The extension,
privately.
VeryWWW for Chrome · version 2.40.6 · in effect from 27 October 2026
This notice covers the VeryWWW extension for Chrome: the new tab, the side panel, Quick controls and the floating window. The website has its own notice.
In short: your things stay in your browser. There is no VeryWWW account, no VeryWWW server, no analytics and no advertising. We never receive what you save, and nothing is sold. A few features talk to another service, and only when you use them. This page names each one.
What stays on your computer
Your words and walls, tools, notes, to-dos, calendar events, countdowns, habits, prompts, focus history, the Shelf and its folders, and your settings are kept in your browser’s storage for VeryWWW, on this computer. They go nowhere else unless you choose one of the copies described below.
Aim to file
Aim to file saves what you point at on a page: a passage, a product and its price, a post and its author, or an email’s subject and text on Gmail and Outlook on the web (up to 6,000 characters). It keeps the page’s address and the details you see, in the Shelf folder you pick.
Form fields, text you are editing and areas a site marks as private are left out, even inside a card you point at. These checks can’t recognise every kind of personal information, so what you choose to save can still be personal.
A small picture of the part you picked is optional. VeryWWW leaves it out when the page shows private fields, frames or content it can’t inspect, or when the page is moving or changing. Pictures stay on this computer: they are never synced or put in backup files, and moving an item to Trash, or undoing a capture, deletes its picture.
Recent activity
So that “Continue where you left off” and the command bar know what you use, VeryWWW keeps your last 60 launches on this computer, with any search text you submitted, and counts which commands you choose. Turning off “Keep a local history of launches” in Settings → Privacy & data clears both.
Copies you choose to make
Chrome sync is off until you turn it on. Then your tools and their addresses, groups, desks, prompts, headline words, settings and weather city (with its coordinates) travel with your Chrome account in Chrome’s own sync storage, under Google’s terms. Notes, to-dos, calendar events, the Shelf, recent activity, your own images and calendar addresses never sync.
Folder sync is off until you pick a folder in Settings → Privacy & data. Then VeryWWW writes each note there as a Markdown file, and once a day a full backup, keeping the last 14. If that folder is in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or a similar service, that service receives the files under its own terms.
Export saved content downloads one file with your setup, Canvas, Shelf, notes, to-dos and recent activity. Calendar addresses are left out. A backup file can hold personal information, so keep it private. Restore from backup shows what a file contains before anything changes.
Daily snapshots are saved inside this browser, once a day, and the last seven are kept. They never leave the computer. Until a snapshot ages out, it still holds things you have since deleted. Settings → Privacy & data → Delete snapshots removes them all.
Services VeryWWW talks to
Search. A search you submit goes to the search engine you chose, or to Chrome’s own engine when you keep “Browser default”.
Tools and prompts. Opening a tool opens its site, which makes its own requests under its own policy. When you send a prompt to an AI site, VeryWWW opens that site with your question, or, once you allow that site, types it into its message box. You send it yourself.
Weather, from Open-Meteo. Nothing is fetched until you choose a city. While you search, the letters you type go to Open-Meteo’s place search. Then the city’s coordinates go to its forecast, for the weather and the day’s sunrise and sunset. No cookies or referrer go with these requests, though Open-Meteo sees your IP address, as any site does. VeryWWW never reads your device’s location.
Calendars you subscribe to. A private calendar address from Google Calendar, Outlook or iCloud is read straight from that provider about every 30 minutes. Chrome asks your permission once per provider. The address works like a password, so it stays on this computer: it is never shown in full, synced or put in backups. Removing the subscription stops it.
Site icons, from Google. With “Use site icons” on (the default), a tool without an icon of its own (one you uploaded, or one VeryWWW carries for well-known sites) shows its site’s logo from Google’s icon service. Only the site’s name is sent, like example.com: never a page, a search, or an address that exists only on your own network. Turn off “Use site icons” in Settings → Appearance to stop it.
Spotify. Now playing works with Spotify’s web player in your own open.spotify.com tab. It reads what’s playing there, sends play, pause and skip to it, and loads the album artwork from Spotify’s image server. VeryWWW never signs in to Spotify or keeps a token.
On your computer only
Your browser’s lists. Open tabs, recently closed tabs, most visited sites, downloads and bookmarks are read only when you turn on what shows them, and Chrome asks you first. They are not sent anywhere. Something you save from them, as a tool, a desk or a Shelf item, is kept like anything else you save.
Pages. VeryWWW reads or changes a page only when you use one of its right-click items, a keyboard shortcut or Aim to file there: to save it, file from it, dim it, open it in a private window, or summarise it or rewrite a selection with Chrome’s built-in AI, which runs on your computer. Quick controls reads the title and address of the tab you opened it from, so it can offer to save that page.
The clipboard. “Paste from clipboard” in Paste and Ask reads the text once, when you click it, and checks it on your computer for anything private before it goes anywhere.
Permissions
At install, VeryWWW asks for: storage, alarms, search, the side panel, right-click menus, one-off access to the page you act on (activeTab and scripting), an offscreen document that saves Aim to file captures while the side panel is closed, and Chrome’s own site icons (favicon).
Everything else is asked for only when you turn on the feature that needs it: open tabs, recently closed tabs, most visited sites, downloads, bookmarks, the clipboard, notifications, display sizes (for arranging windows on several screens), a calendar provider, Spotify’s web player, or one site at a time that you choose to file from or send a prompt to.
Limited use
VeryWWW uses what Chrome gives it only to run the start page, your saved things and the features described here. It is not used for advertising, sold, used to decide credit or lending, or read by the developer. It moves only in the ways this page describes.
Removing your data
You can delete anything you saved, clear recent activity, remove a calendar subscription and delete snapshots in Settings. Removing VeryWWW from Chrome deletes everything it stored in this browser. It can’t reach files you exported, a folder you synced to, or other computers where Chrome sync is on: delete those copies there, and clear synced data in your Chrome account settings.
Changes and questions
When what VeryWWW keeps or sends changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top says when. Questions go to hello@verywww.com, and Support has answers to the common ones.