Anchor is built so that it does not need to know anything about you. There are no accounts, no analytics, and your browsing never leaves your device.

WHAT ANCHOR DOES NOT DO

• It does not collect, transmit, or sell any personal data. • It does not track the pages you visit or your search history. • It does not send images anywhere. The AI image filter is a local model that runs entirely on your device. • It does not use analytics, telemetry, or advertising identifiers of any kind.

WHAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE

The extension stores its working data in your browser's local extension storage: your settings, your commitment lock (period and state), your custom block and trust lists, the personal note you write to yourself, and anonymous local counters used for your own stats such as blocked-page counts and streaks. Temporary image-check results are kept in session storage and discarded when the browser closes. All of this stays on your computer, and removing the extension deletes it.

NETWORK REQUESTS THE EXTENSION MAKES

Filtering: blocking rules, safe-search enforcement and image checks all run locally. Checking an image means your browser loads that image — the same request the page itself makes. Nothing is sent to us.

Payments (optional Pro upgrade): if you choose to upgrade, checkout is handled by Stripe on stripe.com — payment details go to Stripe, never to Anchor. After payment our activation service issues a random licence key. We store that key, the Stripe payment reference needed to validate it, and a masked version of the billing email (for example l••••••@gmail.com) so the extension can remind you which address opens the Stripe billing portal when you want to cancel. The full address is never stored on our side. We store no names. The extension contacts our server only to check that a key you enter is genuine.

Unlock-code delivery (optional): when you start a commitment and choose email delivery of the one-time unlock code, the email address you enter and the code are sent to our server, which passes them to our email provider (Resend) solely to deliver that one message. We do not store the address or the code, and they are never used for anything else. If you would rather share nothing at all, choose the memorable-sentence option instead — a sentence you make up is hashed and kept on your own device, and never reaches us in any form.

Feedback (optional): if you use the in-extension feedback form, the email address and message you type are sent to us so we can reply.

PERMISSIONS, PLAINLY

Anchor asks for broad site access because its job is to filter every page: it needs to block adult sites, enforce safe search, and blur explicit images wherever they appear. That access is used for filtering only — never for collecting or transmitting your browsing.

THE OPTIONAL WINDOWS APP

Anchor for Windows is a separate, optional download and is not part of this add-on. If you install it, it keeps its own record of your commitment — the end date and nothing about your browsing — outside the browser, so that removing the extension cannot end a commitment early. It shows a licence agreement covering this before anything is changed. Full details: https://anchorcommit.com/privacy

CONTACT

anchorcommitsupport@gmail.com — Anchor, a sole trader based in the United Kingdom. Full policy: https://anchorcommit.com/privacy