Privacy Policy — Pikamark

Connections serve specific features. Pro licensing contacts Freemius. On Firefox, site icons load from bookmarked sites, which receive your IP address and ordinary connection data. Icons are on by default; Settings → General → Site icons stops new requests. Chrome and Edge use the browser’s internal favicon service; the browser controls its own network activity. Links and web searches you open contact their destinations
The extension has no analytics. No telemetry, crash reporting or usage tracking. Website analytics are described below
App extras are stored locally. Pikamark reads and edits browser bookmarks; your browser may sync them through its own account. Notes, tags, settings and other app data stay in local browser storage. Pikamark has no cloud server for your collection. Exported files and your chosen backup folder may sync through a cloud service you configure

Pro licensing and billing

Freemius handles Pro activation, license checks and deactivation. Checks run immediately after activation, then when you open Pikamark at least 24 hours after the last check. Renewal confirmation and retries can happen sooner

Licensing sends your key, a random device identifier, a browser label and product/install credentials. Activation uses the placeholder name “Pikamark User”. Freemius also receives connection data such as your IP address
These requests contain no real name, email, bookmarks, notes, tags or browsing history. Checkout and the customer portal collect information separately

Freemius processes billing, contact and transaction data under its privacy policy and shares purchase information with the product seller

Permissions

Permission	Why it's needed
`bookmarks`	Required in every supported browser. Read and edit the browser's real bookmarks to display and organize them
`favicon`	Required on Chromium only. Display site icons through the browser's internal `_favicon` service; Firefox instead requests icons from bookmarked sites as explained above
`storage`	Required in every supported browser. Store app extras locally through `chrome.storage.local`
`tabs`	Optional. Read tab titles and URLs to save open tabs as a folder or session, or save a tab from the toolbar popup. Permission is requested before access
`tabGroups`	Optional on Chromium and Firefox 139+. Requested when you use Open all in one group
`search`	Required in every supported browser. Send a web search to your default search engine only when you choose that action
`notifications`	Optional on Chromium only, with alarms. Off by default; requested when you enable Pro system notifications for reminders and timers. Unavailable in Pikamark on Firefox
`alarms`	Optional on Chromium, with notifications. Schedule reminders and timers when Pikamark is closed. Disabling notifications clears the schedule; granted permissions remain until revoked in browser settings
`https://.freemius.com/`	Optional host access, requested when you activate a Pro key. Used for activation, validation and deactivation; a stored activation can trigger automatic checks

How to verify

You don’t have to take our word for it: every claim here can be checked in your browser

Open chrome://extensions (edge://extensions in Edge, about:addons in Firefox) and look at Pikamark’s permissions. Few are required; the rest are optional and requested only when you use that feature
Open a new tab, press F12 and switch to Network. Apart from requests to Freemius after you enter a Pro key, no external requests appear (Firefox: see the last step)
Turn off your network connection. Your bookmarks, notes and settings keep working
Chrome and Edge: the content security policy in the manifest allows connections only to the extension itself and api.freemius.com. The browser blocks everything else, including from the background script
Firefox: site icons are loaded from the sites you bookmarked, so you will see those requests and the restriction above does not apply. Settings → General → Site icons turns them off

Pikamark is closed source. It is an independent product, and Pro funds its development. So rather than just stating what it does, we show you above how to check what it can access and where it connects

The website

pikamark.app is hosted on Vercel and uses Vercel Web Analytics for aggregate page views and install-button clicks. Analytics include page/referrer, approximate location, browser and device information; install events add the chosen browser, button location and mobile/desktop category. Vercel says it uses no analytics cookies and discards visitor identifiers after 24 hours; this does not mean all statistics are deleted then

The site saves your theme and language preferences locally. Opening the promo video loads YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player, which connects to YouTube. External links and checkout follow the destination’s privacy policy

Managing your data

Clear the extension’s local data through your browser; manage browser bookmarks separately. Exported backups and cloud copies must be deleted separately. To ask about data held by the developer, including support emails or purchase records, use the contact below; Freemius handles requests for data it holds under its own policy

Contact

Questions about this policy or how Pikamark handles data? Email ramapitex@gmail.com

Changes to this policy

Policy changes are published here with an updated date