honest-price-tracker

Privacy Policy for Honest Price Tracker

Last Updated: March 17, 2026
Effective Date: March 17, 2026

Our Core Commitment

Honest Price Tracker is built on one simple principle: Your data belongs to you.

Unlike other price tracking extensions (like Honey), we:

This isn’t marketing speak. This is how our extension is fundamentally architected.

What Data We Collect

Data Stored Locally on Your Device

The following data is stored exclusively on your device using Chrome’s local storage:

  1. Tracked Product Information
    • Product URLs you choose to track
    • Product titles
    • Current and historical prices
    • Product images (URLs only)
    • Timestamp of when you added the product
  2. Price History
    • Historical price data for tracked products
    • Stored in your browser’s IndexedDB
    • Limited to last 100 price points per product
  3. Your Settings
    • Price check frequency
    • Notification preferences
    • Custom alert thresholds

Data We Do NOT Collect

We explicitly do not collect:

How We Use Your Data

Short answer: We don’t “use” your data because we never have access to it.

All data processing happens locally on your device:

  1. Price Extraction: When you visit Amazon, eBay, or Walmart, our extension reads the product page in your browser to extract price information. This happens entirely on your device.

  2. Price Monitoring: Our background service worker checks tracked product pages from your browser at intervals you set. No data is sent to any server.

  3. Notifications: When prices drop, we use Chrome’s notification API to alert you. No external service is involved.

Data Storage Location

All data is stored in Chrome’s built-in storage mechanisms:

  1. chrome.storage.local: For tracked products and settings
  2. IndexedDB (future): For price history
  3. No external servers: We don’t operate any servers to store your data

You can verify this yourself:

  1. Open Chrome DevTools (F12)
  2. Go to Application → Storage
  3. Check IndexedDB and Local Storage
  4. You’ll see all your data stored locally

Data Sharing

We never share your data because we never have access to it.

Specifically:

How We’re Different from Competitors

Honey (PayPal)

Honest Price Tracker:

Keepa

Honest Price Tracker:

Technical Architecture (For Transparency)

How Price Extraction Works

// This code runs ONLY in your browser
function extractAmazonPrice() {
  // Read price from the page you're viewing
  const price = document.querySelector('.a-price-whole')?.textContent;
  
  // Store locally in YOUR browser
  chrome.storage.local.set({ currentPrice: price });
  
  // NO network request is made
  // NO data is uploaded
}

Offline Test

You can verify our privacy commitment:

  1. Disconnect your internet
  2. Use the extension (track products, view history)
  3. Everything still works

Why? Because we never need to contact any server. Everything runs on your device.

Permissions Explained

Our extension requests the following Chrome permissions:

1. storage

Why: To save your tracked products and settings locally What we do: Store data in chrome.storage.local (on your device) What we DON’T do: Upload this data anywhere

2. notifications

Why: To alert you when prices drop What we do: Use Chrome’s built-in notification API What we DON’T do: Send notifications through any third-party service

3. alarms

Why: To schedule periodic price checks What we do: Use Chrome’s alarm API to wake up our service worker What we DON’T do: Contact any external server

4. host_permissions (Amazon, eBay, Walmart)

Why: To read product information when you visit these sites What we do: Extract price and title from the page you’re viewing What we DON’T do: Track your browsing or access other sites

Your Rights (GDPR, CCPA, and Beyond)

Even though we don’t collect data, we respect your rights:

Right to Access

You have full access to all data stored by the extension:

Right to Deletion

You can delete data at any time:

Right to Portability

Export your data anytime:

Right to Object

You control what we process:

Right to be Forgotten

Simply uninstall the extension. Since we have no servers, there’s nothing for us to “forget” — your data never left your device.

Cookies and Tracking

We do not use cookies. Period.

Unlike other extensions:

We specifically never:

Browser Fingerprinting

We do not collect browser fingerprints.

We don’t collect:

Tracking Prevention

We don’t track you because tracking is fundamentally incompatible with our architecture.

Data Security

Since all data is stored locally on your device:

  1. Your responsibility: Keep your device secure with a strong password
  2. Chrome’s security: Your data is protected by Chrome’s built-in security
  3. No server breaches: Since we have no servers, there’s nothing for hackers to breach
  4. Encryption at rest: Chrome encrypts your local storage automatically
  5. No man-in-the-middle attacks: Since there’s no network communication, there’s nothing to intercept

Data Retention

You control data retention:

Children’s Privacy

Honest Price Tracker does not knowingly collect data from children under 13. Since we don’t collect any data at all, this is inherently compliant with COPPA.

Changes to This Policy

If we ever make changes to this privacy policy, we will:

  1. Update the “Last Updated” date at the top
  2. Notify you via an extension update
  3. Require your consent if the changes are material

We commit to never adding data collection without explicit user consent.

Third-Party Services

We use ZERO third-party services.

Specifically, we do NOT use:

Our extension loads ZERO external resources. You can verify this in Chrome DevTools → Network tab.

Compliance

GDPR (European Union)

Status: Fully compliant

Since we don’t collect, process, or store personal data on any server, we have no GDPR obligations. All data remains on your device, under your control.

Specific GDPR rights:

CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)

Status: Fully compliant

We don’t “sell” data because we never have access to it. You have full control over your data through Chrome’s storage management.

Specific CCPA rights:

PIPEDA (Canada)

Status: Fully compliant

No personal information is collected, so PIPEDA obligations do not apply.

Other Jurisdictions

Our architecture inherently complies with all privacy laws because we don’t collect data.

Countries with strong data protection: 🇪🇺 EU, 🇬🇧 UK, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇨🇦 Canada, 🇦🇺 Australia, 🇧🇷 Brazil, 🇯🇵 Japan, 🇰🇷 South Korea — all covered by our local-only architecture.

Verification and Auditing

Open Source

Our code is fully open source on GitHub:

Offline Test

  1. Install the extension
  2. Disconnect internet
  3. Verify it still works
  4. This proves no data upload

DevTools Inspection

  1. Open Chrome DevTools (F12)
  2. Go to Network tab
  3. Use the extension
  4. See zero network requests to external servers

Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy:

This extension is provided “as is” under the MIT License. By using it, you agree to:

  1. This privacy policy
  2. Our Terms of Service (coming soon)
  3. Chrome Web Store’s policies

Summary (TL;DR)

We built this extension because we were tired of tools that hijack cookies and steal data.

Our commitment is simple:

This isn’t a marketing promise. This is our architecture.

If you find any evidence that we’re violating this policy, please report it immediately. We’ll fix it or shut down the extension.

Privacy first. Always.

Version: 1.0
Last Reviewed: March 17, 2026

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