Privacy Policy

Drift Browser Extension

Data Collection

Drift collects the following data, all of which is stored locally on your device using Chrome's storage API:

• Widget settings — your widget layout, positions, and preferences
• Dock apps — custom apps you add to the dock (name, URL, icon)
• Weather preferences — your chosen city and temperature unit
• Search engine preference — your selected default search engine
• Wallpaper choice — your selected background wallpaper
• Appearance settings — search bar color, dark mode, click spark preferences
• Sound settings — typewriter sound volume levels
• Notes content — text entered in the Quick Notes widget
• Spotify playback data — currently playing track info from Spotify Web Player (title, artist, album art, playback state)

Data Storage & Transmission

All settings and data are stored locally on your device using Chrome's storage API. Drift does not send your personal information or stored data to any server. When you use certain features, Drift makes limited API requests to provide functionality (see Third-Party Services below). These requests contain only the data necessary to fulfill their function — such as coordinates for weather or a domain name for a favicon — and no personal identifiers or stored settings are included.

Third-Party Services

Drift connects to the following external services to provide its features:

• BigDataCloud — receives raw coordinates (latitude and longitude) for reverse geocoding; used only during automatic location detection, not during manual city entry
• Open-Meteo Weather API — receives either coordinates (auto-detect) or a city name (manual entry) to fetch forecast data
• Open-Meteo Geocoding API — converts a manually entered city name to coordinates; only used when a city is typed in rather than auto-detected
• Spotify Web Player — reads currently playing track information via a content script on open.spotify.com
• Google Fonts — loads the Caveat handwriting font used in notes and widgets
• Google Favicon Service — fetches website icons for dock apps
• thesvg.org — static SVG app icons for the macOS-style dock (icon images only; no data is sent to the server)

No personal data is sent to these services. Weather requests include only coordinates (auto-detect) or city name (manual entry).

Permissions

The following permissions are required for Drift's core features:

• Storage — stores your settings, preferences, and widget data locally on your device
• Tabs — enables tab grouping and communication with content scripts
• Tab Groups — automatically organizes your tabs by website domain
• Downloads — detects active downloads to prevent auto-discarding tabs with in-progress downloads
• Scripting — registers Dark Mode and Click Spark content scripts when you choose to enable them
• Search — sends plain text queries to the user's default search engine via chrome.search.query(); Drift does not override or persist any search engine preference
• Geolocation — auto-detects your location for the weather widget via BigDataCloud (reverse geocoding) and Open-Meteo (forecast); coordinates are sent to both services during auto-detection (optional; you can enter a city manually instead, which sends only the city name to Open-Meteo Geocoding)

Drift also accesses https://open.spotify.com/* to read now-playing data from the Spotify Web Player for the Media Player widget.

The following permission is optional and only requested when you enable the associated feature:

• <all_urls> — allows Dark Mode and Click Spark to run on websites you visit

Content Scripts

• Spotify Widget (open.spotify.com only) — reads now-playing data from Spotify Web Player
• Click Spark (all websites, disabled by default) — adds click animation effects when enabled
• Dark Mode (all websites, disabled by default) — applies dark theme when enabled

Click Spark and Dark Mode are disabled by default and only activate when you explicitly enable them in settings.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date below.

Last updated: July 2026

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