Gullturn — privacy policy
Gullturn is an auto refresh and page monitor extension. It reloads browser tabs on a timer you choose and, if you ask it to, checks the page after each refresh for text that appears, text that is gone, or any change.
What is stored and where: your timers (the tab, its page address and title, the interval and watch settings, refresh counters), your site rules (address masks and their settings), a log of the last 50 events and your settings are stored only in your browser, in the extension's local storage (storage.local); the only other item is an on/off flag in the browser's session storage that tells a browser start from a background restart. Nothing is sent to Zydeno or anyone else. There are no accounts, analytics, advertising, telemetry or remote code, and the extension makes no network requests of its own. Refreshing a page means your browser loads that page again from its website, exactly as if you pressed the reload button.
What the extension reads on a page: only on sites where you gave it access (per site, or for all sites if you chose that), and only in tabs that have a Gullturn timer. To watch a page it reads the page's visible text (or the text of one area you picked) after a refresh, compares it in memory with your search text or with a short fingerprint (hash) of the previous look, and keeps only that fingerprint. To wait while you work it notices that you type, scroll or sit in a field, and whether a form on the page holds text you have not sent; it does not read or store what you type. It never reads passwords, cookies or your browsing history, and nothing it reads leaves your browser.
Permissions: activeTab: when you press the Gullturn button or use its right-click menu, the extension may see the address and title of that one tab to start a timer on it. alarms: keeps timers running on time even when the browser unloads the extension's background script. contextMenus: the "Refresh this tab every…" item in the right-click menu. notifications: the system notification when a watched page shows what you wait for. scripting: runs the extension's own small script in a timer tab on sites you allowed, to read the page text for watching and to notice typing. storage: saves timers, rules, the log and settings locally in your browser. offscreen (Opera only): plays the short alert sound, because the background service worker cannot play audio. Site access (optional, asked by the browser when you turn on watching for a site or choose "Allow on all sites"): needed only for watching and for waiting while you type. Without it Gullturn still refreshes tabs. You can remove site access at any time in Gullturn's Settings or in the browser's extension settings. The keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+P by default) is a browser command, not a permission.
Export creates a JSON file only when you ask for it; it contains your site rules and settings, not your timers or log. Import reads only the file you choose. Removing the extension removes its local storage according to your browser's behaviour; exported files remain where you saved them.
If you email support, your email service transmits your message and any attachments you choose to send. Questions: [email protected].