SmartSave

Privacy Policy

This policy explains what SmartSave collects, how it is used, and how that applies to the SmartSave website and the SmartSave Chrome extension.

Last updated: October 14, 2026

Single Purpose

SmartSave exists to help users save, organize, and sync bookmarks and saved links across supported sources.

The SmartSave Chrome extension has one purpose: connecting a user's Chrome bookmarks with their SmartSave account so bookmarks can be imported and kept in sync. It can also save a single page to that account when the user explicitly asks it to.

The extension does not sell user data and does not use collected data for advertising, creditworthiness, lending, or unrelated profiling.

Information We Collect

We collect only the information required to provide SmartSave and the extension's sync and save functionality.

Account information

If you create or use a SmartSave account, SmartSave may process your email address and the authentication details needed to sign you in.

Bookmark and website content

When you connect the Chrome extension, SmartSave processes your Chrome bookmark data, including bookmark titles, URLs, folder structure, and related metadata needed to import and sync those bookmarks.

Pages you choose to save

When you save a page with the extension (the save button in its popup, the “Save to SmartSave” entry in the right-click menu, or the keyboard shortcut), the extension sends the URL and title of that page to SmartSave. When you use the menu entry on a link to a web page, the URL of that link is sent instead. This happens only when you take one of these actions: the extension does not send SmartSave anything about the other pages you visit, and it does not read the content of any page outside SmartSave.

Extension local state

The extension stores local state in Chrome storage, such as authentication state, profile identifiers, folder mappings, sync status, and queued changes needed for offline retry behavior. A page you save while SmartSave cannot be reached is kept in that queue (its URL and title) until it can be sent.

How We Use Information

We use collected information only to operate SmartSave and the connected extension experience.

We use information to:

  • authenticate users and connect browser profiles to SmartSave,
  • import existing Chrome bookmarks into SmartSave,
  • sync bookmark creates, edits, moves, and deletions,
  • save a page to SmartSave when you ask the extension to,
  • maintain folder mappings and sync state, and
  • retry queued sync actions when the device comes back online.

Permissions Used by the Chrome Extension

The extension requests only the permissions required for bookmark sync with SmartSave and for saving pages to it.

bookmarks

Used to read bookmark data and detect bookmark changes so SmartSave can import and keep bookmarks in sync.

storage

Used to store extension state locally, including sync progress and offline queue data.

alarms

Used to run periodic background checks and retry queued sync work.

activeTab

Used to read the URL and title of the current tab when you click the extension icon, its right-click menu entry, or its keyboard shortcut, so that page can be saved. It gives the extension no access to other tabs, and none to the current tab until you take one of these actions.

contextMenus

Used to add the “Save to SmartSave” entry to the right-click menu of web pages and links.

Host access

Used only for https://smartsave.dev/* so the extension can sign users in, call SmartSave extension API endpoints, and detect login completion on SmartSave pages.

Data Sharing and Remote Code

SmartSave limits data transfer to what is required for the product to function.

SmartSave does not sell user data to third parties. Data handled by the extension is transferred only to SmartSave services to provide authentication, bookmark sync, and the saving of pages you choose.

The extension does not execute remotely hosted code. All executable extension code is packaged with the extension itself.

Questions

If you need support or have privacy questions, use the contact channel listed on the SmartSave Chrome Web Store item or SmartSave site.

You can also return to SmartSave.