Privacy Policy - Auto URL Cleaner

Last updated: 2 July 2026

Auto URL Cleaner is built to protect your privacy, so it collects nothing.

What we collect

Nothing. The extension does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any data. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no external server, and no account. Nothing about the pages you visit ever leaves your device.

How it works

• Removing tracking parameters is done with Chrome's declarativeNetRequest API. Chrome applies a fixed, bundled list of rules to strip known tracking parameters (UTM tags, click IDs, etc.) at the network layer, before the request is sent, so the destination server never receives them. The extension never sees the contents of your requests - it only tells Chrome which parameters to drop.
• Cleaning copied links is done by a content script that rewrites the href of links on the page you're viewing, so "Copy link address" gives you a clean URL. This happens entirely in your browser; nothing is read or sent.
• The "Reload original URL" button relies on the webNavigation permission to briefly remember, in memory only, the last address you navigated to for a tab. It is stored in chrome.storage.session, which is never written to disk and is cleared when the browser closes. It is never transmitted anywhere.

What is stored on your device

The only thing saved is your exception list - the domains you choose to exclude from cleaning. It lives in chrome.storage.local on your own machine so your preferences persist. You can clear it any time from the options page, and it is removed if you uninstall the extension.

Permissions, and why

Data sharing

None. There is no third party, no data sale, and no data sharing of any kind.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to the maintainer via the extension's listing page.