Privacy Policy

Last updated · September 5, 2026

Servers Nook operates or sends your data to

100%

Of your data stays in Chrome's own storage, on your device

Never

Sold, shared, or used for anything but Nook itself

What Nook is

Nook replaces your new tab page with a clock, web search, quick links, an animated or photo background, and visual boards for saving and organizing pages or text you select while browsing. This policy explains exactly what it stores, why, and where it goes — which, for almost everything, is nowhere but your own device.

What Nook stores

Everything below is written using Chrome's built‑in chrome.storage API. Nothing here is a server Nook operates — it's storage Chrome itself manages on your behalf.

links
sync

The name and URL of each quick-link tile on your dashboard.

searchEngine
timeFormat
theme
palette
bgMode
photoIndex
sync

Display preferences — which search engine, clock format, light/dark theme, color palette, and background you've chosen.

nookBoards
local

The name and order of each board you create (e.g. "Inbox," "Reading list") — just labels, nothing about their contents.

nookCards
local

The cards on your boards: a page's title, URL, and favicon, or the exact text you selected, or a bookmark you imported — plus which board it's on and when you saved it. Nothing is added here unless you save a page/selection, use the Quick Save shortcut, or import a bookmark.

defaultQuickSaveBoardId
local

Which board the Quick Save keyboard shortcut adds cards to — set from a dropdown in Settings.

customPhotoData
local

An optional background photo you upload from your own device, resized and compressed before it's stored.

sync is synced across your signed‑in Chrome browsers by Google's own Chrome Sync, under your Google account. local stays on this device only. Nook has no server in either path. Boards and cards stay in local storage rather than sync — a board full of saved pages can easily outgrow Chrome sync's small per‑item size limit, so they intentionally don't sync across your devices yet.

How this data reaches Nook

Only through something you did on purpose:

Clicking Save current page or Save selected text in the popup
Using the right‑click menu items "Save page to Nook" or "Save selection to Nook"
Pressing the Quick Save keyboard shortcut
Choosing bookmarks to import from your existing Chrome bookmarks
Creating, renaming, or deleting a board, adding a quick link, changing a setting, or uploading a background photo

Nook does not watch your browsing in the background, log the pages you visit, track clicks or scrolling, or record keystrokes. It only reads the active tab's title, URL, favicon, or current text selection at the exact moment you trigger one of the actions above.

What Nook never does

Never sells or transfers your data to third parties
Never uses your data for anything outside Nook's own features
Never uses your data to assess creditworthiness or for lending
Never collects your name, email, health, financial, authentication, or location data
Never reads personal communications (email, chat, messages)

The two outbound requests Nook makes

Favicon icons — to show the little site icon next to a quick link or Inbox item, your browser requests it directly from Google's public favicon service (google.com/s2/favicons), the same way any website's favicon loads. Nook doesn't see or log this request.

Your search — typing in Nook's search bar sends your query straight to whichever engine you picked (Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo), exactly as if you'd typed it into that site directly. Nook itself never receives or stores your search terms.

Your controls

Every card has a remove button, and can be moved between boards or dragged to reorder. Boards can be created, renamed, or deleted at any time (deleting a board moves its cards to your default board first — nothing is silently discarded). Quick links and the custom background photo can be deleted from Settings at any time. Uninstalling Nook removes all of its locally stored data immediately; synced data clears from your Google account's extension storage as Chrome would for any removed extension.

Children's privacy

Nook is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13.

Permissions Nook requests

storage

Read and write the data described above via chrome.storage.

unlimitedStorage

Lets an uploaded background photo exceed Chrome's default 10MB local storage cap.

contextMenus

Adds the "Save page / selection to Nook" right‑click menu items.

activeTab

Reads the active tab's title, URL, and favicon only when you click Save.

scripting

Reads your current text selection only when you click "Save selected text" in the popup.

bookmarks

Read‑only — lets the Import panel show your existing Chrome bookmarks so you can copy some onto a board. Nook never creates, edits, or removes anything in your actual bookmarks.

The Quick Save keyboard shortcut is registered via Chrome's commands API, which doesn't require a separate permission — you can view or change its key combination anytime at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will change with it. Meaningful changes will also be reflected in the extension's Chrome Web Store listing.