ComputedKit Privacy Policy

ComputedKit is a visual website inspector. It handles website content only to provide an inspection action you explicitly request. It has no account, analytics, advertising, affiliate, cloud library, background monitoring, or remote page-processing service. ComputedKit Pro licensing is separate from page inspection and is activated only when you choose to enter a license key.

What ComputedKit does

After you open the side panel and choose Scan page or Pick element, ComputedKit inspects visual information from the active browser tab. It can group computed colors, declared typography, observed spacing, corner radii, shadows, and observable asset references. You can choose to copy or export selected results.

ComputedKit does not scan a page merely because you opened the extension.

Data ComputedKit handles

For the current tab, and only after an inspection action you request, ComputedKit locally reads a bounded set of:

the current page URL and title;
computed visual styles and limited element metadata;
current-page selector information and a short text sample for a selected element;
observable image, SVG, favicon, and background-image references; and
scan-coverage counts and limitations.

While Pick element mode is active, ComputedKit temporarily uses pointer position and click input to identify the element under the pointer. Pressing Escape cancels that mode. This interaction input is not stored, exported, or transmitted.

It does not read passwords, authentication cookies, browser history outside the active tab, or the contents of Chrome-protected pages.

How data is used and retained

Scan and selected-element results are processed on your device and shown in the extension side panel. The developer does not receive the inspected page data, and no third party is allowed to read it.

Data	Where it stays	Retention
Scan and selected-element results	The active side-panel session	Cleared when the page or tab changes, a new scan replaces them, or the panel is torn down.
HEX/RGB copy preference	Chrome local extension storage	Retained locally until you change the preference or remove the extension.
Pro baseline	Chrome local extension storage	Retained locally until you delete it or remove the extension. It contains a page origin and path, bounded visual values and counts, and a creation time; it excludes page titles, query values, fragments, element text, selectors, handles, asset URLs, and asset labels.
Activated Pro key	Chrome local extension storage	Retained locally until you deactivate Pro on that browser or remove the extension.
CSS or JSON export	Your device	Created locally only when you export; retained until you delete the file.

Except for an intentionally saved Pro baseline as described above, page scan data is not stored in Chrome storage. No page-derived data is synchronized to a remote account.

Pro licensing and payments

When you explicitly select Activate Pro or Save current scan, ComputedKit sends the license key you entered and a random identifier for that browser installation to the ComputedKit license service. The service uses those values only to validate the key and enforce the three-browser activation limit before a new baseline is saved. It does not receive page URLs, scan results, element text, selectors, asset URLs, saved baseline contents, browsing history, or pointer input.

ComputedKit does not automatically revalidate a key; viewing saved baselines and comparisons stays local. Selecting Buy Pro opens the ClipHutch checkout flow, where Stripe collects the payment information directly. ClipHutch receives the customer email, Stripe Checkout session ID, payment ID, product identifier, license status, and timestamps needed to issue, support, refund, or revoke the license. ClipHutch does not receive your card number or other full payment credentials.

See the terms and refund policy for the seller, price, activation limit, and refund process.

Asset downloads and external requests

Scanning records asset references without requesting their bytes. Only after you click an individual Download action or a bounded Download selected queue does ComputedKit request each selected asset directly from the asset's website or content-delivery host.

The source host receives that ordinary request. ComputedKit does not proxy the asset or page data through a ComputedKit server, and it reports when cross-origin access is unavailable. If you follow a feedback link, GitHub receives only the information you choose to submit under GitHub's privacy terms; inspection results are not attached automatically.

Permissions

The manifest permissions are activeTab, scripting, storage, and sidePanel, plus one host permission limited to https://cliphutch-api.mra454.workers.dev/* for explicit Pro-key validation.

activeTab provides temporary access only to the tab where you invoked ComputedKit.
scripting runs packaged, user-requested scanner, selector, and temporary highlighting code.
storage remembers the local HEX/RGB copy-format preference, the optional local baseline, and an activated Pro key; it does not synchronize them to a remote account.
sidePanel hosts the extension interface.
The narrow license-service host permission sends only a user-entered Pro key and random installation identifier after the user chooses Activate Pro.

Chrome Web Store Limited Use

ComputedKit's use of information received from Chrome APIs complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. The information is used only to provide the user-requested visual inspection features described here. It is not sold, used for advertising or creditworthiness, or transferred to data brokers.