Privacy Policy

Page Scrambler, the Chrome extension and this website (extensions.magentix.studio/page-scrambler), is made by Magentix Studio UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Kaiserring 14-16, 68161 Mannheim, Germany. Full company details are on the Imprint page. Magentix Studio UG is the controller for the processing described here. For anything privacy-related, email contact@magentix.studio.

The short version: the extension reads page text only on your device to scramble it; nothing it reads is stored or ever sent to us or anyone else. This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics. The only personal data involved is what any web server needs to deliver a page, described under “This website”.

What it does with page content

When you click Scramble page or pick an element, the extension reads the text of that part of the tab you clicked it on and replaces it on your screen with scrambled text. This happens entirely inside your browser. To put the real text back when you restore, it keeps the originals in the tab’s memory, and only there. They stay in that tab’s memory until you reload the page, leave it or close the tab. Scramble page stays on while that tab stays on the same site, so the extension also scrambles the next pages you open there, until you click Restore page or go to another site. ‘Same site’ means the exact address the page came from: a subdomain, such as app.example.com after example.com, counts as another site, and its pages show their real text.

The Chrome Web Store’s privacy section lists this as ‘Website content’: it is handled only on your device and never collected by us.

Form fields and editors are never changed: the extension draws a scrambled copy on top of them instead. The scrambled letters come from a random key that is created in your browser’s memory for each page and never stored.

What it does not do

• It makes no network requests. Page content, scrambled or not, never leaves your device, and we never receive any of it.
• It stores nothing on your device: no cookies, no extension storage, no browsing history, no settings. While Scramble page is on, Chrome keeps the scrambled tab’s site (its origin) in memory, in the script registration described under Permissions, for that browser session only; it is dropped when Scramble page ends, and nothing is written to disk.
• It contains no analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising or remote code, and it has no account or sign-in.
• Page text is processed only on your device; we never collect, receive or sell it.

Permissions

The extension asks Chrome for two permissions and nothing else:

• activeTab: access to the tab you are on, granted only when you click the extension’s icon or press one of its keyboard shortcuts, and only until that tab moves to another site.
• scripting: lets the extension run its scrambling code in that tab once you choose an action, and, while Scramble page is on, hide the text of the next page of the same site in that tab until it is scrambled. For that it registers a script for the scrambled site with Chrome, in memory for the browser session only. It also registers one that never runs, for a reserved address where no page exists, only to remember when the extension was loaded.

It requests no access to any website in advance, so it cannot read or change a page until you click its icon or press one of its shortcuts there. Frames embedded from other sites (chat widgets, videos, ads) stay outside its reach.

Installing from the Chrome Web Store

The extension is distributed through the Chrome Web Store, which Google operates under its own privacy policy. Google shows us aggregate statistics about the listing, such as the number of installs, which do not identify you.

Because the page text it reads never leaves your device, there is nothing we could share, sell or transfer. Its handling of data complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Hosting

This website is a set of static pages hosted by Vercel Inc., USA, as our processor. When you open a page, your browser sends a request to Vercel’s servers, which necessarily receive your IP address, and Vercel records technical access data: date and time, the page requested, your IP address, browser user agent and the referring page. We use this only to deliver the site and keep it secure and working, never to identify or profile visitors. Vercel keeps these logs for a limited period only.

Legal basis: our legitimate interest in delivering a secure, working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Vercel is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, on which transfers to the USA rest (adequacy decision, Art. 45 GDPR).

No cookies, no analytics, no tracking

This website sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It uses no analytics, tracking pixels, advertising, social media plugins or embedded third-party content. Fonts and images are served from this site itself, so visiting it sends no requests to Google or any other third party. That is why there is no cookie banner.

Contacting us

If you email us, we use your email address and message only to answer you, and delete them once the conversation is finished unless the law requires us to keep them. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in answering your request (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR), or steps you asked for before a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

Under the GDPR you can ask us for access to your data, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, and a portable copy, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Since nothing the extension reads ever reaches us, we hold no data about you from it; any data we have comes from emails you sent us.

To exercise any of these rights, email contact@magentix.studio. We respond within 30 days.

You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection authority. For us, the competent authority is the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg.

If the extension or this website ever changes how it handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect.