Anchor privacy policy

Last updated: 16 October 2026 (version 1.8)

Anchor is a browser extension that replaces your new tab page. This policy explains what it stores and where.

What Anchor stores

Your main goal for each day, your to-dos, your notes, your flashcards and how you answered them, the focus timer's state, your daily focus time, your Brainrot mode list of sites, your game progress, your pet's name and when it last ate, a short record of which deadline reminders were already shown, and your settings.
Wallpaper images and documents (PDFs, Office files, text files, images) that you choose to add.
For a flashcard you make from a web page: the text you selected, the answer you wrote, and that page's title and address, so the card can link back to it.
All of this is kept in your browser's IndexedDB storage for Anchor, on your device.

Anchor saves a backup file (.zip) of the data above once a week, and when you click Back up now. It goes to a folder on your computer: Downloads › Anchor backups, or a folder you pick. To save into Downloads without a dialog each time, Anchor asks once for Chrome's "downloads" permission; it uses it only to save and tidy up its own backup files.
Backups stay on your computer. Anchor never uploads them.

When you right-click selected text and choose Add to flashcards, or press the keyboard shortcut, Anchor reads the text you selected in that tab, at that moment, to put it on the card.
If you switch on the "Add to flashcard" button in Settings, Anchor asks Chrome to let it run on the sites you visit. It uses that only to notice when you select text and show the button and its card window. It doesn't read anything else from the page, keep a record of the pages you visit, or send anything anywhere.
You can switch the button off in Settings, and remove the site access from the extension's page in your browser's settings.

Brainrot mode is off until you switch it on. When you do, Anchor asks Chrome for access to the sites on your block list, and only those sites.
While it's on, the browser compares the address of each page you open with your list. Pages on the list open an Anchor page instead. Pages not on the list are not touched.
Anchor doesn't read the content of any page, doesn't keep a record of the pages you visit, and doesn't send any of this anywhere.
You can remove that site access at any time from the extension's page in your browser's settings.

It does not send any of this data to the developer or to anyone else. Anchor makes no network requests.
It has no account, analytics, tracking, advertising or cookies.
It does not read the content of the websites you visit (beyond the text you select for a flashcard) or keep your browsing history.
It does not sell, share or transfer data.

Settings, then Backup lets you save everything to a file whenever you like, and import it again.
You can remove wallpapers you added from Settings, and documents from the Documents window.
Removing the extension deletes all of its data from your browser.

If Anchor's handling of data ever changes, this page will be updated before the new version is released, and the date above will change.