Privacy Policy — Interlude
Last updated: August 23, 2026

Interlude ("the extension," "we," "it") is built around one rule: your data never leaves your device. This page explains exactly what that means.

THE SHORT VERSION

• No accounts. No sign-up, no login, no user ID of any kind.
• No cloud. Nothing you do in Interlude is ever sent to a server — because Interlude doesn't have a server.
• No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third parties of any kind.
• Everything Interlude stores lives in your browser's own local storage — private to your own browser profile on your own device.
• Uninstalling the extension deletes everything it ever stored, the same way removing any other app removes its files.

WHAT INTERLUDE STORES, AND WHY

• The list of sites you've chosen to pause on, and their category — so Interlude knows which sites to show a pause screen on, and which theme of verse to show there.
• Whether a site is under a voluntary "fast," and its date range — so the fast screen and its countdown work.
• A local log of pauses, continues, and redeem-the-time actions — powers your own This Week / This Year summary. Never leaves your device, never shown to anyone but you.
• Reflections you choose to write during a pause — kept only if you write one, visible only to you.
• Your custom "redeem the time" message templates — so your own edited wording is remembered next time.
• A record of which verses you've recently been shown — purely so the same verse doesn't repeat too often.
• A few of your own settings, like cooldown timing and pause-screen text size — ordinary app preferences.

Interlude does not collect your name, email, IP address, browsing history beyond the specific sites you've explicitly added, or any information about you as a person. There is nothing to collect it with — there is no server on the other end.

PERMISSIONS INTERLUDE REQUESTS, AND WHY

• storage — to save the local data described above.
• activeTab — lets the toolbar popup read the domain of the tab you're currently on, only when you click the popup, so it can offer to add that specific site.
• scripting — lets Interlude show the pause screen on the sites you've specifically added. Interlude never requests permission for every website.
• clipboardWrite — used only when you tap "Redeem the time" or copy the shareable stats image.
• alarms — used for two small background checks: whether a voluntary fast's end date has passed, and whether a new week has started for the weekly summary. Both run entirely on your device.

Host permissions (which sites Interlude can act on) are never requested broadly. Interlude never asks for access to all your data on all websites as a blanket permission. Each time you add a site, your browser shows you a one-time prompt asking to approve that one domain specifically, and Interlude only ever runs on the exact sites you've approved this way. Removing a site from Interlude's list also removes that permission.

PRIVATE BROWSING (INCOGNITO)

Interlude is off in private/Incognito windows by default, per every browser's own policy — this isn't something any extension can turn on for itself. If you turn this on for Interlude yourself (in Chrome, at chrome://extensions; in Firefox, at about:addons), the same local-only storage rules above still apply.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

If this policy ever changes, the "Last updated" date at the top will change too. Given Interlude's entire design is "nothing leaves your device," this is expected to change rarely, if ever.

CONTACT

Questions about this policy or how Interlude handles data can be sent to hello@interludeapp.org.