Privacy Policy for Launch Pad

Last updated: August 10, 2026

Launch Pad is a new-tab replacement extension: search, quick links, and a customizable grid of productivity widgets (currency converter, speed test, weather, finance, RSS, quotes, GitHub activity, an optional AI sidebar, and more). This policy describes, accurately and completely, what data the extension touches and where it goes. It covers the extension as it actually behaves in code today, not a generic template.

The short version

Launch Pad does not operate its own servers and does not collect, sell, or transmit your data to us in any form. There is no "Launch Pad backend."
Your browsing history and bookmarks (used to power a couple of widgets) never leave your device.
A handful of widgets talk directly to third-party APIs to do their job (exchange rates, weather, stock quotes, etc.) — see the table below for exactly which ones, and what's sent.
If you choose to connect an AI provider or GitHub, the API key you provide is stored only in your browser and sent only to that provider's own API — never to us or anyone else.
If you turn on "Sync Across Devices," your preferences sync through Chrome's own built-in sync (the same mechanism Chrome uses for your bookmarks and settings) — not a separate server we run.

Data that stays entirely on your device

The storage, history, and bookmarks permissions are used as follows, and none of it is ever sent anywhere:

History — the Browser History widget and the search bar's suggestion dropdown read your history via the browser's own history API to show recently/most-visited pages. This stays local; it's used only to render the widget and populate links you click yourself.
Bookmarks — the search bar's suggestions and the optional "import bookmarks into a workspace" feature read your bookmarks locally to show or copy them within the extension. Not transmitted.
Search — the search bar sends the text you type to Chrome's own chrome.search API, which opens a results page using whichever search engine you've set as your browser's default. Launch Pad does not choose a search provider, does not see the results, and does not send your query anywhere itself.
Widget layout, theme, wallpaper, quick links, notes, cached API responses, and similar preferences are stored locally in your browser (chrome.storage.local or localStorage) so the extension remembers your setup between sessions.

Third-party services Launch Pad talks to

Some widgets need to contact an external API to function. Each only receives the minimum needed for that specific feature — never your browsing history, bookmarks, or identity:

Feature	Service contacted	What's sent
Currency Converter	open.er-api.com	A 3-letter currency code
Speed Test	speed.cloudflare.com	Nothing personal — generic test traffic to measure your connection
Weather	Open-Meteo and BigDataCloud	The city name you type, or your device's GPS coordinates (only if you grant the browser's location permission)
Finance	Yahoo Finance	The stock ticker symbol you configured
RSS	rss2json.com	The feed URL you added
Daily Quotes	dummyjson.com	Nothing personal — just pagination
Word of the Day	dictionaryapi.dev	A word from a fixed built-in list, not user input
Quick link previews / favicons	Google, DuckDuckGo, and Microlink	The domain (or, for link previews, the full URL) of a quick link you saved
Country indicator	ipwho.is, flagcdn.com	Your IP address (used only to show your country/city in one small UI element), via a standard IP lookup — the same kind of thing almost any website does

If you connect your own API keys (optional features)

Launch Pad has a few "bring your own key" features that are entirely off by default:

AI Sidebar — if you enter an Anthropic or OpenAI API key, it's stored in your browser's local storage (unencrypted, same as most browser extensions handle this) and used only to send your messages directly from your browser to that provider's API when you use the sidebar. Launch Pad never sees or relays this traffic. Conversations are not saved to disk — closing or reloading the tab clears the chat.
GitHub widget — if you enter a GitHub personal access token, it's stored the same way (local, unencrypted) and sent only to GitHub's own API to show your activity. Never sent anywhere else.
Unsplash wallpaper search — if you enter an Unsplash API key, it's stored the same way and used only to search Unsplash for wallpapers.

In all three cases: the key stays on your device, is never sent to Launch Pad or any server other than the named provider, and you can remove it at any time from the relevant widget's settings — which deletes it immediately.

Sync across devices

If you turn on "Sync Across Devices" in Settings, a subset of your preferences (name, hero text, colors, theme, and widget visibility) is synced using Chrome's built-in chrome.storage.sync — the same infrastructure Chrome already uses to sync your bookmarks and settings across your signed-in devices. This is Google's sync service, not a server operated by Launch Pad. Larger data (quick links, wallpapers, full workspace contents) is kept local-only and is not part of this sync.

What Launch Pad does not do

No ad networks, no third-party analytics or tracking scripts, no fingerprinting.
No selling or sharing of your data with anyone.
No account system, no Launch Pad-operated servers of any kind.

Children's privacy

Launch Pad is a general-purpose browser tool and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

If Launch Pad's data practices change (for example, a new widget that calls a new API), this page will be updated and the "Last updated" date above will change accordingly.

Contact

Questions about this policy: abdullahroshaan@gmail.com