Stash

Privacy Policy

Effective date: 5 July 2026. Applies to Stash for Chrome, version 1.3 and later.

The short version Everything Stash saves stays on your own computer. That now includes the text of the pages you save, so you can search inside them later. Nothing is sent to a server. There are no accounts, no analytics, and no other companies involved. You can delete any of it at any time, and deleting a saved group deletes its page text too.

1. Who runs Stash

Stash is a Chrome extension made by Shayaan Qazi ("we", "us"). You can reach us at 2014shanoo@gmail.com.

2. What Stash saves

Stash only saves a tab when you ask it to, by clicking Stash, using the keyboard shortcut, or picking a Stash item from the right-click menu. When you do, it stores these things on your device:

The web address (URL) of each tab.
The page title and the small site icon (favicon).
A name for the group, made from the site and the time, which you can rename.
The time each tab was saved.
The readable text of the page, so you can later find the page by words that were inside it, not just its title.
A cleaned-up copy of the page's main content, so you can open a saved copy of the page from your device, even offline.

Stash does not save your passwords, anything you typed into forms, your cookies, or your location. It only reads a page's text at the moment you choose to save that tab. It never reads pages in the background or pages you did not save.

3. Where it is stored

Group names, tab lists, and settings are kept in Chrome's on-device storage (chrome.storage.local). The page text and saved copies are kept in your browser's local database (IndexedDB). Both live on your computer. None of it is uploaded, shared, or sent anywhere.

Stash asks for the unlimitedStorage permission so that saving many pages does not hit Chrome's small default storage limit. This does not change where the data lives. It stays on your device.

4. Why Stash reads page text

The only reason Stash reads the text of a page is to give you the feature you asked for: saving the page and being able to search inside it afterwards. The text is used to build a private search index and a readable copy, both stored on your device. It is not used for advertising, tracking, or profiling, and it is never sent to us or anyone else.

5. Some pages cannot be read

Reading page text does not work everywhere. Browser pages (like chrome:// pages and the Chrome Web Store), PDF files, and some sites that block scripts cannot be read. When that happens, Stash still saves the tab as a normal link. You just will not be able to search inside that particular page. Pages you saved before version 1.3 have no saved text either, so search inside pages only applies to pages you save from now on.

6. Deleting your data

You are in control of all of it:

Saved groups stay until you delete them.
Deleting a group, or emptying the trash, also deletes that group's saved page text and saved copies.
When you open a saved tab out of a group, or remove it, its saved text is cleaned up automatically.
Deleted groups sit in the trash and are removed for good after 30 days.
You can export all your groups to a file from Settings.
Uninstalling Stash removes everything it saved from your device.

7. Permissions and why Stash asks for them

Permission	Why it is needed
`tabs`	To read the address, title, and icon of your tabs when you save them, and to reopen them when you restore a group.
`scripting` and access to sites (`<all_urls>`)	To read a page's visible text at the moment you save that tab, so it can be searched later. This runs only when you save, and the text stays on your device. The permission covers all sites because you might save a tab from any site.
`storage` and `unlimitedStorage`	To keep your saved groups, page text, and settings on your device without hitting Chrome's small storage limit.
`contextMenus`	To add the "Stash this tab" and "Stash all tabs" right-click menu items.
`alarms`	To run a periodic cleanup that removes trashed groups after 30 days and clears out saved text that no longer belongs to any group.

8. No servers and no other companies

Stash does not send your data anywhere. There are no accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no advertising code. Stash does not sell, rent, or share your data with anyone. It also does not download or run any code from the internet. Everything it does happens on your computer.

9. Children

Stash is a general tool and is not aimed at children. We do not knowingly collect anything from anyone under 13. Since nothing is collected on a server, there is no personal data for us to hold in any case.

10. Changes to this policy

If we change what Stash saves or how it is used, we will update this page and the date at the top. If the change is important, we will note it on the Chrome Web Store listing.

11. Contact

Questions about your data or this policy: 2014shanoo@gmail.com.