Pixelate — Privacy Policy

Effective: August 23, 2026

Pixelate does not collect, store, or transmit any data about you or your browsing.

• Your browsing stays on your device. The pages you visit, the pictures you reveal and everything the extension sees are never recorded or sent anywhere. There are no accounts, no analytics and no telemetry.
• Settings only. The only thing Pixelate stores is your own settings (on/off, strength levels, per-site switches), kept in your browser's extension storage. If your browser syncs extension data between your own devices, that sync is handled by your browser vendor under their policy.
• Screen-time insights stay local. If you use the screen-time feature, Pixelate keeps a tally — time on YouTube and per video, time on AI chat sites and per conversation, and (only if the capture switch is on) the text of your AI conversations — inside your own browser's local storage, on your device. None of it is uploaded anywhere; you can turn each part off, export it, or erase it all from the settings page, and old entries are deleted automatically on a schedule you control.
• Device sync is optional, and encrypted. Device sync is off until you turn it on. With it on, your settings — and only your settings — are scrambled on your own device with a key made from your setup code, and the scrambled block is stored on Pixelate's server so your other devices can fetch it. The setup code never leaves your device, and the server stores the block under a one-way fingerprint of that code, so nobody running the server can read your settings or work out your code. Screen-time history and revealed-picture memory are never synced — they stay on the device that made them. Turning sync off on a device unhooks that device and changes nothing else.
• Page access. Pixelate needs access to web pages to apply its visual filter to images and videos. It does not read page content beyond what is required to identify media elements, and it never records or transmits anything it sees.
• No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for.

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