Effective: October 5, 2026
Applies to: WebRecall 1.1.2 and later, for Chrome and Firefox

WebRecall keeps your notes on your device. There is no server, no account and no analytics, and your data is never sold or shared. The one thing that touches the internet is site icons, explained in section 4. This page explains exactly what WebRecall stores, where it stores it, and what it never does.


WebRecall is a local-first browser extension. Every note, reminder and setting you create is saved in your browser's local extension storage and stays on the device you're using.

The only network request WebRecall makes is to load website icons from Google's public favicon service, which shares the domain name (for example wikipedia.org) of sites you have saved notes about. No page addresses, note content or personal information are ever sent.

You can export everything to a file, or permanently erase everything, at any time from the extension's settings.


| Data | What it contains | Why |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Notes | The text you write, the page URL, title and domain it belongs to, color, pin state and reminder. For "Remember this" notes, the selected text plus a short surrounding excerpt. | Shows each note on the right page, at the exact passage you saved. |
| Visit history | For pages you visit while WebRecall is installed: page URL, title, domain, first and last visit time, and a visit count. | Powers "days since your last visit" and "next time I visit" reminders. |
| Page change snapshots | Only for websites where you turn on "Track changes": a hashed fingerprint of the page's visible text plus a short excerpt. The full page is never stored. | Tells you when a page you follow has changed since your last visit. |
| Website memory | Notes you write about a website as a whole. | A running "what I know about this site" scratchpad. |
| Templates, colors and settings | Your note templates, custom colors, which sites have change tracking on, dismissed change alerts, and preferences such as theme and notifications. | Keeps WebRecall set up the way you like it. |

WebRecall does not record form inputs, passwords, keystrokes or full page contents.


Everything above is saved with the browser's local extension storage (storage.local), never storage.sync. Sync storage is relayed through your browser vendor's servers to your other devices; WebRecall deliberately doesn't use it. Your data stays on the device and browser profile where you created it, readable only by WebRecall.


To display a website's icon in the popup, the dashboard and website pages, WebRecall loads it from Google's favicon service (www.google.com/s2/favicons, which may redirect to gstatic.com). Each request includes the domain name of a site you have saved notes about, for example wikipedia.org.

• No full page addresses, note content or personal information are included.
• Like any web request, Google can see your IP address. Google's handling of these requests is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.
• Apart from site icons, WebRecall makes no network requests.

• Access to websites (content script on all sites): shows your notes on the pages you visit, finds passages you saved, records the local visit history described above, and fingerprints pages you chose to track. Nothing it reads is sent anywhere.
• storage: saves your data locally.
• alarms: schedules time-based reminders.
• notifications: shows a system notification when a reminder is due.
• contextMenus: adds "Remember this" to the right-click menu.
• activeTab: lets the popup know which page you're on when you open it.

• Export: download all your data as a JSON file from Settings.
• Import: restore that file, with a preview before anything changes.
• Delete everything: "Erase All Data" in Settings permanently removes your notes, website memory, visit history, snapshots and templates, with a confirmation step.
• Uninstall: removing the extension deletes all of its stored data.

WebRecall does not sell, rent or share your data, and contains no analytics, tracking or advertising code. The only third-party service involved is Google's favicon service described in section 4.


WebRecall is a general productivity tool and is not directed at children. It does not collect personal information from anyone.


If this policy changes, the effective date at the top will be updated, and the new version will be published here before it takes effect. Any change that would send new kinds of data off your device will be stated explicitly, never folded into a routine edit.


Questions about this policy or how WebRecall handles data: m.elalamy@outlook.com