Privacy Policy for Starty

Last Updated: December 4, 2025

Introduction

Starty ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how our browser extension collects, uses, and discloses your information.

Data Collection and Usage

1. Bookmarks

• Permission: bookmarks
• Usage: Starty requests access to your browser's bookmarks solely to display them in the extension's interface (Sidebar and Grid).
• Storage: We do not store your bookmarks on our servers. They remain locally on your device. We do not modify your browser bookmarks.

2. Local Storage

• Permission: storage
• Usage: We use your browser's local storage (chrome.storage) to save your preferences, such as pinned sites configuration, custom icons, and settings.
• Storage: This data is stored locally on your device and is not transmitted to us.

3. Website Data

• Permission: host_permissions (<all_urls>)
• Usage: Starty requires access to fetch favicons (website icons) directly from the websites you have bookmarked.
• Details: When you add a site or load the grid, the extension may perform a background request to the website's URL to parse its HTML and find the highest quality icon. This happens locally on your browser. We do not track your browsing history.

Third-Party Services

Starty interacts with the following third-party services to provide its functionality:

1. Icon Services

To display icons for your bookmarks, Starty may send the domain name of your bookmark to:

• DuckDuckGo: https://icons.duckduckgo.com
• Clearbit: https://logo.clearbit.com

Data Shared: Domain name of the bookmark. Your IP address is visible to these services as part of the standard web request.

2. OpenAI (Optional)

Feature: AI Sort / Organize

Usage: If you provide your own API Key, Starty will send bookmark titles and URLs to OpenAI's API for categorization.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via the support section on the Microsoft Edge Add-ons Store.