Privacy Policy
The short version
Go Private Quickly does not collect, store, transmit, sell, share, or otherwise process any personal data. No analytics. No tracking. No telemetry. No network requests at all. The only thing it remembers is your own settings, and those live exclusively in your browser.
If you're the kind of person who only reads the short version, you're done. Thanks for caring about privacy.
The slightly longer version
I built Go Private Quickly because I wanted a single-click way to open a new private/incognito window. That is the entire purpose of the extension. To do that, GPQ needs exactly one thing from your browser: the ability to remember whether you want a private window to open automatically when the browser starts, or whether you'd rather be asked first.
That preference is stored using chrome.storage.sync
(with a fallback to chrome.storage.local if your
browser sync is unavailable). It never leaves your device,
never leaves your browser, and never reaches me or anyone else.
What we collect
Nothing.
What we store on your device
Three small settings, totalling well under one kilobyte:
| Setting | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
startupMode | off / auto-open / ask-me | off |
askCountdownSeconds | 3 / 5 / 7 | 5 |
askCountdownDefault | cancel / open | cancel |
If you've signed into your browser's sync (Chrome sync, Firefox Sync, etc.) these settings travel with you between your own devices. That sync happens through your browser vendor's infrastructure (Google, Mozilla, etc.) under their privacy policies, not mine. GPQ doesn't operate or have access to those servers.
There's also one tiny key in chrome.storage.local
called onboardingShown, which is just a flag so
the welcome page doesn't re-open every time you reload the
extension during development.
What we transmit
Nothing. There are no network requests in the
extension's code. No fetch, no
XMLHttpRequest, no WebSocket, no image beacons,
no third-party SDKs, no remote scripts, no CDN, no Google
Fonts. Nothing. If you want technical confirmation, the
extension's permissions list in your browser's extension
manager will show that GPQ requests only the
storage permission and no host permissions at
all.
The only "external" links you'll see are in the options page
and onboarding page footers — links to this website and a
mailto: link to the support email. Those links
only do anything when you click them. Until then, no
requests are made.
What permissions GPQ requests, and why
Only one: "storage". That's the permission
required to save the three settings above. GPQ does not
request, and does not have access to:
- Your browsing history
- Your tabs' URLs or content
- Your cookies, cache, or downloads
- Your bookmarks
- Any specific websites (no host permissions)
- Your location, microphone, camera, or any other sensor
- Anything else
Third parties
There are no third parties. No analytics provider, no error-reporting service, no payment processor, no ad network, no CDN. GPQ is a single self-contained extension with no external dependencies at runtime.
Children
GPQ doesn't collect anything from anyone, so there's nothing child-specific to disclose. It's safe for any age group that's old enough to use a web browser.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will live at this same URL with a new "Last updated" date at the top. Material changes will be called out in the changelog of any release that introduces them.
Contact
If you have a privacy question or want to verify any of the above, email me at [email protected].