Trust Turtl Add to Chrome
Privacy

Privacy policy

What Trust Turtl reads, what it sends, and what it keeps. Last updated April 13, 2026.

The short version

We don't collect your personal data, and we don't share or sell anything about you. The only identifier we use is your Google email, and only to check whether you're a paying subscriber. Nothing else is stored, nothing is shared, nothing is sold.

Trust Turtl only runs when you click the turtle icon on a page. When you do, it reads the visible content of that page and sends it to the Trust Turtl backend for a rating. Your browsing history is not kept.

What gets sent when you click the icon

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Page text

The visible text of the active tab, the page title, meta description, and a few headings.

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Image and video references

Up to twenty image URLs and ten embedded video URLs from the page, with alt text and dimensions.

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Page URL

The address of the tab you clicked the icon on, so the backend can weigh the domain.

That is the whole list. The extension does not send your IP-tied identity, your other tabs, your browsing history, your form inputs, cookies, or anything from pages you did not click the icon on.

Where it goes

Requests are sent to the Trust Turtl backend hosted on Google Cloud Functions (Firebase). The backend forwards the content to a language model provider for analysis and returns a structured rating.

Requests are not tied to a user account. The backend may keep short-lived logs for operational reasons, such as debugging errors and preventing abuse, and discards them on a rolling basis.

What stays on your device

The extension caches the most recent rating in Chrome's local storage so it can re-render the popup without a second round-trip. This data never leaves your browser and is cleared when you uninstall the extension.

What it does not do

  1. No background reading

    The extension does not read pages in the background or in tabs you have not clicked the icon on.

  2. No cross-site tracking

    Trust Turtl does not follow you from site to site or build a profile of where you go.

  3. No selling or sharing

    Your data is not sold, rented, or shared with advertisers or data brokers.

  4. No extra personal data asked for

    Signing in with Google only shares your email, which we use to check your subscription status. We don't ask for anything else.

Permissions the extension uses

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activeTab and scripting

Lets the extension read the page you are looking at, but only after you click the icon.

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storage

Caches the most recent rating locally so the popup opens quickly.

navigation
webNavigation

Resets the toolbar icon when you use the back and forward buttons, so the old rating does not linger on a new page.

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Access to all websites

Trust Turtl rates any page you land on, so the extension needs permission to read the active tab on any site. It still only reads a page after you click the icon.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "Last updated" date. Material changes will also be noted in the extension's Chrome Web Store listing.

Contact

Questions or concerns? Open an issue on the Trust Turtl GitHub repository.

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In plain terms. Trust Turtl is a single-purpose tool. It reads a page when you ask it to, sends that page to a model for a rating, and shows you the result. That is the whole loop.

Trust Turtl is a hint, not a verdict. Cross-check the things that matter.