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Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

Blockade is built to help you reclaim your focus and master your digital habits—not to monitor your personal life or monetize your activity. Below is a plain-English, transparent breakdown of what information we handle, how permissions are used, and how your privacy is safeguarded.

1. Account Information & Cloud Sync

When you sign in using Google Sign-In or an Email Verification Code (OTP), we store only your email address and an encrypted session token to identify your account, verify your subscription tier (such as FREE_PASS or PRO_PASS), and securely sync your custom domain rules and focus schedules across your signed-in workspaces. We never access your Google password, contacts, drive files, or other account assets.

2. Web Browsing & Tab Permissions

Blockade never tracks, logs, records, or sells your browsing history.

  • Tab Access ("tabs"): Used exclusively on your local device to check whether a website on your blocklist is already open when a rule is activated, enabling the extension to redirect that specific tab to your mindful intervention screen.
  • Declarative Net Request: Chrome's local filtering engine blocks network requests directly on your device. The content, form data, keystrokes, and text inside websites you visit are never read, inspected, or transmitted.

3. Multi-Device DNS Protection Hub

For Pro users utilizing the Multi-Device Protection Hub (powered via encrypted NextDNS profiles), domain rules you add to your blocklist are pushed to your personal DNS endpoint. This allows filtering across mobile OS, desktop clients, and external browsers. NextDNS manages these lookups according to zero-log privacy best practices, and Blockade never inspects personal network traffic flowing through your devices.

4. Zero Data Selling & Analytics Transparency

We do not use behavioral tracking trackers, third-party advertising scrapers, or session recording scripts. Your domain lists, focus intervals, and temporary bypass states exist strictly to operate your productivity environment.

5. Data Retention & Deletion

You have complete control over your configurations. Deleting a rule or schedule removes it locally and from your cloud database profile immediately. To completely erase your account and associated synced data, contact us at [email protected].