Effective date: April 2025 | Last updated: April 2025
Summary: PrivyShi collects no personal data whatsoever. No email content is ever read, stored, or transmitted. The extension runs entirely within your browser. No accounts, no servers, no tracking.
1. About This Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how PrivyShi (“the Extension”), a Google Chrome browser extension developed and published on the Chrome Web Store, handles your data. This policy applies to all users of the Extension.
By installing and using PrivyShi, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this policy.
2. What PrivyShi Does
PrivyShi is a browser extension that scrambles the visual display of sensitive email information — including sender names, email addresses, subject lines, and inbox preview snippets — on supported email services. Protected content is displayed as randomised characters and is revealed to the user only when they hover their cursor over the text. All of this functionality executes entirely within the user’s browser.
Supported email services
3. Data We Do Not Collect
PrivyShi does not collect, read, store, process, or transmit any of the following:
| Data Type | PrivyShi’s Handling |
|---|---|
| Email content | Never read or accessed |
| Sender names / addresses | Displayed visually; never extracted |
| Subject lines | Displayed visually; never extracted |
| Personal information | Not collected |
| Browsing history | Not accessed |
| Authentication credentials | Not accessed |
| Financial or health data | Not accessed |
| Device identifiers | Not collected |
| Usage analytics | Not collected |
| Crash reports | Not collected |
4. How the Extension Processes Information
PrivyShi operates by modifying the CSS and DOM (Document Object Model) of already-rendered web page elements within your browser tab. Specifically: