Privacy policy

Last updated: July 16, 2026

Anchor is built so that it does not need to know anything about you. There are no accounts and no analytics, and your browsing never leaves your device. This page explains exactly what the extension stores and where.

What Anchor does not do

• It does not collect, transmit, or sell any personal data.
• It does not track the pages you visit or your search history.
• It does not send images anywhere. The AI image filter is a local model that runs entirely on your device.
• It does not use analytics, telemetry, or advertising identifiers of any kind.

What stays on your device

Anchor stores its working data in your browser's local extension storage only: your settings, your commitment lock (period and state), your custom block and trust lists, the personal note you write to yourself, and anonymous local counters used for your own stats (such as blocked-page counts and streaks). Temporary image-check results are kept in session storage and discarded when the browser closes. All of this stays on your computer and is deleted when you remove the extension.

Network requests the extension makes

• Filtering: blocking rules, safe-search enforcement, and image checks run locally. Checking an image means your browser loads that image — the same request the page itself makes; nothing is sent to us.
• Payments (optional Pro upgrade): if you choose to upgrade, checkout is handled by Stripe on stripe.com — payment details go to Stripe, never to Anchor. After payment, our activation service issues you a random license key; we store that key, the Stripe payment reference needed to validate it, and a masked version of the billing email — for example l••••••@gmail.com — so the extension can remind you which address opens the Stripe billing portal when you want to cancel. The full address is never stored on our side; only the masked form is. We store no names. The extension contacts our server only to check that a key you enter is genuine.
• Unlock-code delivery (optional): when you start a commitment and choose email delivery of the one-time unlock code, the email address you enter and the code are sent to our server, which passes them to our email provider (Resend) solely to deliver that one message. We do not store the address or the code on our server, and they are never used for anything else. If you'd rather share nothing at all, choose the memorable-sentence option, the manual draft, or hard mode — a sentence you make up is hashed and kept on your own device, and never reaches us in any form.

Permissions, plainly

Anchor asks for broad site access because its job is to filter every page: it needs to block adult sites, enforce safe search, and blur explicit images wherever they appear. That access is used for filtering only — never for collecting or transmitting your browsing.

Children

Anchor is a self-control tool intended for adults and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with an updated date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]