Privacy Policy — Empiric Studio

What the extension does

Empiric Studio captures screenshots of web pages — the full scrollable page or a region you select — and gives you a built-in editor to annotate them before saving. All capture, stitching, cropping, annotation, and export run entirely in your browser. No content is sent to any server.

Data we collect

None. The extension has no analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, and no remote logging. We do not know when, where, or how you use it.

Data stored locally

The extension uses chrome.storage.local to persist your preferences across sessions on your own device:

• Copy-to-clipboard toggle state
• Edit-before-save toggle state
• Capture delay preference (Now / 3s / 5s)

These preferences stay on your device. They are never transmitted and not visible to us or any third party.

During an annotation session, the captured image is briefly held in chrome.storage.session so the editor window can read it. This is a session-scope store that Chrome clears automatically when the browser restarts.

Screenshots you create

Screenshots you capture are processed locally in the extension's background service worker and offscreen document. They are written only to:

• Your local Downloads folder (always)
• Your system clipboard, only if you enable the “Copy to clipboard” toggle

Empiric Studio does not upload, copy, or share your screenshots with any remote service.

Permissions used

• activeTab — capture the content of the currently active tab when you click the extension.
• tabs— read the active tab's URL (for generating filenames) and its window identifier for capture operations.
• scripting — inject the region selector overlay and a page measurement helper into the active tab when you initiate a capture.
• offscreen — perform canvas operations (stitching full-page captures, cropping regions, writing to clipboard) in a background document, required because service workers in Manifest V3 have no DOM.
• downloads — save the final image to your Downloads folder.
• storage — persist the preferences listed above.
• clipboardWrite — copy the final image to your system clipboard when you enable that option.

No host permissions are requested. The extension uses activeTab, which is granted only transiently and only for the tab where you explicitly invoke the extension.

Third-party services

None. The extension does not load any external scripts, fonts, analytics, or services at runtime. All code ships inside the extension package.

Children's privacy

The extension is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the extension: contact@empiricapps.com