Privacy Policy — Article to PDF + APA Citation

Last updated: September 21, 2026

This extension does not collect, store, transmit, or sell any user data.

What the extension does

When you click the extension icon, it reads the content of the current tab only (never other tabs, never browsing history) to extract the article text and citation metadata (title, author, site name, publish date), using the Readability library running entirely inside your browser.
The extracted content and any metadata you edit stay in the extension's popup, in memory, for as long as the popup is open.
When you click "Generate PDF," the PDF is built entirely on your device (via the jsPDF library) and saved directly to your computer through the browser's own downloads system.
To embed images in the PDF, the extension fetches image files referenced by the page you're viewing — that fetch runs from within the page itself (not a separate server), so it behaves exactly like the browser's own normal image loading. For image hosts that need broader fetch permission to work reliably, the extension asks the browser for permission to that specific site only when you click Generate PDF (see Permissions below). No image or page data is ever sent to any server operated by this extension's developer or any third party.

What this extension does NOT do

It does not use analytics, telemetry, or tracking of any kind.
It does not have a backend server — there is nowhere for your data to be sent.
It does not store anything persistently (no browser storage, no cookies, no sync).
It does not share, sell, or transfer any data to third parties, because it never collects any data in the first place.

Permissions

activeTab / scripting: required to read the content of the page you explicitly click the extension icon on, including fetching its images for embedding, and nothing else.
downloads: required to save the generated PDF to your computer. Used only for the file you just generated, right when you click Generate PDF, never to read, list, or manage any other downloads on your device.
Optional host permission: not granted automatically. Many third-party image hosts, equation and formula renderers used by learning-management systems being a common example, serve images fine for normal display but do not send the response headers a fetch request needs. When an article you are converting references an image on such a host, the extension asks the browser, at the moment you click Generate PDF, for permission to that specific origin, and only that origin, not every site you visit. The browser shows its own native prompt naming the exact site before anything is granted. If you decline, that image is simply skipped. This permission is used solely to fetch images for the PDF you are actively generating, never for background access to sites you have not opened.