Favorites OS Privacy Policy

Favorites OS is a Chrome extension that replaces the Chrome New Tab page with a visual home screen for the user's existing Chrome bookmarks.

Last updated: March 7, 2026

1. What Favorites OS accesses

Favorites OS accesses the following data only to provide its core bookmark home screen functionality:

  • Chrome bookmark data, including bookmark titles, bookmark URLs, bookmark folder names, bookmark order, and bookmark folder structure.
  • Local customization data created by the user inside the extension, such as dock settings, layout settings, background settings, custom icon choices, uploaded icon images, and custom folder or link metadata.
  • Optional remote image URLs that the user manually enters for custom icons.

Favorites OS does not require account login, does not access browsing history, does not access cookies, does not access page content, and does not use analytics or advertising trackers.

2. How Favorites OS uses data

Favorites OS uses this data only to:

  • display the user's bookmarks on the New Tab page;
  • let the user organize bookmarks visually with folders, drag and drop, and a dock;
  • apply user-requested bookmark edits back to Chrome bookmarks in real time; and
  • display site icons, uploaded icons, or user-selected custom icon images.

3. Where data is stored

Favorites OS stores extension state locally on the user's device using Chrome local extension storage and a local browser cache for faster loading.

Stored local data may include layout preferences, dock preferences, background preferences, bookmark-to-tile presentation state, uploaded custom icon images, and user-selected icon source settings.

Favorites OS does not send this locally stored state to a developer-controlled server.

4. Network requests and third parties

Favorites OS does not operate a backend service.

However, the extension may make limited network requests that are necessary for icon rendering:

  • Default site icons may be requested from Google's favicon service over HTTPS.
  • If the user manually provides a custom icon URL, the browser requests that image directly from the user-specified HTTPS host.
  • If the user opens a bookmark from Favorites OS, Chrome navigates to the selected website in the normal way.

These requests happen only as part of rendering bookmarks and icons requested by the user.

5. Data sharing and sale

Favorites OS does not sell user data.

Favorites OS does not transfer user data to third parties for advertising, profiling, analytics, or any purpose unrelated to the extension's user-facing bookmark home screen functionality.

Any limited transfer of bookmark-related URL data happens only when strictly necessary to render favicons or user-selected remote icon images.

6. Security

Favorites OS is built as a Manifest V3 extension.

  • It uses only the permissions required for its functionality.
  • It does not use remote hosted executable code.
  • It limits user-provided remote icon URLs to HTTPS.
  • It stores extension state locally on the user's device.

Favorites OS's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

7. User control

The user controls the data used by Favorites OS.

  • The user can edit, move, create, and delete bookmarks inside the extension.
  • The user can remove custom icon URLs.
  • The user can remove uploaded custom icons by editing or deleting items.
  • The user can disable or reconfigure the dock.
  • The user can remove the extension to stop all local extension storage and functionality.

Because Favorites OS synchronizes user-requested bookmark edits with Chrome bookmarks, deleting or changing bookmarks inside Favorites OS may also change the user's Chrome bookmarks.

8. Retention

Favorites OS keeps local extension data only until it is changed or removed by the user, or until the extension is uninstalled or its local storage is cleared.

9. Contact

For privacy or support questions about Favorites OS, contact the developer here: