Privacy Policy (English)
1. Overview
Split View Launcher is a Chrome extension that opens a destination website configured by the user, using Chrome's Split View feature when supported or another explicitly selected window mode. Users can create profiles and insert the source tab's URL, title, or domain into a destination URL template.
No account is required. The extension does not use a developer-operated server, cloud synchronization, advertisements, analytics SDKs, or automatic telemetry. The developer does not receive your local profiles, browsing information, icons, or diagnostic records through the extension.
2. Information used for extension features
- Source webpage details: the URL, page title, and website domain of the current tab, or a recent eligible tab when you launch a profile from Options. These values are used only to construct the destination URL and launch the requested page.
- Profile and preference data: profile names, destination URL templates, URL privacy choices, window modes, ordering, selected default profile, interface language, minimum window width, and custom icons or uploaded icon images.
- Window and display information: window identifiers, display layout and bounds, and window geometry used to create or restore explicitly requested window arrangements.
- Local diagnostics: up to 20 recent error entries containing a time, operation category, and error code. These entries do not contain the complete source or destination URL, page title, profile prompt, or uploaded image.
The extension does not read webpage body text, passwords, form contents, cookies, or the content of other websites through injected content scripts. It does not access the Chrome browsing-history database.
3. Destination websites and possible data sharing
{url}, {title}, or {domain}, the corresponding source-page information is inserted into that destination URL when you launch it. The destination website and its service providers may receive and process that information as part of an ordinary browser visit, including through URL paths or query parameters.The built-in example uses chatgpt.com as a destination and may include the current page URL in its prompt query parameter. This does not mean that the developer receives the information. The extension itself does not automatically submit a chat message, call an AI service API, or upload webpage content; the destination website independently controls how it handles a visited URL and any associated parameters.
Which third party receives information depends on the destination you configure. Its privacy policy applies to its processing, and browser requests can also include normal connection information such as your IP address. Some destination URLs may use HTTP rather than HTTPS; HTTP does not encrypt information in transit. Avoid placing sensitive information in URL templates, and prefer HTTPS destinations.
Each profile offers a setting to remove the source URL's query string and fragment before inserting {url}. This does not remove sensitive data embedded in the path, title, domain, or fixed template text. No URL data is transmitted to a configured destination merely by saving or previewing a profile; opening or testing a destination causes the normal browser request.
4. Chrome permissions
activeTab: to obtain relevant current-tab information after you invoke the extension.storage: to store settings, drafts, images, backup snapshots, errors, and temporary session state locally in Chrome.system.display: to determine screen bounds for user-selected window positioning.tabs(optional): requested when needed to find a recent eligible webpage tab from Options; you may decline this permission, in which case unavailable source values are omitted. Chrome allows you to manage or revoke it.
The extension does not request location, contacts, microphone, camera, the Chrome history permission, or blanket website host access. Tab identifiers may be recorded temporarily within the current browser session to select a recent eligible tab; this is not a remote browsing-history service.
5. Local storage, retention, and user controls
Saved profiles, preferences, custom icons, incomplete editing drafts, one settings-restoration snapshot, a separate migration backup when needed, and a limited diagnostic history are kept in Chrome's local extension storage. The extension does not use Chrome Sync. Session-only tab and window tracking is kept separately and is not intended to survive a complete browser restart.
You can modify or reset profiles, clear local diagnostic entries, and export or import settings through Options. The exported JSON may contain the URLs, prompts, and icons you configured; it is saved to a location you choose and should be treated as a potentially sensitive file. A standard settings export does not include incomplete drafts, diagnostics, snapshots, or temporary window state.
Local data generally remains until you change or clear it, reset the extension's settings, clear extension storage, or uninstall the extension, subject to Chrome's storage behavior. Previously exported files must be deleted separately by you. Information already received by destination websites is governed by those sites' own policies and cannot be removed by clearing extension storage.
6. Incognito mode and security
Incognito use requires separate permission in Chrome. When enabled, the extension can use existing profiles to launch destinations in an incognito context. It does not persist new incognito error records in local diagnostics. Browser-session state may still be used while that session is running, and destination websites can still receive the information included in a launched URL.
Extension settings are stored through Chrome's extension storage APIs, and uploaded icons are processed locally. No storage or transmission mechanism is completely risk-free. Protect exported JSON files and avoid sharing URLs containing credentials, private tokens, or personal information.
7. Children's privacy
Split View Launcher is a general-purpose browser utility, not designed specifically for children. The developer does not intentionally collect children's personal information through the extension.
8. Changes and contact
We may revise this policy if the extension's features or information-handling practices change and will update the effective date when appropriate. For privacy questions, email pulipuli.chen@gmail.com. Developer profile: github.com/pulipulichen.