Sidedesk

Sidedesk Privacy Policy

Effective date: 24 October 2026

Sidedesk is a Chrome extension made by Emmanuel Shola. It shows your pinned pages, recent pages, and projects in one small panel on every page you visit. This policy explains what Sidedesk stores, where it stores it, and what it never does.

What Sidedesk stores

Sidedesk keeps a small record of the web pages you open in your browser:

• The web address (URL) and title of each page.
• When you last visited it.
• Which pages you pinned, the colour you gave a pin, and the projects you created and the pages you put in them.
• Your settings: the panel position, light or dark theme, and which panel tab you last used.

Sidedesk only records normal web pages (http and https). It never records Chrome's own pages (such as the New Tab page or settings) or other extensions' pages.

In this version Sidedesk does not read the text or content of the pages you visit. It only uses the address and title that Chrome shows in the tab.

Where the data is stored

Everything is stored on your own computer, inside your Chrome profile (in the browser's local storage for this extension). Sidedesk makes no network connections: it does not send anything to us or to anyone else. There is no account, no sign-in, and no analytics or tracking.

How the data is used

Only to show you your own pages inside the Sidedesk panel: to list recent pages, find a page when you search, switch to it, and group pages into projects. Nothing else.

What Sidedesk never does

• Never sells your data.
• Never shares your data with third parties.
• Never sends your browsing data off your computer.
• Never uses your data for advertising or for anything unrelated to the panel itself.

How to delete your data

• Open the Sidedesk panel, click the "⋯" button at the top, choose "Clear all data", and click it again to confirm. This deletes every page, pin and project Sidedesk has stored.
• Removing the extension from Chrome also deletes all of its stored data.

Permissions Sidedesk asks for, and why

• Tabs: to see the address and title of your open tabs so it can list them and switch to them.
• Storage: to remember your pins, projects, and settings on your computer.
• Access to the sites you visit: to show the small floating launcher and panel on each page. Sidedesk does not change the pages themselves.

Changes to this policy

If a future version changes what Sidedesk stores (for example, an optional feature that reads page content), this policy will be updated first and the effective date will change.

Contact

Questions about privacy: emmanuel.shola00@gmail.com