Privacy Policy
Last updated 19 July 2026 · Applies to the Timezone Warp Chrome extension
The short version. Timezone Warp collects nothing about you. It has no analytics, no tracking, no accounts and no servers — it makes no network requests at all.
The only thing it stores is the list of sites you add and the timezone you chose for each, kept by Chrome in your own browser profile.
What is collected
Nothing. The extension does not collect, transmit, sell or share any personal information, browsing history, or usage data. There is no analytics package, no error reporting service, and no server belonging to this extension for anything to be sent to.
What is stored, and where
The extension saves one thing: your settings. That is
- the site addresses you have added, as match patterns such as
*://*.example.com/*; - the timezone chosen for each, and whether each entry is switched on;
- your default timezone and whether changing timezones is on or off.
This is saved using Chrome's own extension settings storage
(chrome.storage.sync), which lives in your browser profile.
Chrome Sync
Being explicit about this, because it is the one case where your settings leave the machine: if you have Chrome Sync switched on, Chrome replicates extension settings to your other Chrome installations through your Google account, the same way it syncs bookmarks.
That is Chrome doing it, not this extension. The data goes to Google under Google's privacy policy, and the author of this extension never receives, holds or can read a copy of it. If you would rather your list of sites stayed on one machine, turn Chrome Sync off, or exclude extension settings from it in Chrome's sync settings.
Permissions, and why each one exists
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
storage |
To save your list of sites and their timezones, so they survive restarting the browser. |
scripting |
To run a small script on the sites you have added, which adjusts the
timezone that page's Date and Intl functions
report. |
tabs |
To read the address of the tab you are looking at, so the popup can show which site it is about and the toolbar badge can show the active offset. |
| Access to specific sites | Requested one site at a time, at the moment you add it. The extension has no access to any site you have not explicitly chosen, and none at all when you first install it. |
None of these are used to observe what you browse. The extension has no code that reads page content, and no way to send anything anywhere.
What it deliberately does not do
Timezone Warp changes the timezone a web page can read. It does not change your IP address, your location, or your language settings, and it is not an anti-tracking or anti-fingerprinting tool. A site can still tell where you are by other means, and a timezone that disagrees with those other signals can make a browser more distinctive rather than less.
Third parties
There are none. No advertising, no third-party libraries loaded at runtime, no external code of any kind. Everything the extension runs is contained in the package you install from the Chrome Web Store.
Children
The extension is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. Since it collects no information from anyone, it collects none from children either.
Removing your data
Uninstalling the extension removes its settings from your browser. If Chrome Sync is on, removing it on one machine removes it from the others too, once they next sync.
Changes to this policy
If the extension ever starts handling data differently, this page will be updated and the date at the top changed before that version is published. There is no mailing list to notify, because there is no list of users.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or anything the extension does: ravishxt@gmail.com