Privacy Policy

[ghost]

I noticed that clean links is missing a Privacy Policy on addons.mozilla.org. Nowadays good extensions have one, so Clean Links should have one, too. Even more so as it claims to be a privacy enhancing addon. Idealy the Policy should be stated in the repo and on addons.mozilla.org.

[Cimbali]

Our Privacy Policy is quite simple: we do not gather, share, or use any data from users at all. Any changes the user does to their settings are completely private, stored in their browser profile and possibly in their firefox sync account.

I will try and add that in the relevant places you suggest.

[Cimbali]

I’m not sure where other add-ons show privacy policies on AMO. Maybe you could show a couple of examples ?

[ghost]

Sure. On AMO there is the box labelled "More Information" (below the "Permissions" box; its in the left column in the "desktop version"). It Links to the Homepage and Support Site, Version, Size, Last updated, License and Version History. Addons which have a Privacy Policy have an additional entry "Privacy Policy" with a link to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/${ADDONNAME}/privacy/. Since this is consistent across all addons I looked at, I guess this is a field of the extension metadata you can fill out after logging in with the AMO account. (Not tested as I do not have one.)

Thanks for looking into this.

Privacy Policies from some direct competitors:

ClearURLs, Policy Neat URL, Policy

Other ones which (in my opinion) contain interesting aspects/clauses (I do not mean that these have to be covered but they might provide some inspiration):

Privacy Possum, Policy, has it also in the repo under /PRIVACY_POLICY.md

uBlock Origin, Policy, mentions GitHub

Cookie-AutoDelete, Policy, includes the publishing date of the policy, so you know how old it is; also mentions GitHub

Dark Reader, Policy, mentions PayPal and has a "maybe in the future we will collect" clause

Vimium C, Policy, some more words about syncing settings.

Proxy Switchy Omega, Policy, mentions provider of the sync settings facility (Google in this case) but probably applicable to Firefox sync, too.

True Sight, Policy, pledges to ask for user's explicit consent if its behaviour ever changes.

Have a nice day!

[ghost]

Any progress on this or any way I could help?

[Cimbali]

Thanks for the reminder ! I couldn’t find it last time, it’s very well hidden on the licensing page. It’s up there now.

[ghost]

Thank you!