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Privacy policy

Last updated October 22, 2026 · applies to WebWell 1.7.0 and this website

Who makes WebWell

WebWell is a free, open-source browser extension for Google Chrome and Brave, made by Adnan, an independent developer. It isn’t run by a company and it has no servers that receive your data. The source code is public on GitHub, so you can check everything on this page.

What the extension stores on your device

Everything below lives in your browser’s local extension storage, on your computer, and nowhere else:

  • Your time tracking: the domain of the tab you’re actively using (for example github.com), how long you spent on it each day, and visit counts. When you’re idle or the window isn’t in focus, nothing is counted.
  • Your choices: which sites you marked productive, neutral or distracting, daily limits, settings, and the Protect options you turned on.
  • Your new tab: your name, optional profile picture, theme, daily focus, tasks, and the sites you add to the dock.
  • Focus sessions and blocking: your session history and how many pages were blocked each day.
  • Music: saved songs and playlists (the heart button), and your music settings.
  • Optional: a parent PIN, stored as a salted one-way hash rather than the PIN itself, and your Gemini API key and chat history if you choose to use Ask WebWell.

What WebWell does not record: full web addresses, page titles, page content, what you type, form data or passwords.

When anything leaves your device

WebWell makes no network requests of its own to report your activity. These features connect to other services, and only when you use them:

  • Ask WebWell (AI chat, optional): works only with your own Gemini API key. When you ask a question, your question and a short summary of your statistics go to Google’s Gemini API. Nothing is sent at any other time. Google’s terms apply to that request.
  • Spotify: when you play something from the Spotify tab, WebWell loads Spotify’s own embedded player and asks Spotify’s public pages for the names, artists and covers of the songs in the link you pasted. Spotify’s privacy policy applies to the player. WebWell never sees your Spotify login.
  • SoundCloud: searches and plays tracks from SoundCloud when you use that tab.
  • Lofi radio: streams from SomaFM when you press play.
  • Search box: a search on the new tab goes to your browser’s default search engine, exactly as typing in the address bar would.

The landmark photos and fonts are bundled inside the extension. The rain, noise and wave sounds are generated on your device, and site icons come from your browser’s own icon cache.

Why WebWell asks for each permission

  • Tabs and web navigation: to see which site is active and to show the page you’re redirected to when something is blocked.
  • Idle and alarms: to pause tracking when you step away and to run the focus timer.
  • Notifications: for time-limit alerts and focus-session reminders.
  • Storage: to keep your data on your device.
  • Offscreen: to keep music playing after you close the new tab.
  • Favicon: to show site icons from your browser’s cache.
  • Search: so the new tab’s search box uses your default search engine.
  • Declarative net request, scripting and access to all sites: to block sites and hide short-video feeds using the browser’s own rules. The adult-site list ships inside the extension, so the sites you visit are never sent anywhere to be checked. WebWell asks for access to all sites only when you switch on a blocking feature, and it doesn’t read what’s on the pages.
  • Spotify, SoundCloud and Google Gemini addresses: so the music features and the optional AI chat can reach their own services.

Children

WebWell isn’t directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone. Parents can use Protect and a PIN to filter adult content and short videos on a shared computer. A PIN can’t stop someone from removing the extension in the browser’s settings, so on a child’s computer also use a supervised browser profile.

This website

  • Analytics, only if you accept. A banner asks first. If you accept, Google Analytics sets cookies and records anonymous visit data (pages viewed, clicks on install and download buttons, your approximate country and the site you came from). If you decline, nothing from Google loads. You can change your choice any time with “Cookie choice” in the footer. Google’s privacy policy applies to that data.
  • It runs no advertising scripts. Fonts and the video are served from this site, not from third parties.
  • It remembers your light or dark mode and your cookie choice in your browser.
  • The site is hosted on Vercel, which may keep standard server logs (such as IP address and the pages requested) for security and reliability. I don’t use them for analytics.
  • Links to GitHub and music services leave this site. Their own policies apply once you’re there.

Your control and deleting your data

Because the data only exists in your browser, you’re in control of it. In WebWell’s Settings you can export a copy as a file, import one, or reset everything. Uninstalling the extension deletes all of it immediately. I hold no copy, so there is nothing for me to send or erase on your behalf.

Changes to this policy

If WebWell’s data practices change, I’ll update this page and the date at the top before the change ships. A new feature that sends data anywhere will be listed above and will only run when you use it.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email info.adnanak@gmail.com.