Privacy policy

What the extension does

When you search Google Shopping, TrueStock reads the product names and shop names shown in the results. For each one, your browser visits that shop's own website, finds the product and reads its stock status, then shows a badge on the Google result.

What it reads

• Product titles and shop names on Google Shopping result pages.
• Public product and search pages on shop websites, fetched by your browser without your cookies or logins.
• Shop product pages you open yourself, to show a stock banner. This happens when you arrive from Google, or on every shop if you turn that setting on.

It does not read your search history, passwords, forms, payment details, or pages that aren't shops.

What it stores

Everything stays on your computer, in Chrome's extension storage:

• Your two settings (hide unavailable results; show the banner on every shop).
• What it has learned about each shop's website, such as where its search box goes.
• Simple counts of how often each shop could be checked, shown in the popup.
• Recent stock results, kept for up to 30 minutes so the same product isn't checked twice.

Removing the extension deletes all of this. The popup's Re-learn all shops button clears the shop data at any time.

What shops can see

Because your browser fetches shop pages directly, each shop receives an ordinary page request from your internet connection, as if you had visited. TrueStock sends no cookies with these requests, so shops can't use them to link the request to your account.

Background check

Some shops only show search results once their own JavaScript has run. For those, TrueStock loads the shop's search page and product page inside an invisible background page that belongs to the extension. Nothing appears on your screen, the pages are not added to your browsing history, and each one is closed as soon as its stock has been read.

To let those pages load, TrueStock removes the shop's "don't show me inside another page" instruction for its own invisible page only. Pages you open yourself are never changed. Nothing from those pages is sent anywhere except to TrueStock's badge on your screen. You can turn the background check off in TrueStock's popup.

When you remove TrueStock

Chrome opens a short, optional survey on this website asking why you removed it. The page receives the extension's version number in its address and nothing else. Answering is optional; if you close the page, nothing is sent.

Forms on this website

The feedback form and the removal survey send only what you type or select. They are processed by our website host, Netlify, and used only to improve TrueStock. Email address fields are optional and used only to reply to you. To have a submission deleted, email truestockextension@gmail.com.

The Copy diagnostics button in the extension copies shop names and success counts to your clipboard. Nothing is sent unless you paste it into the feedback form yourself.

Permissions

• storage: to keep the settings and shop data listed above.
• Access to all websites: shops can be any website, so TrueStock needs permission to fetch whichever shop appears in your results.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will appear on this page with a new date. For questions, email truestockextension@gmail.com, or use the feedback form or the support tab on TrueStock's Chrome Web Store page.