SEO Facet · Privacy

Your browser data stays in your browser.

A detailed, plain-language account of what SEO Facet handles, why it needs that access, and the controls available to you.

Plain-language summary

SEO Facet reads the page you're inspecting so it can show you SEO information about that page, and nothing more. Page content and analysis results stay in your browser. Only the optional checks you explicitly start contact the relevant websites directly, as described below. Two display preferences are stored locally on your device, and three small technical values briefly use browser session storage. None carries page content or personal information.

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Scope

This Privacy Policy explains how the SEO Facet browser extension ("SEO Facet," "the Extension," "we," "us," or "our") handles information when you install or use it, on browsers built on Chromium including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. It does not apply to any website you analyze with the Extension; each of those sites is governed by its own privacy practices, not ours. Nor does it apply to browser services supplied by Google, Microsoft, or another browser vendor.

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Information SEO Facet processes

When you open the panel or press Refresh, SEO Facet reads the content of the page currently open in your active browser tab. Depending on what you use, that can include:

  • Page structure and content: title, meta tags, headings, images, links, Open Graph and Twitter tags, and JSON-LD or microdata structured data, used to show readiness checks, previews, and schema validation.
  • Rendered layout signals: element sizes, colors, and contrast, used only for the local Mobile and Accessibility diagnostics. These never affect your SEO score and never leave your device.
  • Locally observed performance timing: Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS, FCP, TTFB) that your browser exposes for the current page visit, shown only to you.
  • The active tab's URL: read during analysis to identify the page, classify links, resolve relative URLs, reset stale results after navigation, and name exports.
  • HTTP response details: read only when you run one of the optional network checks described under Network requests you initiate.
Processed is not collected. This information is handled inside the extension, on your device, for the sole purpose of showing you the results. SEO Facet does not create a user account, does not ask for any personal information, and does not send page data to us or to a third-party analytics service.
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How information is used

SEO Facet uses page information only to deliver the features you choose to use. That means:

  • computing an SEO readiness score and score-neutral diagnostics for the current page;
  • rendering heading outlines, image and link audits, social previews, and structured-data validation;
  • locating and highlighting the matching element on the page when you click a result;
  • running the Broken Link Check, Sitemap Audit, or Technical Audit once you start one; and
  • building the CSV export or copying a value to your clipboard when you ask for it.

It is not used for advertising, for profiling, or for anything beyond showing you SEO information about the page you asked about.

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Storage and retention

SEO Facet has no backend and does not use remote storage of any kind.

Nothing persists between analyses

SEO Facet does not keep a history of the pages you have viewed. Every time you open the panel, switch tabs, or press Refresh, it reads the current page from scratch, and nothing about the previous page sticks around.

Display preferences in chrome.storage.local

SEO Facet remembers whether you selected the resizable overlay or native dock, along with your preferred overlay width. These two non-personal settings remain on your device until you change them, clear the extension's data, or uninstall the extension. The extension does not sync them.

Short-lived technical values in chrome.storage.session

Three small, non-personal values live in chrome.storage.session, a storage area your browser clears automatically when it closes and never writes to disk.

  • A one-time token, created only when you click the toolbar icon, that lets the overlay panel it opens confirm it was genuinely launched by you rather than embedded by some other webpage. It is used once and then deleted.
  • A brief marker noting that a SEO Facet panel is open for a given tab, so that if you have both the toolbar overlay and the docked side panel open on the same page, each one can let you know the other is also active.
  • A per-tab open/closed flag that restores a resizable overlay the user left open after an eligible same-tab page navigation. Closing the overlay deletes the flag.

Neither value says anything about the page you are analyzing, and neither has anything to do with your browsing history.

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Network requests you initiate

A few optional features request other URLs. Each one runs only when you explicitly start it.

  • Broken Link Check: sends HEAD requests, retrying with GET when needed, to the unique http and https links found on the current page, to report their response status.
  • Sitemap Audit: discovers sitemap directives and nested sitemap indexes, and, if you choose to check its URLs, requests each one, a handful at a time, to report availability.
  • Technical Audit: requests the current page along with its robots.txt file and sitemap directives to assess redirect-aware HTTP status, indexability, and crawlability.

In every case, the request goes directly from your browser to that website. None of it passes through infrastructure we operate, and we never receive, log, or keep a copy of it. The site you contact this way handles your request under its own privacy practices, not ours.

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Browser permissions

Browser stores show broad permission notices because SEO Facet has to work on whatever site you choose to inspect. Each permission below is used only for what is described here.

PermissionWhy SEO Facet needs it
activeTabReads the current page's DOM when you open the panel or press Refresh. Nothing runs continuously, and nothing runs on tabs you have not invoked SEO Facet on.
scriptingInjects the extractor and analyzer into the active tab on demand. There is no persistent, always-on content script.
sidePanelRenders results in the browser's docked side panel.
offscreenDetects whether your OS is set to light or dark mode, so the toolbar icon matches it.
storageRemembers the two non-personal display preferences in chrome.storage.local and holds the two short-lived technical values in chrome.storage.session, as described under Storage and retention.
webRequestObserves redirect responses, the target URL and status, for the page you inspect during a Technical Audit, so redirect chains are reported accurately.
Optional <all_urls>Requested the first time you use Broken Link Check, Sitemap Audit, or Run Technical Audit. It lets those specific features reach the URLs, robots.txt files, and sitemaps they check. Core extraction and CSV export never ask for it.
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Sharing, sale, and advertising

Because SEO Facet does not collect personal data, we do not sell, rent, trade, license, or otherwise disclose it to any third party, and the extension carries no advertising, analytics, telemetry, or tracking pixels.

The extension does not load remotely hosted executable code. Its code and assets ship with the installed extension. We may disclose information if required to by applicable law, though in practice we hold no personal data that such a request could even reach.

SEO Facet uses page information only to provide the user-facing features described in this policy. It does not use or transfer that information for advertising, credit decisions, unrelated purposes, or human review. SEO Facet's use of information received from Chrome APIs complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

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Your controls and privacy rights

You can close the panel or overlay at any time, use Clear All to remove page highlights, revoke the optional site access permission from your browser's extension settings, or uninstall SEO Facet. Any of those removes whatever the extension was holding.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to access, correct, or delete personal data held about you. Because SEO Facet does not collect or store personal data on any server, we generally have none to provide, amend, or erase. If you have questions about these rights, contact us below.

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Security

Because SEO Facet does not collect or transmit your data, the privacy risk here is small by design. Everything stays on your device and under your control, and the extension ships its executable code directly rather than loading it at runtime.

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Children

SEO Facet is a professional tool built for website owners, developers, and marketers. It is not directed at children, and it does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13, through any service we operate.

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International users

SEO Facet processes information locally in your browser no matter where you are. Since nothing is transmitted to us or stored by us, using the Extension does not involve any international transfer of personal data.

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Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as SEO Facet's features or permissions change. Any change shows up as a new effective date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the Extension after an update means you accept the revised policy.

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Contact

Questions about this policy or SEO Facet's privacy practices can be sent to:

seofacet@sutrakara.com