Tidy Tabs privacy policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

Tidy Tabs is a Chrome extension that groups your open tabs and shortens their titles. This policy covers what it reads, what it sends, and what it stores.

What is sent

When you run Tidy (by clicking the icon, using the shortcut, or through the optional daily auto-tidy), Tidy Tabs sends the following for each ungrouped, unpinned tab in the window:

• the tab’s internal ID number (only meaningful inside your browser)
• the tab’s hostname, for example github.com
• the tab’s title
• the names of tab groups that already exist in the window

Nothing else about your tabs is sent. No page content, full URLs, paths, query strings, cookies, form data or browsing history.

Where it goes depends on your plan:

• Free plan (no API key): to the Tidy Tabs server (hosted on Cloudflare), which passes it on to the Anthropic API to compute the groups and returns the answer. The request also carries a random install ID created by the extension, which isn’t linked to your name, email or Google account. The server uses it only to count your free tidies.
• Your own API key: straight from your browser to the Anthropic API (api.anthropic.com), under your Anthropic account. The Tidy Tabs server isn’t involved.

Anthropic processes the request under its commercial terms and privacy policy and does not train models on API data by default.

What the server keeps

For the free plan, the server stores only counters, and deletes all of them at the start of each month:

• how many tidies each random install ID has used this month
• how many tidies came from each network today, keyed by a one-way hash of the IP address. The hash changes every month, and the IP address itself is never stored.
• the total spent on the Anthropic API this month

Tab titles, hostnames and Claude’s answers are not stored or logged by the server.

What is stored in your browser

Stored only in your browser, using Chrome’s extension storage:

• your Anthropic API key and optional workspace ID, if you add them
• the random install ID and your remaining free tidies
• your settings (auto-tidy, subtle colors)
• for the current browser session only: which tabs the last Tidy grouped or renamed, and their original titles, so Undo can restore them. This is cleared when Chrome quits.

What is not done

• No analytics, tracking or advertising.
• No data is sold or transferred to third parties, except the Anthropic API request described above.
• No data is used for any purpose other than grouping and renaming your tabs.

The use of information received from Google APIs follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Removing your data

Removing the extension deletes everything stored in your browser. The server’s counters expire at the end of the month.

Contact

Questions: rohitagarwal.dev@gmail.com