Last updated 2026-08-27
BowerBird does not collect, transmit, or sell your browsing data. It installs without permission to read any website, and asks for a single site only when you choose to hide an element on that site.
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| declarativeNetRequest | Lets the browser apply our ad and tracker blocking rules itself. The extension never sees your requests - it only supplies the rule list. This is what makes blocking possible without site access. |
| storage | Saves your rules and settings on your device. |
| scripting | Applies your hiding rules to pages you have granted access to. |
| activeTab | Gives temporary access to the current tab when you click the toolbar icon or use the right-click menu. It expires when you leave the tab. |
| contextMenus | Adds the right-click entry used to start the element picker. |
| Optional site access | Requested per site, from your click, only when you hide your first element there. Revocable at any time in settings. |
There is no host_permissions entry in our manifest. That is why the install prompt does not ask to read and change your data on all websites. You can verify this before installing.
If you buy Pro, activating your key sends the key itself to our licensing server, which returns a signed token. After that the token is checked on your device with no network involved, so Pro keeps working offline. We store the license key and the purchase email that our payment processor gives us. Nothing else. No browsing data is attached to that request.
Declutter examines the page in your browser and never transmits it. Where your hardware provides an on-device language model, short descriptions of candidate elements are passed to that model locally. Where it does not, the same candidates are described using built-in rules. In both cases nothing leaves your machine, and this is enforced by an automated check in our build rather than by policy alone.
Purchases are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as merchant of record and handles payment details. We never see your card. Their privacy policy governs that transaction.
Our website may use privacy-respecting analytics that do not track you across sites. The extension itself contains no analytics of any kind.
BowerBird is not directed at children under 13 and collects no personal data from anyone.
If this policy changes materially, the updated date above changes and the new version is published here before it takes effect.
Questions about this policy: support@hakeemify.com