Effective October 5, 2026

Privacy Policy

PurposeGate is designed so personal activity never needs to leave the user's device. There is no account, cloud sync, advertising, analytics, or server-side activity collection. Your browsing activity, rules, and intentions stay on your device.

Data Stored Locally

PurposeGate may store the following information in Chrome extension storage and IndexedDB:

• Website rules, schedules, budgets, redirects, and reminder preferences.
• Active-use sessions for websites configured by the user.
• YouTube video IDs, titles, links, viewing intentions, timestamps, and active playing durations when the YouTube rule is enabled.
• Enforcement, redirect, schedule-transition, and override events.

Use, Sharing, and Transfer

PurposeGate uses local activity records only to provide its user-facing accountability features: rule enforcement, activity review, exports, and deletion controls. PurposeGate does not sell, transmit, or share this data with third parties.

PurposeGate's use of user data complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Block List Downloads

PurposeGate downloads its public block lists (lists of website domains, never code) from the PurposeGate server a few times a day, so the lists stay current without an extension update. When the dashboard opens, it also reads purposegate.app/update.json to see whether a newer version is available. Neither request sends anything about your rules, activity, or browsing.

Site Suggestions

You can choose to suggest a website for the block lists, or report one blocked by mistake, from the extension or from this website. A suggestion is sent only when you press Send, and contains only the website address, your answers to the form, the extension version, and a random install ID created by the extension that is not linked to you. The server also keeps a one-way salted hash of your IP address to limit spam; the address itself is not stored. Suggestions are used only to improve the block lists.

Retention and Control

Activity is automatically deleted after 90 days. Users can delete a selected day or all activity at any time, and can export their records as JSON or CSV. Removing the extension removes its extension-owned local storage according to Chrome's extension-storage behavior.

Permissions

• storage: save local settings and extension state.
• tabs, webNavigation, and idle: determine whether a configured site is the active, focused page without counting idle time.
• alarms: checkpoint usage, apply schedule boundaries, prune old data, and run an optional reminder.
• declarativeNetRequest: block or redirect user-configured sites.
• YouTube host access: provide the optional per-video intention workflow.
• Optional site access: enforce rules only for hostnames the user adds. When a user turns on a block list, PurposeGate asks once for access to all sites so later list updates can show the PurposeGate page. If the user declines, those sites are still blocked with the browser's standard error page.
• purposegate.app access: lets the suggestion page on this website check that the extension is installed.
• Optional notifications: display a local daily-review reminder when explicitly enabled.

User Responsibility

PurposeGate is a self-accountability tool, not parental-control or security software. A user can disable or uninstall it through Chrome.

Contact

For PurposeGate support and product information, visit https://purposegate.app/support.html.