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Privacy Policy Overview

Last Updated: October 21, 2025

This Privacy Policy explains how PinGptChats ("the Extension") collects, uses, and protects your information. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your data.

Important: PinGptChats is designed with privacy as the top priority. We do not collect, store, or transmit your ChatGPT conversation content.

Data Collection

What We Don't Collect

PinGptChats does NOT collect:

  • Your ChatGPT conversation content or messages
  • Your personal information (name, email, etc.)
  • Your browsing history or activity on other websites
  • Your ChatGPT account information
  • Any authentication tokens or credentials

What We Do Collect

The Extension only stores the following information locally in your browser:

  • Chat URLs: The URLs of your pinned ChatGPT conversations
  • Chat Titles: The titles of your pinned conversations
  • Pin Status: Whether a conversation is pinned or not
  • User Preferences: Your extension settings and preferences

Data Usage

The information we store is used exclusively for:

  • Pinning Functionality: To keep track of which conversations you've pinned
  • UI Enhancement: To display pinned conversations at the top of your sidebar
  • Persistence: To remember your pins across browser sessions
  • Syncing: To sync your pins across your devices using Chrome's built-in sync

All data processing happens locally in your browser. No data is sent to external servers or third parties.

Data Storage

Your data is stored using Chrome's built-in storage APIs:

  • Chrome Storage API: Data is stored locally using chrome.storage.local
  • Sync Storage: If you're signed into Chrome, data syncs across devices using chrome.storage.sync
  • Local Processing: All data processing happens on your device

Storage Duration

Your pinned chat information is stored until:

  • You manually unpin conversations
  • You uninstall the extension
  • You clear your browser data

Permissions

ChatGPT Pin Chats requests the following minimal permissions:

  • Storage: To save your pinned chat preferences locally
  • Host Permissions: To run only on ChatGPT websites (chatgpt.com and chat.openai.com)

Why These Permissions? These permissions are strictly necessary for the pinning functionality and nothing more.

Third-Party Services

ChatGPT Pin Chats does not use any third-party services for:

  • Analytics or tracking
  • Advertising
  • Data processing
  • User profiling

The Extension is completely self-contained and does not communicate with any external servers.

Security

We implement several security measures:

  • Local Storage: Data never leaves your browser
  • No Network Requests: The Extension makes no external network requests
  • Minimal Permissions: We only request essential permissions
  • Regular Updates: Security updates are provided through the Chrome Web Store
  • Open Source: The code is publicly available for review on GitHub

User Rights

You have complete control over your data:

  • View: You can see all pinned conversations in the extension interface
  • Modify: You can pin or unpin any conversation at any time
  • Delete: You can remove all pins by uninstalling the extension
  • Export: You can access your data through Chrome's developer tools if needed
  • Opt-out: You can disable syncing in Chrome settings

Policy Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy to:

  • Reflect changes in our practices
  • Comply with new regulations
  • Clarify existing policies

Any changes will be:

  • Posted on this page with an updated "Last Modified" date
  • Effective immediately upon posting
  • Communicated through extension updates if changes are significant

Contact Information

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us:

Our Commitment: We are committed to maintaining your privacy and will never compromise on data protection. If you have any privacy concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Legal Compliance

This Privacy Policy is designed to comply with:

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
  • Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies
  • Other applicable privacy laws

Legal Basis for Processing: Our legal basis for processing any data is legitimate interest in providing the pinning functionality you requested.

Conclusion

PinGptChats is built with privacy as a fundamental principle. We believe that privacy tools should respect user privacy above all else. This extension will never collect, store, or transmit your personal data beyond what is strictly necessary for the pinning functionality to work.

Thank you for trusting PinGptChats with your conversation organization needs.

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