Privacy policy

Last updated November 3, 2026

Kinetic New Tab does not collect, transmit, sell or share any personal data. Everything it uses stays in Chrome on your own computer.

What the extension uses

• Your settings. Your theme, colors, font, clock options, greeting name, search engine and shortcut list are saved in Chrome's local extension storage on your computer. They are never sent anywhere.
• Your most visited sites. To draw the shortcut tiles, the extension reads Chrome's list of your most visited sites, the same list Chrome's own new tab page uses. It is shown on the page and nothing else.
• Site icons. Shortcut icons come from Chrome's own icon cache on your computer. The extension does not fetch them from any server.
• Mouse movement. Your pointer position drives the animation as it happens. It is not recorded or kept.

Searching

When you search from the new tab, your words go straight to the search engine you picked in settings: Chrome's default engine, Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing or Brave. It works the same as searching from Chrome's address bar. The extension doesn't log or keep your searches, and that search engine's own privacy policy applies.

What the extension never does

• No analytics, tracking or telemetry
• No ads
• No accounts or sign in
• No code loaded from the internet and no connections to our servers
• No selling or handing over of data to anyone

Permissions, in plain words

• Storage saves your settings on your computer.
• Search sends a search to your default search engine when you choose "Chrome default".
• Top sites reads your most visited sites for the shortcut tiles.
• Favicon shows website icons on those tiles.

Removing your data

Uninstalling the extension deletes all of its saved settings. You can also switch shortcuts back to your most visited sites at any time from the settings panel.

This website

kinetictab.pages.dev has no cookies, analytics or trackers. The live demo on the home page saves its settings in your browser's local storage only. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent from the Support tab on the extension's Chrome Web Store page. See the help page for details.