Privacy Policy

Effective date: 5 July 2026

Maskshot processes your screenshots on your device. The extension has no user accounts and does not send your screenshots, the pages you capture, or any personal data to us or to any third party — capturing, editing, saving, and copying all happen locally in your browser, and your screenshot is never uploaded. The page that displays your capture is served from our website, but the image itself stays on your device. In short, the extension collects no data and sends nothing off your device. (A Pro link-sharing feature is planned but not yet available — see “Sharing a link” below; it will be entirely opt-in.)

What the extension accesses

• The page you choose to capture. When you click the Maskshot toolbar icon or press the capture shortcut, the extension reads the content of the current tab so it can produce a screenshot. This happens only on that explicit action, only for that one tab, and the image is processed locally in your browser.

What is stored, and where

• Your settings and the captured image being handed to the Maskshot app page (maskshot.khush.ai/app) are kept locally in your browser’s extension storage (chrome.storage) and passed to that page within your browser. This data never leaves your device and is not accessible to us.
• Saved screenshots are written to your computer’s Downloads folder only when you click Save.

What we do NOT do

• We do not collect, transmit, sell, or share your data.
• We do not use analytics, tracking, advertising, or fingerprinting.
• We do not require sign-in or an account. (The planned Pro link-sharing feature will use Google sign-in, but it is not yet available.)
• We do not run remote code; all logic ships inside the extension package.

Permissions and why they are needed

• activeTab — temporary access to the current tab, granted only when you click the icon or press the shortcut, so the page can be captured. No standing access to any site.
• scripting — to inject the capture overlay into that same tab on your action.
• storage / unlimitedStorage — to keep your settings and to pass a captured image (which can be large for full-page captures) between the extension’s background worker and the result page, locally.

Sharing a link (planned · Maskshot Pro — not yet available)

This feature is not available in the current version of Maskshot. When it ships, Maskshot Pro will add an optional Share action on the app page — entirely opt-in, running only when you click Share, and the only feature that uses the network. For transparency, here is exactly what it will do once released (and this policy, along with our Chrome Web Store data disclosures, will be updated to reflect it before launch):

• You sign in with Google so we can confirm your Pro subscription. We store only what running a subscription needs — your Google account identifier, email, and Stripe subscription status — never your screenshots or the pages you capture. Payment card details go to Stripe and never touch us.
• The screenshot is uploaded to your own Google Drive, not to Maskshot. We request the narrowest Google Drive permission (drive.file), which lets Maskshot add and see only the single file it creates for you — it cannot see anything else in your Drive.
• That one file is set to “anyone with the link can view” so the link can show a preview. Anyone who has the link — including link-preview bots in chat apps — can view that screenshot, so treat a share link as public.
• We never store your image. The link (maskshot.khush.ai/s/…) contains a signed reference to your Drive file. We keep only a small record of each link you create — the Drive file reference, your optional label, and the date — so you can see and manage your links; there is no copy of your screenshot in any Maskshot database. To serve the preview quickly, a downscaled copy may be cached on our content-delivery network.
• You stay in control. Revoke a link at any time, or delete the file from your Google Drive — either way the preview stops working.

Future features

If future versions add other optional features that involve the network — for example cloud-assisted “intelligence” features — this policy will be updated to describe exactly what they do before those features are released, and any such feature will be clearly opt-in. The core capture-and-save flow described above stays on your device.

Children’s privacy

Maskshot does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone, including children.

Contact

Questions about this policy: feedback@khush.ai