Privacy policy

TL;DR: CookieVault’s privacy policy is short because we collect almost nothing — an email, an opaque encrypted sync blob we cannot read, and a billing ID. We never see your cookies, your browsing history, your IP, or any telemetry, and we never sell data.

A privacy policy is the document that tells you exactly what data a service collects about you, why, how long it keeps it, who it shares it with, and what rights you have over it. CookieVault’s policy is unusually short because the product is built so that we hold as little of your data as technically possible: cookie contents are end-to-end encrypted on your device before they reach us, so the server only ever stores ciphertext it cannot decrypt.¹

What we collect

In short: For paid accounts: your email, an opaque encrypted sync blob, and a Paddle customer ID. For Free local-only users: nothing, because there is no account. Article 5(1)(c) of the GDPR calls this data minimisation — “adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary”² — and it is the design rule the whole product follows.

Free users who never create an account generate none of the above. The extension stores your cookies and profiles locally and makes no network calls unless you explicitly enable sync on a paid plan.

What we never collect

In short: We never collect the contents of your cookies, your browsing history, your IP address, or behavioral telemetry. The GDPR principle is that the lawful basis for processing must be specific — and we simply have no basis, and no desire, to gather any of this.²

The list of things CookieVault deliberately does not collect:

1. Cookie contents — encrypted on-device before sync; we store only ciphertext
2. Browsing history — the extension never reads or transmits the pages you visit
3. IP addresses — our analytics are cookieless and aggregate-only, with no per-visitor IP logging
4. Device fingerprints — no canvas, no WebGL, no font enumeration
5. Behavioral telemetry — the extension ships with zero analytics SDKs
6. Third-party ad identifiers — we run no advertising and integrate no ad networks

Our website analytics are Cloudflare Web Analytics and Plausible, both cookieless and aggregate-only by design, which is why this site shows no cookie-consent banner — there is nothing to consent to.

Your rights

In short: Under the GDPR, CCPA, and LGPD you have rights of access, deletion, correction, portability, and objection. Email privacy@cookievault.net and we respond within 30 days. Because most of what we hold is ciphertext we cannot read, deletion is fast and verifiable.

The rights you can exercise, by framework:

• GDPR (EU/EEA/UK) — access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection under Articles 15–22³
• CCPA/CPRA (California) — know, delete, correct, and opt out of “sale” or “sharing” under Cal. Civ. Code §1798.100 et seq.⁴
• LGPD (Brazil) — confirmation, access, correction, anonymisation, portability, and deletion under Lei 13.709/2018⁵

To exercise any right, email privacy@cookievault.net from your account address. We do not charge a fee for reasonable requests and aim to respond within 30 days.

Retention

In short: Account data is kept until you delete your account, plus a 30-day grace window, then purged. Encrypted blobs live until you delete them client-side. Billing records are kept as long as tax law requires (commonly up to seven years), and only by Paddle.

Subprocessors

In short: Exactly two — Cloudflare for hosting and sync transit, and Paddle as our Merchant of Record for billing. No analytics processors receive personal data, and we use no advertising networks or data brokers. A current list is maintained here.

Cloudflare only ever sees encrypted blobs and routine request metadata; it never holds keys.⁶ Paddle, as Merchant of Record, handles payment data and VAT/sales-tax compliance across 100+ jurisdictions, which is why your card details reach Paddle and never us.⁷ If we ever add or change a subprocessor, we will update this table and notify Pro subscribers in advance.

See also

• Security — the encryption architecture that makes this policy possible
• No-sale pledge — our permanent commitment never to sell data
• Terms of service — the agreement that governs your use of the service
• About — who builds CookieVault and how it is funded