Privacy Policy — SEO Image Toolkit

Last updated: August 2026

Applies to: SEO Image Toolkit (Chrome Extension), version 1.7.2 and later.

Summary

SEO Image Toolkit does not operate any servers, does not collect

analytics, and does not sell, share, or transmit your data to any third

party. All image processing and the SEO audit engine run entirely locally

in your browser. **This extension does not call any third-party API or

external service of any kind.** The only network request it ever makes is

fetching the raw bytes of an image you're actively working with — always

from the same site already hosting that image, never from a fixed

third-party endpoint. Nothing is sent to the developer of this extension

or to any server operated by the developer, because no such server

exists, and nothing is sent to any AI service, analytics provider, or

other third party, because none is contacted.

This was independently verified by inspecting the extension's source code

for every network-request API (fetch, XMLHttpRequest, WebSocket,

sendBeacon, remote <script>/<link>/@import references): exactly

one fetch() call exists in the entire codebase

(js/image-utils.js's fetchImageAsBlob()), and it is only ever called

with the URL of an image already present on the page you're viewing.

What data this extension accesses

Data	Why	Where it goes
Images on the page you're viewing (URLs, alt text, dimensions, filenames)	To power the SEO audit and bulk tools	Stays in your browser at all times.
Image pixel data (for the image(s) you choose to process)	Offline conversion, resize, compression, cropping, rotation	Processed entirely on your device via the Canvas API. Never uploaded anywhere.
Your settings (theme, hover-icon preference)	To remember your preferences	Stored only in `chrome.storage.sync`.
The active tab's URL and title (when you run an SEO audit or export a report)	To label the audit report with the page it came from	Stays in your browser and in the report file you export yourself. Never transmitted anywhere.

What this extension does NOT do

It does not run any analytics, telemetry, or tracking of any kind.
It does not use cookies.
It does not sell or share data with advertisers or data brokers.
It does not send your browsing history, page content, or images

anywhere — there is no backend server, and no third-party API of any

kind is contacted by this extension.

It does not require an account, sign-up, or API key of any kind.
It does not inject ads or affiliate links into any page.
It does not modify page content except when you explicitly ask it to.

Third-party services

None. This extension does not integrate with, call, or send any data

to any third-party API or service. It has no external dependencies and

makes no network requests beyond fetching the bytes of images you choose

to process, directly from the site that hosts them.

Data storage and retention

The only data this extension stores is your theme preference and

hover-icon toggle, which live in chrome.storage.sync:

Stored locally in your browser and synced across your own devices via

your Google account, using Google's standard Chrome Sync infrastructure.

Never accessible to the developer of this extension.
Removable at any time by uninstalling the extension, which clears all

extension storage.

Processed images and exported reports (CSV, Excel, HTML, ZIP) are saved

to your computer via Chrome's normal Downloads mechanism — the extension

does not retain copies of anything you export.

Permissions explained

Permission	Purpose
`contextMenus`	Adds the right-click "SEO Image Toolkit" menu on images.
`downloads`	Saves processed images and exported reports to your computer.
`storage`	Saves your theme and hover-icon preferences via `chrome.storage.sync` (see above).
`sidePanel`	Powers the main toolkit interface.
`clipboardWrite`	Powers the "Copy" buttons throughout the toolkit.
`host_permissions: <all_urls>`	Needed to fetch image bytes for offline processing on any site you visit. The extension does not read or transmit page content beyond images and the settings described in this policy.

Children's privacy

This extension is a general-purpose productivity tool for SEO

professionals, marketers, and web developers, and is not directed at

children. It does not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change and the

updated policy will ship with the corresponding extension version. Material

changes will also be noted in CHANGELOG.md.

Note on prior versions: versions 1.2.0 through 1.6.0 of this extension

included an optional AI feature that, only if a user configured their own

Google Gemini API key, sent the specific image being processed to

Google's Gemini API. That feature was removed entirely in version 1.7.0

(see CHANGELOG.md). This policy describes the current, AI-free version

of the extension; it no longer contacts any third-party service under any

configuration.

Contact

For privacy questions, see the Support section of STORE_LISTING.md in this

repository, or the support channel listed on the extension's Chrome Web

Store listing page.