Overview
Pin Things is a browser extension for saving reusable text, links, and page references and inserting them into browser fields. Its current release is local-first and works without an account or remote service.
Information Pin Things handles
Pin Things handles only the information needed to provide its user-facing features:
- Pins you create or capture, including their title, content, icon, type, status, and timestamps.
- Local preferences and onboarding status.
- Selected page text, clicked-link destinations, page URLs, and page titles only when you explicitly use a Pin Things capture action.
- Temporary routing information about the eligible browser field you most recently focused so Pin Things can insert the pin you choose.
- Backup files you explicitly choose to export or import.
Pin Things does not read, capture, or store the existing value of a password field. It only inserts content that you explicitly saved as a pin.
How information is used
Information is used only to provide Pin Things features: creating, searching, editing, archiving, restoring, deleting, importing, exporting, and inserting pins. Pin Things does not use this information for advertising, profiling, analytics, or any unrelated purpose.
Local storage and security
Pins, preferences, and onboarding status are stored in your browser's local extension storage. Temporary field-routing information stays inside the extension and browser session. This data is not encrypted.
Do not store passwords, API keys, authentication tokens, or other secrets in Pin Things. Pin Things is not a password manager.
Export creates a JSON backup locally on your device. Import reads only the file you choose and validates it before updating local extension storage.
Sharing and external transmission
V1 makes no external data transmissions. Pin Things does not sell, rent, share, or disclose user data to the developer, advertisers, analytics providers, data brokers, or other third parties.
Browser permissions
- Storage saves pins and local preferences.
- Context menus provide the three Pin Things capture actions.
- Access to ordinary HTTP and HTTPS pages lets Pin Things display its input-side control, remember the eligible field you selected, insert the pin you choose, and capture selected text, links, or page URLs when requested.
Private or incognito operation is disabled.
Retention and deletion
Local data remains in browser extension storage until you edit or delete it, clear the extension's browser data, or uninstall Pin Things. Archived pins remain stored until you delete them. Clearing extension data or uninstalling can permanently remove locally stored pins unless you exported a backup.
Your controls
You can edit, archive, restore, or permanently delete pins from the extension. You can export a local backup, replace the local library through an explicit import, clear extension data through the browser, or uninstall Pin Things.
Chrome Web Store Limited Use
The use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Pin Things uses handled information only to provide or improve its single user-facing purpose and does not transfer that information to third parties.
Policy changes
If Pin Things' data practices change, this policy, the browser-store disclosures, and any required in-product notice or consent will be updated before those changes are released.
Contact
Privacy questions can be submitted through the public Pin Things issue tracker.
Open the Pin Things issue tracker