Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 7, 2026 · applies to the Bloom Tab Chrome extension and bloom-tab.com

The short version

Bloom Tab has no accounts, no tracking, and collects no personal data. Your settings, notes and collection live in your own browser. The extension never reads your browsing history, the pages you visit, or anything you type outside its own new tab. We have nothing to sell, because we don't know who you are.

What we never collect

No accounts, no sign-up, no email.
No browsing history, no page content, no keystrokes.
No cookies, no advertising or tracking pixels.
No precise location — Bloom Tab never asks for the browser location permission.
Nothing is ever sold or shared with data brokers, and we don't serve ads. There's nothing to sell.

What stays on your device

Everything you customize is stored locally in your browser (extension storage): your chosen scene, settings, sticky notes, bookmarks, and your collection of caught sky moments. It never leaves your computer. Uninstalling the extension deletes all of it.

Weather and your approximate city

Bloom Tab's scenes follow the real sky — rain, sunsets, the night stars. To do that, the extension needs to know roughly where you are and what the weather is like:

Your approximate location (city-level) is estimated from your IP address using public geolocation services (such as ipinfo.io, ipwho.is, freeipapi.com), or you can simply set your city manually in settings.
Weather and sunrise/sunset times come from public weather services (met.no, open-meteo.com, wttr.in).

These requests go directly from your browser to those services, like visiting any website — they see your IP address the way every website you open does, and handle it under their own privacy policies. Bloom Tab itself does not store your IP address and keeps only the resulting city name and coordinates in your local settings so the sky can match yours. Weather sync can be turned off entirely in settings.

Anonymous usage statistics

To understand whether anyone actually enjoys Bloom Tab, the extension sends a tiny anonymous ping — for example: which scene is active, whether the mascot is on, and which ambient sound was played. These pings contain no user ID, no IP logging on our side, no browsing data, and nothing that could identify you. They cannot be linked to a person — we genuinely cannot tell one user from another. Pings are received via Google Apps Script and stored in a private spreadsheet.

Bookmark icons

If you add bookmarks to your new tab, their little icons (favicons) are fetched from DuckDuckGo's public icon service. That request shares only the domain of the bookmarked site — nothing about you.

Permissions we ask for

storage — to save your settings and collection locally;
access to the weather/geolocation services and Google Apps Script listed above — that's what the network permissions in the install prompt are for. Nothing else.

Children

Bloom Tab is not directed at children under 13 and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy ever changes in a meaningful way, the update will appear on this page with a new date. Knowing this extension, the most dramatic change you can expect is a new kind of sky.

Contact

Questions, concerns, or just want to say the sunset card is pretty? kate@bloom-tab.com