Privacy Policy

Complete Client-Side Processing

Photo EXIF Util processes all images entirely on your device. No image data, metadata, or personal information is ever transmitted to any server.

• No analytics or telemetry of any kind
• No external network requests initiated by the extension
• No data stored outside your browser’s local storage
• No third-party services involved in image processing

Data Handling

Data Type	Storage	Transmission
Image files	In-memory only, never persisted	Never
EXIF metadata	In-memory only	Never
User preferences	chrome.storage.local (your device only)	Never

Host Permissions

This extension declares host_permissions: ["*://*/*"] (http and https URLs).

Justification: This permission is required to fetch image bytes from user-supplied URLs (typed manually or selected via the right-click context menu) so that EXIF analysis can be performed locally in the browser. Manifest V3 enforces CORS on Background Service Worker fetch calls unless the extension holds host permissions for the target origin, which is why this permission is required (not optional).

The permission is used only:

• When the user explicitly enters a URL into the side panel input, or
• When the user explicitly activates the right-click context menu on an image.

It is never used for passive monitoring, tracking, or any background network activity. All fetches happen through the Background Service Worker; content scripts never receive this permission.

Users who only need to analyze locally uploaded files (drag-and-drop or file picker) are not affected by this permission — local file processing does not perform any network requests.

Contact

For privacy questions, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.