Privacy

Refresh Loop runs entirely in your browser. Page content is never collected or sent anywhere, and there's no account. What it keeps while it watches stays on your computer, and the section below says exactly what that is. The one exception is your license key: if you buy the paid version, it's sent to Polar, our payment processor, to check it.

What is stored, and where

Chrome’s own storage, on your computer, holds what the extension needs to do its job: the address of each page you are watching, how often to check it, your settings, the word you asked about, and the last change it found. Remove the extension and all of it goes with it.

What is read

When you start a timer on a site, Chrome asks whether to grant access to it. With that access the extension does two things: it draws the countdown on the page, and — if you turned the watcher on — it reads the page’s visible text to compare it with the previous check.

That comparison happens inside your browser, and it needs something to compare against. So the extension keeps a copy of the page’s visible text — the whole of it when you are watching for any change, a few hundred words around the match when you are watching for a word. On a long page that copy can run to a few hundred kilobytes. It stays on your computer, it is written over at every check, and it goes away when you stop the timer.

What is never done

• Page content never leaves your browser.
• The only thing the extension ever sends out is your license key, and only to Polar, to check that it is still good.
• No analytics of any kind. Nothing here counts what you do.
• No account, sign-in or sync.
• Refresh Loop never reads a page you haven't started a timer on.
• Nothing is sold or shared, because nothing is collected.

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Questions

Email us at support@stonecrop.app. Last updated August 3, 2026.