Gorseline — privacy policy
Gorseline is a web page highlighter with notes for Firefox and Opera. The extension stores data only in your browser (storage.local); nothing is sent to Zydeno or anyone else; no analytics.
What is stored, and where
For every page where you highlight text: the page address (without #fragments and tracking parameters such as utm_*), the page title, and for each highlight the quoted text, a few words before and after it, its position on the page, its colour, your note and the dates. Your settings (the last colour used, whether the colour bar appears), the date the extension was installed, whether you finished the tour, and the date of your last backup. Everything is kept in the extension storage of your browser on your device. There is no account, no sync, no advertising, no telemetry and no remote code. The extension makes no network requests.
How pages are read
Gorseline reads the text of a page only to place your highlights on it: when you highlight something, and when it looks for your saved highlights on a page you open again. It does not collect, upload or analyse what you browse. Pages where you have no highlights are not stored. The in-page panel and colour bar run in a closed part of the page that the website's own scripts cannot read.
Permissions
- storage — keeps your highlights, notes and settings in this browser.
- activeTab — lets Gorseline work on the current tab only after you click its button, press its shortcut or use its right-click menu.
- scripting — places the highlighter (marks, colour bar, page panel) into that tab, or into the sites you allowed.
- contextMenus — adds “Highlight with Gorseline” for selected text, “Gorseline: show highlights on this page”, and “Open the library” / “Gorseline help” on the toolbar button.
- Access to websites (optional, http and https) — asked only when you choose “On all sites” in the tour or in Settings, or “Allow on this site” in the popup. With it, your highlights come back by themselves when a page opens. Without it, Gorseline works on a page only when you ask. You can withdraw it in Settings at any time.
- unlimitedStorage (Opera only) — lets a large library go beyond the browser's default 10 MB storage limit. Firefox does not need it.
Gorseline does not request access to your tabs list, history, bookmarks, downloads, cookies or passwords.
Export, backup and deletion
Export (Markdown, HTML, JSON) and backup files are created only when you choose them and are saved to your downloads; they are not encrypted and stay where you keep them. Deleting a highlight removes it from the browser storage. Removing the extension or clearing your browser data deletes everything Gorseline stored, so keep a backup file if you need your highlights later.
Children
Gorseline collects no personal data from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new effective date.
Contact
If you email support, your email provider transmits the message. Questions: [email protected].