The article stays on the article website.

Last updated July 26, 2026

PageCritters runs only when you start it on the current Chrome tab. It does not sell personal data, store article text, or monitor the rest of your browsing history.

Data stored locally in Chrome

The extension stores the minimum information needed to resume and display your reading history:

• article URL, page title, hostname, and favicon URL
• first and last reading dates
• active reading time, numeric progress, and last scroll ratio
• session outcome, reached milestones, weekly goal, and companion position

This data stays in chrome.storage.local on your device. You can delete it from the PageCritters dashboard.

Data PageCritters does not store

• article bodies, screenshots, images, quotes, snippets, highlights, or summaries
• unrelated tabs or browsing history
• keystroke contents or mouse movement history
• medical records or proof of an ADHD diagnosis

Article text may be inspected briefly in memory to identify the likely article region and estimate reading length. It is discarded and is never written to storage or sent to a server.

Optional private-beta analytics

During onboarding, testers may opt in to anonymous beta analytics. If enabled, PageCritters sends a random installation ID, extension version, event name, timestamp, and limited numeric product data such as milestone, article count, progress, elapsed-minute bucket, or weekly goal.

It never sends article URLs, titles, domains, article text, screenshots, or browsing history with these events. Analytics consent can be changed from Setup & privacy in the extension.

Waitlist and email

If you apply for the beta, PageCritters stores your email address, consent timestamp, referral tags, and your application answers. Cloudflare hosts the site and database. Resend delivers permission-based beta email. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe path.

Payments

The private beta does not charge testers. Test and future subscription checkout are provided by Lemon Squeezy, which processes payment and tax information under its own privacy policy. PageCritters does not receive or store full card numbers or security codes.

Sharing and sale of data

PageCritters does not sell personal data. Data is shared only with service providers needed to run the beta or future checkout, and only for those purposes: Cloudflare, Resend, and Lemon Squeezy.

Deletion

Delete local reading history from the PageCritters dashboard. Unsubscribe through any beta email. For removal of a waitlist record or other privacy questions, email [email protected].

Changes

Material changes will be reflected on this page with a new date. The policy will be updated before any account sync or live paid plan launches.