Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 June 2026

screensnap collects no data. None of your activity, captures, or recordings ever leave your computer.

What screensnap does

screensnap captures screenshots and screen/tab recordings and lets you annotate and edit them. Every part of this — capture, the webcam bubble, annotation, video trimming/encoding, and saving — happens entirely on your own machine, inside your browser.

Data we collect

Nothing. screensnap has:

• No servers. There is no backend; the extension never sends your data anywhere.
• No telemetry or analytics. We do not track usage, clicks, or any behavior.
• No accounts or sign-in. There is nothing to log in to.
• No network requests at runtime. The extension and its one bundled library (Mediabunny, for local video encoding) ship inside the extension; nothing is fetched from the internet while you use it.

Where your captures and recordings go

• Screenshots and recordings are saved to your browser's Downloads folder, like any other file. They are never uploaded.
• A just-finished recording is held temporarily in your browser's local storage (IndexedDB) only so the editor can open it; it stays on your device.
• Settings (e.g. audio/format preferences) are stored locally via Chrome's storage API on your device.

Permissions and why they are needed

• tabCapture — to record the current browser tab's video and audio. Local only.
• activeTab + scripting — to show the capture/recording overlays (countdown, webcam bubble, annotation editor) on the page you invoked screensnap on.
• offscreen — to run the recorder (which needs a hidden document with media access) in the background.
• downloads — to save your screenshots and recordings to your Downloads folder.
• storage — to remember your preferences locally.
• Camera / microphone (requested only when you choose them) — to include your webcam and voice in a recording. These streams are processed locally and never transmitted.

Children's privacy

screensnap does not collect any data from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be published at this URL.

Contact

Questions about privacy: help@dmsolutions.io