Nécessaire

Privacy Policy

Last updated 16 September 2026

Nécessaire has no servers. No backend, no database, no analytics, and no account with us — there is no “us” to have an account with. Everything you save stays on your own device, unless you choose to connect your own Google Drive, in which case it goes to your Drive and nowhere else.

What is collected

Only what you explicitly save. When you click “Save page”, “Save selection”, or use the right-click menu, the extension stores the page URL, title and site name; the article text or the text you selected; the date you saved it; and any tags or notes you add.

The extension does not track your browsing. It reads a page only at the moment you ask it to save that page, and only the tab you are looking at. It does not run in the background on sites you visit, does not record history, and does not observe tabs you have not asked it to save.

Where it is stored

On your device. Every capture is written to your browser’s local storage. This is the primary copy and it never leaves your machine on its own.
In your Google Drive, only if you connect it. Captures sync to a private application folder in your own Drive, under your own account, counting against your storage quota. We have no access to it.

The extension requests only the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.appdata scope, which can read and write a hidden folder reserved for this extension. It cannot see, read or modify any other file in your Drive.

What is never done

No data is sent to the developer or to any third party.
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage statistics.
No advertising, no profiling, no data sold or shared.
Nothing is transmitted anywhere except between your browser and your own Google Drive.

Authentication

If you connect Google Drive, an access token is stored in your browser’s extension storage so syncing can continue without asking you to sign in repeatedly. The token is held only on your device and is discarded when you disconnect your account.

Deleting your data

Individual captures: delete them in the extension; the deletion syncs to your Drive copy.
Everything local: removing the extension deletes its local storage.
Everything in Drive: Google Drive → Settings → Manage apps → Nécessaire → Delete hidden app data. Because the folder is hidden this is the only way to remove it, and it cannot be undone.

Children

Nécessaire is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published here with a new date. Material changes will be noted in the extension’s release notes.

Contact

Questions or concerns: open an issue on GitHub.