share data with any third party.

What Tab Pulse collects

To provide its tab and site statistics, Tab Pulse records, locally on your device only:

• The number of browser tabs you open and close, and the time of day each tab opens.
• The peak number of tabs open concurrently, per day.
• The domain name (e.g. example.com) of sites you visit, and how many times you visit each one.
• The amount of time a given domain's tab is active, focused, and in use (idle time and background-tab time are not counted).
• Any domains you choose to exclude from future site tracking.

Tab Pulse does not record full URLs, page titles, page content, form input, search queries, or any data typed into pages. Only the domain portion of a URL is stored.

What Tab Pulse does not do

• It does not send any browsing data to a server — there is no backend, analytics service, or remote logging of any kind for this data.
• It does not sell or share data with advertisers or any third party.
• It does not track tabs in Incognito windows.
• It does not inject code into the pages you visit.

Network requests

Tab Pulse does not make network requests for analytics, tracking, remote storage, remote code, or site icons. Browsing statistics remain on your device.

Data storage and retention

All statistics are stored using chrome.storage.local, which keeps data on your device and tied to your Chrome profile. Tab Pulse does not use chrome.storage.sync and does not back up or sync your data to any account or cloud service.

You can permanently delete all stored data at any time from the dashboard's "Clear all data" control. Uninstalling the extension also removes all of its stored data from your device.

Permissions Tab Pulse requests, and why

• storage — to save your statistics locally on your device.
• tabs — to detect when tabs are opened, closed, switched, or navigated, to read the URL of the active tab so its domain can be recorded, and to close tabs for a domain when you explicitly use that dashboard or popup action.
• alarms — to periodically save active-time tracking progress so that no more than about 30 seconds of data are ever lost if the browser restarts the extension's background process.
• idle — to detect when you're away from your computer, so idle time is never counted as active time on a site.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change, and a new version will be published with the corresponding extension update.

Contact

For questions about this policy, contact the developer through the support contact listed on the Chrome Web Store listing for Tab Pulse.