Readery Privacy Policy

Readery · Last updated: July 14, 2026

Short version: Readery does not collect, store, transmit, or sell any personal data. Your saved articles stay on your own device.

What we collect

Nothing. Readery does not collect or transmit any personal information, browsing history, or usage analytics. The developer has no servers and receives no data from your use of the extension. Readery makes no network requests of its own and sends nothing to the developer or any third party.

What Readery does on web pages

Readery does not run in the background on the sites you visit. When you choose to save a page (from the toolbar, the right-click menu, or the keyboard shortcut), it reads that one page's article text in your browser, strips out the ads and clutter, and tucks a clean copy away on your device. It only touches a page when you ask it to save it; it does not read your passwords, form fields, or browsing history, and it does not send the pages you visit anywhere.

What is stored, and where

Your saved articles (their title, address, the extracted reader text, and a small preview), along with your tags, favorites, archive state, and settings, are stored only on your own computer using Chrome's local storage (chrome.storage.local). This is your private, local-first library, so your saved pages still open when you are offline. Nothing ever leaves your device, there is no account and no sign-in, and nothing is synced to the cloud. You can export your whole library to a JSON, HTML, or CSV file at any time, and delete everything from the Data page.

Permissions and why they are needed

Access to websites (all sites): so that when you save a page, Readery can read the article on whatever site you happen to be on. It only reads a page at the moment you choose to save it; it does not run on other pages or in the background.
Storage / unlimited storage: to keep your saved articles, tags, and settings on your own device. Unlimited storage lets a large library, including the full text of saved articles, fit without a size cap.
Scripting and active tab: to run the reader extractor on the current page when you save it, so it can pull out the article text and drop the clutter.
Context menus: to add a right-click option for saving the current page or a link to Readery.

None of these permissions is used to read, collect, or send your data anywhere.

Third parties

Readery does not share data with any third party, because it does not collect any. The optional "Donate" link opens an external page (Ko-fi) only if you click it; any payment there is handled by that service under its own privacy policy.

Children

Readery is a general-purpose productivity tool and does not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date.

Contact

Questions? Contact the developer at contact@mcguigansoftware.com.