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Begin legal stuff here: This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Best Homepage Ever collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a "User") of https://besthomepageever.com website ("Site"), my browser extensions (PinDrop, New Tab, Portal and Trip Catcher) used with Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Opera. This privacy policy applies to the Site and all services offered by Best Homepage Ever.

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

I use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Microsoft Clarity

I partner with Microsoft Clarity to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine online activity. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Portal Extension Privacy Policy

This section applies specifically to users of the Portal browser extension ("the Extension"). New Tab Launcher and PinDrop have their own sections below. The Extension lets you quickly add websites to your Best Homepage Ever dashboard.

What Information the Extension Collects

The Extension collects and stores the following information locally on your device:

Authentication Tokens: When you log in to Best Homepage Ever, the Extension receives and stores your JSON Web Token (JWT) in your browser's local storage. This token is used solely to authenticate your API requests when adding websites to your homepage through the Extension.

Extension Settings: Portal keeps its settings (the category new sites start in, tile color, what right-click does, and desktop notifications) and the last category you used in your browser's extension storage on your device.

Current Tab Information: When you open Portal, it reads the address (URL) and title of your current tab to fill in the "Add this site" form. To show the site's icon and tell you whether the site is already on your homepage, Portal sends that address to Best Homepage Ever at that moment. It's used only to answer those two questions and isn't saved to your account (like any web request, it may appear briefly in standard server logs). The site's address, and the name, category and color you choose, are saved to your homepage only when you add the site.

What Information the Extension Does NOT Collect

The Extension does NOT:

• Track your browsing history or monitor which websites you visit
• Collect personal information beyond what's necessary for authentication
• Read, modify, or access the content of web pages (except on besthomepageever.com to sync your login status, and a brief confirmation message Portal shows on a page after you add it by right-clicking)
• Share your data with third parties
• Use cookies or tracking pixels
• Sell or monetize your data in any way

Extension Permissions

Portal requires the following browser permissions: Storage (to save your authentication token and settings), Active Tab (to read the current tab's URL and title when you use Portal), Tabs (to find open Best Homepage Ever tabs so a new site appears there right away), Scripting (to show the confirmation message after a right-click add and to connect to Best Homepage Ever tabs that were open before Portal was installed or updated), Context Menus (for the "Add to Best Homepage Ever" right-click option), Notifications (for optional desktop confirmations, off unless you turn them on in Portal's settings), and Host Permissions for besthomepageever.com and api.besthomepageever.com (to save sites, load site icons and sync your login status). Firefox lists Scripting under Active Tab and host permissions.

Extension Data Security

All Extension data is stored locally using your browser's secure extension storage. Communication with Best Homepage Ever servers occurs over HTTPS with secure Bearer token authentication. Your authentication token remains stored locally until you log out or uninstall the Extension. The Extension follows the developer policies of each store it's published in, including the Chrome Web Store's Limited Use requirements.

New Tab Launcher Extension Privacy Policy

This section applies to the New Tab Launcher browser extension ("New Tab Launcher"). It opens Best Homepage Ever, or another address you choose, in your new tabs. In Microsoft Edge, and in some other browsers, it also sets Best Homepage Ever as the homepage your Home button opens.

What New Tab Launcher Stores

One setting: whether new tabs open Best Homepage Ever or another address, and that address if you entered one. It's kept in your browser's sync storage, which your browser may copy to your other computers if you're signed in to it. Uninstalling New Tab Launcher removes it.

What New Tab Launcher Does Not Do

• Collect personal information, sign-in tokens or your browsing history
• Read or change the content of web pages
• Send anything to me or anyone else. It makes no network requests of its own.

When a new tab opens Best Homepage Ever, the website sections of this policy apply, as they do for any visit.

Permissions New Tab Launcher Uses

Storage (the setting above) and Context Menus (right-click shortcuts that open Best Homepage Ever, its About page and this extension's help page).

PinDrop Extension Privacy Policy

This section applies to the PinDrop browser extension for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari ("PinDrop"). PinDrop saves content from the web pages you choose to your Snippets on Best Homepage Ever.

What PinDrop Reads, and When

PinDrop only reads a web page when you ask it to save something: by choosing an option in the PinDrop menu, choosing a PinDrop option when you right-click, or pressing the PinDrop keyboard shortcut. What it reads depends on what you save:

• Every save: the page's address (URL), title, site icon and preview image, and the date and time you saved it
• Articles: the readable text and images of the article
• Recipes: the ingredients, steps and other recipe details the page publishes
• Videos: the video's title, thumbnail, length and channel
• Screenshots: an image of the part of the page you select, or of everything on your screen
• Images, links and text: the image's address, the link, or the text you highlighted. Some sites, such as WhatsApp, keep an image only inside the page; for those, PinDrop reads the image itself and sends the file

PinDrop's code is present on the pages you visit so it's ready when you need it, but it doesn't read or send anything from a page you haven't chosen to save. When you open the PinDrop menu, it shows the name of the site you're on. That is read on your device and isn't sent anywhere.

Where Your Saved Content Goes

What you save is sent over a secure (HTTPS) connection to your Best Homepage Ever account and appears in Snippets on your homepage. Screenshots and saved images are stored with Amazon Web Services, my cloud storage provider, at a long, randomly generated web address. That address isn't listed or shared anywhere, but anyone who has the exact address can open the file, so keep that in mind before saving a screenshot of something private.

Your saved content is used only to show it back to you. I don't sell it, share it with advertisers, or use it for any other purpose.

What PinDrop Stores on Your Device

• Your sign-in token: when you're signed in at besthomepageever.com, the site gives PinDrop a sign-in token so your saves go to your account. PinDrop never sees your password. Signing out of Best Homepage Ever removes the token.
• Your PinDrop settings: how screenshots work and whether desktop notifications are on.

Both are kept in your browser's extension storage, and uninstalling PinDrop deletes them.

What PinDrop Does Not Do

• Track or record your browsing history
• Read or send anything from pages you don't save
• Collect your name, email address or password
• Show ads, or include tracking pixels or third-party analytics
• Sell your data or share it with third parties, apart from storing your files with my cloud storage provider as described above
• Run code downloaded from the internet. Everything PinDrop runs is packaged in the extension.

Permissions PinDrop Uses

Context Menus (the right-click options), Tabs and Active Tab (to read the address and title of the page you save, capture screenshots, and refresh your Snippets on open Best Homepage Ever tabs), Scripting (to show the screenshot selection box and save confirmations on the page), Storage (your sign-in token and settings), Notifications (optional desktop notifications, off by default), and access to all websites (so you can save from any site you choose).

Deleting Your Data

You can delete any snippet from Snippets on your homepage. Deleting a screenshot or image snippet also deletes its file from storage. Deleting your Best Homepage Ever account removes your account, your Snippets, and their screenshot and image files.

PinDrop's use of information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Trip Catcher Extension Privacy Policy

This section applies to the Trip Catcher browser extension ("Trip Catcher"). Trip Catcher saves a travel booking (a confirmation email or a booking site's confirmation page) as a trip on your Travel page on Best Homepage Ever.

What Trip Catcher Reads, and When

Only the tab you're on, and only when you open Trip Catcher by clicking its toolbar button. It then looks for the booking on that page: the text you selected if there is any, otherwise the email you have open in Gmail or Outlook on the web, otherwise the page's main content. It shows you what it found and reads nothing else. It doesn't run on pages in the background, read your other tabs or emails, or record your browsing history.

What Trip Catcher Sends

Nothing leaves your browser until you click Save to my trips. Then Trip Catcher sends that booking's text (with images, scripts and page styling removed) and the email's subject or the page's title to Best Homepage Ever, over HTTPS, signed in as you. From there it's handled like a pasted confirmation email (see Travel): my server has an AI model from Anthropic read the trip details out of it (Anthropic doesn't use it to train its models), and I keep only those details (destination, dates, flights, hotel and confirmation numbers) as a trip on your account, not the email or page.

What Trip Catcher Stores in Your Browser

Sign-in token: when you're signed in to Best Homepage Ever, Trip Catcher receives your sign-in token from the website and keeps it in the browser's extension storage on your device, to save trips to your account. Signing out of the website removes it.

Your last save: the result of a save (the trip's name, flights and hotel) is kept in the browser's session storage for 15 minutes, so reopening Trip Catcher on the same page shows it. Closing the tab or the browser clears it.

What Trip Catcher Does Not Do

• Track your browsing history or the websites you visit
• Read pages you haven't opened it on, or run in the background
• Share your trips with airlines, hotels, booking sites or advertisers
• Use cookies or tracking pixels
• Sell or monetize your data in any way

Permissions Trip Catcher Uses

Active Tab (to read the tab you opened Trip Catcher on, only then), Scripting (to find the booking on that tab, and to connect to Best Homepage Ever tabs that were open before Trip Catcher was installed), Storage (your sign-in token and last save), and Host Permissions for besthomepageever.com and api.besthomepageever.com (to save trips and sync your login status).

Deleting Your Data

You can edit or delete any trip on your Travel page. Deleting your Best Homepage Ever account removes your account and your trips. Uninstalling Trip Catcher removes everything it stored in your browser.

Trip Catcher's use of information complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Best Homepage Ever Mac App (Safari) Privacy Policy

The Best Homepage Ever app is the Mac App Store app that brings PinDrop and Portal to Safari. The two extensions inside it work as described in their sections above, with these differences:

• The app itself collects nothing. Its setup window checks whether PinDrop and Portal are turned on in Safari, and remembers on your Mac whether you've marked your homepage as set. None of that is sent to me.
• Safari asks first. Neither extension can read a website until you allow it in Safari's prompt, and you can change that at any time in Safari's settings.
• No desktop notifications. In Safari, confirmations appear on the page instead.
• Storage: your sign-in token and the extensions' settings are kept in Safari's extension storage on your Mac. Deleting the app removes both extensions and that data.

AI Tools (Pro)

The AI tools on my Tools page (Remove Background, Upscale Image, Restore Old Photo, Transcribe Audio & Video, Vocal Remover, and Summarize a PDF) work differently from my file converters. The converters run entirely in your browser and never upload anything. The AI tools can't: they need AI models that run on servers, so the file you choose is uploaded.

• Your file goes through my server to Replicate, the AI service that runs the models. I don't keep a copy of your file or of the result.
• Summarize a PDF works differently: your PDF goes from my server straight to Anthropic, whose AI model reads it and writes the summary (Anthropic doesn't use it to train its models). The PDF isn't uploaded or stored anywhere first, and my server doesn't keep it once the summary is written.
• If you ask Transcribe Audio & Video for a summary too, the transcript's text (not your recording) is also sent to Anthropic to write it, on the same terms.
• Restore Old Photo runs Google's Nano Banana model, which Replicate passes on to Google, so a photo you restore is also processed by Google. Google adds an invisible SynthID watermark to the restored image that marks it as AI-edited.
• I delete your upload from Replicate as soon as the job finishes, fails, or is cancelled. Replicate removes the job's inputs, outputs and logs on its own after an hour.
• The result is sent back to your browser through my server. For about three hours my server keeps the job's ID and your file's name (to name the download), plus any summary you asked for, and only your account can fetch the result.
• I record that a job ran, which tool it used, and your account ID, so I can enforce the usage limits and see how the tools are used. I don't record what was in the file.

AI Backgrounds

When you create a homepage background with AI, the description you type (your prompt) has to go to an AI model that runs on servers.

• Your prompt, with the size and shape you picked, goes through my server to Replicate, which runs Google's Nano Banana model and passes your prompt on to Google. Google adds an invisible SynthID watermark to the image that marks it as AI-generated.
• If you ask the prompt assistant to rephrase a prompt, that prompt is sent to OpenAI to suggest new wording. Asking it for ideas sends only the theme you picked.
• The background I make for you is stored with Amazon Web Services, together with your prompt and your account ID, so it can sit in your gallery. It stays there until you delete it, and deleting it removes the stored image.
• If you share a background with the community, other signed-in users can see it, its prompt, and your first name and last initial. You can stop sharing it at any time.
• I count how many backgrounds your account creates, so I can apply the usage limits.

Travel

The trips you save on my Travel page (destinations, dates, flights, hotels and confirmation numbers) are stored with your account so they show up on any device you sign in on.

• Importing a confirmation email. When you paste a booking confirmation to import it, or save one with the Trip Catcher extension, the text goes through my server to Anthropic, whose AI model reads the trip details out of it. Anthropic doesn't use it to train its models. If the email carries structured booking data, my server reads that directly and nothing is sent to Anthropic. Either way, I keep only the trip details, not the email you pasted.
• Trip reminders. A week before a trip's first flight, I post a reminder to your homepage notifications with the flight details. You can turn it off in Travel settings. If you turn on the email version, the same reminder is sent to your account's email address through Amazon Web Services, my email provider.
• Your trips are a copy. I don't connect to airlines, hotels or booking sites, and I don't watch your bookings for changes. Nothing about your trips is shared with them.

My Places

• The map. When you open My Places, the map loads in your browser straight from Google Maps, so Google receives your IP address and the area on the map, under Google's privacy policy. If you haven't set a location, my server centers the map on Cloudflare's city-level estimate of where your IP address is. I don't store that estimate.
• Searches and place details. These go through my server to Google Places. If you've let this site use your location, it's sent with your searches so the results are near you. I keep searches only in a cache that clears after 30 minutes, plus a count of each search term with no account attached, kept for 35 days.
• Saved places. The places and lists you save are stored with your account so they show up on any device you sign in on.

Interpretation and Definitions

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Best Homepage Ever, 5403 Lodi St, CA 92117.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Country refers to: California, United States
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to Best Homepage Ever, accessible from https://besthomepageever.com
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using My Service, I may ask You to provide me with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, I may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

I may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

I use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies I use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Service. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies. For more information on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read "Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?" available at Adobe Help
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

I use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which I offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to me.
• For other purposes: I may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

I may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: I may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• For business transfers: I may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: I may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case I will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that I control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: I may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your consent: I may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. I will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if I am required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or I am legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. I will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

My Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided me with Personal Data, please contact me. If I become aware that I have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, I take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If I need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, I may require Your parent's consent before I collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. I strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

I may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. I will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

I will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Extension's privacy practices, You can contact me:

• By email: [email protected]