Privacy Policy

Memento Mori Motivation Extension (New Tab) · Last updated 2026-10-26

This extension replaces the browser's New Tab page with a personal dashboard (to-do list, a calendar day view, sticky notes, quotes, image pin boards, a life-progress clock, wallpaper, and a search box). This policy explains what data it handles.

Summary

• The extension has no backend server. The developer does not collect, receive, sell, or share any of your data.
• Everything you create or connect — settings, to-dos, calendar events, sticky notes, pinned images, and wallpaper — is stored locally on your device via the browser's chrome.storage.local API.
• Data leaves your device only through optional features you turn on yourself, and then only to the third-party service that provides that feature. Google services are contacted without your Google sign-in.

Data stored locally on your device

• Dashboard content and preferences: enabled features, theme, wallpaper choice, to-do items, sticky notes, and life-clock configuration.
• Pinned images (website content): image URLs, or images you upload or paste, saved to your pin boards. Stored locally as data.
• Authentication information: if you enable Trello sync, your Trello API key and token are stored locally so the extension can talk to Trello on your behalf. They are never sent to the developer or to anyone other than Trello.
• Calendar link and events: if you connect Google Calendar, the secret iCal address you paste is stored locally, along with a copy of the events it returns (titles, times, locations, and links back to Google Calendar) for roughly the past 60 and next 180 days. The secret address works like a password to your calendar; it is only ever sent to Google Calendar.
• Google Photos album: if you use a shared album as your wallpaper, the album's share link is stored locally, along with the album's photo list (image addresses, sizes, dates taken, and descriptions) so photos can rotate without re-downloading the list.

This data stays on your device. Uninstalling the extension or clearing browser data removes it.

Third-party services (optional)

• Trello (api.trello.com): Only if you enable Trello sync and enter your own Trello API key and token. The extension reads the cards in the list you choose and creates, updates, completes, or deletes cards so your to-do list mirrors your own Trello board. This data is exchanged only between your browser and Trello, using your own credentials. See Trello's privacy policy for how Trello handles it.
• ZenQuotes (zenquotes.io): Fetches an inspirational quote to display. The extension only makes outbound requests to retrieve quotes; it sends none of your data. You can disable this and use bundled offline quotes.
• Google Calendar (calendar.google.com): Only if you paste your own secret iCal address and press Sync, which asks the browser for permission to read calendar.google.com. The extension downloads that calendar feed directly, and refreshes it about every 15 minutes in the background, to show your events in the Today tab. It is read-only: nothing is created, changed, or uploaded. Removing the address stops all requests.
• Google Photos (photos.google.com, photos.app.goo.gl): Only if you choose a shared album as your wallpaper and press Sync, which asks the browser for permission to read Google Photos. The extension reads the album's photo list through its public share link and loads the photos from Google's image servers. It is read-only: nothing is uploaded or changed in your album.

None of these services is contacted unless you enable the corresponding feature.

What the developer does not do

• Does not sell or transfer your data to third parties.
• Does not use or transfer your data for any purpose unrelated to providing this New Tab dashboard.
• Does not use your data to determine creditworthiness or for lending.
• Does not use remote code; all extension code ships in the package.

Contact

Questions: feifan.liu@utexas.edu