Effective 19 August 2026. This policy covers the Tabs4Palestine browser extension and the tabs4palestine website.
The extension replaces your new-tab page and shows ethical ads whose revenue goes to Palestinian charities. To do that it counts tab opens, measures ad views and clicks at country level, and collects basic product analytics. It never reads your browsing history, the pages you visit, or what you search for. We do not sell data, run tracking pixels, or build advertising profiles of you.
Tab opens. Each new tab you open is counted with a timestamp so the collective donation ledger can be computed. If you are signed in, the count is linked to your account id; otherwise it is anonymous.
Ad delivery and measurement. When a tab requests an ad, our ad infrastructure (the Ethicly network, which we operate) sees your IP address, like any server you connect to, and uses it to derive a two-letter country code. The stored impression record contains the country code, the ad shown, timestamps, and basic fraud signals: whether the tab was focused, whether the mouse moved, how long the page was open, and whether the browser is automated. These signals exist to stop fake traffic from inflating what advertisers pay. No page content and no browsing history are ever part of an ad request.
Sponsored shortcut clicks. If you click a sponsored shortcut, we record which brand was clicked, when, and a random identifier, because each click adds money to the donation pool and the ledger must be auditable.
Product analytics. We use PostHog (hosted in the United States) to understand which features are used: things like tab opens, settings changes, and ad events. It uses a random device identifier, not your name. If you sign in, analytics are linked to your account id.
Your account, if you create one. An account is optional. If you create one we store your email address, a display name, and gamification data such as streaks, badges, and friends you add.
Stored only on your device. Your settings (ad slot count, wallpaper, shortcut preferences), cached ads and shortcuts, and your most-visited sites. The "most visited" shortcut option reads Chrome's top-sites list locally to display it; that list never leaves your browser.
Browsing history. Page content. Search queries: the search box hands your query straight to Google and we keep nothing. There are no tracking pixels, no retargeting, no cross-site identifiers, and no sale of personal data to anyone. The extension requests only three browser permissions: storage, top sites, and search.
The site shows the same live counters and a preview of the product. Ad previews on the site are measured the same way as in the extension, at country level. Clicking a sponsored shortcut on the site stores a random identifier in your browser's local storage so repeat clicks can be recognised; it identifies a browser, not a person. Fonts load from Google Fonts, which means Google sees your IP address for that request. The site sets no advertising cookies.
Donation, impression, and account data is stored with Supabase in the European Union (London and Zurich regions). Analytics data is stored with PostHog in the United States. Advertisers see aggregate statistics only: impressions, clicks, and totals, never individual users. Partner charities receive money, not data.
You can set ad slots to zero in settings, switch shortcuts to your own favorites, hide the donation counter, or uninstall the extension at any time, which deletes everything stored on your device. To delete an account and the data linked to it, email hello@tabs4palestine.com and we will remove it.
If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it and material changes will be noted on this page. Questions and requests: hello@tabs4palestine.com.