Privacy policy

Last updated: Sep 23, 2024

Thank you for your interest in Sessionblocks (”we”, “our”, or “us”). Sessionblocks provides a web extension with the tools to help you master and organize your browsing sessions, decrease clutter and improve productivity. Your privacy is important to us. This Notice explains how information about you, that directly identifies you, or that makes you identifiable (”personal information”) is collected, used and disclosed by Sessionblocks in connection with our site at sessionblocks.com and our extension's services (the ”Service”, “Extension”).

We act as a data controller and processor regarding the personal data processed through Sessionblocks and its services, in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

By continuing to use our service, you accept our practices concerning privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us at the email address below.

Note for International Visitors: Personal information may be transferred to, stored and processed in a country other than the one in which it was collected. Please note the country to which personal data is transferred may not provide the same level of protection for personal information as the country from which it was transferred.

Information that you provide

We collect personal information that you submit directly to us:

• Registration information. We collect personal and/or business information that you provide when you register for an account on the service. This information may include your name, email address, or third party provider details such as username and profile picture (Google, Github, X). We use this information to administer your account, provide you with relevant services and information, communicate with you regarding your account, the service and for customer support purposes.
• Payment information. If you make a purchase or payment on the service, such as for a subscription, we collect transactional information provided in connection with your purchase or payment. Please note that we use third party payment processors, including Stripe, to process payments made to us. As such, we do not retain any personally identifiable financial information such as credit card numbers. Rather, all such information is provided directly by you to our third-party processor. The payment processor's use of your personal information is governed by their privacy notice. To view Stripe's privacy notice, please visit: https://stripe.com/privacy.
• Support requests and communications. If you communicate with us, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, or any other personal information you choose to provide to us. We use this information to investigate and respond to your inquiries, and to communicate with you, to enhance the services we offer to our users and to manage and grow our organization. If you register for our newsletters or updates, we may communicate with you by email. To unsubscribe from promotional messages, please follow the instructions within our messages and review the control over your information section below.

You are free to choose which personal information you want to provide to us or whether you want to provide us with personal information at all. However, some information, such as your name, address, payment transaction information, and information on your requested service may be necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations. Without it, we may be unable to provide you with some of your requested services.

Information from third party sources

We may receive personal information about you from our business partners and service providers and combine this information with other data we collect from you. The third-parties may include website and service operators, payment processors, marketing partners. The information may include contact information, information about your communications and related activities, and information about your orders. We may use this information to administer and facilitate our services and your orders.

• OAuth Authentication. We use third-party authentication providers such as Google, Github, X, to allow users to sign in to the Service. This process uses the OAuth protocol, which securely redirects users to the provider's platform to verify their credentials. We do not have access to your login credentials, but we may receive certain information from these providers in accordance with their privacy policies and your authorization, including, for example, your name, username, email address, language preference, and profile picture. We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Service. We may also send you service-related emails or messages (e.g., account verification, purchase confirmation, customer support, changes or updates to features of the Site, technical and security notices).

Other uses of personal information

In addition to the uses described above, we may collect and use personal information for the following purposes:

• For our business activities, including to operate the service and to provide you with the features and functionality of the service;
• To communicate with you and respond to your requests, such as to respond to your questions, contact you about changes to the service, and communicate about account related matters;
• For marketing and advertising purposes, such as to market to you or offer you with information and updates on our products or services we think that you may be interested in. While we may use your personal information in this manner, please note that we do not use user content to send you ads, and we will never share user content with any third parties for marketing or advertising purposes, unless you have explicitly submitted it to us for that purpose;
• For analytics and research purposes;
• To comply with contractual and legal obligations and requirements;
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide personal information; and
• For any other lawful purpose, or other purpose that you consent to.

We do not share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law or explicitly allowed to do so given your prior authorization.

Modifying account information

If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to modify certain information in your account (e.g., your contact information) through the account options provided on the service. Not all personal information is maintained in a format that you can access or change. If you would like to request access to, or correction or deletion of personal information, you may send your request to us at the email provided below. We will review your request and may require you to provide additional information to identify yourself, but we do not promise that we will be able to satisfy your request.

Email communications

From time to time, we may send you emails regarding updates to our service, products or services, notices about our organization, or information about products/services we offer (or promotional offers from third parties) that we think may be of interest to you. If you wish to unsubscribe from such emails, simply click the “unsubscribe link” provided at the bottom of the email communication. Note that you cannot unsubscribe from certain services-related email communications (e.g., account verification, confirmations of transactions, technical or legal notices).

We will retain your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. What data we store, we will protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

For your convenience, our service may provide links to third-party websites or services that we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from the services, including the information or content contained within them. Your browsing and interaction on any other website or service are subject to the applicable third party's rules and policies, not ours. If you are using a third-party website or service, you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any site or service before providing any personal information.

Accessing your data

The extension stores your session data, including structure, links, and settings, in local files on your computer, using the web browser storage and local storage APIs. You can access these files at any time, and export or back them up.

Extension Permissions

The extension requests some browser permissions for core functionality. These can be inspected through the browser's extension detail page. The extension is required to have read access to your browsing history. This does not allow Sessionblocks to read the content of web pages you visit or any information contained or inserted on those web pages, which would require an explicit site access permission that the service does not request. In particular, the extension uses the following browser APIs:

• Tabs. Used to retrieve live tab information, including title, URL, favicon, and window structure.
• Sessions. Used to access session event listeners for data updates.
• Storage. Used to store session data locally and sync it across local environments.
• Identity. Used for secure authentication-based flows.

The extension further requires host permissions, used to connect to the service server for authentication and subscription purposes, and to its Github repository for external file access.

We reserve the right to change this privacy notice from time to time in our sole discretion. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your Sessionblocks account and/or by placing a prominent notice on our site. It is your responsibility to review this privacy notice periodically. When we do change the privacy notice, we will also revise the “last modified” date.

For additional inquiries about this privacy notice, please send us an email at hi@sessionblocks.com.