Privacy Policy

1. Feed filtering stays in the browser

When FeedTamer hides or keeps items on YouTube, matching and page changes happen inside your browser.

FeedTamer does not collect, record, transmit, or sell:

• Your video watch history or playback activity
• Your search queries
• Your channel subscriptions, playlists, or likes
• Your browsing history or IP addresses as a tracking product

There is no usage telemetry and no analytics script in the extension.

2. Browser Storage

Your filter settings, custom topic rules, channel filters, and preferences are stored locally using the standard Chrome Storage API (chrome.storage.sync and chrome.storage.local). If you are signed in to your browser profile with sync enabled, your browser vendor securely synchronizes these configuration settings across your own devices according to your browser account settings.

3. Payment Processing and Purchases

Orders and payment processing for FeedTamer Pro are handled by Paddle, our Merchant of Record. The Paddle company that sells to you depends on where you are: Paddle.com Inc. in the United States, Paddle.com (Canada) Ltd. in Canada, and Paddle.com Market Limited elsewhere. When you purchase a license:

• Paddle collects and processes payment card details, billing address, and transaction metadata.
• When you activate a plan, the FeedTamer server receives the license key you enter (your Paddle transaction or subscription ID) and a random installation ID, and reads that transaction or subscription from Paddle to confirm the plan and its billing period. A settings backup you save is stored under a shortened hash of that key.
• We never see, collect, or store your credit card or financial account numbers.

4. Support Communications

If you contact customer support at support@thefeedtamer.com, we receive your email address and any technical details you choose to share. This communication data is used exclusively to assist you and resolve your technical inquiries.

5. Single-Purpose Compliance

FeedTamer requests only the minimum permissions required to perform its single purpose: filtering video feeds and recommendations on YouTube. It does not inspect other websites or access web traffic outside YouTube domains.

6. Network calls to FeedTamer

FeedTamer contacts thefeedtamer.com in these cases:

• A trial-grant request only after you choose Start free trial in Settings: the extension sends POST to /api/trial-grant, with browser credentials enabled. The server sets or reuses an ft_trial cookie containing a random token and stores the associated trial start and expiry. The request has no installation ID or license key in its body. Public offer information at /api/trial-policy is separate from this grant; the website displays the offer through server-rendered pages
• License verification when you activate or renew a paid plan
• A settings backup you choose to save, while any paid plan is active, kept for 7 days after the plan ends and then deleted

Those requests do not include watch history, video titles on the page, or search queries. Without a paid plan, the extension still stores rules on the device; filtering then follows the trial and license state described in the terms.

7. Website statistics

The thefeedtamer.com website, not the extension, uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page visits without cookies and without identifying you. When you click an install button on the website, it records the page, the button and the source campaign, with no cookie and no identifier. None of this includes what you watch on YouTube.

8. Your rights and contact

The FeedTamer server keeps the trial start and expiry under the random token in the ft_trial cookie and deletes them 400 days after the trial ends. A settings backup you save is kept under a shortened hash of your license key and deleted 7 days after your plan ends. Questions about this policy, or a request to delete your settings backup sooner, go to support@thefeedtamer.com.