Privacy Policy

Smart Adblocker blocks ads, pop-ups, cookie banners, sponsored clutter, trackers, and selected page elements through browser extension APIs, packaged filter lists, local settings, and site-specific logic. The extension can also provide YouTube-specific controls, manual element hiding, Enhanced Protection rule tuning, and AI privacy protection for supported chat services.

Many choices are stored only as extension preferences so the product can remember how you configured it. Some features communicate with Smart Adblocker servers, but those features are limited to operational purposes described here: Enhanced Protection, AI privacy protection, rule updates, problem reports, security, support, and infrastructure reliability. The extension does not require a named user account or paid profile to operate.

This policy is written around actual product behavior instead of broad reservations. Smart Adblocker does not use a privacy policy as permission to gather shopping carts, checkout events, account identities, advertising profiles, or commercially valuable browsing dossiers. When the extension communicates with a server, the reason should be understandable from the feature you enabled: improving blocking rules, obtaining AI protection configuration, sending supported AI chat captures while AI protection is enabled, receiving filter assets, sending a report you choose to submit, or maintaining website and service reliability.

The product uses browser permissions because ad blocking requires page, network, tab, and storage access inside the browser. Those permissions are not treated as a blanket authorization to collect everything the browser can technically expose. Smart Adblocker separates permission from collection: a permission may be needed to block ads on a page, while collection is limited by the feature settings, the local storage model, and the disclosures in this policy.

Smart Adblocker is the operator responsible for the privacy practices described in this policy. For laws that use terms such as controller, business, or similar language, Smart Adblocker determines the purposes for the extension service information described below.

The extension is distributed through the Chrome Web Store and runs in the browser environment selected by the user. Browser vendors, operating-system vendors, hosting providers, network providers, and the Chrome Web Store may process information under their own policies. Smart Adblocker does not receive your Google password, browser sync secrets, payment credentials, or Chrome account profile simply because you install the extension. Privacy questions can be sent to [email protected].

If you use Smart Adblocker in a managed browser, school device, employer device, family profile, or organization-managed Chrome environment, the administrator of that environment may have separate visibility or controls under its own policies. Smart Adblocker does not control those administrator settings. This policy covers Smart Adblocker operated services and the extension behavior we publish, not policies that your browser, device owner, network provider, or organization applies independently.

Smart Adblocker collects and stores information only to support the product features you use. Much of this is local preference data that lets the extension apply the correct blocking behavior on future visits.

Local preference data is the core operating state of the extension. It can include whether onboarding is complete, whether ad blocking is disabled for a specific host, whether popup blocking or cookie banner blocking is enabled, which public filter lists are active, YouTube-specific switches, element picker selectors, block counters, selected theme, and the AI privacy protection setting. These values are kept so the extension behaves consistently when you open the popup or revisit a website.

• We do not sell AI prompts or outputs.
• We do not use AI prompts or outputs for advertising, marketing analytics, audience creation, data brokerage, commercial browsing insights, or model training.
• We do not collect payment data, passwords, one-time passcodes, or ordinary form contents for the extension features described here.
• Problem-report contact details are optional and used only for support follow-up.

AI chat content is treated differently from ordinary blocking preferences because prompts and responses may contain private, personal, or sensitive text that a user typed into a supported AI service. Smart Adblocker processes that category only when AI privacy protection is enabled. If the switch is disabled, the extension does not use the AI capture pipeline for future supported chat activity from that installation.

Blocking statistics shown in the popup, toolbar badge, or support flows are operational measurements. They help show whether the extension is working and help troubleshoot broken blocking behavior. They are not intended to infer demographic characteristics, buying intent, financial condition, health status, or political or religious beliefs.

Server communication is feature-specific. Enhanced Protection may send limited clickstream-style operational data, such as URL, referrer, timestamp, page load timing, blocked count, and install ID, to improve rule tuning and detect missed blocking patterns when that setting is enabled.

AI privacy protection may fetch configuration from https://c.smartadblocker.com/configuration and may send supported AI chat captures to https://c.smartadblocker.com/captures when the AI privacy setting is enabled. The purpose is to provide the AI privacy protection feature, debug supported platform behavior, and improve Smart Adblocker functionality. If the AI privacy setting is disabled, future AI prompt and output processing for that feature stops.

Enhanced Protection is designed to improve ad-blocking quality by learning when a page appears to bypass or break blocking rules. The data is limited to technical context needed for that purpose, such as the visited URL, referrer, timestamp, page load timing, block count, and installation identifier. It is not designed to collect product names, cart contents, checkout events, payment methods, account credentials, or ordinary form entries.

AI privacy protection uses a separate service path from Enhanced Protection. Configuration tells the extension which supported AI platforms and capture logic are active. Capture submissions are tied to the user-facing AI protection feature, not to advertising measurement or resale. Supported platform coverage can change over time as AI services change their page structure, transport behavior, and product design.

The onboarding prompt lets you accept or decline the optional protection features. Accepting turns on Enhanced Protection and AI privacy protection by default. Declining leaves both disabled. You can change these choices later in the extension controls.

Withdrawal applies prospectively. If you turn off Enhanced Protection, future URL rule-tuning submissions stop. If you turn off AI privacy protection, future supported AI chat capture processing stops. Local extension settings may remain in the browser until you clear extension data, reset the browser profile, or uninstall the extension.

Consent choices are stored so the extension does not repeatedly ask the same first-run question. The two optional protection features can be managed independently after onboarding: Enhanced Protection controls clickstream-style rule-tuning data, and AI privacy protection controls supported AI chat capture processing. Turning one switch off does not automatically turn the other switch off unless the extension interface says so at the time you make the change.

There can be a short operational delay between changing a setting and every open tab observing the new state, because browser extensions communicate across a service worker, popup, content scripts, and active tabs. The intended behavior is that future processing stops after the changed setting is saved and the relevant extension context receives the updated state.

The public website may use basic infrastructure logs and limited analytics to understand page availability, campaign performance, errors, abuse, and aggregate traffic. The website is separate from extension browsing controls, and website analytics are not used to create an extension browsing dossier.

Browser controls may allow you to block or delete cookies. Some security, hosting, or analytics behavior may still occur through server logs or browser requests needed to deliver the website.

Website analytics are not the same as extension browsing data. For example, a conversion event on the public website can tell us that a download button was clicked, but it does not tell us which pages you later visit with the extension installed. The extension privacy switches govern the optional extension-side processing described in the sections above.

We may use anti-abuse, security, caching, and hosting technologies that process IP address, user agent, request time, referring page, and similar server log data. These records help operate the website, diagnose outages, reduce abuse, investigate malicious traffic, and understand whether public pages are reachable.

Smart Adblocker may share limited information with service providers that help operate hosting, security, analytics, support, rule delivery, and AI privacy protection infrastructure. These providers are limited to instructed processing for the product purposes described in this policy.

We may also disclose information if reasonably necessary to respond to lawful requests, enforce terms, investigate abuse, protect users, or maintain service integrity. We do not sell personal information, supported AI prompts or outputs, Web Browsing Data, marketing segments, commercial browsing insights, or individualized browsing dossiers.

Service providers are expected to process data for Smart Adblocker instructions, not for their own advertising, audience building, model training, or brokerage purposes. Examples may include cloud hosting, database storage, security monitoring, email delivery for support, analytics for the website, and infrastructure used by the AI privacy protection feature.

We may disclose limited records in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction involving Smart Adblocker, but the receiving party would be expected to honor the commitments that apply to the relevant records unless users are given a new notice and any consent required by law.

Local extension settings remain in the browser until changed, cleared, reset, or removed by browser behavior. Server-side operational records are retained only as long as reasonably needed for the feature, troubleshooting, security, legal, dispute-resolution, or reliability purposes described here.

Retention depends on the type of record. A local allowlist entry may remain until you remove it because its purpose is to keep a website paused. A support report may remain while we investigate and test fixes. A short-lived infrastructure log may remain only long enough for security and reliability review. A cached AI configuration may remain locally so the extension can continue operating if a later configuration request fails.

Smart Adblocker uses HTTPS transport for server communication and limits feature processing according to the extension settings. We apply operational controls intended to reduce unauthorized access, misuse, and accidental exposure.

No browser extension, website, or hosted service can guarantee absolute security. You should avoid sending passwords, payment details, medical information, private keys, or unrelated sensitive information through support descriptions or problem reports.

Security measures are layered across the browser and service. The browser enforces extension permission boundaries, Chrome storage APIs manage local state, HTTPS protects data in transit to Smart Adblocker endpoints, and service-side controls are used for logging, access management, and abuse response. These controls reduce risk but cannot eliminate all risk created by malware, compromised devices, browser vulnerabilities, third-party site behavior, or user-submitted sensitive text.

Smart Adblocker is not directed to children and is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided information through a support flow or website form, contact us at [email protected] so we can review the request.

Parents, guardians, schools, and device administrators should decide whether the extension is appropriate for a particular browser profile. If the extension is used in a shared household or managed environment, local settings may reflect choices made by the person who controls that browser profile.

Smart Adblocker uses Chrome extension permissions only to provide or improve user-facing extension features, including blocking ads, trackers, pop-ups, cookie banners, YouTube placements, unwanted page elements, Enhanced Protection, and AI privacy protection.

• We do not sell Chrome Web Store user data.
• We do not use extension data for credit, lending, insurance, employment, or housing eligibility decisions.
• We do not transfer extension data to ad networks, data brokers, or audience marketplaces.
• We do not use AI prompts or outputs for model training, advertising, or commercial browsing-insight products.

The extension uses host permissions, scripting, declarative network request rules, storage, tab access, and related browser APIs for product functions that users expect from an ad blocker. These permissions support blocking network requests, hiding page elements, applying per-site preferences, showing current-page statistics, syncing YouTube settings to YouTube tabs, and running AI privacy protection only where enabled.

Smart Adblocker does not use Chrome Web Store user data for unrelated advertising products. We do not transfer extension-derived browsing data to data brokers or audience marketplaces, and we do not use AI chat prompts or responses to train foundation models. If platform rules require stricter language than this policy, Smart Adblocker intends to follow the stricter platform rule for the extension.

We may update this policy when the extension, website, service architecture, legal requirements, platform rules, or actual data practices change. The Last updated date identifies the current version. Material changes will be reflected on this page and, where appropriate, in extension-facing notices or settings.

A policy update does not retroactively authorize unrelated use of data already collected under a materially different promise. If a future version introduces materially different data uses, Smart Adblocker will update public disclosures and obtain any consent required by applicable law or platform policy before relying on that new use.

Questions about this Privacy Policy, consent settings, data handling, or support records can be sent to [email protected]. Include enough detail to identify the relevant product question, but do not send passwords, payment information, private keys, or unrelated sensitive content.

To help us respond, include the browser involved, extension version if known, whether the question concerns Enhanced Protection or AI privacy protection, and whether you are asking about local settings, server-side records, a support report, or website analytics. We may request additional details if needed to understand the request.