AnyWatch Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-08-10

AnyWatch is a Chrome extension that lets you pick a value on any webpage (such as a price, stock status or rating) and get notified when it changes. This page explains what data the extension touches and, more importantly, what it deliberately does not do.

What AnyWatch stores, and where

• Everything is stored locally in your own browser, using the browser's built-in IndexedDB and chrome.storage.local APIs. This includes the list of monitors you create (the target URL, the selector for the element you picked, your condition, and your chosen check frequency) and the history of values AnyWatch has extracted over time.
• AnyWatch does not operate a backend server or database. We do not receive, see, or store a copy of your monitor list, the pages you monitor, or the values extracted from them.
• Uninstalling the extension deletes all of this local data along with it.

How monitoring works (and why we don't proxy your traffic)

When a monitor is due for a check, AnyWatch fetches the target page's HTML directly from your own browser and parses it locally to read the value you picked. Your browser talks directly to the website you asked it to monitor, the same way it would if you opened that page in a tab yourself. AnyWatch is not a proxy and does not route your requests through any server we operate.

Permissions we ask for, and why

• storage - to save your monitors locally on your device.
• alarms - to periodically wake up and check your monitors on the schedule you set.
• notifications - to show you a browser notification when a condition is met or when a monitor stops working.
• offscreen - to parse fetched page HTML in the background without needing a visible tab.
• activeTab / scripting - used only when you click "Pick element on this page", to let you click a value on the page you currently have open.
• Per-site access - AnyWatch never requests access to all websites. When you save a monitor for a specific site, Chrome shows you a permission prompt for that one domain only. If you monitor five different websites, AnyWatch will have asked for access to exactly those five domains, nothing broader.

Optional natural-language condition input

A future version of AnyWatch may offer an optional "describe your condition in plain English" input that is translated into a rule by a third-party AI service. If and when this feature is enabled, only the text you type into that specific box (not your browsing history, not the pages you monitor) would be sent to that service, and this policy will be updated accordingly before the feature ships.

What we never do

• We do not sell or share your data with third parties.
• We do not track your general browsing activity.
• We do not inject ads or unrelated scripts into pages you visit.
• We do not access pages you have not explicitly asked us to monitor.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the extension: support@soft-sell.com.