Tabnivo privacy and browser permissions.

Local extension data

Tabnivo stores settings, visit and activation timing, link-check results, protection choices, and recovery records in your current browser profile. It reads bookmarks, browser-provided visit times, and tab information to apply the rules you choose.

Bookmark and tab care runs independently in each browser profile, without an account or cloud sync. The extension has no AI classification or third-party analytics. Archive and Trash are native bookmark folders. Your browser's own bookmark sync settings are separate from Tabnivo.

Optional test billing

The separate Billing Sandbox build uses a random installation credential to connect your browser profile to its configured billing service. It checks trial and plan status on installation, browser startup, and during automatic care. Billing requests go to the configured billing origin. Free manual cleanup does not require plan verification. The service keeps trial dates, plan status, and payment references for that installation. Bookmarks, tabs, browsing history, and recovery records stay in your browser.

You can also explicitly start a browser-only Sandbox test on the payment test page. It stores a random test identifier in this browser's local storage so the same browser can resume its test plans. Short-lived checkout sessions are kept in tab session storage. Browser-only tests do not unlock an installed extension; opening a test from the extension keeps those identities separate. Clearing website storage removes the browser-only association.

The online billing service uses temporary hashed request-limit counters to limit excessive test requests. It does not store raw IP addresses in those counters. Expired counters are cleared as later requests are processed.

Open Settings, find Billing Sandbox, and choose Manage test plan to view the test plans. Monthly and annual subscriptions include a seven-day trial with a test payment method and renew automatically unless canceled. There is no separate application trial. Lifetime access is a one-time purchase without a trial. Paddle uses connection information to show local prices on the billing page and handles the email, billing location, and test payment details you enter at checkout. If access ends or cannot be verified, automatic care pauses while manual cleanup, protection, recovery, and backups remain available. The regular development build runs without billing services.

What happens during a link check

Link checks start when you choose Check links. Tabnivo then requests optional HTTP and HTTPS website access and sends requests to bookmark destinations to check whether they can be reached. Those sites may process the requests under their own privacy policies, including technical information such as your IP address.

These checks do not include login credentials, and Tabnivo does not save page content. Special browser addresses and obvious local or private-network destinations are skipped. A link check reports results; it does not automatically delete or move bookmarks.

Why these permissions are needed

Tabnivo does not operate in private or incognito windows. Missing visit history is treated as an unknown starting point, not proof that a bookmark has never been visited.

Recovery, retention, and backups

Before moving a bookmark or closing a tab, Tabnivo must save a local recovery record. If that fails, it stops the change. Closed-tab and legacy batch records are kept for 30 days. Bookmark-move recovery records are not cleared by that 30-day rule. Trash is not automatically emptied.

Export backup downloads a JSON file containing browser items, settings, timing, and recovery records. The file may contain private URLs and titles; keep it somewhere appropriate for that information. The current build does not offer one-click import.

Uninstalling Tabnivo or clearing its extension data removes its local records. It does not remove backup files you have already downloaded. Restoring tabs cannot recover unsaved forms, edits inside a page, or login state.

This website and its hosting

No third-party analytics have been added to this website. Visiting it does not give the site access to your browser bookmarks, history, tabs, or the extension's local records.

Website hosting is separate from extension storage. The hosting provider may process request information, such as IP addresses, requested pages, and technical logs, to deliver and protect the site.

Your controls

Preview and confirm manual cleanup for free. Change timing and pause automatic bookmark or tab care in Settings. Protect individual items to exclude them from both manual and automatic cleanup. Use your browser's extension settings to review access, disable Tabnivo, or uninstall it.

Ready to try it? Follow the installation guide.

Privacy questions and support

Contact us at the address below with privacy questions or requests about information held by our billing service. If you contact us, we use the contact details and information you choose to provide to respond and handle your request. Payment-related requests may need to be coordinated with Paddle.

You do not need to send bookmarks, browsing history, backup files, or payment card details to contact support. Local extension records can be managed through Tabnivo and your browser; we do not have remote access to them.

See our Terms of Service and Refund Policy for purchase and support terms.