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Brighter Days Privacy Policy

Effective date: September 25, 2026
Last updated: September 25, 2026

Brighter Days is a Chrome extension that helps people approach websites deliberately through reflection prompts, offline alternatives, preparation actions, and timed browsing sessions. This policy explains what information the extension processes and how that information is handled.

Summary

Brighter Days works locally in your browser. It has no user accounts, developer-operated backend, advertising, analytics, or external API integration. Information entered into or generated by the extension is not transmitted to the developer or sold or shared with third parties.

Information processed by the extension

Brighter Days processes the minimum information needed to provide its features:

• Intentions and reflections that you type into the extension.
• The offline activity and preparation action you select, including custom text you provide.
• The address of the website you are trying to open, including its domain, path, query, and fragment when present. This lets the extension apply your access rules and return you to the requested page after the entry steps.
• Session information, including whether a session applies to one website or all eligible websites, its start time, and its expiration time.
• Temporary entry-step information, including the current step and the timestamps used to enforce required pauses.
• The websites you place on your Direct access and Always intentional lists.

Brighter Days does not create a separate browsing-history log. It does not read page body content, passwords, authentication credentials, payment information, or information entered into ordinary websites.

How information is used

The extension uses this information only to:

• Decide whether a website should open directly or show the Brighter Days entry steps.
• Preserve and reopen the exact page you requested.
• Enforce the sequence and timing of reflection, intention, offline activity, preparation, and session steps.
• Apply site-specific and global session expiration times across tabs and browser restarts.
• Apply your Direct access and Always intentional preferences.
• Offer a reflection step when you return within five minutes after a session expires.

The information is not used for advertising, profiling, productivity scoring, credit decisions, or automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

Storage and retention

Brighter Days uses Chrome extension storage on your device:

• Pending entry-step information is stored per tab in session storage. It is removed when the entry process finishes or the related tab closes.
• Active session records and website-list preferences are stored in local extension storage so they continue to work across tabs, page navigation, service-worker suspension, and browser restarts.
• Expired session records may remain until the extension next checks them. A recently expired record can be retained for up to five minutes to support the reflection step, then is consumed or removed.
• Website-list preferences remain until you change them or remove the extension.

Brighter Days does not provide a single in-extension control that clears every stored record. You can edit the website lists from the extension popup. Removing the extension from Chrome removes its extension storage.

Sharing and transfers

Brighter Days does not transmit extension data to the developer or third-party servers. It does not sell, rent, license, or otherwise disclose extension data to third parties. Because no extension data is sent off your device, the extension does not perform international data transfers.

Chrome permissions

Brighter Days requests these permissions:

• Storage: Saves website lists, pending entry steps, intentions, reflections, and session deadlines in Chrome extension storage.
• Web navigation: Detects navigation on websites that change their address without fully reloading, so the entry rules can be applied consistently.
• Access to HTTP and HTTPS websites: Reads the current destination address to decide whether the entry steps apply and to preserve the requested destination. Brighter Days does not use this access to read page body content.

Security

All executable code is packaged with the extension. Brighter Days does not load remote code. Local extension storage is restricted to trusted extension contexts where Chrome supports that protection. No method of local storage is completely immune to access by someone who controls your browser profile or device, so avoid entering highly sensitive information into free-text fields.

Children’s privacy

Brighter Days does not knowingly collect personal information from children or anyone else because extension data is not transmitted to the developer. Any information entered into the extension remains under the control of the browser profile and device owner.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated if Brighter Days changes how it processes information. The effective date and last-updated date at the top of this page will be revised when material changes are made.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, use the developer contact information or support link displayed on the Brighter Days listing in the Chrome Web Store.