MinuteTrailYOUR BROWSING HISTORY STAYS YOURS
Privacy policy
Effective September 16, 2026 · Applies to MinuteTrail 0.1.0
MinuteTrail measures website time on your device. We do not receive your browsing records, sell them, or send them to analytics or advertising services.
MinuteTrail is maintained by kunatastic. This policy covers the MinuteTrail browser extension and this project website. The extension’s purpose is to show you how much time you spend on focused websites.
1. What the extension processes
MinuteTrail reads the active tab’s URL to identify its hostname, such as example.com. It also checks browser-window focus, tab identity, page focus and fullscreen state, and whether the system is active, idle, or locked. It processes these signals locally to start and stop time accounting.
The extension stores the following in your browser profile:
- Website hostnames and daily totals for focused time and fullscreen time.
- Recent activity segments, including start and end timestamps, hostname, tab identifier, and fullscreen status.
- The current tracking cursor, your pause setting, and technical status or recovery information.
- A random browser-session token used to avoid counting time while the browser was closed. It is not an account ID and is not transmitted.
Full URL paths, query strings, fragments, credentials, and page titles are not saved. MinuteTrail does not record page text, forms, passwords, cookies, keystrokes, clicks, screenshots, or desktop-app activity. Incognito tracking is disabled.
2. How data is used and shared
Browsing records are used only to calculate and display your website-time statistics. They are stored in local browser-extension storage, separately for each browser profile. MinuteTrail does not use cloud sync, an account system, remote analytics, advertising, or a browsing-data backend.
The extension does not transmit browsing records to the developer or to third parties. We do not sell or share those records, use them for advertising, or use them to determine creditworthiness or lending eligibility. The developer has no remote access to your locally stored records.
MinuteTrail’s use of information received from Chrome APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. That information is used only to provide the extension’s stated website-time tracking function.
3. Why browser permissions are needed
| Permission or access | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Tabs | Identify the active website and respond to tab changes. |
| Storage | Keep time totals, recent sessions, settings, and tracking state on your device. |
| Idle | Pause accounting after 60 seconds without input or when the screen locks. It does not capture your input. |
| Alarms | Periodically checkpoint elapsed time in the background. |
| HTTP and HTTPS pages | Run a small content script that reports page focus and fullscreen status. It does not read page text or form contents. |
4. Retention and recovery
Normal history keeps the most recent 30 local calendar days of daily totals and at most 200 recent activity segments. Older records are pruned when tracking state is updated; if the extension is disabled or not running, pruning waits until it runs again.
If the extension detects malformed stored history, it preserves the most recent damaged snapshot in a local recovery backup before starting fresh history, and displays a warning. This backup is not subject to the normal 30-day pruning and remains until replaced by a later recovery backup or removed with the extension’s local data. Unknown storage versions are preserved rather than silently reset.
5. Your choices and deleting data
You can pause or resume tracking using the toolbar popup or dashboard. Pausing or disabling the extension stops new tracking; it does not erase existing records.
To remove MinuteTrail’s locally stored history and recovery backup, uninstall the extension from the browser profile where it is installed. In Chrome, open chrome://extensions, find MinuteTrail, and choose Remove. Repeat this in each profile or browser where you installed it. There is no separate clear-history button in the current version.
Because we do not receive a copy of your browsing records, we cannot retrieve, export, or delete them remotely on your behalf.
6. Security
Data is kept within your browser’s extension storage and is not separately encrypted by MinuteTrail. The extension requests that local history storage be restricted to trusted extension contexts. Your browser profile, device access controls, and any device backups also affect who can access local data.
7. This website and support
This website does not run analytics, advertising scripts, trackers, or forms, and its own code does not set cookies or store visitor information. It does not access the extension’s browsing records.
Static hosting providers may process ordinary web-request information, such as your IP address, browser information, and the page requested, to serve and protect the website. If you visit a GitHub Pages-hosted version of this site or follow a GitHub link, GitHub’s processing is described in its privacy statement. Hosting request data is separate from the extension’s local browsing history.
If this site is hosted on Vercel, Vercel processes hosting request information under its privacy policy. No extension browsing records are sent to Vercel.
If you contact us through GitHub, your message and account information are handled by GitHub and are visible to the project maintainers. Public issues are public: do not include browsing history or other sensitive personal information.
8. Changes and contact
We will update this page and its effective date when the extension’s data practices change. For questions about this policy, contact the maintainer through the MinuteTrail issue tracker.