Calm Reader collects no data. It reads nothing from you, stores nothing remotely, and contacts no servers. Your reading is entirely private.
What Calm Reader does
Reads the page you are currently viewing to extract article content using Mozilla Readability.
Stores your display preferences (theme, font, font size) locally in Chrome's storage.sync — synced to your own Google account, never accessible to us.
What Calm Reader does NOT do
Does not collect, transmit, or sell any personal data.
Does not track which URLs or articles you read.
Does not communicate with any remote server — there is no backend.
Does not include any analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting.
Does not request access to your browsing history.
Does not inject ads or affiliate links.
Does not modify any page you do not explicitly activate it on.
Permissions used
activeTab — to read and reformat the article on the tab you activate the extension on. Only applies to the current, active tab at the moment you click the icon or press Alt+R.
scripting — to inject the Readability parser and reader stylesheet into the active tab. All injected code is bundled locally; nothing is loaded from the internet.
storage — to save your display preferences (theme, font, font size) across sessions using Chrome's built-in sync storage.
Third-party code
Calm Reader bundles Mozilla Readability.js (Apache 2.0 license) as a local vendor file. This library runs entirely in your browser and does not phone home.
Children
Calm Reader does not collect any information from anyone, including children under 13.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new effective date. Given that Calm Reader collects no data, substantive changes are unlikely.