Balehoist privacy policy

Effective 3 November 2026. Balehoist: Download Manager is a browser extension published by Zydeno.

In short

The extension stores data only in your browser (storage.local). Nothing is sent to Zydeno or anyone else. There are no analytics, no accounts, no ads and no network requests made by the extension.

What is stored, and where

• Your settings: sound choices, volume, theme, and a mark that the welcome tab has been shown. In storage.local, in your browser.
• A list of your downloads, in Firefox only: file name and path, address, source page, type, size, times and final state. Firefox forgets its own list when it closes, so this keeps yesterday's files findable. It stays in storage.local, holds at most 2,000 entries, and never includes downloads from private windows. You can turn it off and forget the list in Settings. In Opera nothing like this is stored, because the browser keeps its own history.
• Short-lived working state: which failures you have not seen yet and which rows are waiting for Undo. In the browser's session storage, gone when the browser closes.

Removing the extension removes all of this.

Permissions and why they are needed

• downloads: to list your browser's downloads and to pause, resume, cancel, retry and clear them when you ask.
• downloads.open: to open a finished file when you click it.
• storage: to keep what is listed above in your browser.
• offscreen (Opera only): to play the finish sound, because the background part of an extension in Opera cannot play audio itself.

The extension has no access to the websites you visit: no host permissions and no content scripts.

What happens when you use a feature

Retry and Download again ask your browser to fetch the file from its original address, as if you had clicked the link. That request goes from your browser to that site. Open source page opens that page in a new tab. Exporting settings saves a file on your computer, and only you decide where it goes.

Children

The extension collects no personal data from anyone, children included.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will appear at this address with a new date.

Contact

Zydeno, [email protected]