Your shelf stays in your browser
ShoppingTab is a shopping list that lives on your device. There is no account, no server and no analytics. This page explains exactly what that means.
What ShoppingTab stores
When you save a product, your browser stores four things in local storage for shoppingtab.co.za: the product link, the name you gave it, the retailer's domain, and the date you saved it. That is the whole list. It never leaves your device unless you use Export to download a copy.
What ShoppingTab does not do
- No accounts, logins or profiles.
- No cookies for tracking, and no analytics or advertising scripts.
- No server-side database of your products.
- No third-party requests: the fonts are served from this domain, not a font CDN.
- No selling or sharing of data, because there is nothing to sell or share.
Clearing your list
Remove products one at a time on the shelf, or clear site data for shoppingtab.co.za in your browser settings to delete everything at once. Clearing your browser's data cannot be undone here, so use Export first if you want a copy.
The browser extension
The ShoppingTab extension asks for two permissions. activeTab lets it read the address and title of the page you are on, and only after you click the ShoppingTab button. storage is used for a short-lived note of which tab you asked to close, so that note can be cleared once the product is saved.
The extension has no access to other sites and no background access to your browsing. When you save, it opens shoppingtab.co.za with the product details. The page stores them in your browser, then confirms the save to the extension — only after that confirmation does the extension close the tab you asked it to close. If the save fails, the tab stays open.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date below changes with it. Anything that would alter how your data is handled will be described here before it happens.
Contact
Questions about privacy can go to c@netdevs.co.za.