Flick Flick privacy policy

Last updated: 24 October 2026 (version 1.0.2)

Flick Flick is a browser extension that helps you switch between, organise and manage your tabs. It is designed to keep your data on your own computer. The developer never receives any of it.

What Flick Flick stores

Everything stays inside your own browser profile:

• Settings, such as your look, shortcuts on the home screen and sleep timings. If you use browser sync, your browser syncs these between your own devices.
• Archive: the titles and addresses of tabs that were archived, so you can reopen them.
• Spaces: the titles and addresses of tabs you chose to save.
• Reminders: what you asked to be reminded about, when, and the page address if there is one.
• Quick note: the text you type in the note.
• Focus session: when your current session ends.
• Per-site media and display choices: the volume, playback speed and dark mode you set for a site, so they apply next time.
• Picked colours: the last 24 colours you picked with the colour picker.
• Screen time: how many seconds you spent on each site per day, for the last 30 days, plus any daily limits you set.
• Tab backups: the titles and addresses of your open tabs, saved every 30 minutes (last 12 copies), so you can restore them.
• Snippets: the triggers and texts you save. When Flick Flick is allowed on all sites, it watches what you type in text boxes only to spot a trigger, and never in password boxes. Nothing you type is stored or sent.
• Reader view: when you open it, the article text and image addresses from that page, kept in memory until you close the browser.
• Tab pictures for the Alt+Q switcher: small pictures of tabs you looked at, kept in memory only and cleared when the browser closes.
• Weather (only after you choose a place): the place you chose, rounded to about a kilometre, and the latest weather for it.
• Routines: your water, break and meal reminders, their times and your messages.
• Pet: its name, face, settings, which actions are in its ring, position on screen, whether it is tucked into a ball, sites where you hid it, and when it last gave you a tip.
• Recent tab order: which tabs you used most recently, so the last-tab shortcut knows where to go. Cleared when the browser closes.
• Usage counts: how many times you have used a few features, only to tick off the getting-started checklist.

What Flick Flick does not do

• It does not send any data to the developer or anyone else. Its only network requests are to Google, only if you choose to sign in and sync, to Open-Meteo for weather, only after you choose a place (just the place's rounded coordinates are sent).
• It has no analytics, no tracking and no advertising. Signing in with Google is optional and only used for sync (see below).
• It does not sell or share data, because it never has any to share.

Pages you visit

Flick Flick reads page content only when you use a feature that needs it. It acts on pages only in these ways:

• When you use a tool on the current tab (picture in picture, colour picker, dark mode, volume and speed, read aloud), it acts on that tab only. Read aloud takes the page's visible text and gives it to your computer's own speech voices; the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
• If you choose "Allow on all sites", a small script runs on pages to apply the volume, speed and dark mode you set for that site. If you use text snippets, it also looks at what you type in text boxes, only to spot a snippet trigger such as ;sig, and never in password boxes; nothing you type is stored or sent. It sends nothing anywhere. You can turn this off at any time in Settings, under Media and pages.
• Allow copy (only on sites where you turn it on) undoes a page's blocks on selecting, copying and right-click. The sites you choose are remembered on your computer.
• YouTube focus (only the parts you switch off) hides those parts of YouTube with page styles. It reads nothing.
• Font finder (only while you use it) shows the font of the text under your mouse.
• Keep awake asks the browser to keep the screen on until the time you choose. Ruler measures what you point at on a page, only while you use it. Video speed keys (S, D, R) change the speed of videos on the page you are on.
• The Alt+Q switcher shows your tabs on the page you are on and only notices when you press and let go of the Alt key, so it knows when to switch. Its small tab pictures are taken once when you look at a tab, kept in memory only, and deleted when the browser closes; you can turn them off. It never records what you type.
• Glance notices when you click a link (or hold Q or Alt while clicking, if you choose that) and opens that link in a floating window. Links a web page handles itself, and Ctrl, Shift and middle clicks, are left alone. Its small bar can move the page into a normal tab or beside your page; the page moves as it is and nothing is recorded or sent.
• Draw on page, Show clicks and keys, Find my cursor and the shortcut guide work only while you use them. Show clicks and keys never shows plain typing, only shortcuts and special keys.
• The pet's low-battery note asks your browser for the battery level on laptops, and keeps only the time it last told you. The level is never stored or sent. Turn it off on the Pet page.
• The pet's level and My day use counts kept on your computer (tab flicks, focus sessions, routines) and the screen-time totals above.
• Reader view reads the article on the current page (headings, paragraphs and image addresses) only when you open it, and shows it in a clean page on your computer.
• Screenshots are taken only when you ask, kept in the browser until you close it, and saved only if you click Save. For full-page screenshots, the page (or the panel that scrolls) is scrolled one screen at a time and put back where it was. For an area screenshot, a selection box is drawn over the page until you finish.
• Whole-screen screenshots use Chrome's own sharing picker. Flick Flick takes one picture of what you chose and stops sharing immediately; nothing is recorded or sent.
• The pet, if you wake it and choose to show it on web pages, is drawn in a corner of each page. It does not read the page. It only notices whether the page is playing audio, so it can dance.
• Screen time uses only the address of the tab in front of you, and pauses when your computer is idle.

During a focus session, Flick Flick checks the address of pages you open against your list of paused sites. Addresses are checked in your browser and never stored or sent.

Bookmarks and history

Flick Flick reads your bookmarks or history only if you turn on those searches in its settings and approve the browser's permission prompt. It reads them only to show matches as you type, and never stores or sends them. Turning the setting off removes the permission.

Clipboard

Flick Flick writes to your clipboard only when you copy a link, a note, a snippet or a calculation. It never reads your clipboard.

Microphone

Flick Flick uses your microphone only after you allow it (Chrome asks you once), and only while you are dictating (the mic button turns red). Speech is turned into text by your browser's built-in speech recognition, which is provided by your browser maker (Google for Chrome) and may send audio to their speech service, under their privacy policy. Flick Flick itself never records, stores or sends audio.

Sounds

Reminder and focus sounds are generated on your computer. No audio is downloaded or sent.

Notifications

Reminders and the end of a focus session appear as system notifications. They are created on your computer and contain only what you entered.

Google sign-in and sync (only if you sign in)

Signing in is optional. If you sign in with Google, Flick Flick asks Google for your name, email address and picture (to show who is signed in) and for access to a private app folder in your own Google Drive. It cannot see any other files in your Drive.

Flick Flick stores a copy of your settings, routines, pet messages, notes, Spaces, archive, reminders, per-site volume, speed and dark mode, daily limits, picked colours, sites where the pet is hidden, and per-computer screen time totals in that folder, so they match on every computer where you sign in. The copy goes straight from your browser to your Google Drive; the developer never receives it. Your sign-in token is kept only in memory and is never written to disk.

You can sign out at any time (your data stays on your computer and in your Drive), or delete the cloud copy from Settings, under Account and sync. Removing the app's access from your Google Account settings also stops sync.

Flick Flick's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. That information is used only to show who is signed in and to sync your own Flick Flick data to your own Google Drive. It is never sold, never used for advertising, never shared with anyone, and never read by people.

Removing your data

Uninstalling Flick Flick deletes everything it stored. You can also clear the archive, Spaces and reminders, or reset all settings, from its settings page.

Contact

Questions about this policy: h24creationz@gmail.com