Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 24, 2026
Earmark is a browser extension that saves your browser windows so you can pick up where you left off. It is made by Nikhil Thakur ("we") and built to work entirely on your computer.
The short version
- Earmark has no servers. Nothing you save is uploaded anywhere.
- If you buy Earmark Pro, only your license key is checked with our payment provider, Dodo Payments.
- There is no account, no tracking, no analytics and no advertising.
- Your data is not sold or shared, because we never have it.
- You can export or delete all of your data at any time.
What Earmark stores, and where
All of the following is stored only in your browser profile, on your computer.
| Data | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Address and title of each tab in a window you pause | When you pause | To reopen the tabs |
| Tab order, the active tab, pinned tabs, and tab group names and colours | When you pause | To rebuild the window as it was |
| Scroll position, page height, and up to 120 characters of visible text near the top of your screen | When you pause | To bring you back to the same spot |
| Session names, categories, notes (with their dates and links to other sessions) and notes on single tabs | When you edit them | To remind you what you were doing |
| Settings and simple counters, such as how many sessions you've saved | When they change | To remember your choices |
In memory only, cleared when the browser closes: if you allow site access, Earmark keeps the last scroll position of open tabs, so it can keep your place in tabs Chrome has put to sleep. It also keeps a small record of each open window's tab addresses, titles, pinning and groups (never page content), so that a window you close without pausing can still be kept. Private windows are never recorded.
Windows closed without pausing: when you close a window holding three or more pages without pausing it, Earmark saves it on your computer like a paused session. It is deleted after 24 hours (30 days with Earmark Pro) unless you choose to keep it. You can turn this off in Settings.
Earmark does not read or store form fields, passwords, anything you type into web pages, cookies, page contents beyond the short snippet above, or your browsing history outside the windows you pause.
Voice notes
Voice notes are optional, and the microphone is used only while you're dictating. Earmark never records, stores or sends audio itself; it uses your browser's built-in speech recognition.
- By default, Chrome's online speech recognition is used: while you dictate, Chrome sends the audio to Google's speech service to turn it into text. Earmark tells you this while it listens. Google's handling of that audio is covered by Google's privacy policy.
- In Settings you can choose On this device instead: the audio is processed on your computer and never leaves it.
The resulting text becomes part of your note and is stored on your computer like any other note.
Earmark Pro and payments
Earmark Pro is sold through Dodo Payments, our merchant of record, which processes your payment, handles sales tax and sends your receipt and license key. Dodo Payments receives the details you enter at checkout, such as your name, email address, billing country and payment details, and handles them under its own privacy policy. We never see your card or payment details. We can see your name, email address and order details in Dodo Payments, and use them only to support your purchase, for example to resend a lost license key or process a refund.
When you activate Pro, Earmark sends Dodo Payments your license key and a device label (such as "Earmark on macOS") so Dodo can confirm the key is valid. Earmark checks again about once a week, and tells Dodo when you remove Pro from a browser. That's all it sends: nothing about the pages you visit or the sessions you save.
This website
This website uses no cookies, analytics or tracking. Like any website host, our hosting provider may keep short-term server logs, such as IP addresses, to keep the service secure.
Your choices and rights
- Export: Settings, then Export backup, downloads all your sessions as a file.
- Delete: delete any session from the dashboard. Deleted sessions stay in Recently deleted for 30 days, then are removed. Settings, then Delete all data, removes everything at once.
- Uninstall: removing the extension deletes all of its data from your browser.
- Purchase records: you can ask us to access, correct or delete the purchase details we hold, by emailing us. Some records may have to be kept for tax and accounting law.
If you're in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you have rights under the GDPR, including access, correction, deletion and objection, and the right to complain to your local data protection authority. If you're in California, you have similar rights under the CCPA. We do not sell or share personal information.
Children
Earmark is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: nikhilt626@gmail.com