Privacy Policy — Accountable
Effective date: 27 June 2026
Accountable collects nothing. It has no servers, no accounts, and no tracking of any kind. Everything it remembers — which sites you've allowed, what it has cached, and (if you turn it on) its activity log — lives only in your own browser, on your own device, and is never sent anywhere. We can't see it, because there's nowhere for it to go.
What Accountable is
A browser extension that makes cross-origin network requests on behalf of web apps you explicitly authorize — so those apps can load feeds, files, datasets, or a local AI model that the browser would otherwise block. You decide which sites may use it, and which hosts each may reach.
What it stores, and where
All of the following is kept in your browser's local extension storage (chrome.storage.local). None of it is transmitted, synced, shared, or sold. It never leaves your device.
| What | Why | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Your grants — which sites may make requests, and to which hosts | so it knows what you've allowed | local only |
| A response cache — copies of fetched content | speed / fewer requests | local only |
| An activity log — a record of brokered requests | debugging / transparency | local, off by default |
You can clear any of it at any time from the extension's options page, or by removing the extension.
What it does NOT do
- No data collection. No personal information, browsing history, analytics, telemetry, or usage statistics — none.
- No servers, no accounts. Accountable talks to no backend of ours. There is no sign-up and no identifier of any kind.
- No selling or sharing. There is nothing to sell or share, and we share nothing.
- No ads, no third-party trackers.
About the requests it makes
When you authorize a site, Accountable fetches the URLs that site asks for, on your behalf, and without attaching your cookies or credentials. Those requests go directly from your browser to the destination you're using (a feed host, an API, your local model, etc.) — they are governed by that destination's own privacy practices, not ours. Accountable does not inspect, retain off-device, or report on their content.
Permissions, in plain terms
- Host access (
*://*/*, optional, granted by you at runtime) — a fetch broker must be able to reach whatever host an app you've allowed requests; it's requested only when you turn on access, never on install, and nothing is fetched until a site you've allowed asks. - Storage — to remember your grants and the cache locally.
- Scripting / activeTab — to inject the page↔extension relay on sites you've allowed, and to read the current tab's address in the popup so it can show and grant "this site."
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be published here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions: open an issue at github.com/gentropic/accountable or email endarthur@gmail.com.