Your data stays yours.All of it. Always.

What Hider stores

When you hide something on a page, Hider saves a small description of that element so it can hide it again on your next visit. This includes things like the element's position in the page, a snippet of its text, and a readable name shown in your hidden-items list. These records are keyed to the website they belong to.

That is the only data Hider creates. It is stored with Chrome's built-in extension storage, which lives on your device and, if you are signed into Chrome with sync enabled, in your own Google account so your hides follow you across devices. We never see it. We could not see it if we wanted to; there is no server to send it to.

What Hider never does

• No collection. Hider does not collect, transmit, or share any personal data, browsing history, or page content.
• No tracking. There are no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporters, and no third-party scripts.
• No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for and no profile of you anywhere.
• No selling. There is no data to sell, and there never will be.

Why Hider needs access to websites

Chrome will tell you that Hider can "read and change all your data on all websites". That permission exists for exactly one reason: to let you hide elements on any site you choose, and to re-hide them automatically when a page loads. Hider reads a page only to find the elements you already hid, and changes a page only by hiding what you asked it to hide.

Deleting your data

Restore an item from the popup and its record is deleted. Restore a whole site and that site's records are deleted. Uninstall the extension and Chrome removes everything it stored. There is no copy anywhere else, so that is genuinely the end of it.

Changes and contact

If this policy ever changes, the new version will appear on this page with a new effective date. Since Hider's design makes data collection impossible, meaningful changes are unlikely.