LinkGuard

Privacy Policy — LinkGuard

Effective date: July 2026

LinkGuard is a Chrome extension that checks for broken links on web pages. This policy explains what data the extension accesses and what it does not collect.

What LinkGuard accesses

• URLs of links on the pages you scan — only to send HTTP requests (HEAD/GET) to check whether those links are reachable. These requests go directly from your browser to the target server. They are never sent to us.

What LinkGuard does NOT do

• Does not collect, store, or transmit your browsing history
• Does not read page content beyond link href attributes
• Does not track which pages you visit
• Does not send any data to external servers (there are no LinkGuard servers)
• Does not use analytics or crash reporting
• Does not share any data with third parties

Permissions explained

• activeTab — to read links on the current tab when you click the extension icon
• scripting — to inject the link-collection script into the page
• alarms — to keep the background service worker alive during long scans
• host_permissions (<all_urls>) — to send fetch() requests to any URL found on a page, in order to check if it’s reachable

Contact

Questions? Open an issue at https://github.com/amitsharma130291/LinkGuard